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Qian, Miao
Miao Qian
Assistant Professor of Psychology, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental psychology. Miao Qian (pronounced Mee-Aw, Chi-en) holds a doctorate in Developmental Psychology and Education from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interest is in child social cognition, to answer the questions about how children acquire knowledge of social categories, such as race and gender, and how they use the knowledge to perceive, evaluate and judge others. Qian’s research sits across developmental and social psychology, using methodologies and theories from cognitive, social-cognitive and developmental psychology. She joined the University of É«×ۺϾþà Mercy in 2021 after completing two years of postdoctoral psychology training in the Inequality in American Initiative program at Harvard University.