
Yimin He, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- 402.554.4811
Additional Information
Teaching Experiences
Graduate level courses
Job Analysis and Performance Management
Multilevel Modeling Using R
Statistics for Psychology Using R
Undergraduate level courses
Research Methods
Statistics for Psychology
Invited Talks
He, Y. (2022, March). The influence of advice-giving and advice-taking on safety behavior:
a social network perspective. Invited presentation at the Bowling Green State
University Department of Psychology, Bowling Green, OH.
He, Y. (2021, March). The influence of advice-giving and advice-taking on safety behavior:
a social network perspective. Invited presentation at the Texas A&M University
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, College Station, TX.
He, Y. (2018, July). How leaders promote creativity and innovation in Singapore public
service. Invited presentation at Civil Service College, Singapore.
He, Y. (2017, November). Improving workplace safety by thinking about what might have
been: To what extent does counterfactual thinking influence workplace safety
behavior? Invited presentation at the Texas A&M University Department of
Psychological & Brain Sciences, College Station, TX.
Research Interests
Occupational health psychology (e.g., safety and health climate, safety and health training,
psychological well-being)
Diversity and inclusion (e.g., diversity climate, discrimination, workplace mistreatment)
Social network (e.g., gossip network, helping network)
Quantitative methodologies (e.g., social network analysis, machine learning, computational
modeling, meta-analysis)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha; 2020-present
Senior Research Associate, Dr. Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, Oregon Health & Science University. 2019-2020
Research Assistant, Dr. Stephanie C. Payne & Dr. Isaac Sabat, Texas A&M University. 2017-2020
Teaching Assistant, Statistics and Research Methods, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University. 2018-2019
Research Assistant, Dr. Xiang Yao, Peking University. 2012-2015
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2020
Master of Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 2017
Bachelor of Science, Peking University, Beijing, China, Psychology & Economics, 2017Publications
He, Y., Payne, S. C., Yao, X., & Smallman, R. (2020). Improving workplace safety by thinking about what might have been: A first look at the role of counterfactual thinking. Journal of Safety Research, 72, 153-164. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2019.12.010.Xu, X., Le, N., He, Y., & Yao, X. (2019). Conscientiousness, safety climate, and safety performance within teams: A cross-level mediation model. Journal of Business and Psychology, 11, 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10869-019-09637-8
He, Y., Donnellan, B. M., & Mendoza, A. M. (2019). Five-Factor personality domains and job performance: A second order meta-analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 82, 103848. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2019
He, Y., Wang, Y., & Payne, S. C. (2019). How is safety climate formed? A meta-analysis of the determinants of safety climate. ​Organizational Psychology Review, 9, ​ 124-156. doi: 10.1177/2041386619874870
He, Y., Costa, P., Walker, J., Miner, K. N., & Wooderson, R. L. (2019). Political identity dissimilarity, workplace incivility, and declines in well-being. Stress and Health, 3, 256-266. doi: 10.1002/smi.2856
Miner. N. K., Smittick, L. A., He, Y., & Costa, P. (2019). Organizations behaving badly: Antecedents and consequences of uncivil workplace environments. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 5, 528-554. doi: 10.1080/00223980.2019.1578191
He, Y., Yao, X., Wang, S., & Caughron, J. (2016). Linking failure feedback to individual creativity: The moderation role of goal orientation. Creativity Research Journal, 28 , 52-59. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2016.1125248
Yimin He completed her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational psychology at Texas A&M University in May 2020. After her Ph.D., she worked as a senior research assistant at Oregon Health & Science University. She earned her M.S. degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Texas A&M University and her bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Economics from Peking University. Her research interests include occupational health psychology (e.g., safety climate and behavior, safety and health training, psychological well-being), diversity and inclusion (e.g., diversity climate, discrimination, workplace mistreatment), personality assessments, and quantitative methodologies (e.g., social network analysis, machine learning, computational modeling, meta-analysis).