Specifically, her work examines how individuals with multiple cultural identities shift from one culturally preferred sense of self-construal to another depending on contextual or individual difference factors such as culture priming or belief in psychological essentialism. She currently has projects investigating the experiences of multiracial individuals and recent and established immigrants with multiple cultural identities. She teaches courses on Asian American psychology, cultural psychology, the psychology of immigration and acculturation, social psychology, and research methods.