Hello!

I’m Esther, a mixed-methods researcher with 8 years of expertise in research design and stakeholder collaboration, driven by curiosity and a passion for transforming complex findings into actionable insights.

 Skills & Tools

Quantitative Skills: survey, A/B test, experimental design, statistical analyses, eye-tracking

Qualitative Skills: usability test, interview, focus group, diary study, contextual inquiry, observation, narrative inquiry

Tools: Qualtrics, UserTesting, SurveyMonkey, data visualization, Excel, SPSS, Dscout, SQL, R

Interests: gaming, paddleboarding, polymer clay crafting, reality TV

I have 8 years of experience conducting quantitative and qualitative research with children (3-17 years) and families. Check out my projects below :)

  • Adolescents' Reasons for Nondisclosure with Parents

    In this collaborative project, I examined patterns of adolescents’ endorsed reasoning for not disclosing personal activites and personal feeings with mothers and fathers. My sample included 289 Chinese, Mexican, and European heritage adolescents. Associations between profiles and adolescent adjustment and relationship quality were also examined.

    I found three profiles differing by race/ethnicity and generational status : Mothers: personal, sanction-drive, and self-conscious; fathers: private, harmless, and sanction-driven. The mother personal and father private profiles were most normative; the private profile and sanction-driven profiles were associated with poorer adjustment relative to the other profiles.

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  • Social Identity and Contamination

    We asked how children reason about foods that are contaminated by someone from within versus outside their culture. We presented 3- to 11-year-olds (N= 534) with videos of native and foreign speakers eating snacks.

    We found that young children are more willing to eat contaminated food from people who spoke their language than clean food from people who spoke a foreign language. However, with age, children placed more weight on contamination status of the food.

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