Dr Tai Yan Shan | Lecturer of Psychology
Dr Tai Yan Shan completed her doctoral studies at Cardiff University, where she investigated how prior expectations and linguistic framing shaped the interpretation and use of information during goal-directed behaviour. She used semi-immersive and desktop-based virtual environments featuring search-and-rescue tasks to examine how people use information to guide behaviour under high-pressure conditions.
Her current research interests focus on the cognitive processes that support adaptive behaviour in dynamic environments, particularly how effort and expectations influence the acquisition, evaluation, and use of information under uncertainty.
Yan Shan joined the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences as a Lecturer at the University of Reading Malaysia in 2026, where she teaches various modules at the undergraduate level.
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Telephone |
+607 268 6353 |
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Web profile |
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6908-0429 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanshantai Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WdBY_VkAAAAJ&hl=en |
| Speciality areas | Cognitive psychology Applied cognition Experimental psychology Virtual environments and simulation |
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Highest qualification and awarding body |
PhD in Psychology, Cardiff University, 2025 |
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Research interests |
Decision making Visual search Information use under uncertainty Expectations and information processing Human factors |
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Recent publications |
Tai, Y. S., Grange, J. A., & Honey, R. C. (2026). Self-generated expectations of hazard prevalence affect virtual search and rescue. Human Factors, 68(5), 580-598. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208251410492 |
