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Desiree Baolian Qin

Associate Professor

Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Area of Expertise

Diversity Youth and Family Development

Biography

Dr. Qin received interdisciplinary training in education, psychological anthropology and cultural psychology. Her research, funded by the William T Grant Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, focuses on highlighting nuanced, complex family processes that have been overlooked in quantitative work on Asian immigrant families, especially struggle in parent-child relations, e.g., emotional alienation, parent-child conflicts, communication challenges and negative impact of tiger parenting. She uses

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Education

B.A. English Literature & Linguistics, Heilongjiang University

Ed.D. Human Development & Psychology, Harvard University

M.A. English Linguistics, Heilongjiang University