A5056297813- Cultural Differences and Values
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Free Will and Agency
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Theology and Philosophy of Evil
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Career Development and Diversity
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Education University of Hong Kong
2015-2024
Tai Po Hospital
2017-2019
University of British Columbia
2008-2009
Much research contrasts self-reported personality traits across cultures. We submit that this enterprise is weakened by significant methodological problems (in particular, the reference-group effect) undermine validity of national averages scores. In study, behavioral and demographic predictors conscientiousness were correlated with different cross-national measures based on self-reports, peer reports, perceptions character. The strongly character, but not self-reports reports. Country-level...
The influences of globalization have permeated various aspects life in contemporary society, from technical innovations, economic development, and lifestyles, to communication patterns. present research proposed a construct termed global orientation denote individual differences the psychological processes acculturating globalizing world. It encompasses multicultural acquisition as proactive response ethnic protection defensive globalization. Ten studies examined applicability orientations...
Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, little research about how why they impact life outcomes. To answer views matter, we conducted 7 studies examine functions, antecedents, consequences generalized beliefs world, operationalized as axioms (Leung et al., 2002). This focused 2 axiom factors,...
What makes some acts immoral? Although Western theories of morality often define harmful behaviors as centrally immoral, whether this is applicable to other cultures still under debate. In particular, Confucianism emphasizes civility fundamental moral excellence. We describe three studies examining how the word immoral used by Chinese and Westerners. Layperson-generated examples were examine cultural differences in which are called “immoral” (Study 1, n = 609; Study 2, 480), best...
Abstract Religious belief is a topic of longstanding interest to psychological science, but the psychology religious disbelief relative newcomer. One prominently discussed model analytic atheism , wherein cognitive reflection, as measured with Cognitive Reflection Test, overrides intuitions and instruction. Consistent this model, performance-based measures reflection predict in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, & Democratic) samples. However, generality remains unknown....
Three studies examined the social manifestations of modesty in Chinese and Canadian cultures, conceptualizing operationalizing it as a self-presentation tactic with communal functions. In Study 1, authors developed self-report Modest Behavior Scale (MBS) to tap behavioral aspects identified three factors: self-effacement, other-enhancement, avoidance attention-seeking. The validated scale by establishing its nomological network trait modesty, individuation, independent interdependent...
Past research has shown that tendencies to engage in holistic and analytical reasoning are differentially encouraged by East Asian Western cultures. But little is known about cultural differences the perceived value of analytic versus intuitive reasoning. In Study 1, Koreans Americans ranked importance traits including ‘intuitive’ ‘logical’ work family contexts. 2, Euro‐Canadians East‐Asian‐Canadians read scenarios rule‐following business decisions. Relative participants, Asians rated as...
Religious belief is a topic of longstanding interest to psychological science, but the psychology religious disbelief relative newcomer. One prominently discussed model analytic atheism, wherein thinking overrides intuitions and instruction. Consistent with this model, performance-based measures reliance on predict in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, & Democratic) samples. However, generality atheism remains unknown. Drawing large global sample (N = 3461) from 13...
In this investigation of cultural differences in the experience obligation, we distinguish between Confucian Role Ethics versus Relative Autonomy lay theories motivation and illustrate them with data showing relevant both social judgments intrapersonal experience. First, when judging others, Western European heritage culture (WEHC) participants (relative to [CHC] participants) judged obligation-motivated actors more negatively than those motivated by agency (Study 1, N = 529). Second, daily...
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat judgments in same way as typical expressions subjective preferences—rather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, property being right or wrong regardless disagreement. Moreover, this apparent validity has been taken to constitute one main explananda for philosophical accounts judgment. But is really case most people spontaneously having...
Past research generally suggests that East Asians tolerate opposing feelings or dialectical emotions more than North Americans. We tested the idea Americans would have fewer in positive, but not negative mixed situations. Forty-seven European American, 40 Chinese, and 121 Japanese students reported a protagonist of standardised negative, situations feel. Emotions were coded into three valence categories: pleasant, unpleasant, neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant. As predicted, cultural...
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, are arguably not the ultimate source of nor could they done otherwise initial conditions and laws nature held fixed. To reveal how non-philosophers ordinarily reason about free will, conducted cross-cultural cross-linguistic survey (N = 5,268) spanning twenty countries sixteen languages. Overall, participants tended to ascribe moral...
Drawing on career construction theory and leader–member exchange (LMX) theory, this research examined the mediating role of LMX in explaining effect employee adaptability prospects, as well moderating agreeableness process. Two field studies were conducted among Chinese employees their supervisors to test model. In study 1, time‐lagged multisource data collected from 252 69 supervisors. The results showed that supervisor‐rated (Time 2) mediated relationship between employee‐rated 1)...
Studies comparing personality across cultures have found inconsistencies between self–reports and measures of national character or behaviour, especially on evaluative traits such as Conscientiousness. We demonstrate that self–perceptions other–perceptions vary with cultural mindset, thereby accounting for some this inconsistency. Three studies used multiple methods to examine perceptions Conscientiousness its facet Competence most characterizes performance evaluations. In Study 1, Mainland...
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat judgments in same way as typical expressions subjective preferences—rather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, property being right or wrong regardless disagreement. Moreover, this apparent validity has been taken to constitute one main explananda for philosophical accounts judgment. But is really case most people spontaneously having...
It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we draw upon domain-specific perspective of well-being research catastrophe compassion propose can opposing effects health communal satisfaction, which then differently relate to people's satisfaction. Longitudinal analyses Household, Income Labour...