Principal Investigator 
Fanli Jia, Ph.D

Dr. Jia received a Ph.D in Developmental Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada in 2016. He is interested in cultural differences and multiculturalism among Easterners, Westerners, and immigrants with regard to their identity development. He has conducted multiple studies to re-evaluate cultural perspectives in moral identity; in moral decision-making using an experimental design; in values orientations using  interviews; in environmental identity using longitudinal and mixed methods approaches; and in socio-cultural models on English as a second language acquisition.

Dr. Jia is accepting both graduate and undergraduate thesis students as well as research assistants.

Graduate Students
Daniel Curtin (2016-2018). Thesis “Cooperativeness and Competitiveness Influence Environmentalism”

Research Assistants
Undergraduate:  Alexander Liu; Nadia Meshkati; Kelly Murphy
Graduate: Alyssa DeRonda; Anglin Thevarajah; Andrew Tamalunas; Dan Czarnowshi; Louis Varlias; Vincent Medina

Collaborators
Dr. Kendall Soucie, University of Windsor (Canada)
Drs. Alexandra Gottardo, Tobias Krettenauer, Mike Pratt, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
Dr. Becky Chen, University of Toronto (Canada)
Drs. Lihong Li, Xiaosong Gai, Northeast Normal University (China)
Dr. Lei Sun, Jilin University (China)