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- Xuan has been working with amazing improvisers at the Second City to develop executive training workshops at the Second Science Project. The workshop she recently developed with Heather Caruso, Anne Libera, and Piero Pracaccini, "Inclusion in Practice", was delivered to 48 executives from Workiva through Booth Executive Education program. Integrating improvisational practices and research insights, this workshop introduces practical approaches with which people can benefit from disagreement and dissimilarity, even where tensions typically take social interactions off-track. Providing an alternative to typical avoidant approaches to conflict, this session draws attention to the value in candid communication and constructive disagreement.
- Xuan's third year teaching "Leading with Empathy" at Brown Leadership Institute! Highlights this year: amazing students, mind-blowing class discussions, and heartening Action Plan proposals! And many thanks to the inspiring social entrepreneurs — Aaron Horowitz from Sproutel, Sarah Stuart from the Really Mindful Group LLC, and Abel Cano from ARC Leadership — for joining as guest speakers and delivering amazing talks and workshops! (July 21, 2017) - Xuan will be giving a talk titled, "A Heart for Cooperation: Feeling Another Human’s Heartbeat Promotes Prosocial and Cooperative Behaviors" at the 2017 Science of Philanthropy Initiative at the University of Chicago on Sept 6-7. (July 13, 2017) - Xuan will be giving a talk titled, "A Heart for Cooperation: Feeling Another Human’s Heartbeat Promotes Prosocial and Cooperative Behaviors" at the 2017 Psychology of Technology Conference at UC Berkeley on Nov 4-5. (July 3, 2017) - Xuan is selected as one of the three finalists for the 2017 SPSP Q&pAy event, a live small grant competition at the annual convention of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio. This is an academic version of the ABC hit show “Shark Tank”. So if you happen to be attending SPSP next January, come and watch her being interrogated by five formidable "sharks" on the big stage. Watch a 2-minute introduction on her proposed project, "Bonding in a Heartbeat: Can Feeling Others’ Heartbeat Increase Empathy and Prosocial Behavior?" here on Youtube. (Dec 15, 2016) - Xuan completed her "Dealing with Conflict" (Certificate I ) training at Brown University Ombud Office. Many thanks to Ms. Ruth Kohorn! (Dec 5, 2016) - Another year, another group of highly intellgent, responsible, and motivated highschoolers in my "Leading with Empathy" class! Many thanks to Mr. Abel Rey Cano and Ms. Zishu Chen for joining us as guest workshop leaders. It is exciting to work with different guest speakers each year. (August 5, 2016) - The Morality and Unethical Behavior Summer School at Arison School of Business IDC, Herzliya is eye-opening! And visiting the Earth's lowest elevation on land, i.e. the Dead Sea, in the middle of July offers a ton of excitement. Sincere thanks to the instructors, Adam Galinsky and Yaacov Trope, my dear roomate Rui, and the most intelligent and fun classmates. (July 15, 2016) - Xuan was selected as a recipient of the Society of Philosophy and Psychology's Minority Travel Award! She will be presenting her talk, "When to take the other’s viewpoint? Prosocial and selective perspective taking in adults and four-year-olds" in Austin, TX on June 3rd. Check out the exciting SPP 2016 program here! And many thanks to Jonathan Phillips and Liane Young for their dedicated work as the program chairs. (May 30, 2016) - Xuan was invited to a two-day workshop on empathy and video game design organized by iThrive and hosted by the DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media in Chicago, IL. Entitled "Do You Even Care?", this workshop organized researchers and game designers into teams of four to design prototypes that train empathic skills in players. Xuan's team, consisting of three talented game designers and Xuan herself, designed an an original negotiation/RPG/ resource management game named "Cost of Settling", which took place against the backdrop of early colonial era in America. The player would control the role of a merchant from Europe who, in order to achieve financial success and social harmony, made great efforts to understand and appreciate different perspectives of members of the local tribe and of other European settlers. Not too surprisingly, Xuan's team had great fun and won the first-prize! (Feb 27, 2016) - Xuan just gave a talk entitled "Spontaneous perspective taking in adults and preschoolers" at Boston Area Morality group at Harvard University. (Feb 25, 2016) - Xuan's peer-reviewed conference paper, entitled "Do people take robots' visual perspectives?" is formally accepted by the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'16, rejection rate > 75%). Download the paper and the video on the Research page! (Jan 13, 2016) - Xuan received the 2015 Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence at Brown University, which recognizes, rewards, and promotes excellence in teaching in the Brown University summer programs. According to the award recipient introduction:
