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Psychology

Name	Research Interests
Asst Prof Ajai Vyas	My lab works at the interface of neurobiology (approach and avoidance behaviors) and parasitology (behavioral manipulation of host by parasites). Majority of work will relate to behavioral manipulation of rodents by Toxoplasma. My research program is inspired the fact that a parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can invade rat brain and removes deep-seated fears from a rat?s psyche. Why? So that parasite can hitch-hike a ride to cat intestines (when fearless rat is eaten by the cat) and reproduce there. This paradigm allows access to a really specific perturbation system for fear. Knowledge of proximate mechanisms will come handy for understanding generation of fear and management of abnormal fear. Apart from that, Toxoplasma infects humans with remarkable frequency. Effects of such infection range from mild personality changes to active brain lesions in immuno-compromised patients to possibly some cases of Schizophrenia. These are a few of my incentives in studying proximate mechanisms of Toxoplasma infection, apart from inherent beauty of co-evolution and arms race between hosts and parasites. Recently, I have observed that Toxoplasma infection causes male rats to become more attractive to female rats. I also intend to search for proximate mechanisms of this very baffling effect. Feel free to drop me an email if you would like to talk science or if you are interested to be part of this interesting research.
Mr Ang Chong Han Jansen	- Resilience in law enforcement work - Offender behaviour research - Operations Psychology research - Leadership assessment & development research - Psychology of terrorism research - Detection of deception research - Crisis negotiation research
Assoc Prof Ang Pei-Hui, Rebecca	Dr. Ang's research interests include the following: disruptive behavior disorders (ADHD, ODD, CD) including child/adolescent aggression, and related interventions; child/adolescent maladaptive behaviors and coping inclusive of parent-child relationship issues, teacher-student relationship and school-related issues; and the development and validation of psychological scales for use in clinical child and school-going populations.
Prof Ang Soon	Cultural Intelligence International Business International Organizational Behavior Outsourcing Talent Management Human Resource Consulting
Assoc Prof Benjamin Hill Detenber	Dr. Detenber's research interests include the following: Cognitive and Emotional Responses to Media Use and Impact of Information and Communication Technologies Internet Studies Computer-mediated Communication Media and Public Opinion Political Communication Quantitative Research Methods
Asst Prof (Adj) Carrie Ann Schlauch	Dr. Schlauch's areas of expertise are emotion, selection testing, US employment law, and interview techniques. Her current research involves issues of faking in personality tests used for selection.
Assoc Prof Chan Kim Yin	Prof Chan Kim Yin's areas of expertise are psychological measurement, leadership, leadership development processes and methodologies, and individual differences. His current research works focus on multisource leadership assessment, values inculcation and organisational socialisation.
Assoc Prof Chen Shen-Hsing Annabel	Assoc Prof Chen's main research interests are in applying neuroimaging techniques, such as, fMRI, diffusion MRI and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to investigate neural substrates possibly involved with higher cognition in the cerebellum. The goal of her research is to apply these paradigms to study the cerebro-cerebellar circuitry in clinical groups, such as mild head injury, dyslexia, autism, and alcoholism. She is also developing research in normative studies and tasks standardization in clinical fMRI, and has interests with ethical and clinical issues involved with neuroimaging for clinical applications and research.
Asst Prof Cheng Jiann-Yun Wendy	Dr. Cheng's research interests include enhancing mental health care and substance abuse service delivery to underserved populations, including Asian immigrants and troubled adolescents. Current studies include: (1) an American Cancer Society and San Francisco Treatment Research Center funded project assessing primary care physicians, clinical behavior in providing depression, alcohol abuse, and nicotine addiction interventions to Chinese American patients, (2) an investigation on adolescents, attitude, knowledge and response to suicide prevention and peer substance abuse, and (3) studies on cross cultural personality disorders.
Prof Chiu Chi-Yue	Professor Chiu's current research focuses on cultures as knowledge traditions and the social, cognitive, and motivational processes that mediate the construction and evolution of social consensus. He is also interested in the dynamic interactions of cultural identification and cultural knowledge traditions and their implications for cultural competence and intercultural relations.
Assoc Prof (Adj) Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng	Research interests: Anxiety disorders and selective mutism, Learning disorders and ADHD, Disruptive behaviour disorders and aggression Current Work ADHD children: Outcome and clinical pathway Autism: developing a cognitive behavioural treatment for high functioning children Web based CBT for selective mutism Future Plans Computer and Internet based interventions Epidemiology of Autism Brain computer interface system for ADHD Pathological gaming behaviour in psychiatric population
Assoc Prof Douglas B Matthews	Neurobiology of Alcohol Use and Abuse. Effect of Hippocampal System on Learning and Memory.
