{"id":12914,"date":"2023-01-23T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=12914"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:57:55","slug":"psychology-professor-recognized-as-2023-emerging-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2023\/01\/23\/psychology-professor-recognized-as-2023-emerging-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology professor recognized as 2023 emerging scholar\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12915 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/01\/miao_qian_diverse_side.png?resize=230%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A photo of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education\u2019s Jan. 19, 2023 issue, which features UDM Assistant Professor of Psychology Miao Qian on the cover. Qian smiles and crosses her arms in the cover photo. The cover includes the following text: diverseeducation.com, Poised for Greatness, Diverse is pleased to present our 2023 Emerging Scholars.\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/01\/miao_qian_diverse_side.png?resize=230%2C300&amp;ssl=1 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/01\/miao_qian_diverse_side.png?resize=422%2C550&amp;ssl=1 422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/01\/miao_qian_diverse_side.png?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>University of Detroit Mercy Assistant Professor of Psychology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/psychology\/faculty\/miao-qian\">Miao Qian<\/a> was featured on the cover of <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Diverse: Issues in Higher Education\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Jan. 19 issue as one of the publication\u2019s 2023 emerging scholars.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Qian teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental psychology and her research on child social cognition explores where racial biases come from and how to reduce them. She joined the UDM faculty in 2021.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Each year, <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Diverse <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">recognizes 15 emerging scholars it feels are making strides to positively impact their higher education institutions. The publication makes its selections based on research, educational background, publishing and teaching record, and competitiveness and uniqueness of field of study.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI am very interested in the developmental roots for a lot of our social problems, such as race bias or gender inequality,\u201d Qian told <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Diverse<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. \u201cWhen do our thoughts and beliefs around certain race groups or gender groups develop and why do we have stereotypical thinking about people who are different from us?\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Qian\u2019s research, which was published in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/desc.13191\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Developmental Science<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in November 2021<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, examined how young children\u2019s racial attitudes changed based on a single encounter with an outgroup member, finding that positive interactions reduced bias.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Read Qian\u2019s profile, \u201cexploring the roots of racial bias,\u201d on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diverseeducation.com\/awards-honors\/emerging-scholars\/2023\/article\/15305337\/exploring-the-roots-of-racial-bias\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Diverse\u2019 <\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diverseeducation.com\/awards-honors\/emerging-scholars\/2023\/article\/15305337\/exploring-the-roots-of-racial-bias\">website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Detroit Mercy Assistant Professor of Psychology Miao Qian was featured on the cover of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education\u2019s Jan. 19 issue as one of the publication\u2019s 2023 emerging scholars.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":12915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[4451,5883,5884,281,5034,5885,369],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/01\/miao_qian_diverse_side.png?fit=450%2C586&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-3mi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}