- Xuan very much enjoyed delivering her developmental brown bag talk at the Department of Psychology, Stanford University. It was great fun thinking about perspective taking from multiple perspectives! (Nov 3, 2015) - At the 9th Biennial Meeting of Cognitive Development Society, Xuan will be presenting some of her ongoing work with Hyowon Gweon at Stanford Social Learning Lab. You can read her project "When (or when not) to adopt her view? Adults and children consider others’ epistemic states to selectively take their visual perspectives" here! (Oct 1, 2015) - Xuan delivered an oral presentation on some of her recent research on spontaneous visual perspective taking at CogSci 2015 in Pasadena, CA. Many thanks to the audience for their wonderful ideas and feedback. The paper can be downloaded here. (July 26, 2015) - The syllabus for "Leading with Empathy in the 21st Century" is available here! And you can read about student experience here! This course was a life-changing experience -- at least to Xuan, but hopefully to many others students, too! Working with 25 brilliant high school students from 5 countries at the Leadership Institute was one experience that Xuan will be forever grateful. (July 17, 2015) - Xuan will be presenting a talk at the 6th Joint Action Meeting (July 1-4) in Budapest titled "Activating Spontaneous Visual Perspective Taking: Actions, Space, and the Mind." This talk is expected to give an overview of what she has learned about spontaneous visual perspective taking in the past year. (Because Xuan is not able to travel to Budapest for the conference, Xuan has cancelled her talk and replaced it with a poster. Please contact her if you have any questions. ) - As a winner of SPSP Travel Award, Xuan presented her poster "When people see 9 as 6: Triggers of Spontaneous Level-2 Visual Perspective Taking" at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in Long Beach, CA. (Feb 28, 2015) - Xuan arrived at Stanford 30 days ago. The past 30 days have been phenomenal -- so intellectually stimulating, inspiring, and enriching! From the Department of Psychology to the Theater Department to the Graduate School of Business, Xuan loves her adventures at Stanford! - Xuan will be teaching her course "Leading with Empathy in the 21st Century" at Brown Leadership Institute next summer! This course will provide motivated pre-college students with unique learning experiences on empathy and perspective taking. Crafted specifically for pre-colleague students with a multi-disciplinary approach, this course will surely be fun to take! Check out the course description here. (Dec 22, 2014) - Xuan will be presenting a late-breaking report (title: "Do People Spontaneously Take a Robot’s Visual Perspective?") in HRI 2015 in Portland, OR. HRI 2015 is the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, so Xuan expects to interact with many cool robots next March! (Dec 22, 2014) - Xuan's Dissertation Proposal is officially approved today (Dissertation Committee: Bertram F. Malle; Joachim I. Krueger; Joo-Hyun Song)! Talk to her about perspective taking in cooperative & competitive contexts! (Dec 7, 2014) - Xuan will be visiting the Department of Psychology at Stanford University during Winter & Spring quarters in 2015! She will work with Professor Hyowon Gweon to study perspective taking in young children. In the meanwhile, she will serve as a Teaching Assistant to "Acting with Power", an arguably life-changing MBA course instructed by DeborahH.Gruenfeld, Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Stanford Business School. Needless to say, she will keep exploring creative ways to connect social psychology with cognitive development, improvisation/acting, and leadership! (Dec 1, 2014) - As the fall semester comes to an end, Xuan "graduated" from the most beloved public speaking class at Brown (TAPS 0220: Persuasive Communication)! Professor Barbara Tannenbaum, a world expert on public speaking, has taught Xuan so much about speeches to "define", "teach", "get an action", and "change an attitude"! Definitely check this course out if you are coming to Brown! (Dec 1, 2014) - Xuan served as the assistant facilitator in an improv workshop for first-year medical students at Brown Alpert Medical School today ! Facilitated by Lowry Marshall, Brown Emeritus Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, the improv workshops have been acclaimed by our future doctors for years! (Nov 7, 2014) - Xuan have been serving on the CareerLAB Director Search Committee at Brown for months. She have learned quite a few techniques on job interview by observing career center leaders walking into interviews themselves! (Oct 15, 2014) - Xuan participated in the Tübingen International Summer School on "Empathy & Social Interaction: Mechanisms, Disorders, Social Implications." Great discussions with brilliant peers over delicious German beers! (Sept 26, 2014) - Xuan is co-organizing the Social Cognitive Science Brown Bag at CLPS, Brown University. Check out the website to see who are joining us! (Aug 15, 2014) - Xuan is in full charge of designing a youth leadership course for Genius International Education in Beijing, China. This is a semester-long high school elective that joints social psychology, organizational behavior, and improv games to enhance participants’ leadership and social skills. (Aug 1, 2014) - Xuan presented her poster "When another person’s perspective interferes with one’s own: Evidence for automatic spatial perspective taking" at the 36th annual meeting of Cognitive Science Society in Québec City, Canada. A very successful trip and more experiments to run now! (Jul 26, 2014) - Xuan successfully made through her very challenging yet highly rewarding advanced acting class (TAPS1160: Style and Performance) taught by Prof. Lowry Marshall at Brown. Achievements she made in this course include: directing a scene from Desire under the Elms, acting in scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest (as Lady Bracknell), Othello (as Emilia), and a musical called the Secretaries (as Peaches). She also managed a mock audition and somewhat a Shakespeare sonnet. (May 2, 2014) - Xuan's prelim paper ("Towards an Integrative Understanding of Visual Perspective Taking: An Activation Approach") is passed by her prelim committee (Bertram Malle, Fiery Cushman, Joo-Hyun Song) on the first round! Two major arguments this paper made: first, people can be egocentric and altercentric simultaneously; second, instead of asking "whether perspective taking is automatic", we should investigate stimulus conditions and task contexts that give rise to various signatures of VPT. (Arp 10, 2014) - Xuan presented her poster "Altercentrism? Spontaneous perspective taking biases one’s own spatial judgments" at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in Austin, TX! This SPSP conference was a very eye-opening and motivating learning experience for her. (Feb 28, 2014) |
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