Selected Papers

  • Ma-Kellams, C., Spencer-Rodgers, J. & Peng, K. (2011). I am against us? Unpacking cultural differences in ingroup favoritism via dialecticism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(1), 15-27.
  • Peng, K. & Paletz, S. (2011). Applied Cultural Psychology: Passages to Differences. In the Handbook of Applied Psychology.In Paul R. Martin,Fanny M. Cheung, Michael C. Knowles, Michael Kyrios, Lyn Littlefield, J. Bruce Overmier,& José M. Prieto (Eds). The IAAP Handbook of Applied Psychology, pp.525-542. Blackwell Publishing Inc. 
  • Peng, W. & Peng, K. (2010). Ethnic stereotypes and economic discrepancy: The illusion of differences between Han and Uyghur Chinese. Annals of Economics and Fianance, 11-2, 381-397.
  • Rodgers, J., Williams, M. & Peng, K. (2010). Cultural differences in expectation of change and tolerance for contradiction: A decade of empirical research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 296-312.
  • Shiota, M., Campos, B., Gonzaga, G., Keltner, D. & Peng, K. (2010). I love you but...: Cultural differences in complexity of emotional experience during interaction with a romantic partner. Cognition and Emotion, 24(5),786-799. (pdf)
  • Spencer-Rodgers, J., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (2010). Dialecticism and the co-occurrence of positive and negative affect across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41, 109-115  (pdf)
  • Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M. & Peng, K. (2010). Cultural differences in expectations of change and tolerance for contradiction: A decade of empirical research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(3),296-312.   (pdf)
  • 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.  (pdf)
  • Paletz, S. B. F., & Peng, K. (2009). Problem finding and contradiction: Examining the relationship between naive dialectical thinking, ethnicity, and creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 21(2–3), 139–151.  (pdf)
  • Peng, K. (2009). The Psychology of Economic Man: The games people played. Journal of People’s University, 3, 61-69.
  • Peng, K. & Liao, J. (2009). Mathematical modeling of the culture and cognition paradigms. Journal of Chinese Social Science, 180 (6), 79-88.
  • Peng, W., Peng, X. & Peng, K. (2009). The Paradox of Education Fairness in China. Annals of Economics and Finance, 10 (1),199-213.  (pdf)
  • 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.
  • 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  (pdf)
  • Spencer-Rodgers, J., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (2009). Cultural Differences in Self-Verification: The Role of Naïve Dialecticism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45 (2), 860-866.  (pdf)
  • 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. (Best Paper Award for best paper at the annual conference of the Managerial and Cognition Division, Academy of Management 2006)  (pdf)
  • 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.  (pdf)
  • Paletz, S. & Peng, K. (2008). Implicit theories of creativity across cultures: Novelty and appropriateness in two product domains. Journal of cross-cultural psychology, 29, 286-302.  (pdf)
  • Peng, K. (2008). Pursuits of psychology. Journal of Wuhan University (Philosophy and social science), 39 (3), 15-16
  • Levinsion, J & Peng, K. (2007). Value cultural difference in behavioral economics. The ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, 1, 32-47.  (pdf)
  • Norenzanan, A, Choi, I. & Peng, K. Perception and cognition. (2007). In S. Kitayama, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology. Guilford Press.
  • 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)
  • Chen, S., English, T. & Peng, K. (2006). Self-verification and contextualized self-views. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 930-942.  (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)
  • Peng, K. (2006). Invisible field: Culture and behavioral economics. PKU business review,22, 114-118.
  • 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)
  • Knowles, E. & Peng, K. (2005). White selves: Conceptualizing and measuring a dominant-group identity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 223-241.  (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)
  • Zhong, N. & Peng, K. (2005). Cultural psychology and its research directions. Journal of Social Science (Midsouth National University), 25, 12-16.
  • 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)
  • 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.  (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)
  • Peng, K. & Knowles, E. (2003). Culture, ethnicity, and the attribution of physical causality. Personality and social psychology bulletin, 29, 1272-1284.  (pdf)
  • Gries, P. & Peng, K. (2002). Cultural clash: Apologies East and West. Journal of contemporary China, 11, 173-178.  (pdf)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • Peng, K., Nisbett, R & Wong, N. (1997). Validity problems comparing value across cultures and possible solutions. Psychological Methods, 2, 329-344.  (pdf)
  • Morris, M., Nisbett, R. & Peng, K. (1995). Causal attribution 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)

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