Cohort 2

Yitong Wang is a doctoral student in the developmental psychology program at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She is working under the supervision of Dr. Tanya MacGillivray in the Culture and Development Lab. Her primary research interest is to examine social and cultural factors that shape children’s development. The overall goal of her research is to examine child development from a socio-cultural perspective to ensure that current knowledge and theories are generalizable and more representative of the global population. More specifically, she is interested in cultural similarities and differences in how children develop and how variation in children’s early experience affect their developmental processes, including motor development, social learning, and moral development. Yitong is passionate about building authentic partnerships with communities in the research process with the goal of developing participant driven and community-led research.