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Dr. Odilia Yim is currently an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Toronto, and obtained her Master’s degree in Psychology from York University. Dr. Yim received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Ottawa, where she examined the social correlates of bilingualism, with a specific focus on language switching and its relation to attitudes, cultural identity, and social evaluations. Her post-doctoral research at the University of Toronto Mississauga focused on self-labelling preferences related to Anglo name adoption among immigrants and visible minorities. Overall, her research interests centre on the role of language in driving social psychological behaviours among minority and marginalized populations, with the goal of understanding the unique experiences of ethnic minorities to create identity-safe spaces in society. As a teaching-stream faculty member, Dr. Yim supervises graduate student research and provides training for postdoctoral scholars.
Department of Sociology