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I am currently a PhD candidate in the Psychology Department at the University of British Columbia. Please click here for a CV (current as of December 2008).
At UBC, I work mainly with my advisors Ara Norenzayan in the Culture & Cognition Lab, and Steve Heine in the Culture & Self Lab. I am also carrying out research with Liz Dunn and Jeremy Biesanz at UBC, and Sylvia X. Chen at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
My research interests focus on cultural influences on psychology, and their implications for intercultural understanding. With a focus on East Asia, especially China, I study culture's influence on values about what kinds of reasoning is "best;" how we express our personality in different situations, and folk theories of how personality affects our behavior; and whether or not we feel positively about helping others when it is our duty to do so. I am also interested in the moral implications of cultural differences: whether or not teaching about cultural differences leads students to stereotype, and whether learning about cultural differences in morality leads necessarily to moral relativism. Please see my research page for more details.
Recent publications:
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Chen, S. X., Bond, M.B., Chan, B., Tang, D., & Buchtel, E. E. (in press). Behavioral Manifestations of Modesty. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Heine, S. J. & Buchtel, E. E. (in press). Personality: The Universal and the Culturally Specific. Annual Review of Psychology, 60. PDF
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