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Kai-Ping Peng
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Tsinghua University
Beijing
Language: English, Chinese
Social Behavior
Cultural Influence
Positive Emotions
Well-Being
Cross-Cultural Studies
Psychological Assessment
Cognitive Processes
Mental Health
Interpersonal Relationships
Educational Psychology
Areas of Focus
- Social Psychology
- Cultural Psychology
- Positive Psychology
Work Experience
- 1983 - Peking University - Lecturer
- 1997 - University of California, Berkeley - Faculty in Psychology
- 2008 - Tsinghua University - Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Psychology
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1983 - Bachelor's Degree in Psychology: Peking University
- 1997 - Ph.D. in Psychology: University of Michigan
- Published over 450 academic journal papers
- Cited over 25,000 times
- Listed in Elsevier's 'Most Cited Chinese Psychologists' for 10 consecutive years since 2015
Publications
- Seeing is more than believing: Personal experience increases climate action, Wei, X., Yu, F., & Peng, K., 2024
- Adaptation and validation of the Claremont purpose scale to measure young adolescents’ purpose in life, Wu, Y., Yan, W., Wu, Y.& Peng, K., 2024
- 感知机器人威胁对职场物化的影响, 许丽颖, 王学辉, 喻丰, 彭凯平, 2024
- Effects of a self-affirmation intervention on Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A large-scale randomized controlled trial, Yan, W., Wang, Y., Jiang, Z., & Peng, K., & Cohen, G., 2023
- 心理丰富提高亲环境行为意愿, 魏心妮, 喻丰, 彭凯平, 钟年, 2023
- Social media use, uncertainty, and negative affect in times of pandemic crisis, Wu, Y., An, Z., Lin, Y., Zhang, J., Jing, B., & Peng, K., 2023
- Detecting the risk of bullying victimization among adolescents: A large-scale machine learning approach, Yan, W., Yuan, Y., Yang, M., Zhang, P., & Peng, K., 2023
- Fear during pandemic promoted holistic cognitive style: The moderating role of uncertainty, Zhou, X., Li, X., Wu, W., Zhang, X., English, A. S., & Peng, K., 2023
- 算法歧视比人类歧视引起更少道德惩罚欲, 许丽颖, 喻丰, 彭凯平, 2022
- Neurostructural correlates of dispositional self-compassion, Guan, F., Liu, G., Pedersen, W. S., Chen, O., Zhao, S., Sui, J., & Peng, K., 2021
- Sympathy and responses to suffering: Similarity and variation in China and the United States, Goetz, J., & Peng, K., 2019
- An analysis of well-being determinants at the city level in China Using Big Data, Zhao, Y., Yu, F., Jing, B., Hu, X., Luo, A., & Peng, K., 2019
- A World of Blame to Go Around: Cross-Cultural Determinants of Responsibility and Punishment Judgments, Feinberg, M., Fang, R., Liu, S., & Peng, K., 2019
- Awe, the diminished self, and collective engagement: Universals and cultural variations in the small self, Bai, Y., Maruskin, L., Chen, S., Gordon, A., Stellar, J., McNeil, G., Peng, K., & Keltner, D., 2017
- The neural basis of independence versus interdependence orientations: A voxel-based morphometric analysis of brain volume, Wang, F., Peng, K., Chechlacz, M., Humphreys, G., & Sui, J., 2017
- 道德的心理物理学：现象、机制与意义, 彭凯平, 喻丰, 2014
- 实验伦理学:研究、贡献与挑战, 彭凯平, 喻丰, 柏阳, 2011
- I am against us? Unpacking cultural differences in ingroup favoritism via dialecticism, Ma-Kellams, C., Spencer-Rodgers, J., & Peng, K., 2011
- Cultural differences in expectations of change and tolerance for contradiction: A decade of empirical research, Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M., & Peng, K., 2010
- 文化与归因的过程模式及概率模型探索, 彭凯平, 廖江群, 2009
- The dialectical self-concept: Contradiction, change, and holism in East Asian cultures, Spencer-Rodgers, J., Boucher, H., Mori, S., Wang, L., & Peng, K., 2009
- Cultural differences in self-verification: The role of naïve dialecticism, Spencer-Rodgers, J., Boucher, H. C., Peng, K., & Wang, L., 2009
- Acculturation Strategies and Integrative Complexity: The Cognitive Implications of Biculturalism, Tadmor, C. T., Tetlock, P. E., & Peng, K., 2009
- Self-verification and contextualized self-views, Chen, S., English, T., & Peng, K., 2006
- White selves: Conceptualizing and measuring a dominant-group identity, Knowles, E., & Peng, K., 2005
- Dialectical Self-Esteem and East-West Differences in Psychological Well-Being, Spencer-Rodgers, J., Peng, K., Wang, L., & Hou, Y., 2004
- Culture, education, and the attribution of physical causality, Peng, K., & Knowles, E., 2003
- What's wrong with cross-cultural comparisons of subjective Likert scales?: The reference-group effect, Heine, S., Lehman, D., Peng, K., & Greenholtz, J., 2002
- Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition, Nisbett, R., Peng, K., Choi, I., & Norenzayan, A., 2001
- Culture, control, and perception of relationships in the environment, Ji, L., Peng, K., & Nisbett, R., 2000
- Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction, Peng, K., & Nisbett, R., 1999
- Individualism and Authoritarianism Shape Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide1, Kemmelmeier, M., Burnstein, E., & Peng, K., 1999
- Validity problems comparing values across cultures and possible solutions, Peng, K., Nisbett, R., & Wong, N., 1997
- Culture and cause: American and Chinese attributions for social and physical events, Morris, M., & Peng, K., 1994
- 北京大学学生价值观倾向的初步定量研究, 彭凯平, 陈仲庚, 1989
- 北京地区儿童内外倾向人格特征的研究, 陈仲庚, 武国城, 彭凯平, 1985
Awards
- 2004 - Best Paper Award: Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- 2006 - Best Paper Award: Academy of Management
- 2015 - Second Prize for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements: Ministry of Education of China
- 2017 - First Prize for Excellent Works in Network Propaganda and Ideological Education: Ministry of Education
- 2018 - 'Good Teacher and Helpful Friend' Award: Tsinghua University
- 2021 - First Prize for Teaching Achievements: Tsinghua University
- 2023 - National First-Class Undergraduate Course: 'Positive Psychology'
