Dr Hajar Aman Key Yekani
Dr Hajar Aman Key Yekani
- Job title
- Assistant Professor - Department of Psychology
- h.aman_key_yekani@hw.ac.uk
- Role
- Assistant Professor - Department of Psychology
- Section
- School of Social Sciences
- h.aman_key_yekani@hw.ac.uk
About
Dr Yekani has taught a variety of psychology and statistics courses to our Undergraduate students and has supervised student dissertations. She has also mentored students in designing their projects, building experiments using qualitrics and psychology and guided them through the proper use of statistical analysis for their data.
Biography
Dr Yekani received her PhD in 2019 from Shiraz University in Iran. Her PhD thesis was titled: A Causal Explanation of Academic Achievement: The Role of Cognitive Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Academic Motivation, and Academic Satisfaction.
She started her journey in research from the Cognition & Neuropsychology Research Laboratory at Zayed University in 2015. In 2019, Dr Yekani joined the Heriot-Watt University, Dubai campus as Assistant Professor in psychology.
Research
Dr Yekani has worked in different fields including social psychology, cognition, and language. Her collaborative research covers social issues and implicit attitudes toward them, along with English, Arabic and Persian reading.
Publications
- Sheen, M., Yekani, H., & Jordan, T. R. (2022). The good the bad and the hijab: A study of implicit associations. Psychological Reports, 19.
- Sheen, M., Yekani, H., & Jordan, T. R. (2021). A replication and extension of the use of online discussion boards: Teaching chronic pain to health psychology students. Teaching of Psychology, 00986283211041071
- Jordan, T. R, Yekani, H., & Sheen, M. (2021). Gendered perception of odd and even numbers: An implicit association study from Arabic culture. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
- Jordan, T. R., Yekani, H., & Sheen, M. (2020). The effect of wearing the hijab on perception of female facial attractiveness by Muslim men in their native Muslim country. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2644.
- Sheen, M., Yekani, H., & Jordan, T. R. (2019). Further evidence for the use of online discussion boards in the classroom. Teaching of Psychology 46(2), 158-163
- Sheen, M., Yekani, H., & Jordan, T. R. (2018). Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab on perception of female facial attractiveness by Emirati females in their native Muslim country PLoS ONE 13(10)
- Jordan, T. R., Al Shamsi, A., Yekani, H, Al Jassmi, M, Dosari, N & Sheen, M. (2017). What’s in a typeface: Evidence of print personalities in Arabic. Frontiers in psychology 8, 1229