Graduate Student
Texas A&M University, 2000

Area: Social
Advisor: Yuri Miyamoto

I am a first year graduate student working with Dr. Yuri Miyamoto in the Culture and Cognition Lab. I am interested in a variety of elements of how culture influences thinking and behavior. Currently, I am examining differences across cultures in how people communicate within relationships, and what that means for the quality of such relationships. I plan to extend this research into cross-cultural communication, in hopes of helping improve understanding in multicultural environments. I am also particularly interested in the acculturation process and the factors that contribute to positive experiences and successful acculturation of people living and working outside their home countries. In the fall, I will begin a longitudinal study, tracking international students at UW-Madison as they adjust to life in the U.S., and attempt to determine what factors contribute to their satisfaction here.


Eggen, A.T., Miyamoto, Y., & Uchida, Y. (In progress). Cultural grounding of explicit vs. implicit communication in close relationships.


Eggen, A.T., Miyamoto, Y., & Uchida, Y. (2009). Cultural grounding of explicit vs. implicit communication in close relationships. Presented at the Hertz Awards Conference, Madison, WI.