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
  • 2019-2023: Guest Associate Editor for a Research Topic within the Evolutionary Psychology Section of Frontiers in Psychology – 2019 to 2021 and 2022 to 2023 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

1) 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

2) Cross-Cultural Research
– Cross-Cultural Examinations of Evolutionary Hypotheses
– Cross-Cultural Examinations of Mental Health-related Ideas

Publications

Eastwick, P. W., Sparks, J., Finkel, E. J., Meza, E. M., Adamkovič, M., Adu, P., […] O, J. […] & Coles, N. A. (in press). A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

O, J., Aspden, T., Thomas, A. G., Chang, L., Ho, M. H. R., Li, N. P., & van Vugt, M. (2024). Mind the Gap: Development and Validation of an Evolutionary Mismatched Lifestyle Scale and Its Impact on Health and Wellbeing. Heliyon, 10(15), e34997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34997

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