Publications


Books | Journal Articles | Book Chapters


Books

  • Peng, K. & Wang, Y. (2009). Psychology of cross-cultural communication. Beijing Normal University Press.

  • Peng, K. & Zhong, N. (2009). Psychology and the development of China. Wanqian Psychology Press.

  • Peng, K. (2004). New readings in cultural psychology. Wiley, NY.

  • Peng, K. (2000). Readings in cultural psychology: Theoretical, methodological and empirical developments during the past decade (1989-1999). Wiley, NY.

  • Peng, K. (1989). Psychological testing: Theories and Practices. Beijing, Huaxia Press.

  • Peng, K. & Liu, W. (Eds. on a translated edition). (1989). Americans & Chinese: Passage to Differences (by Francis Hsu). Beijing, Huaxia Press.

Journal Articles

  • Paletz, S. B. F., & Peng, K. (In Press). Problem finding and contradiction: Examining the relationship between naive dialectical thinking, ethnicity, and creativity. Creativity Research Journal

  • Peng, K. (in press). The Psychology of Economic Man: The games people played. People's University Journal.

  • Spencer-Rodgers, J., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (in press). Dialecticism and the co-occurrence of positive and negative affect across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

  • Boucher, H., Peng, K., Shi, J. & Wang, L. (2009). Culture and implicit self-esteem: Chinese are "good" and "bad" at the same time. Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, 40, 24-45

  • Tadmor, C., Tetlock, P. & Peng, K. (2009). Acculturation strategies and integrative complexity: The cognitive implications of biculturalism. Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, 40, 105-139

  • Spencer-Rodgers, J., Boucher, H., Mori, S., Wang, L. & Peng, K. (2009).The Dialectical self-concept: Contradiction, Change, and Holism in East Asian cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 29-44

  • Peng, K. (2008). Pursuits of psychology. Journal of Wuhan University(Philosophy and social science), 39 (3), 15-16

  • Paletz, S. & Peng, K. (2008). Implicit theories of creativity across cultures: Novelty and appropriateness in two product domains. Journal of cross-cultural psychology. 39, 286-302.

  • Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M., Hamilton, D. & Peng, K. (2007). Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.93, 525-543

  • Levinsion, J & Peng, K. (2007). Value cultural difference in behavioral economics. Behavioral Finance (ICFAI).

  • Chen, S., English, T. & Peng, K. (2006). Self-verification and contextualized self-views. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 930-942.

  • Peng, K. (2006). Invisible field: Culture and behavioral economics. PKU business review, 22,114-118.

  • Ferguson, E., Hagaman, J., Grice, J., & Peng, K. (2006). From leadership to parenthood: The applicability of leadership styles to parenting styles. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 10, 43-56

  • Zhong, N. & Peng, K. (2005). Cultural psychology and its research directions. Journal of Social Science (Midsouth National University), 12-16.

  • Knowles, E. & Peng, K. (2005). White selves: Conceptualizing and measuring a dominant-group identity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 223-241.

  • Rodgers, J., Peng, K., Wang, L. & Hou, Y. (2004). Dialectical self and psychological well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,, 30, 1416-1432.

  • Shi, J., Wang, L. & Peng, K. (2004). Symbolic and economic factors in the Action effect: An economic psychological analysis of regret theory. Psychological Science, 27, 1016-1018.

  • Paletz, S., Peng, K., Erez, M. & Maslach, C. (2004). Ethnic composition and its differential impact on group processes in diverse teams. Small Group Research, 35, 128-157.

  • Levinsion, J & Peng, K. (2004). Different Torts for different cohorts: A cultural psychological critique of Tort Law's actual cause and foreseeablity inquires, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 13, 195-226.

  • Peng, K. & Chan, W. (2004). How psychology challenges legal assumptions? Academic Journal of Suzhou University (Philosophy and social science), 5, 38-41.

  • Peng, K. & Knowles, E. (2003). Culture, education, and the attribution of physical causality. Personality and social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1272-1284.

  • Peng, K.(2003). RQ: A measurement of practical rationality for Chinese. PKU business review , 6, 150-155.