Asst Prof Helena Gao Hong	Prof. Gao's research interests include Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Learning and Language Teaching.
Assoc Prof Ho Moon-Ho Ringo	Assoc Prof Ho Moon-ho's research interests are concerned with the development and application of quantitative methods, in particular, multilevel modeling, resampling methods, structural equation modeling, and time-series analysis in the neural and behavioral sciences. His current research work focuses on neuroinformatics research, in particular, the theoretical development and applications of multivariate time series analysis method for extracting meaningful information from complex brain imaging data.
Prof Hong Ying-Yi	Professor Hong's main research interests include culture and cognition, self, identity, and intergroup relations. Representative Publications: 1. Chao, M., Chen, J., Roisman, G., & Hong, Y. (2007). Essentializing Race: Implications for bicultural individuals? cognition and physiological reactivity. Psychological Science, 18, 341-348. 2. Wong, R. Y-M., & Hong, Y. (2005). Dynamic Influences of Culture on Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma. Psychological Science, 16, 429-434. 3. Hong, Y., Coleman, J., Chan, G., Wong, R. Y. M., Chiu, C., Hansen, I. G., Lee, S., Tong, Y., & Fu, H. (2004). Predicting intergroup bias: The interactive effects of implicit theory and social identity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1035-1047. 4. Hong, Y., Chan, G., Chiu, C., Wong, R. Y. M., Hansen, I. G., Lee, S., Tong, Y., & Fu, H. (2003). How are social identities linked to self-conception and intergroup orientation? The moderating effect of implicit theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1147-1160. 5. Hong, Y., Morris, M. W., Chiu, C., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2000). Multicultural minds: A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition. American Psychologist, 55, 709-720.
Asst Prof Joan Marie Kelly	Assistant Professor Joan Marie Kelly is an artist whose particular area of expertise is in the communicative dynamics of painting, focusing on the highly interactive moment of the artifact?s production as a function of the painter/subject interface. Her current work focuses on minority communities such as the Bengali guest workers, and foreign workers in Singapore along with the minorities in Kolkata. She is also involved with the surviving generations of the American War in Hanoi and the American War in Iraq.
Asst Prof Josh Wheatly Keller	Asst Professor Keller's primary research interest in studying the way culture influences strategic management and organizational processes. He studies how culture influences the way people think about cooperation and competition (and their relationship and its impact on individual and firm-level outcomes. He also looks at how national-level logics influence people's thoughts about change and its impact on entrepreneurship and organizational change.
Asst Prof Jung Younbo	Dr. Jung has published research on the use of new technologies in medical interventions (e.g., virtual reality and haptics-enhanced systems for learning motor functions in stroke rehabilitation; and patient/clinician distribution platform with tele-rehabilitation application), the Internet and computer training for seniors to cross the digital divide, the effects of social robots? embodiment on their meaningful social interactions with humans, and the motivation and consequences of blogging in social life. His work has appeared in International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, Discourse and Communication, and proceedings of CHI and IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops. Currently, Dr. Jung examines the effects of social interaction (i.e., role play) and multi-modal interfaces on video-game play.
Assoc Prof Klaus Jurgen Templer	Employee recruitment, selection and assessment; expatriate management; cultural intelligence; organizational behavior
Asst Prof Kwon Nayoung	Nayoung's areas of expertise include neuro/psycholinguistics and syntax. She is interested in human language processing, focusing on the questions of how language system interacts with other cognitive functions and how parametric variation in language structure maps into processing. Attempting to address these questions has led her to conduct in-depth investigations of the syntactic structure of relative clauses and the processing of long-distance dependencies in relative and adjunct clauses in Korean, comparing the results with those in a typologically different language (e.g., English). In addition to the theoretical tools adopted in comparative syntactic research, the methods she employs to investigate cross-linguistic parsing strategies include ERPs, eye-tracking, and self-paced reading.
Assoc Prof Lang Chin Ying, Josephine	Dr. Lang's areas of expertise are in organizational behavior, strategic management, and knowledge management. Her current research works focus on the decay of knowledge clusters, the impact of social networking sites in business, and the particularities of executive training and development.
Asst Prof Lee Sau-Lai	Dr. Lee's research focuses on communication, its psychological processes and consequence. She is also interested in how human perceive humanoids, especially how we can predict individuals attitude to humanoids. Finally, she is recently working on multiculture exposures and cognitive flexibility.
