Dr Ding Xiaopan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore. The central question of her research is how children acquire moral behaviour and how to facilitate its development. She employs both behavioural and cognitive neuroscience methods in her research.

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Bi Yue is currently a Psychology PhD student at the National University of Singapore. She is surprised by how infants with little social experience perceive and handle socially-related issues, which inspires her interest to further explore social-cognitive development processes in children, especially the interplay between theory of mind abilities and deceptive behaviours in children.

Shi-Wei is a Psychology PhD student in NUS. She is interested in children’s socio-cognitive development in their early years. She believes various institutions (e.g., family, peers, schools etc.) play a part in shaping children’s social experience, and is curious as to how they do so. She is also intrigued by the way the world is represented in children’s young yet developing minds, and how such perceptions affect their social behaviours. 

Cheryl is a Year 2 Clinical Psychology Master student who loves working with children. With her background in early childhood education, she realised that setting the foundation for lifelong learning, behaviour and health begins in the early years. As such, her goal is to become a clinical psychologist who can use her skills to support and advocate for the mental well-being of children and their families. By working in the Child Development Lab, she hopes to gain greater understanding of the relationship between corporal punishment and lying behaviour in young children, as well as hone her research skills.

Liwen is currently a Psychology Master student in NUS. She is interested in exploring the nature of the human mind through child research, and she believes that a better understanding of children's world can help people to discover who they are. She would like to master more research skills and gain insights into child development in the Child Development Lab.

Li Qing is a Year 4 Psychology student who enjoys working with children. As "children are our future", she believes in nurturing children to be the best they can be. From her Teacher Aide experiences in both public and private schools, she is interested to learn more effective early interventions that can be used to improve the outcomes of children (both typically developing and children with special needs). By working in the Child Development Lab, she would like to gain more insights into children's development and hone her research skills.

Janelle is a Year 4 Psychology undergraduate who has a keen interest in the fields of clinical and developmental psychology. She loves working with children and wishes to pursue a career in child abnormal psychology. She is interested to learn more about childhood disorders, the developmental factors that lead to these disorders and subsequently their influence on adulthood. By joining the NUS Child Development Lab, Janelle hopes to acquire more knowledge about child development and hone valuable research skills.

Chantel is a Year 4 Psychology and Social Work undergraduate who loves working with children and aspires to be a clinical child psychologist. She is particularly interested in childhood trauma and its influence on development. By joining the Child Development Lab, Chantel hopes to strengthen her research skills and gain insight to children’s sociocognitive development. 

Albanie is a Year 4 Psychology undergraduate who believes that the experiences and influences one has in their early childhood years greatly shapes them as an individual. She enjoys working with children and is aspiring towards a career in the field of clinical psychology. Thus, she hopes to delve deeper into the study of child development as well as to hone her research skills through this opportunity with the Child Development Lab. 

Jane is a Year 4 Psychology undergraduate who aspires to be a clinical psychologist. With a love for working with children and an interest in the special needs sector, she aims to deepen her understanding of early interventions in facilitating children's development. Jane hopes to gain insight and develop her research skills throughout her time in the Child Development Lab.

Bella is a Year 4 Psychology undergraduate who enjoys working with children after her internship experience at Pathlight (Autism Resource Centre). Together with her interest in developmental psychology, she intends to work towards being a child clinical psychologist. Hence, she hopes to hone her research skills and gain a better understanding of children’s development by joining the Child Development Lab.

Tas is a Year 4 Psychology undergraduate who has a keen interest in children's mental health and development. As a biracial individual and secondary caregiver to her autistic brother, she is interested in exploring the impacts of culture on children's socio-emotional development, as well as the development of neurodivergent children. She hopes to pursue a career in Educational Psychology and support children with learning disabilities. By joining the child development lab, she hopes to refine her research and analytical skills.

Claudia is a Year 3 Psychology undergraduate who aspires to be a clinical psychologist. She loves working with children and is interested in how the environment has an impact on the children’s development from a socio-cognitive perspective. By joining the Child Development Lab, Claudia hopes to hone her research skills and gain insights to child development.

Jyh Hsien is a Year 3 Psychology undergraduate who believes that many factors in a child’s environment (e.g., parents, media, peers) work together to shape an individual’s developmental outcomes. She hopes to explore these different influences to achieve a deeper understanding of how we can provide optimal experiences for children from young, and share this knowledge with parents and other socialising agents. Through UROP, she hopes to gain more knowledge and experience in the field of developmental psychology. 

Shi Ying is a Year 3 student studying Psychology and Social Work. She aspires to work with children and youths as a clinical psychologist or counsellor to help them make sense of their emotions and life experiences. Specifically, she is interested in how adverse childhood experiences and socioeconomic disadvantages impact development. She hopes to deepen her research and data analysis skills through the UROP programme. 

Richelle is a Year 2 Psychology major who believes that children are way more complicated than commonly thought. She is deeply curious about how the complex social worlds of children affect their mental well-being, and intends to pursue a career relating to it. Another research interest of hers is the moral development of children.

Rachel is a year 3 Psychology undergraduate who believes in creating uplifting early experiences for young children that would shape their worldview later in life. Her interests lie in how different parenting styles affect children’s moral and socioemotional development. Having worked with children with special needs and under the low-income bracket, she would like to gain more research experience in the Child Development Lab and continue providing psychological research-backed support to children of all backgrounds.

Geok Teng is a Year 3 Psychology undergraduate who loves working with children and understanding them. Fascinated by how developmental trajectories can differ across children, she hopes to gain insights to the processes that underlie some of these differences. With an aspiration to work in the field of Child Psychology and Language Development, she strives to hone her research and communication skills here at the Child Development Lab.