Academic Positions

University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 2023 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher

Education

Ph.D. in political science, Stony Brook University, New York, U.S.A. 2023

• Dissertation Title: Freedom to Freeride? Collective Action, Coercive Policies, and Social Trust
• Committee: Reuben Kline (Advisor), Oleg Smirnov, Michael Peress, Christopher T. Dawes (external)

M.A. in political science, Stony Brook University, New York, U.S.A. 2018

M.A. in Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 2015

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 2012

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Oleg Smirnov & Pei-Hsun Hsieh. (2022) COVID-19, climate change, and the finite pool of worry in 2019-2021 Twitter discussions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2210988119

Working paper (Pre-prints available on request)

“Psychological Reactance to Vaccine Mandates on Twitter: A Study of Sentiments towards Vaccines and Public Health Officials on Twitter in the United States” (minor revision at the Journal of Public Health Policy)

“Deservingness Heuristics Drive Redistributive Choices, But Weights on Recipient Effort Vary” (under review at the Humanities & Social Sciences Communications)
With Reuben Kline

“Finite pool of worry and emotions in climate change tweets during COVID-19” (under review at the Journal of Environmental Psychology)
with Oleg Smirnov and Ignacio Urbina

“Redistributive Preferences: the Role of Experiences with Extreme Income Inequality”
with Daniella P. Alva

Work in progress

“Sanctions and their audiences: the analysis of US and Russian popular responses to anti-Russian sanctions”
with Guzel Garifullina

“Plant-Rich Diets, Policies, and Conditional Cooperation” with Daniella P. Alva and Shawn Kim

Grants

Reactance to Vaccine Mandates: Sentiments and Emotions toward Vaccines and Public Health Officials on Twitter in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic 2023

• Expense Support Fund, Institute for Humane Studies
• PI: Pei-Hsun Hsieh
• Total award: $750

Fellowships and Awards

BIAS-NRT NSF Traineeship Travel Grant 2023
Stony Brook Graduate Student Organization Distinguished Travel Award2023
Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science at Rochester best paper award 2022
GSO Resource Access Project (RAP) funding, Stony Brook University 2022
SPSA Travel Award 2020

Invited Talks

Invited Early Career Researcher talk at the Penn Center for Social Norms and Behavioral DynamicsNovember 2023

• Title: How do luck and effort shape redistributive preferences?

Political Psychology Research Group (PPRG) Workshop presentation at Stanford UniversityMarch 2024

• Title: Finite pool of worry and emotions in climate change tweets during COVID-19

Additional training

Civically Engaged Research for Critical Issues in Society
Working Group
Japanese Political Science Association & American Political Science Association

Detecting and Addressing Bias in Data, Humans, and Institutions 2022 - 2023
NSF Research Traineeship
Stony Brook University

Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Rochester (SICSS) 2022
Summer Institute
University of Rochester

International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) 2021
Graduate Student Workshop
Chapman University

Conference presentation

2024:
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

• Perceptions of Collective Action, Conditional Cooperation and Policy Preferences (with Daniella P. Alva and Shawn Kim)

2023:
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

• Reactance to Vaccine Mandates: Sentiments and Emotions toward Vaccines and Public Health Officials on Twitter in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Perceptions of Collective Action, Conditional Cooperation, and Americans’ Policy Preferences (with Daniella P. Alva and Shawn Kim)
• Sanctions and their audiences: how fear and anger drive US and Russian popular responses to anti-Russian sanctions on social media (with Guzel Garifullina)(Poster)

5th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, Glasgow, U.K.

• Reactance to Vaccine Mandates: Sentiments and Emotions in Tweets about Vaccines and Public health officials during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

• JAWS conference-within-a-conference: Reactance to Vaccine Mandates: How vaccine mandates influence sentiments and emotions on Twitter
• Sanctions and their audiences: how fear and anger drive US and Russian popular responses to anti-Russian sanctions on social media (with Guzel Garifullina)
• Redistribution under Extreme Income Inequality: Limits on Merit (with Daniella P. Alva)
• Do people prefer voluntary cooperation to mandatory cooperation? Evidence from a lab experiment

Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science at NYU, NY, U.S.A. * Redistribution Under Extreme Income Inequality: Limits on Merit (Poster) (with Daniella P. Alva)

Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, U.S.A.

• Reaction on vaccine mandate: Did vaccine mandates make the tweets about vaccines more negative and angrier?
• Do people prefer voluntary cooperation to mandatory cooperation? Identify coercion aversion in a lab
• Redistributive Preferences Under Extreme Income Inequality: What Motivates Us? (Poster)(with Daniella P. Alva)

2022:
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

• Freedom to Free-Ride? Identifying Coercion Aversion in a Lab
  

ECONtribute Research Workshop: Autonomy and Paternalism, Virtual

• Freedom to Free-Ride? Identifying Coercion Aversion in a Lab
  

2020:
Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Equality and Equity: How Equality and Deservingness Shape our Redistributive Preferences (With Reuben Kline)

Teaching experience

Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.

• PPE 4000 Research in PPE: Computational Text Analysis for Social Sciences (Fall 2024)
• PPE 4600 Advanced Seminar in Political Science: Cooperation: Addressing Contemporary and Societal Challenges in Today’s Political World (Fall 2023, 2024)
• PPE 3003 Behavioral Economics and Psychology (Spring 2024)

Instructor, Stony Brook University, U.S.

• POL 201/501 Introduction to Statistical Methods in Political Science (Online) (Summer 2023)
• Political Science Math Camp (Ph.D. class) (Winter 2022 and 2023)
  
• POL 101 World politics (Online) (Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Winter and Summer 2022)
  

Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University, U.S.

• POL 602 Applied Data Analysis I (Ph.D. class) (Fall 2021)
  
• POL 603 Applied Data Analysis II (Ph.D. class) (Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
  
• POL 604 Applied Data Analysis III (Ph.D. class) (Fall 2020, Fall 2022)
  

Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

• Topics in Neuroeconomics (Spring 2016)
• Principle of Economics (Recitation) (Fall Spring 2014)
• Microeconomics (Fall Spring 2013)

Professional Service

Conference: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.2023.09
Panel Chair, How to Increase Polarization, in the Political Psychology Division
Panel Chair, China and Taiwan in the News, in the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies Related Group Panel Discussant, Analyzing Debate and Discourse about Science and Environmental Issues, in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Division

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2023.08 Panel Chair, The Foundations of Political Misinformation, in the Political Psychology Division
Panel Discussant, Combating Climate Skepticism and Pessimism, in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Division
Panel Discussant, Text Analysis on China-Taiwan Relations, in the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies Related Group

Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference 2023.01
Panel Chair of the panel, Emotions, Norms, and Political Psychology, in the Political Psychology Section

Department Service:
Center for Behavioral Political Economy, Stony Brook University 2020 - 2023
Lab manager

Mentor:
APSA Mentoring Program Spring 2023

Reviewer:
Research and Politics, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Computer Skills

Writing experiment interface: oTree (Python library)
Data analysis and machine learning: R language, Python, STATA
Web scraping: Python, R language
Agent-based computational modeling: Python