Assistant Professor

Phone (701) 231-1875
Email wen.wang@ndsu.edu 

Developmental Science Program
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Education and Training

Postdoctoral Researcher, T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development and Family Science
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Master of Science in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institution of Psychology
Beijing, China

Classes Taught

HDFS 320 Prenatal, Infant, and Toddler Development
HDFS 341 Parent-Child Relations
HDFS 705 Quantitative Methods in Developmental Science

Core Area

Young children (ages 0 - 6)

Research Interests

My research focuses on understanding young children’s development of social-emotional skills, prosocial behaviors, and the socialization process of these child outcomes in families with diverse cultural and SES backgrounds. I am specifically fascinated by how young children overcome challenges, become resilient, feel empathy for others, and thrive in at-risk families. I adopted the quantitative methods to analyze a variety of data, including surveys, observations, and large secondary datasets.

Current Projects

My current research project examines the development and socialization of young children's resilience to failure.

Selected Publications

Wang, W., Spinrad, T. L., Eisenberg, N. (2023). The development and prediction of young children’s behavioral mastery motivation. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.09.001

Wang, W., Spinrad, T. L., Laible, D. J., Janssen, J., Xiao, S. X., Xu, J., Berger, R. H., Eisenberg, N., Carlo, G., Gal-Szabo, D. E., Fraser, A., Lopez, J., & Xu, X. (2022). Parents’ color-blind racial ideology and implicit racial attitudes predict children’s race-based sympathy. Journal of Family Psychology.https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001047

Wang, W., Vallotton, C. D., & Bowles, R. P. (2020). Ethnic variances in socializing young children's mastery motivation among White, African American, and Hispanic low-income families. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 51, 329-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2019.12.012