Welcome!

I am a final-year Social-Personality Psychology PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Under the advisement of Dr. Bertram Gawronski, I use a social-cognitive approach to uncover the mechanisms shaping people’s judgments, beliefs, and social perceptions. My research uses computational modeling approaches and involves conducting lab and online studies with observational and experimental methods. 

If you have any questions about my research, feel free to reach out to me at nyx@utexas.edu.

  • Social impressions and moral-dilemma judgments (2025)

    Ng, N. L. & Gawronski, B. Social Psychological and Personality Science. [doi]

    Beyond trolleyology: The CNI model of moral-dilemma responses (2024)

    Gawronski, B. & Ng, N. L. Personality and Social Psychology Review. [doi]

    Associations of aversive (‘dark’) traits and affiliative (‘light’) traits with moral-dilemma judgments: A preregistered exploratory analysis using the CNI model (2024)

    Ng, N. L., Neumann, C. S., Luke, D. M., & Gawronski, B. Journal of Research in Personality. [doi]

    Thinking about reasons for one’s choices increases sensitivity to moral norms in moral-dilemma judgments (2023)

    Ng, N. L., Luke, D. M., & Gawronski, B. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [doi]

    Moral judgment under uncertainty: A CNI model analysis (2023)

    Ng, N. L., Luke, D. M., & Gawronski, B. European Journal of Social Psychology. [doi]

    Prediction of dishonest behavior using the CNI model of moral dilemma judgment: A registered report (2022)

    Ng, N. L., Luke, D. M., & Gawronski, B. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. [doi]

  • I hail from Singapore and received my academic training across three continents: Southeast Asia (Singapore), Europe (United Kingdom & Sweden), and North America (United States).

    Outside of my research, I spend most of my time fawning over my pets, snapping photos, visiting museums, and traveling.

  • My first name is pronounced ‘nix’/‘nicks’ and my last name ‘uhng’. If you are still struggling with the latter, my last name is a dialectal variation of the common family name Hwang/Huang (黄), so you can address me by that too.