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Yimin He

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Yimin He, PhD

Yimin He, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • 402.554.4811

email:
yiminhe@unomaha.edu
office:
  • ASH 347 F
area of focus:
  • Industrial Organizational Psychology

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Teaching Experiences

View Dr. He's complete CV

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, 2017
Publications
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).

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