  • Hou, Y., Zhu, Y. & Peng, K. (2003). Thinking styles and disease cognition among Chinese people. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 4, 161-180.

  • Heine, S., Lehman, D., Peng, K. & Greenholtz, J. (2002). What's wrong with cross-cultural comparisons of subjective Likert scales?: The reference-group effect. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 82, 903-918

  • Gries, P. & Peng, K. (2002). Cultural clash: Apologies East and West. Journal of Contemporary China, 11, 173-178.

  • Nisbett, R., Peng, K., Choi, I., & Norenzanan, A. (2001). Culture and system of thoughts: Holistic versus analytic cognition. Psychological Review, 108, 291-310

  • Wang, L., Luan, S., Zhang, H., McConnel, C., & Peng, K. (2001). A study of the relationship between self-complexity and emotion. Psychological Science, 24, 92-94.

  • Peng, K. & Nisbett, R. (2000). Dialectical responses to questions on dialectical thinking. American Psychologist, 55, 1067-1068.

  • Ji, L., Peng, K. & Nisbett, R. (2000). Culture, control and perception of relations in environment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 943-955.

  • Peng, K. & Nisbett, R. (1999). Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction. American Psychologist, 54, 741-754.(Reprinted in Pines, A & Masslach, C. 2001. Experiencing Social Psychology Readings and Projects. Knopf, New York)

  • Kemmelmeier, M., Burnstein, E. & Peng, K. (1999). Individualism and authoritarianism shape attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29, 2613-2631.

  • Peng, K., Nisbett, R & Wong, N. (1997). Validity problems comparing value across cultures and possible solutions. Psychological Methods, 2, 329-344

  • Morris, M. & Peng, K. (1994). Culture and cause: American and Chinese attributions for social and physical events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 949-971.

  • Peng, K. & Chen, Z. (1989). Chinese value orientation among university students. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 21, 149 - 155. (In Chinese)

  • Xue, Z., Peng, K., Yu, J. & Wang, R. (1989). An analysis of the relation of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Type A Behavior Questionnaire. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium , Universitaqtis Pekinensis, 25, 364-367.

  • Ren, B. & Peng, K. (1986). A brief introduction to sociometry. Journal of Peking University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition). 113, 119 - 125. (In Chinese)

  • Chen, Z., & Peng, K. (1986). The relationship between psychoticism of psychotic illness and age. Journal of Gerontology, 16 (4). (In Chinese)

  • Chen, Z., Wu, G., & Peng, K.(1985). Extroversion, neuroticism and psychoticism of some school-age children in Beijing. Acta Psychological Sinica, 17, 250 - 256. (In Chinese)


    • Book Chapters


  • Peng, K. (in press). Culture and attribution. In Y. L. Lee (eds). Current Trends in Social Psychology. Beijing Normal University Press. Beijing, China.

  • Rodgers, J., Williams, M. & Peng, K. Seeing the world through dialectical lens: How Asian folk beliefs of knowing affect Asian knowing of cultural differences? Asian Journal of Social Psychology.

  • Goetz, J., Spencer-Rodgers, J. & Peng, K. (2008). Dialectical Emotions: How cultural epistemologies influence the experience and regulation of emotional complexity. In R. Sorrentino & Yamguchi, S (eds.). Handbook of motivation and cognition across cultures.

  • Norenzanan, A, Choi, I. & Peng, K. Perception and cognition. (2007). In S. Kitayama, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology,, 569-594, Guilford Press.

  • Peng, K. (2006). Culture and Rational Thinking. In He, Z (eds). Hot topics in Managerial Science in China. 86-105. Peking University Press, Beijing, China.

  • Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M. J., & Peng, K. (2007). How Asian folk beliefs of knowing affect the psychological investigation of cultural differences. In J. H. Liu, C. Ward, A. B. Bernardo, M. Karasawa, & R. Fischer (Eds.), Casting the individual in societal and cultural contexts: Social and Societal Psychology for Asia and the Pacific . 261-272. Seoul, Korea: Asian Association of Social Psychology

  • Peng, K., Spencer-Rodgers, J. & Zhong, N. (2005). Naïve dialecticism and the Tao of Chinese thought. In Kim, U., Yang, KS., Huang, G (Eds). The Handbook of indigenous and cultural psychology, 247- 262. Blackwell.

