Zhixu (Rick) Yang
Ph.D., Purdue University
B.Sc., Zhejiang University
Dr. Zhixu (Rick) Yang is an Assistant Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Baruch College, City University of New York, and director of the Conflict and Well-Being (CoWell) Lab. He studies how people manage competing goals, communicate through conflict, and experience identity-based mistreatment and dehumanization, with the aim of improving individual and organizational well-being. His research draws on social, cognitive, cultural, and organizational psychology and uses a range of quantitative and qualitative methods. His work appears in Nature Reviews Psychology, Applied Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Translational Issues in Psychological Science, and the Handbook of Experimental Social Psychology. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Business and Psychology. He mentors doctoral students through his affiliation with the CUNY Graduate Center. At Baruch College, he teaches undergraduate Research Methods in Psychology and Research Practicum in Psychology, as well as graduate Applied Statistical Analysis. He is passionate about mentoring graduate and undergraduate students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and serving communities.