Assoc Prof (Adj) Lim Beng Chong	Team effectiveness, team composition, leadership, multilevel issues, decision making, social network, sensemaking
Assoc Prof (Adj) Long Foo Yee @ Long Han Yee	Clinical psychology Psychotraumatology Psychological assessment and therapy
Asst Prof (Adj) Majeed Khader	Dr Majeed's research interests include Crisis Management & Crisis Psychology The Psychology of deception Crime and Criminal Psychology, Police Psychology Leadership Psychology Forensic Psychology Legal Psychology
Asst Prof Melanie Isabell Beisswenger	Melanie Beisswenger's research interests are digital animation, story telling, and 3D stereoscopy, and how technology and tools can be adapted to employ them intuitively within the creative process. Her current research work focus on the production pipeline and process of the animated short film creation in 3D and stereoscopic 3D. Melanie's core area of expertise is 3D character animation, character acting and performance. She is researching how acting concepts can be applied from theater and live action film to animation. And she is investigating influences from psychological research and behavioral science on character animation and personality building for storytelling. Another of her research interests lies with robotics and how the study of movement and physicality, combined with the animation principles, can be applied to improve human - robot interaction and help overcome the issue of the uncanny valley.
Asst Prof Michael David Gumert	Currently, a long-term research project is being developed out of NTU to study the long-tailed macaques of Singapore and surrounding nations, such as Thailand and Indonesia. Macaques provide us a model for understanding the basis of behavior, and this project will investigate social exchange, aggression, cooperation, communication and movement patterns. In addition, Singapore currently needs a thorough understanding of their macaque population to develop strategies to resolve the human-macaque conflict issues that have become a growing concern throughout SE Asia. With such knowledge, Singapore could develop the model wildlife management program for maintaining a healthy macaque population in close proximity to human settlement. One major focus of the research program has been investigating cooperation in Indonesian long-tailed macaques. Recently, the research program released a series of studies investigating social exchange in macaques. It was discovered how grooming is used as a trade medium to coordinate cooperative exchange, and how the amount of grooming performed towards a partner was based on the current social market. Male macaques direct grooming to females mainly in a sexual context. During direct exchanges with mating, males groom females longer when competition for females is greater, as measured by supply of females per male. Similar results were found for female-to-mother grooming exchanges for infant handling. Here, the supply of infants per females influenced grooming payment. The foundation of these exchanges may be that grooming establishes a level of tolerance between a pair. This increased tolerance facilitates cooperation. Most likely through physiological and neurobiological alterations, the interface of grooming and the conditions of the surrounding social environment modulate an individual's motivation to cooperate. On islands in the Andaman Sea, Dr. Gumert and researchers from Chulalongkorn University have begun an investigation on a unique form of stone tool use. Here long-tailed macaques live on small islands and frequently come down to the rocky beaches where oysters are attached to large boulders and crabs, snails, and clams are abundant. To exploit these hard-shelled food sources, the macaques regularly use stone hammers. Research is investigating how this behavior may have emerged, how it is maintained, and how it compares to other forms of animal tool use. Moreover, these macaques use a unique form of axe hammering which may have implications for understanding early hominid tool use. In Singapore, research is being initiated that will explore social exchange and cooperation, the structure of societies, aggression and formation of power-based coalitions, social communication, grouping and movement patterns, and hormonal and genetic influences on behavior. In collaboration with Nparks, an investigation will be carried out on the urbanized monkeys of Bukit Timah, and Upper and Lower Pierce Reservoirs. In order to compare the behavior of Singapore's urbanized macaque population, a research project is also currently being put together to continue investigations in Indonesia. In collaboration with Universitas Indonesia and the Orangutan Foundation UK, researchers will investigate a much less disturbed population of monkeys in Tanjung Puting National Park, in Central Kalimantan, that live in their typical river edge environments. By comparing rural populations in Indonesia with the urban populations of Singapore, we can learn how urbanization has changed the behavioral patterns of Singaporean macaques.
Asst Prof Michael Donald Patterson	My research interests are in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. More specifically, I focus on working memory. In one project, I am examining how binding between items in working memory can be affected by semantic knowledge held in long-term memory. In another project, I am looking at the biases and flexibility in selecting to encode in working memory a limited amount of visual information from a complex visual environment. In a third project, I am examining the use of working memory during the performance of actions. I am interested in the cognitive and neural substrates of behaviors.
