Prof. O Jiaqing
Associate Professor

Room: E21-3054
Tel: +(853) 8822 4618
E-mail: jiaqingo@um.edu.mo

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Australian National University (ANU), Australia
  • Bachelor in Psychology (1st Class Honours), National University of Singapore, Singapore

Achievements

  • 2020-2022: Member of the Welsh Parliament/Senedd Cymru COVID-19 Register of Experts
  • 2019: Conferred Fellowship of Advance HE (United Kingdom)
  • 2018-2019: Conferred Associate Fellowship of The Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom)
  • 2009-2013: Australian National University Higher Degree Research Merit Scholar
  • 2009-2012: Australian National University Research Scholar
  • 2008: Awarded Special Book Prize for Being the Best Student in Psychology for the Social Science (Honours) Examination (National University of Singapore)
  • 2008: Being the Only First Class Honours Awardee in Psychology in the Entire 2004-2008 Cohort (and is One of Only Two First Class Honours Awardees in the Graduating Class) (National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
  • 2007-2008: Shaw Foundation Donated Scholarship Holder (National University of Singapore)

Editorships

  • 2020-Present: Associate Editor (Member of the Editorial Board – 2019-2020) for New Ideas in Psychology, Elsevier
  • 2019-Present: Guest Associate Editor for a Research Topic within the Evolutionary Psychology Section of Frontiers in Psychology – 2019 to 2021 and 2022 to Current Respectively, Frontiers Media
  • 2019-Present: Member of the Editorial Board for Culture and Evolution (Formerly Evolution, Mind and Behaviour), Akadémiai Kiadó
  • 2018-Present: Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, Reysen Group
  • 2020-2022: Associate Editor for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Formerly Palgrave Communications), Springer Nature
  • 2017-2022: Review Editor (Member of the Editorial Board) for the Evolutionary Psychology Section of Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media

Research Interests

  • Evolutionary Approaches (e.g., Evolutionary Mismatch and Life History Theories) and Mental Wellbeing
  • Nature Exposure, Urbanisation and Mental Wellbeing
  • Fundamental Issues in Mental Health
  • Evolutionary Underpinnings of Relationships
    Cross-Cultural Research
  • Cross-Cultural Examinations of Evolutionary Hypotheses
  • Cross-Cultural Examinations of Mental Health-related Ideas

Publications

Fares-Otero, N. E., O, J., Spies, G., Womersley, J. S., Gonzalez, C., Ayas, G., Mossie, T. B., … & Seedat, S. (2023). Child maltreatment and resilience in adulthood: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14(2), 2282826-2282826. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.2282826

Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H. A., Adebayo, S. O., […] O, J. […] & Voracek, M. (2023). Body Appreciation Around the World: Measurement Invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) Across 65 Nations, 40 Languages, Gender Identities, and Age. Body Image, 46, 449-466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010

Grossmann, I., Rotella, A. M., Hutcherson, C., Sharpinskyi, C., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S., […] O, J. […] & Wilkening, T. and The Forecasting Collaborative (2023). Insights into accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 484-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1

Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Wormley, A. S., Wiezel, A., Kenrick, D. T., Al-Shawaf, L., […] O, J. […] & Varnum, M. E. W. (2022). Family still matters: Human social motivation during a global pandemic. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(6), 527-535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.09.003

Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Kenrick, D. T., Wiezel, A., Wormley, A. S., Awad, E., […] O, J. […] & Varnum, M. E. W. (2022). Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves. Scientific Data, 9, 499. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01579-w

O, J. & Chang, L. (2021). COVID-19 restrictions-related mental health challenges and associated public health preventive strategies via a critical evolutionary mismatch perspective. In J. N. Lester, M. O’Reilly (Eds.), The Palgrave encyclopedia of critical perspectives on mental health. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12852-4_96-1

