Prof. CHANG Lei
Head of Department & Chair Professor
Programme Coordinator of Master of Social Sciences in Clinical Psychology Programme
Room: E21-3045
Phone: +(853) 8822 8386
Email: chang@um.edu.mo
Professor Chang has over 250 referred journal publications in the areas of evolutionary psychology, including cultural evolution, life history, and evolutionary mating research, and developmental psychology focusing on parenting and child and adolescent social development. His h-Index is 72, with over 25,000 citations (by Google Scholar).
Prof. Todd JACKSON
Professor
Room: E21-3061
Phone: +(853) 8822 4259
Email: toddjackson@um.edu.mo
My professional interests are in clinical psychology and health psychology. A key research focus is upon understanding neural, cognitive, and psychosocial influences on responses to experimental pain and disabling chronic pain. A second major research interest has been upon discerning neurocognitive, psychosocial, and sociocultural influences on body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, and obesity with the approaches mentioned above.
Prof. WU Man Sze, Anise
Professor
Room: E21-3058
Phone: +(853) 8822 8377
Email: anisewu@um.edu.mo
My research is concerned with both individual and public health, with particular emphasis on addictive behaviors (e.g., gambling, gaming, Internet use, smartphone use, shopping, and substance use), organ donation, and older adults’ wellbeing. In order to facilitate Chinese addiction research, I also actively participate in developing and/or validating measurement tools such as the Inventory of Gambling Motives, Attitudes and Behaviours, the Gambling Motivation Scale, and the Internet Gaming Disorder Test in Chinese populations.
Prof. TONG Kwok Kit
Associate Professor
Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology Programme
Room: E21-3065
Phone: +(853) 8822 8393
Email: kktong@um.edu.mo
My main research interest is to explore more effective ways to promote psychological well-being and to foster positive behaviors from a social psychological perspective. My current research focuses on understanding the impacts of gambling behaviors and factors behind the adherence to responsible gambling practices.
Prof. CHEUNG Shu Fai
Associate Professor
Room: E21-3057
Phone: +(853) 8822 8391
Email: sfcheung@um.edu.mo
My research involves two areas: quantitative research methods and social beliefs. I am interested in solving various practical problems in meta-analysis, such as analyzing dependent effect sizes and doing meta-analytic structural equation modeling. I am also working with a research team to study people’s changes in social beliefs across time.
Prof. GUO Tieyuan, Tony
Associate Professor
Room: E21-3064
Phone: +(853) 8822 8373
Email: tguo@um.edu.mo
My research is mainly focused on culture and cognition. Specifically, I am interested in how cultural background (East Asian culture vs. North American) shapes the way people think and reason about the world. I am also interested in other topics in social psychology, such as motivation, decision making, etc.
Prof. Kay CHANG
Associate Professor
Room: E21-3042
Phone: +(853) 8822 8385
Email: kchang@um.edu.mo
Prof. Kay is a California licensed clinical psychologist, Internationally Certified Addiction Specialist, Registered Psychologist in Hong Kong, and Registered Psychotherapist in Macau. Her research interests include the clinical relevance of trauma, creativity, assessment, positive psychology, program evaluation, Indigenous Psychology and Constructivism. She welcomes opportunities to work with creativity minds that appreciate multi-disciplinary approach and or an action research component.
Prof. CHI Peilian
Associate Professor
Room: E21-3049
Phone: +(853) 8822 4025
Email: peilianchi@um.edu.mo
The central focus of my research is to understand individual and relational resilience from a biopsychosocial and family systems perspective. My research has two main areas: resilience of youths in adversities and relational resilience processes. I uses a variety of behavioral and neuroscience methods, and biomarkers to study dyads and individuals.
Prof. YAN Ming
Associate Professor
Room: E21-3055
Phone: +(853) 8822 8967
Email: mingyan@um.edu.mo
Dr. Yan’s research focuses on how eye-movement control in reading varies across different orthographies and across different individuals. His main research topics include (a) the influence of high-level linguistic factors on fixation location, (b) lexical processing of foveal and parafoveal words, (c) perceptual span in reading and (d) reading behaviors of typically developing readers and impaired readers.
