Xinyin Chen

Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development. Dr Chen is the recipient of a William T. Grant Scholars Award, a Shanghai Eastern Scholars Award, and several other academic awards for his scientific work. His primary research...See more

Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development. Dr Chen is the recipient of a William T. Grant Scholars Award, a Shanghai Eastern Scholars Award, and several other academic awards for his scientific work. His primary research interests are in children's and adolescents' socioemotional functioning (such as shyness-inhibition, social competence, affect) and social relationships from a contextual-developmental perspective. Most recently, Dr Chen has been conducting, with his international collaborators, several large-scale, longitudinal projects in Canada, China, and other countries. His current work focuses on the implications of macro-level societal changes for socialization and socioemotional development. He is the co-editor of Peer Relationships in Cultural Context (2006) and the author of a number of articles in major journals including Child Development, Child Development Perspectives, Developmental Psychology and the Annual Review of Psychology. Dr Chen has also published book chapters concerning culture, children's social behaviors and peer relationships, and parental socialization practices. See less