Prof. Guo Tieyuan, Tony
Associate Professor

Room: E21-3064
Tel: +(853) 8822 8373
E-mail: tguo@um.edu.mo

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Social Psychology (Queen’s University, Canada)
  • M.Ed. in Applied Psychology (Peking University, China)
  • B.S. in Psychology (Peking University, China)

Teaching areas

  • Social Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Social Cognition
  • Introductory Psychology

Research Areas

  • Culture
  • Social cognition and reasoning
  • Temporal Information Processing
  • Decision making

Research

Current research

  • Cultural differences in valuing future and past information
  • Cultural differences in conversation
  • Predictably irrational in decision making
  • Methodological issues in cultural psychology

Selected Publications

Periodical Publications

  • Chen, F., Guo, T*., Wang., J. (2023). Divergent effects of warmth and competence social rejection: An explanation based on the need-threat model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, doi: 10.1037/pspi0000440
  • Chen, F., & Guo, T*. (2022). Are talented people more virtuous in the eyes of others? Positive effects of competence on perceived morality. PsyCh Journal, 11(4):560-570, doi: 10.1002/pchj.541
  • Chen, F., & Guo, T. (In press). Effects of competence information on perceptions of warmth. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12452
  • Spina, R., Ji, L. J., Guo, T.Y., Li, Y., Zhang, Z. (2020). Cultural differences in the tendency to seek practical versus theoretical Information. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(7-8). pp. 636-653.
  • Guo, T.Y., Spina, R. (2019). Cross-cultural variations in extreme rejecting and extreme affirming response styles. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50(8). pp. 955-971.
  • Guo, T., & Spina, R. (2019). Cultural asymmetry between perceptions of past and future personal changes. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 855. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00885
  • Ji, L. J., Hong, E. K., Guo, T., Zhang, Z. Su, Y., & Li, Y. (2019). Culture, psychological proximity to the past and future, and self-continuity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(4), 735-747. doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2544
  • Guo, T., & Spina, R. (2016). Chinese are more loss averse than British. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 19(2), 154-162. doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12129
  • Guo, T., & Spina, R. (2015). Regulatory focus affects predictions of the future. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(2), 214-223. doi.org/10.1177/0146167214561194
  • Guo, T., Ji, L.J., Spina, R., & Zhang, Z. (2012). Culture, temporal focus, and values of the past and the future. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1030-1040. doi.org/10.1177/0146167212443895
  • Spina, S., Ji, LJ, Guo, T.Y., Zhang, Z.Y., Li, Y, & Fabrigar, L. (2010). Cultural differences in the representativeness heuristic: Expecting a correspondence in magnitude between cause and effect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 583-597. doi.org/10.1177/0146167210368278
  • Ji, L.J., Guo, T., Zhang, Z., & Messervey, D. (2009). Looking into the past: Cultural differences in perception and representation of past information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 761-769. doi.org/10.1037/a0014498
  • Ji, L.J., Zhang, Z., & Guo, T. (2008). To buy or to sell: Cultural differences in stock market decisions based on price trends. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 399-413. doi.org/10.1002/bdm.595
  • Conference Presentations
  • Guo, T., Ji, L.J. (2010). Cultural differences in attention to the future. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Guo, T., Ji, L.J., & Zhang, Z. (2008). Values of the past and the future: Cultural differences in temporal value asymmetry. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Guo, T., & Ji, L.J., (2007). Why do North Americans expect continuity whereas Chinese expect change? Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
  • Guo, T., & Zhang Z. (2005). The relationship between Chinese college students’ job selection behaviors and their personalities. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
  • Books and book chapters
  • Zhang, N., Ji, L. J., Guo, T. (2018). Culture and lay theories of change. In Julie Spencer-Rodgers & Kaiping Peng (Eds). The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition: Contradiction, Change, and Holism (pp. 81-104). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Guo, T. (2015). Learning the Confucian way. In Schalkwyk G. J. & D’Amato, R. C. Achieving Excellence in Asian University Teaching: Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Higher Education. Springer.
  • Guo, T., & Uhm, S. (2013). Society and acculturation in Asian American communities. In Davis, J. M. & D’Amato, R. C. Neuropsychology with Asian-Americans. (pp. 55-76) Springer.
  • Ji, L. J, Lee, A, & Guo, T. (2010). The thinking style of Chinese people, In Michael Harris Bond (Ed). The oxford handbook of Chinese psychology. (pp. 155-167). Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.

Courses Taught

  • Social Psychology
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Culture and Cognition