My name is Yuqing Zou, and I also go by Maggie. I am a tenure-track assistant professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico – Gallup. I earned my Ph.D. in psychological and quantitative foundations from the University of Iowa in 2024, majoring in educational psychology and minoring in educational measurement and statistics.

My research interests include 

• social-contextual and motivational influences on academic outcomes, 

• precision education based on individual differences, 

• large-scale data analysis, and

• structural equation modeling and machine learning techniques.

As for my teaching interests, they encompass 

• applied psychology,

• general psychology,

• social psychology,

• cognitive psychology, and

• statistics and statistical software applications.