Jyotsna Vaid
Biographic Data
| ID | 1005465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jyotsna Vaid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jyotsna |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaid |
| SIGNATURE | VAID J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5340-4074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Communicating scientific findings with the public
By its nature, scientific understanding is subject to change, as methods to study a phenomenon become more refined. How can scientific findings be conveyed to the general public when segments of the public may hold on to beliefs unsupported by science? We examined this problem by considering how individuals correct health misconceptions in response to differently phrased explanations of scientific knowledge. The results from two experiments showe…
Frequency of language brokering experience as a source of difference in bilinguals’ emotion judgments across languages
Aims and Objectives: Bilinguals often perceive one language as more emotionally resonant than the other. Our study examined whether the emotional resonance of their heritage language is enhanced in bilingual immigrants who engage in a high degree of language brokering (early informal translation on behalf of family members) as compared to those who do not engage in frequent brokering. Method: One hundred ten US-based Latine Spanish-English profic…
Reading/writing direction as a source of directional bias in spatial cognition
Biscriptal bilingualism differentially affects segmentation of cross-language homophones
Aims and objectives: Few previous studies of bilingual cognition have theorized the impact of being literate in distinct orthographies. This study examined: (1) How do differences in the way writing systems represent sound affect biscriptal bilinguals’ segmentation of spoken words in each language? and (2) What is the impact of the first learned orthography? These questions were addressed in native and non-native readers of Hindi and English. The…
Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia
From its earliest beginnings, the university was not designed for women, and certainly not for women of color. Women of color in the United States are disproportionately under-represented in academia and are conspicuous by their absence across disciplines at senior ranks, particularly at research-intensive universities. This absence has an epistemic impact and affects future generations of scholars who do not see themselves represented in the aca…
Biscriptality
Factors influencing bilinguals’ speed and accuracy of number judgments across languages
Who is meritorious? Gendered and racialized discourse in named award descriptions in professional societies of higher education
Vigorous debates have unfolded challenging public recognition of individuals whose names and images are emblazoned on public displays of recognition, including professional awards. Efforts to diversify higher education institutions in the U.S. have largely been focused at recruitment and retention efforts with less attention directed to racial and gender disparities of public recognition and recipients of professional awards. This study considere…
Advance Scholar Program
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a mentoring program developed at a large predominantly white research university that was aimed at retaining and advancing women faculty of color. The ADVANCE Scholar Program pairs each scholar for two years with a senior faculty member at the university who serves as an internal advocate, and with an eminent scholar outside the university who helps the scholar gain prominence in their discipline. …
The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific
V. An examination of women's professional visibility in cognitive psychology
Mainstream psychological research has been characterized as androcentric in its construction of males as the norm. Does an androcentric bias also characterize the professional visibility of psychologists? We examined this issue for cognitive psychology, where the gender distribution in doctoral degrees has been roughly equal for several decades. Our investigation revealed that, across all indicators surveyed, male cognitive psychologists are more…
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance
The influence of second language proficiency and length of formal training in interpretation on simultaneous interpreting (SI) performance and working memory was examined in Mandarin–English student interpreters with one year ( n = 11) or two years of formal training in interpretation ( n = 9) and in 16 Mandarin–English untrained bilingual controls. SI performance was significantly better in Year 2 than in Year 1 student interpreters, and in Year…
On the interpretation of alienable vs. inalienable possession
Oceanic languages typically make a grammatical contrast between expressions of alienable and inalienable possession. Moreover, further distinctions are made in the alienable category but not in the inalienable category. The present research tests the hypothesis that there is a good motivation for such a development in the former case. As English does not have a grammaticalized distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, it provides …
Script Directionality Affects Depiction of Depth in Representational Drawings
This research examined the influence of directional reading/writing habits on the representation of depth in a scene. Participants with English vs. Arabic language backgrounds were asked to represent an imagined scene containing two houses, a "near house" and a "far house." Nearly all participants drew the near house larger than the far house and drew the near house before drawing the far house. However, significant group differences in spatial s…
Getting a joke
Beyond a Space of Our Own
(1999). Beyond a Space of Our Own: South Asian Women's Groups in the U.S. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 111-128
Getting a joke
V. An examination of women's professional visibility in cognitive psychology
Mainstream psychological research has been characterized as androcentric in its construction of males as the norm. Does an androcentric bias also characterize the professional visibility of psychologists? We examined this issue for cognitive psychology, where the gender distribution in doctoral degrees has been roughly equal for several decades. Our investigation revealed that, across all indicators surveyed, male cognitive psychologists are more…
Who is meritorious? Gendered and racialized discourse in named award descriptions in professional societies of higher education
Vigorous debates have unfolded challenging public recognition of individuals whose names and images are emblazoned on public displays of recognition, including professional awards. Efforts to diversify higher education institutions in the U.S. have largely been focused at recruitment and retention efforts with less attention directed to racial and gender disparities of public recognition and recipients of professional awards. This study considere…
On the interpretation of alienable vs. inalienable possession
