Shengjie Lin, PhD

Dr. Shengjie Lin adopts a social-contextual approach to examine the intersection of motivation, emotion, and creativity, primarily in STEM learning. In his main research line, Dr. Lin focuses on how students’ motivation is shaped by their own characteristics, the cultural context, and the socializers around them (e.g., parents, siblings, teachers, and peers). He also investigates the role of emotion and emotional beliefs in students’ motivation, creativity, and achievement. Moreover, he examines the effects of sibling status on students’ motivation and social-emotional development, with a particular focus on only children.

Dr. Lin completed his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Master’s in Quantitative Methods at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). He also received training in demography at the UT Population Research Center. Before joining the University of New Mexico, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Emotional Intelligence at Yale University.