Yimin He
Yimin He, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- 402.554.4811
Additional Information
Teaching
Dr. He will be accepting new students beginning Fall 2021.
Co-instructor
Research Methods. Summer 2019
Develop the course plans and syllabi.
Prepare and present class materials related to experimental designs, survey and observation research, research ethics, elementary statistics (e.g., correlation), and scientific writing in APA format to a total of nearly 85 students.
Write and grade assignments and exams.
Meet with students and answer their questions.
Lab Instructor
Statistics for Psychology. Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Teach my own lab on a weekly basis, prepare and present class materials related to research design, statistics (e.g., t-test, ANOVA, correlation, regression), data analysis with SPSS, writing and interpreting results, and APA format.
Grade writing assignments and meet with students to solve their questions.
Invited Talks
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 climate and behavior, safety and health training, psychological well-being, organizational commitment)
Diversity and inclusion (e.g., diversity climate, discrimination, workplace mistreatment)
Personality assessments (e.g., personality and performance, situational judgement test)
Quantitative methodologies (e.g., social network analysis, machine learning, computational modeling, meta-analysis)
Professional Experience
Senior Research Associate, Dr. Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, Oregon Health & Science University. 2019-2020
Research Assistant, Dr. Stephanie C. Payne, Texas A&M University. 2017-2020
Research Assistant, 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).