Woo-Kyoung Ahn
Psychology professor and author
Woo-Kyoung Ahn is a professor of psychology at Yale University who studies biases in how people think. She wrote Thinking 101.
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About Woo-Kyoung Ahn
Woo-Kyoung Ahn is a professor of psychology at Yale University. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and later held posts at Yale as an assistant professor and at Vanderbilt University as an associate professor. Her research on biases in thinking has received funding from the National Institutes of Health. Two professional bodies have named her a fellow: the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. In 2022 she won Yale's Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences. At Yale she created an undergraduate course called Thinking, which ranks among the most popular classes at the university. Her book Thinking 101 is available in our catalog.