Seinenu M Thein

Seinenu M Thein, M.A.

  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Psychology

    Culture, Brain, and Development

    University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

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  • Degrees:
     
    M.A., Social Psychology, New York University (New York, NY)
     
    B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
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  • Research:

    Embodiment, Food, Attachment, Morality, Social Development, Southeast Asia, Burma.

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  • Honors:

    2012 Society for Cross Cultural Research John & Beatrice Whiting Memorial Award for Outstanding Student in Cross-Cultural Research

    2010-2011 UCLA Graduate Division Research Mentorship Fellowship

    2010 FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development Seed Grant (declined)

    2010 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship

    2009-2010 UCLA-CONNECT/University Elementary School Graduate Student Fellowship

    2009-2010 UCLA Psychology Research Mentorship Fellowship

    2009 Society for Psychological Anthropology-Lemelson Student Fellowship

    2009 FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development Seed Grant

    2008 UCLA Graduate Division Rapid Start and Excellence in Research Award

    2008 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship

    2008 FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development Seed Grant

    2007-2008 University of California Los Angeles, University Fellowship

    2005-2007 New York University, Macracken Fellowship

    2005-2007 New York University Dean’s Fellowship

    2003 Greater Good Science Center Goldberg Undergraduate Fellowship

    2003 Berkeley Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

    2003 Senior Thesis Awarded High Honors

    2003 Graduated with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship, GPA: 3.95

    2003 UC Berkeley Psychology Department Distinguished Service Award

    2003 Golden Key National Honor Society

    2003 Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society

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Seinenu Thein's Publications (3)



Seinenu Thein's Posters and Presentations (10)

  • Food for Thought: Cultural Differences in Embodied Food Practices and Diversity in Attachment. (presentation)

    Seinenu M Thein, Alan Page Fiske, Patricia M. Greenfield

    European Association of Social Psychology Annual Conference, Annual Conference (Stockholm, Sweden); 07/2011
  • Building a Secure Base for Scholarship in Burma (presentation)

    Seinenu M Thein

    Society for Psychological Anthropology , Bi-Annual Conference (Santa Monica, CA); 02/2011
  • Food and Attachment: Children’s Embodied Food Practices and Diversity in Attachment Relationships (presentation)

    Seinenu M Thein, Alan Page Fiske, & Patricia M. Greenfield

    Joint meeting for the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and the American Anthropological Association Childhood Interest Group. , Charleston, SC; 02/2011
  • The Art and Technology of Fieldwork: Research Design and Conceptualization During the Early Stages (presentation)

    Seinenu M Thein

    Co-Chaired Symposium at a joint meeting for the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and the American Anthropological Association Childhood Interest Group, Seinenu M. Thein & Jill Korbin (Chairs), Thomas S. Weisner (Discussant). Charleston, SC.; 02/2011
  • Using Networks of Trust to Build a Base for Scholarship in Burma (presentation)

    Seinenu M Thein

    Joint meeting for the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and the American Anthropological Association Childhood Interest Group, Charleston, SC; 02/2011
  • Who Eats With Whom: How Embodied Experiences of Feeding and Food-Sharing Impact Children’s Understanding of Social Groups (poster)

    Seinenu M Thein & Alan Page Fiske

    Society for Research on Child Development, Culture, Brain, and Development Pre-Conference, Denver, CO; 04/2009
  • Our Bodies, Our Minds: The Bodily Experiences of Children and How They Come to Know the Sacred, the Powerful, and the Communal, an Ethnographic Comparison of Burma and the United States (presentation)

    Seinenu M Thein, Alan Page Fiske

    Society for Psychological Anthropology, Asilomar, California; 03/2009
  • Our Bodies, Our Minds: How Cultural Differences in Bodily Experiences Affect Children’s Understanding of the Social (presentation)

    Seinenu M Thein

    Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Las Vegas, NV; 02/2009
  • Emotions Inside-Out: Tuning in to Emotion Broadcasts in Infancy (presentation)

    Joseph J. Campos & Seinenu M Thein

    New York Academy of Sciences Emotion Conference, New York, NY; 11/2003
  • Implicit Learning of Group Membership (poster)

    Kahn, K., Thein, S.M., Glaser J., Kwan, V.

    Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA; 02/2003

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