Assoc Prof Ng Kok Yee	Kok-Yee Ng's research expertise is in the area of international organizational behavior, focusing on the role of culture and cultural intelligence in the domains of leadership and multicultural teams. In 2006, she guest co-editored a special issue on Cultural Intelligence in Group and Organization Management, which showcases cutting-edge thinking from renowned scholars in the field. Her specific research areas of interest are as follows: 1. Cultural Intelligence - Measurement, Developmental Interventions, and Impact 2. Global Leadership - The Role of Culture and Cultural Intelligence on Leadership Effectiveness 3. Servant Leadership - The Role of Culture and Leader's Motivation-to-Serve 4. Multicultural Teams - Factors Affecting Interpersonal Trust in Culturally Diverse Teams 5. Multisource Feedback - The Role of Cultural Values in Affecting Rater's and Ratee's Reactions
Assoc Prof Ng Sok Ling, Sharon	Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior Branding Issues Consumer Information Processing
Asst Prof Oh Soon-Hwa	Dr Oh Soon-Hwa is a photographer and trained educational researcher. Her research interest focuses on the artist and dealer relationship. Based on her observation and experience as an emerging artist in NYC, she developed a study that explored the cultural, social, and psychological roles of the networks of relationships among artists and art world professionals. By employing a qualitative research method of case study she documents and analyzes the experiences and practices of emerging artists in NYC and in Paris, and their significant art dealers, curators, and collectors. The study identifies various roles of networks of relationships and examines in which ways their relationships contribute to the development of their creative works. She is the author of the book "From art school to art world" (2009). In her photographic practice, she currently work on a semi-documentary project "Girls from Mekong Delta". This body of works has been recently selected for the curated exhibition of "The pursuit of Happiness" for Noorderlicht photo festival (2009). Aesthetics Creativity Sociology of Arts Studio Practice Documentary projects Photography Theory and Criticism
Assoc Prof Olexander Chernyshenko	Personality Assessment Personnel Selection Performance Theory and Measurement Classical and Item Response Theory Methods for Detecting Differential Item and Test Functioning
Asst Prof Olwen Anna Bedford	Research Interests +Moral emotions, Chinese face, guanxi, filial obligation +Conflict resolution +Organizational culture and ethics Selected Publications Bedford, O. & Hwang, S. (in press). Flower drinking and masculinity in Taiwan. Journal of Sex Research. Huang, Y.H. & Bedford, O. (in press). The role of cross-cultural factors in integrative conflict resolution and crisis communication: The Hainan incident as a case. American Behavioral Scientist. Yeh, Y.K., Bedford, O., & Yang, Y. J. (2007). A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Coexistence and Domain-Superiority of Individuating and Relating Autonomy. International Journal of Psychology. Bedford, O. & Hwang, K. K. (2006). Taiwanese Identity and Democracy: The Social Psychology of Taiwan's 2004 Elections. Palgrave-MacMillan, New York: New York. Bedford, O. (2004). The individual experience of guilt and shame in Chinese culture. Culture and Psychology, 10(1), 123-146. Bedford, O. & Hwang, K.K. (2003). Guilt and shame in Chinese culture: A Cross-cultural framework from the perspective of morality and identity. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 33(2), 127-144. Hwang, Shu-Ling & Bedford, O. (2004). Juveniles' motivations for remaining in prostitution. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28(2), 136-146. Yeh, Kuang-hui & Bedford, O. (2003). Filial piety: A test of the dual model. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 6(3), 215-228. Hwang, S. & Bedford, O. (2003). Precursors and pathways to juvenile prostitution in Taiwan. Journal of Sex Research, 40(2), 201-210.
Asst Prof Qiu Lin	Dr. Lin Qiu studies the impact of technology on human cognitive and social behaviors, and incorporates the results of empirical studies to the design of innovative technologies. He is broadly interested in usability engineering, user-centered design, cognitive science, and learning sciences.
Asst Prof Qu Li	development of executive function, theory of mind, emotion regulation, and bilingualism; the impacts of emotion, language, social interaction, and culture on cognitive development; inhibitory control; task switching; brain development; circadian rhythm on cognition and emotion regulation.