  • Rodgers, J. & Peng, K. (2005). The dialectical self: Contradiction, change, and holism in the East Asian self concept. In RM Sorrentino, D. Cohen, JM. Olson, &MP, Zanna. (eds.). Culture and social behavior: The Ontario Symposium, 10, 227-249. Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

  • Peng, K., Hou, Y. & Gan, L. (2004). Tao of Chinese thought and its behavioral implications. In D. Wang & Y. Hou (eds.). Review of Personality and Social Psychology, 1, 22-45.

  • Hou, Y., Zhu, Y. & Peng, K. (2004). How reasoning styles affect managers attributions of others' behavior.. In D. Wang & Y. Hou (eds.). Review of Personality and Social Psychology, 1, 115-130.

  • Peng, K. (2002) Culture and Cognition in Chinese Context. Monograph of the Forth Pan Chinese Conferences of Psychology. Taipei, Taiwan.

  • Peng, K., Ames, D., & Knowles, E. (2001). Culture and human inference: Perspectives from three traditions. In D. Masumoto (Ed). Handbook of culture and psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, pp 243-263. (Reprinted in Pines, A & Masslach, C. 2001. Experiencing Social Psychology Readings and Projects. Knopf, New York)

  • Peng, K. & Ames, D. (2001). Psychology of dialectical thinking. In N. Smelser & P. Baltes (Eds.). International encyclopedia of the Social and Behavior sciences. Elsevier Science, Oxford, England, 6, 3634-7.

  • Peng, K. & Akutsu, S. (2000). Mentality theory of knowledge creation and transfer: Why some people resist new ideas. In I. Nonaka & D. Teece (Eds.) Managing Industrial Knowledge Creation, Transfer and Ultilization. Sage publications, London. Pp 105-123.

  • Peng, K. (2000). Organizational Behaviors in Chinese cultural contexts, Monographs on Organizational Behavior. Sino-European International Business School (Beijing)

  • Su, S., Chiu, C., Hong, Y., Leung, K., Peng, K., & Morris, M. (1998). Self-organization and social organization: American and Chinese constructions. In T. Tyler, Kramer, R., & John, O. (Eds.) The psychology of the social self. Laurence Erlbaum and Associates. Pp.193-222.

  • Peng, K. & Nisbett, R. (1996). Cross-cultural similarities and differences in understanding of physical causality. In G. Shield & M. Shale (Ed).Culture and Science. Frankfort: Kentucky State University Graphs. pp.10-21.

  • Morris, M., Nisbett, R. & Peng, K. (1995). Causal understanding across domains and cultures. In D. Sperber, D. Premack & A. Premack (Eds.) Causal Cognition: A multidisciplinary debate. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 577 -614.

  • Peng, K.(1989). Psychometric approach to educational evaluation. In Institute for Higher Education Research of Tianjing University (Ed). Abstract of Second National Academic Conference on Education Evaluation. 32 (4).(In Chinese)

  • Peng, K. (1988). Psychometric analysis of students' teaching evaluation program. Thesis prepared for the Sino-American Symposium on Education Evaluation, 1987, Beijing, China. The Forum on Higher Education. Beijing University, 3 (3). (In Chinese)

  • Peng, K. (1987). Is there a negativism in Chinese mentality? Educational Science of Guangming Daily, June 16. Issue, 3-4. (In Chinese)

  • Chen, Z., Peng, K.& Ye, J.(1987). Comparison of CFF between schizophrenics and normals. Abstract of Sixth National Conference of Psychology. Chinese Psychological Association. Beijing, China. (In Chinese)

  • Peng, K.(1986). Psychotherapy. In Chen, Z.& Zhang, B(Eds). Abnormal psychology. Beijing Science Technology Press. (In Chinese)