Prof. XU Hui
Associate Professor
Room: E21-3063
Phone: +(853) 8822 8590
Email: huixu@um.edu.mo
My primary research interests lie in two core mental health areas: career counseling/development and psychotherapy science. In general, I deeply believe that science and practice should inform each other and strive to make innovative theoretical and practical contributions through programmatic research. In vocational psychology/career development, over the years I have developed a program focusing on career decision-making (particularly on how people handle uncertainty). In psychotherapy science, I am particularly interested in the change mechanism of psychotherapy and cross-cultural efficacy of psychotherapy.
Prof. O Jiaqing
Associate Professor
Room: E21-3054
Phone: +(853) 8822 4618
Email: jiaqingo@um.edu.mo
Dr. O is a clinically-trained, evolutionary-minded researcher who is profoundly involved in examining the kinds of (and potential solutions for some of the) modern-day problems deriving from the interactions between humans and their physical/social environment from a multifaceted evolutionary perspective. More specifically, Dr. O is passionately curious about 1) evolutionary mismatch in the modern world and the impact of environmental factors on life history strategies and their subsequent impact on mental wellbeing; and 2) cross-cultural examinations of these evolutionary hypotheses and other mental wellbeing domains.
Prof. TAO Yick Ku, Vivienne
Assistant Professor
Room: E21-3048
Phone: +(853) 8822 8389
Email: vyktao@um.edu.mo
I teach Biological Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Sensation & Perception and Social Psychology. My research interests cover achievement orientation and motivation, health behavior and gambling studies. Recent collaborative projects include gambling scale development and validation for Chinese gamblers.
Prof. DENG Wei, Sophia
Assistant Professor
Room: E21-3037
Phone: +(853) 8822 4253
Email: wdeng@um.edu.mo
A major goal of my research is to understand how and why human cognition changes in the course of development and learning. I am especially interested in the developmental interactions between categorization, attention, and memory. My research uses a variety of behavioral and neuroscience methods to study infants, children, and adults.
Prof. XIAO Ting (Amy Shaw)
Assistant Professor
Room: E21-3039
Phone: +(853) 8822 4297
Email: amyshaw@um.edu.mo
My research and practice have focused on predicting success for working adults in organizational and educational settings. This includes a) conceptualizing and examining psychological constructs; b) developing, validating, and implementing psychological assessments to measure individual differences that are predictive of job performance; c) investigating organizational and situational factors that can impact employees’ productivity and happiness.
Prof. Letty KWAN
Assistant Professor
Room: E21-3040
Phone: +(853) 8822 8343
Email: lettykwan@um.edu.mo
My primary research goal is to use culture to understand and explain everyday behaviors, including creativity, social norms, and learning behaviors and outcomes. Secondly, my research also focuses on understanding how cultural norms can affect the decision-making processes including attitudes formation, change, and its implications on our behaviors.
Prof. LIU Lulu
Assistant Professor
Room: E21-3047
Phone: +(853) 8822 8330
Email: lululiu@um.edu.mo
My research interests focus on clinical neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. My primary research goal is to use multiple methods to understand how and why behaviours and cognitions change in ageing and clinical populations. The main research topics include memory, time, mental time travel and decision making.
Prof. Kuzma STRELNIKOV
Associate Professor (ICI-CCBS)
Room: E21-3044
Phone: +(853) 8822 9206
Email: kuzmas@um.edu.mo
Brain plasticity in norm and pathology, speech perception, development of novel computational approaches in neuroimaging, integrative neural modeling. I use various behavioral and neuroscience methods to investigate my research questions, including fMRI, PET, EEG, fNIRS, eye-tracking, psychophysical methods. I develop neural models and computational methods in Python, Matlab, C++.
Prof. Michiel Spapé
Associate Professor (ICI-CCBS)
Room: E21-3044
Phone: +(853) 8822 9524
Email: mspape@um.edu.mo
Consciousness has been described as ‘the hard problem’, involving the feeling of what it is like to experience the world subjectively, as an individual. In my work, I investigate the possibility that, rather than understanding consciousness as an endpoint of perception, or the beginning of action, the answer must be found in the interaction between perception and action. In more recent years, I have started to use neuroimaging in interaction with computer interfaces as a model of consciousness. For example, I have shown that by detecting movement imagery using neuroimaging and using this to accelerate or decelerate within a star field, our consciousness of time can be altered.
