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Serena Chen is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions across 29 and 19 publications respectively.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior through both social and cognitive lenses.

The main topics of Serena Chen's research involve Social and Intergroup Psychology, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Cultural Differences and Values, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, as well as Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, and the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment. Their scholarship also addresses Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology.

Serena Chen has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed journals and publication venues. Frequent publication venues include UNC Libraries, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Some of their notable recent papers include:

  • "Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Awe, daily stress, and elevated life satisfaction," 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Social Class Competence Stereotypes Are Amplified by Socially Signaled Economic Inequality," 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Throughout their research career, Serena Chen has collaborated frequently with several scholars, including Dacher Keltner, Samantha Joel, Paul W. Eastwick, Darby Saxbe, and Tiffany N. Brannon. These partnerships reflect interconnected research efforts within psychology and social sciences.

Best Publications

  • The heuristic-systematic model in its broader context.

    Serena Chen;Shelly Chaiken

  • The Relational Self: An Interpersonal Social-Cognitive Theory

    Susan M. Andersen;Serena Chen

  • Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of social power.

    Serena Chen;Annette Y. Lee-Chai;John A. Bargh

  • Self-Compassion Increases Self-Improvement Motivation

    Juliana G. Breines;Serena Chen

  • Beyond accuracy: Defense and impression motives in heuristic and systematic information processing.

    Shelly Chaiken;Roger Giner-Sorolla;Serena Chen

  • Getting at the truth or getting along: Accuracy- versus impression-motivated heuristic and systematic processing.

    Serena Chen;David Shechter;Shelly Chaiken

  • Conspicuous Consumption versus Charitable Behavior in Response to Social Exclusion: A Differential Needs Explanation

    Jaehoon Lee;L. J. Shrum

  • The relational self revealed: integrative conceptualization and implications for interpersonal life.

    Serena Chen;Helen C. Boucher;Molly Parker Tapias

  • Motivated Heuristic and Systematic Processing

    Serena Chen;Kimberly Duckworth;Shelly Chaiken

  • Awe, the diminished self, and collective engagement: Universals and cultural variations in the small self.

    Yang Bai;Laura A. Maruskin;Serena Chen;Amie M. Gordon

  • A Reciprocal Influence Model of Social Power: Emerging Principles and Lines of Inquiry

    D. Keltner;G.A. van Kleef;S. Chen;M. Kraus

  • Culture and Self-Concept Stability: Consistency Across and Within Contexts Among Asian Americans and European Americans

    Tammy English;Serena Chen

  • Transference in social perception: the role of chronic accessibility in significant-other representations

    Susan M. Andersen;Noah S. Glassman;Serena Chen;Steve W. Cole

  • The power to be me: Power elevates self-concept consistency and authenticity

    Michael W. Kraus;Serena Chen;Dacher Keltner

  • Commission, Omission, and Dissonance Reduction: Coping with Regret in the "Monty Hall" Problem

    Thomas Gilovich;Victoria Husted Medvec;Serena Chen

  • Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies

    Samantha Joel;Paul W. Eastwick;Colleen J. Allison;Ximena B. Arriaga

  • The Impact of Attitudes on Memory: An Affair to Remember

    Alice H. Eagly;Serena Chen;Shelly Chaiken;Kelly Shaw-Barnes

  • Self-verification motives at the collective level of self-definition

    Serena Chen;Karen Y. Chen;Lindsay Shaw

  • Self-compassion, Body Image, and Self-reported Disordered Eating

    Juliana Breines;Aubrey Toole;Clarissa Tu;Serena Chen

  • Do you get where I'm coming from?: Perceived understanding buffers against the negative impact of conflict on relationship satisfaction.

    Amie M. Gordon;Serena Chen

  • Activating the inner caregiver: The role of support-giving schemas in increasing state self-compassion

    Juliana G. Breines;Serena Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Andersen
Susan M. Andersen New York University
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. Kraus
Michael W. Kraus University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shelly Chaiken
Shelly Chaiken New York University
Kaiping Peng
Kaiping Peng Tsinghua University
Sheri L. Johnson
Sheri L. Johnson University of California, Berkeley
Alice H. Eagly
Alice H. Eagly Northwestern University
Regina Miranda
Regina Miranda Hunter College
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton University of California, Berkeley
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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