Representative Papers of our Research

Dialectical Self

  • Goetz, J., Spencer-Rodgers, J. & Peng, K. (2007). 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.

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

  • Peng, K., Spencer-Rodgers, J. & Zhong, N. (2005). Naive 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. (pdf)

  • 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. (pdf)

  • Rodgers, J., Peng, K., Wang, L. & Hou, Y. (2004). Dialectical self and psychological well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1416-1432. (Otto Klineberg Prize for the "best paper of the year" by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 2004).     (pdf)


Cultural Perception Reasoning

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

  • 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.

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

  • Tadmor, C., Tetlock, & Peng, K. (2006). Acculturation Strategies and Integrative Complexity: The Cognitive Implications of Biculturalism (Best Paper Award, the Academy of Management, August 2006). (pdf)

  • Peng, K. & Knowles, E. (2003). Culture, ethnicity, and the attribution of physical causality. Personality and social psychology bulletin, 29, 1272-1284.  (pdf)

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

  • 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. (pdf)

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

  • Peng, K. & Nisbett, R. (1999). Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction. American Psychologist, 54, 741-754. (pdf)

  • 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.

  • 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.   (pdf)


Group Relations, Identity, and Agency

  • 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. (pdf)

  • 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.(pdf)

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

  • Paletz, S., Peng, K., Erez, M. & Maslach, C. (2003). Ethnic composition and its differential impact on group processes in diverse teams. Small Group Research, 35, 128-157.   (pdf)


Psychological Implications for Cross-cultural Business, Law, & Politics

  • Levinsion, J & Peng, K. (2007). Value cultural difference in behavioral economics. The ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, 1, 32-47. (pdf)

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

  • 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. (pdf)

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


Methodologies and Techniques of Cross-cultural Research and Communication

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

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