Oceanic languages typically make a grammatical contrast between expressions of alienable and inalienable possession. Moreover, further distinctions are made in the alienable category but not in the inalienable category. The present research tests the hypothesis that there is a good motivation for such a development in the former case. As English does not have a grammaticalized distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, it provides …
Biscriptality
The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific
Script Directionality Affects Depiction of Depth in Representational Drawings
This research examined the influence of directional reading/writing habits on the representation of depth in a scene. Participants with English vs. Arabic language backgrounds were asked to represent an imagined scene containing two houses, a "near house" and a "far house." Nearly all participants drew the near house larger than the far house and drew the near house before drawing the far house. However, significant group differences in spatial s…
Beyond a Space of Our Own
(1999). Beyond a Space of Our Own: South Asian Women's Groups in the U.S. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 111-128
Advance Scholar Program
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a mentoring program developed at a large predominantly white research university that was aimed at retaining and advancing women faculty of color. The ADVANCE Scholar Program pairs each scholar for two years with a senior faculty member at the university who serves as an internal advocate, and with an eminent scholar outside the university who helps the scholar gain prominence in their discipline. …
Beyond a Space of Our Own
(1999). Beyond a Space of Our Own: South Asian Women's Groups in the U.S. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 111-128
Getting a joke
On the interpretation of alienable vs. inalienable possession
Oceanic languages typically make a grammatical contrast between expressions of alienable and inalienable possession. Moreover, further distinctions are made in the alienable category but not in the inalienable category. The present research tests the hypothesis that there is a good motivation for such a development in the former case. As English does not have a grammaticalized distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, it provides …
Script Directionality Affects Depiction of Depth in Representational Drawings
This research examined the influence of directional reading/writing habits on the representation of depth in a scene. Participants with English vs. Arabic language backgrounds were asked to represent an imagined scene containing two houses, a "near house" and a "far house." Nearly all participants drew the near house larger than the far house and drew the near house before drawing the far house. However, significant group differences in spatial s…
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance
The influence of second language proficiency and length of formal training in interpretation on simultaneous interpreting (SI) performance and working memory was examined in Mandarin–English student interpreters with one year ( n = 11) or two years of formal training in interpretation ( n = 9) and in 16 Mandarin–English untrained bilingual controls. SI performance was significantly better in Year 2 than in Year 1 student interpreters, and in Year…
V. An examination of women's professional visibility in cognitive psychology
Mainstream psychological research has been characterized as androcentric in its construction of males as the norm. Does an androcentric bias also characterize the professional visibility of psychologists? We examined this issue for cognitive psychology, where the gender distribution in doctoral degrees has been roughly equal for several decades. Our investigation revealed that, across all indicators surveyed, male cognitive psychologists are more…
The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific
Advance Scholar Program
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a mentoring program developed at a large predominantly white research university that was aimed at retaining and advancing women faculty of color. The ADVANCE Scholar Program pairs each scholar for two years with a senior faculty member at the university who serves as an internal advocate, and with an eminent scholar outside the university who helps the scholar gain prominence in their discipline. …
Who is meritorious? Gendered and racialized discourse in named award descriptions in professional societies of higher education
Vigorous debates have unfolded challenging public recognition of individuals whose names and images are emblazoned on public displays of recognition, including professional awards. Efforts to diversify higher education institutions in the U.S. have largely been focused at recruitment and retention efforts with less attention directed to racial and gender disparities of public recognition and recipients of professional awards. This study considere…
Factors influencing bilinguals’ speed and accuracy of number judgments across languages
Biscriptal bilingualism differentially affects segmentation of cross-language homophones
Aims and objectives: Few previous studies of bilingual cognition have theorized the impact of being literate in distinct orthographies. This study examined: (1) How do differences in the way writing systems represent sound affect biscriptal bilinguals’ segmentation of spoken words in each language? and (2) What is the impact of the first learned orthography? These questions were addressed in native and non-native readers of Hindi and English. The…
Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia
From its earliest beginnings, the university was not designed for women, and certainly not for women of color. Women of color in the United States are disproportionately under-represented in academia and are conspicuous by their absence across disciplines at senior ranks, particularly at research-intensive universities. This absence has an epistemic impact and affects future generations of scholars who do not see themselves represented in the aca…
Biscriptality
Reading/writing direction as a source of directional bias in spatial cognition
Frequency of language brokering experience as a source of difference in bilinguals’ emotion judgments across languages
Aims and Objectives: Bilinguals often perceive one language as more emotionally resonant than the other. Our study examined whether the emotional resonance of their heritage language is enhanced in bilingual immigrants who engage in a high degree of language brokering (early informal translation on behalf of family members) as compared to those who do not engage in frequent brokering. Method: One hundred ten US-based Latine Spanish-English profic…
Communicating scientific findings with the public
By its nature, scientific understanding is subject to change, as methods to study a phenomenon become more refined. How can scientific findings be conveyed to the general public when segments of the public may hold on to beliefs unsupported by science? We examined this problem by considering how individuals correct health misconceptions in response to differently phrased explanations of scientific knowledge. The results from two experiments showe…
Psychology (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (4 works)