Dr Jacinth Tan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences. She received her PhD in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She went on to pursue a postdoctoral training in social psychophysiology at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for Health & Community. Jacinth studies how socioeconomic or social class backgrounds shape how individuals think, feel, and relate to others. She also examines how subjective experiences of social class and disparities may vary across social contexts. She addresses these questions by conducting experimental, longitudinal, dyadic and meta-analytic investigations. She also uses a combination of self-report, behavioral and physiological measures to assess psychological processes and outcomes. Her research has been published in journal outlets such as Psychological Bulletin, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Perspectives in Psychological Science. Jacinth currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journals Affective Science and Emotion. She is also a Social Science and Humanities Research Fellow (2023-28) and Lee Kong Chian Fellow (2024-26).

Tang Bek Wuay, Psychology PhD Candidate, SMU, presented a webinar titled “Cross-Country Differences Between Americans and Singaporeans in Estimation (and Over-Estimation) of Social Mobility”. She discussed the discrepancy between people’s estimations of social mobility and objective data on actual social mobility and shared her research findings on factors predicting social mobility estimates across American and Singaporean samples.