Funded Projects

Development of a Secondary De-escalation Training Program Using Virtual Reality Simulation

        2026 - current

        Funded by the Virginia CIT Coalition

        Grant: $149,546

        Principal Investigator: Sue-Ming Yang

        Co-Principle Investigator: Beidi Dong, Craig Yu, and Stephanie Dailey

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DHS SIMEX FY22

         2022-2023

         Contracted through MITRE Corporation

         Grant: $40,000

         Principle Investigator: Stephanie Dailey

         Co-Principle Investigator: Sue-Ming Yang

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Manuscripts in Progress: 

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Yang, Sue-Ming, Stephanie Dailey, Samantha Dubrow, and Ron Campbell. What factors affect officer’s decision-making process, situational or demographic? A Simulation Experiment. 

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Examining the Mechanism Underlying the Perceptions of Disorder

        2012 - 2013

        Funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan

        Grant: $25,000

        Principal Investigator: Yang

 

Final Report: 

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Yang, Sue-Ming (2013). “Examining the Mechanism Underlying the Perceptions of Disorder.”

Final Report. National Science Council, Taiwan.

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Publications:

 

Yang, Sue-Ming and Chi-Chao Pao. (2015). Do You “See” the Same Thing?: An Experimental Look into the Black Box of Disorder Perception. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 52(4) 534-566. 

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Manuscripts in Progress: 

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Yang, Sue-Ming, Hannah De Wolf, Kevin Huang, Xun Lee, and I-Ching Jen. Inside the Black Box of Disorder Perception: An Experimental Comparison of Police Officers and Parolees.

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