Apostolou, M., Birkás, B., da Silva, C. S. A., Esposito, G., Hsu, R. M. C. S., Jonason, P. K., […] O, J., […] & Wang, Y. (2021). Reasons of singles for being single: Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK. Cross-Cultural Research, 55(4), 319-350. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10693971211021816

O, J., Pugh-Jones, C., Clark, B., Trott, J., & Chang, L. (2021). The evolutionarily-mismatched impact of urbanization on insomnia symptoms: A short review of the recent literature. Current Psychiatry Reports, 23(5), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-021-01239-7

Lu, H. J., Liu, Y. Y., O, J., Guo, S., Zhu, N., Chen, B. B., … Chang, L. (2021). Disease history and life history predict behavioral control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evolutionary Psychology, 19(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14747049211000714

Zhu, N., O, J., Lu, H. J., & Chang, L. (2020). Debate: Facing uncertainty with (out) a sense of control–cultural influence on adolescents’ response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 25(3), 173-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12408

Apostolou, M., O, J., & Esposito, G. (2020). Singles’ reasons for being single: Empirical evidence from an evolutionary perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 746. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00746

Ko, A., Pick, C. M., Kwon, J. Y., Barlev, M., Krems, J. A., Varnum, […] O, J. […] & Kenrick, D. (2020). Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(1), 173-201. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1745691619872986

O, J. (2019). Survival advantages of ADHD symptoms based on evolutionary mismatch approaches. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Cham: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_716-1

O, J. (2019). Benefits of Profound Kinship Connectedness (and Problems from a Lack Thereof) through an Evolutionary Mismatch Lens. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Cham: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1260-1

Jones, A., Rahman, R., & O, J. (2019). A crisis in the countryside – Barriers to nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of high-income countries: A qualitative meta-analysis. Journal of Rural Studies, 72, 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.10.007

O, J. (2019). The evolutionarily-mismatched nature of modern group makeup and the proposed application of such knowledge on promoting unity among members during times of intergroup conflict. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e134. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19000797

O, J., Kavanagh, P. S., Brüne, M., & Esposito, G. (2019). Testing the Unsolved Problems Hypothesis: The Evolutionary Life Issues-Mitigating Function of Nature Exposure and Its Relationship with Human Well-Being. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 44, 126396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126396

O, J. & Brüne, M. (2019). Getting to the bottom of things: The value of evolutionary approaches in discerning the origin of psychopathology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18001097

O, J. (2018). Learned Helplessness from an Evolutionary Mismatch Perspective. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Cham: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1056-1

O, J. (2018). Perceived Control and Suicide from an Evolutionary Mismatch Perspective. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Cham: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1058-1

O, J. (2018). Self-Efficacy, Animal Phobias and Evolutionary Mismatch. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Cham: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1058-1

Apostolou, M., Wang, Y. & O, J. (2018). Do men prefer women who are attracted to women? A cross-cultural evolutionary investigation. Personality and Individual Differences, 135, 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.06.052

Brüne, M., O, J., Schojai, M., Decker, C., & Edel, M. A. (2017). Mating strategies and experience of early adversity in female patients with borderline personality disorder: Insights from life history theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 113, 147-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.024

Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., […] O, J. […] & Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8), 1874-1879. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614389114

Li, N. P., Lim, A. J. Y., Tsai, M-H., & O, J. (2015). Too materialistic to get married and have children? PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0126543. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126543

Ang, R. P., & O, J. (2012). Association between caregiving, meaning in life, and life satisfaction beyond 50 in an Asian sample: Age as a moderator. Social Indicators Research, 108(3), 525-534. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-011-9891-9

Tang, C. S., Chua, Z., & O, J. (2010). A gender perspective on Chinese social relationships and behavior. In M. H. Bond (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of Chinese psychology (pp. 533–554). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199541850.013.0032

Collinson, S. L., Mackay, C. E., O, J., James, A. C., & Crow, T. J. (2009). Dichotic listening impairments in early onset schizophrenia are associated with reduced left temporal lobe volume. Schizophrenia Research, 112(1-3), 24-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2009.03.034