Prof Rajapakse Jagath Chandana	Professor Rajapakse's areas of expertise are machine learning, brain imaging, and computational and systems biology. Professor Rajapakse has pioneered several techniques for analysis of anatomical and functional MR images. His team was the first to develop techniques to model brain connectivity in an exploratory manner, using functional MR images. Presently, his team is investigating brain connectivity patterns underlying higher-order brain functions such as language and memory, and brain disease such as Parkinson's disease. He is also working on potential applications of brain connectivity and constrained independent component analysis (cICA) in Brain Computater Interface applications, especially in identifying different mental states and extracting features robust to inter- and intra-subject variations. Professor Rajapakse is presently working on identifying key targets in biological pathways. His research is centered on identifying co-regulated genes, building gene regulary networks, fusion of protein-interactions, and identifying key molecules and core networks in pathways. His team also develops techniques to segment cells and nuclei, identify protein subcellular localizations, and model spatiotemporal changes of cell morphologies from cellular images obtained from electron microscopy and high content screening.
Asst Prof Shirley Ho Soo Yee	Science, Health, and Risk Communication Media and Public Opinion Computer-Mediated Communication Communication Theory Quantitative Research Methods
Assoc Prof Soh Star	- Leadership - Cultural intelligence, cross-cultural adaptation and training - Human Resource Management and Employee engagement - Organisational socialisation Selected publications and papers Soh, S. Transformational leadership: Whose perspective (leader or follower) matters and influences followers' confidence and commitment? Paper accepted as a combined interactive roundtable session at the International Leadership Association Annual Conference to be held November 11-14, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. Soh, S. (2005, November). Psychological support for the SAF tsunami relief mission: An overview. Paper presented at the 47th International Military Testing Association Conference, Singapore. Soh, S. (2004, October). Applications of psychology in HR and training in a conscript army. Paper presented at the 46th International Military Testing Association Conference, Brussels, Belgium. Soh, S., & Chan, K. Y. (2002). Understanding the military experience in Singapore: An organisational psychology perspective. In A. Tan & L. Law (Eds.) Psychology in Contexts: A perspective from the South East Asian societies (pp. 9-31). Singapore: Lingzi Media. Soh, S., & Leong, F. T. L. (2002). Validity of vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism in Singapore: Relationships with values and interests. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33, 3-15. Soh, S. (2001, October). Validity and application of the Cross-Cultrual Adaptability Inventory for peacekeeping operations. Paper presented at the 43rd International Military Testing Association Conference, Canberra, U.K. Soh, S., & Leong, F. T. L. (2001). Cross-cultural validation of Holland's Theory in Singapore: Beyond Structural Validity of RIASEC. Journal of Career Assessment, 9, 115-133.
Asst Prof Tay Leng Phuan, Alex	Alex Tay's research interests currently lie in Cognitive Intelligence. He actively seeks to understand how human percepts can be derived from sensory inputs and how these representations can be transformed into memories. His current project to develop a cognitive autonomous vehicle seeks solutions to visual perceptions through active cognitive binocular interactions with the real world. He is also investigating cognitive navigation whereby autonomous systems can use perceived states to aid in the navigational tasks. Dr Tay's research is always augmented with actual implementations. He, together with a strong team have managed to build a vehicular platform to realize the investigations.
Asst Prof Wan Ching	Ching Wan's research interests are in cultural psychology, social identity, and intergroup processes. Her current research foci include the development of shared cultural representations, knowledge selection and transmission, and the role of norms in psychological processes.
Assoc Prof Weining Chu Chang	My current projects are the following: 1. Socially oriented dimension in Chinese emotions and motivations. 2. Control and autonomy in the Asian context. 3. Individual and organizational resilience in the Asian context. 4. Comparative studies of major personality measures of the Chinese populations. 5. Psychological reactions and psychological reconstructions of Sichuan earthquake victims.
Asst Prof Wong Liang Chun Jaymz	Assistant Professor Jaymz Wong's areas of expertise are film directing, film writing, and film producing. His current research works focus on film psychology, film semiotics, film form and the future of Cinema.
Asst Prof Xu Hong	Dr. Hong XU's area of expertise is in vision perception. Her research interest is to study visual perception by psychophysical experiments and electrophysiological/neural imaging studies; and further model the neural network system with recorded neural activities. In particular, she is working on the following questions: 1.Visual Perception How do we visually perceive daily objects and activities (e.g. faces and motion) and how is the visual perception affected by our previous visual experience (adaptation and learning)? 2. Human-computer interaction What is the basis of effective design in visual displays? How does our visual system analyze large amount of data/information in a short period of time? What kind of optimization process is involved? Furthermore, what is the role of attention and eye movement in this process? 3. Computational modeling How to model the hierarchical process in neural network? How is visual information transferred from low level to high levels? How does the feedback system work synergistically?

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