Jacinth is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences. She received her PhD in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She went on to pursue a postdoctoral training in social psychophysiology at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for Health & Community. Jacinth studies how individuals' socioeconomic backgrounds shape the way they think, feel, and relate to others. She also examines how socioeconomic stresses can affect psychological and physiological responses that underlie socioeconomic gaps in achievement, health and well-being. Outside of research, Jacinth is an aspiring pastry chef and a corgi-lover.

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