Our People

Ton Clemente is a scholar-advocate of Social and Indigenous Psychology in the Philippines. He is a lifetime member and sits as a board member of the National Association for Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Philippine Psychology). He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including Experimental Psychology, Applied Social Psychology, Attitudes and... Keep Reading

Thipnapa has a Bachelor degree in Communication Arts from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and a Master and a Doctoral degree in Applied Social Psychology from the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, USA. She currently teaches courses on Research Methodology, Social Psychology, and Organization... Keep Reading

Keiko Ishii is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Nagoya University, Japan. She received her PhD from Kyoto University (2003). Her main research interests involve cultural differences in perception, cognition and emotion. Keep Reading

Shige Oishi is a professor of psychology at Columbia University. He has written two books, one in Japanese "幸せを科学する” ("Doing the science of happiness" published in 2009 from Shinyosha) and one in English "The psychological wealth of nations: Do happy people make a happy society?" Keep Reading

Kenichi Ito is an Assistant professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research investigates the interaction between culture and humans. Specific topic includes face perception, friendships, consumption, and pro-environmental behaviors. Keep Reading

Dr Young-Mi Kwon is a visiting professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. She has received her master's degree at Sungkyunkwan University, then got her Ph.D. at Washington State University in the United States. She is a chairperson of the public relations committee of the Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association... Keep Reading

Fang Wang is a Professor of Social Psychology in the Faculty of Psychology at Beijing Normal University. She currently severs as the Secretary General of Chinese Association of Social Psychology. Her research interests includes residential mobility, Dark Triad traits, and online social behavior Keep Reading

Sammyh Khan is a lecturer at Keele University, United Kingdom. He has a PhD from the Centre of Applied Cross Cultural Research (CACR) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2011).  Between completing his PhD and joining Keele University, he completed research fellowships at the University of Dundee, the University of St Andrews,... Keep Reading

I currently involved in research projects related to the "self" area. Major research topics are the Chinese self, self-regulation, & self-evaluation. Besides, social exclusion and Chinese guan xi (interpersonal relationship) are also areas of interest. Keep Reading

Dr. Emma E. Buchtel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). She received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2009, and her main research interests revolve around culture’s effects on motivation, morality, and values. Keep Reading

Dr Roomana Siddiqui   Title: Professor Affiliation: Aligarh Muslim University, India Email: roomana17@gmail.com Education: Ph. D,  Centre for Advanced Study in Psychology, University of Allahabad, India Background:  Professor of social psychology at Aligarh Muslim University. She received her doctorate from the Centre fo... Keep Reading

Itesh Sachdev, born and raised in Kenya as a multilingual vegetarian, received his formal education in Kenya, UK & Canada.  Following his doctorate in social psychology, his professional academic career has been at the University of London (UK) - at Birkbeck in Applied Linguistics and as Director of the SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in... Keep Reading

  Elaine Fernandez Affiliations Lecturer, Department of Psychology, HELP University, Malaysia  Phone:   +603 7849 3225 Email:     elaine.fernandez@help.edu.my Background Elaine lectures in quantitative research and social psychology in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Sc... Keep Reading

I grew up in Japan, received my education in Japan, the United States, and then Canada. I am now working as a cultural psychologist in Perth, Australia. Before that I had a position in Hong Kong.  My research asks the question of how culture shapes our mind and how our mind shapes culture. Specific topics I have examined over the years... Keep Reading

Hoon-Seok Choi is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, Korea. He received his Doctoral Degree in Social Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. Before taking the faculty position at SKKU in 2004, Hoon-Seok held a faculty position in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern... Keep Reading