Prof. WU Haiyan
Assistant Professor (ICI-CCBS)
Room: E21-3044
Phone: +(853) 8822 9210
Email: haiyanwu@um.edu.mo
I am interested in exploring the mechanisms that describe and/or affect behavioral and neuronal responses during decision making in social interaction. In my research, I use diverse methods (Mturk, psychophysiological recordings, mouse tracking/eye tracking, computational modeling, EEG, TDCS/TMS and fMRI) to find answers to these questions: 1) How do people make positive and negative empathetic responses to others? 2) How can we profile and measure aspects of social inference, decision making, and strategic interactions in different individuals? 3) What is the role of mentalizing in social emotion and decision making? 4) How do the reward and punishment systems interact during decision making?
Prof. ZHANG Haoyun
Assistant Professor (ICI-CCBS)
Room: E21-3044 / N21-1004d
Phone: +(853) 8822 9212
Email: haoyunzhang@um.edu.mo
Cognitive abilities, such as executive function and language production, decline with age. Older adults typically struggle to memorize items, inhibit irrelevant information, and/or produce fluent speech. These age-associated declines interfere with older adults’ successful communication and social interactions. To help alleviate these problems, my research investigates factors that contribute to age-related declines in language production, and their neural bases, mainly from four perspectives, 1) Phonological characteristics, 2) Cognitive control demands, 3) Functional connectivity, and 4) Bilingualism. I use various behavioral and neuroscience methods to investigate my research questions, including Electroencephalography (EEG), and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
Prof. IP Cheng Teng
Assistant Professor (ICI-CCBS)
Room: E21-3044 / N21-1005d
Phone: +(853) 8822 9378
Email: chengtengip@um.edu.mo
I am a neuroscientist with an interest in clinical electroencephalography (EEG) research. The focus of my areas involves the application of EEG with a special interest in the evaluation of CNS drug effects in pharmaco-EEG, and event-related potentials studies as well as in EEG prediction of response to psychopharmacological treatment.
Dr. ZHU Nan, Darren
Research Assistant Professor
Phone: +(853) 8822 8992
Email: darrenzhu@um.edu.mo
My research interests lie in the intersection of evolutionary psychology, social psychology, and cross-cultural research. The central goal of my research is to elucidate how and why people make different social judgments in various ecological and social environments based on evolutionary theories. I also aim to understand how different ecologies and social structures might have given rise to complex intrasocietal conflicts in different cultural contexts.
Dr. LAM Ka Lai, Kelly
Research Assistant Professor
Email: kalailam@um.edu.mo
My research interests are gratitude, grit, resilience, parent-child interaction and relationship, health psychology, positive psychology.
Prof. Robert J. Taormina
Emeritus Professor
Phone: +(853) 8822 8381 / 8822 4261
Email: taormina@um.edu.mo
Professor Robert J. Taormina is Emeritus Professor of Psychology. During his tenure in the Department of Psychology, Professor Taormina has taught and researched in social psychology, applied social psychology, leadership, organizational socialization, adult personal resilience, and cross-cultural comparisons. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Sage journal, Leadership, and chaired the University of Macau Panel on Research Ethics.
Prof. XIANG Yutao
Professor (by Courtesy)
Room: E12-1052 / E12-1040/1056
Phone: +(853) 8822 4223
Email: ytxiang@um.edu.mo
Prof. HONG Ze, Kevin
Assistant Professor (by Courtesy)
Room: E21-3025
Phone: +(853) 8822 8314
Email: zehong@um.edu.mo
Prof. SOU Kuai Long, Elvo
Assistant Professor (by Courtesy)
Room: E31-2009
Phone: +(853) 8822 4820
Email: elvosou@um.edu.mo
I am a registered psychotherapist in Macau and a career coach. My research interests include mental health, vocational psychology, positive psychology, and well-being.
Prof. WONG Mek, Mia
Assistant Professor (by Courtesy)
Email: mekwong@um.edu.mo
As a registered psychotherapist in Macau and a Licensed Supervisor of the Chinese Psychological Society, my interest lies in clinical psychotherapy and supervision. I am interested in studying shame and emotion regulation processes.
Ms. SENG I Teng, Elaine
Senior Instructor (CKPC)
Phone: +(853) 8822 9388
Email: elaineseng@um.edu.mo