51³Ô¹Ïapp

Dr Paton Yam

Job: Lecturer in Psychology

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 207 4696

E: paton.yam@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Paton is a social psychologist. Before joining 51³Ô¹Ïapp in June 2020, he was a Research Associate at the University of Manchester and a teaching fellow at LSE. He obtained a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford.

Paton uses a variety of methodologies (e.g. surveys, vignettes, behavioural games, experiments, and eye-tracking) in his research. His primary research interest is in the functions of emotion. In his doctoral thesis, Paton investigates the social and communicative functions of intergroup schadenfreude (i.e. feeling happy about someone’s misfortune) and their implications for interpersonal trust and intergroup relations.

Paton is also undertaking research aiming at bridging the intergroup contact and acculturation literature. Specifically, he is interested in how intergroup/cultural contact shape both majority's and minorities' prejudice, political ideologies, and psychological-being. 

Paton has involved in numerous interdisciplinary collaboration. Topics included cooperation, decision making, science communication, cultural face, and music audience experience.

Research interests/expertise

Emotion
Intergroup processes
Social Identity
Psychological Well-being
Cooperation and decision making
Social psychology of music
Cultural and political psychology

Qualifications

PGCertHe, LSE
DPhil, University of Oxford
MPhil, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
PGCert, University of Hong Kong
BSocSc (Hons), Lingnan University
DipAbrsm, Royal Schools of Music

Professional licences and certificates

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy