Prof. Lau Tsz Tan, Nathan

Assistant Professor

Room: E21-3049
Tel: +(853) 8822 4258
E-mail: nathanlau@um.edu.mo

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2022
  • M.Phil., University of Hong Kong, 2017
  • B.A., McMaster University, 2010

Professional Affiliations

  • Consulting Editor – Journal of Educational Psychology

Research Interest

  • Math Achievement
  • Math Anxiety
  • Math Avoidance
  • Math Development
  • Structural Equation Modelling

Selected Publications

  • Lau, N. T., Hawes, Z., Tremblay, P., & Ansari, D. (2022). Disentangling the individual and contextual effects of math anxiety: A global perspective. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(7), e2115855119.
  • Lau, N. T., Merkley, R., Tremblay, P., Zhang, S., De Jesus, S., & Ansari, D. (2021). Kindergarteners’ symbolic number abilities predict nonsymbolic number abilities and math achievement in grade 1. Developmental psychology, 57(4), 471.
  • Lau, N. T., Wilkey, E. D., Soltanlou, M., Lagacé Cusiac, R., Peters, L., Tremblay, P., … & Ansari, D. (2022). Numeracy and COVID-19: examining interrelationships between numeracy, health numeracy and behaviour. Royal Society Open Science, 9(3), 201303.
  • Lau, N. T., Ansari, D., & Sokolowski, H. M. (2024). Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
  • Srivastava, P., Lau, N. T., Ansari, D., & Thampi, N. (2023). Effects of school-level and area-level socio-economic factors on elementary school student COVID-19 infections: a population-based observational study. BMJ open, 13(3), e065596.

Courses Taught

  • PSYC1001 Psychology Statistics I
  • PSYC3020 Cognitive Development