A BRIEF BIOGRPHY OF PROFESSOR PENG
Professor Kaiping Peng is a tenured faculty member at the Department of Psychology of the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1997. Before coming to the US in 1-9-8-9, he had been a faculty member at the Psychology Department of Peking University of China for five years. He is currently the head of the social/personality psychology area in Berkeley. He also directs the culture and cognition lab at UC-Berkeley, has published four books and 50 some articles on culture and cognition, and the psychology of Chinese people.
Contacting Information 
Kaiping Peng, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of California
3210 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1650
USA
kppeng@berkeley.edu
URL:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kppeng
510-642-7096 (office phone)
510-642-5293 (department fax)
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
Best pa-per Award, the Academy of Management, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, August 2006.
Chunhui Award for Outstanding Oversea Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China, 2004
SSCI Endowment Chair Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Beijing University, 2001.
American Cultures Fellow, Center for Teaching and Studying American Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-2002
Regent's Junior Faculty Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-1999
Junior Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998
Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1996-1997
The First Place Award for student poster competition at MPA Convention, The Michigan Psychological Association, October 1996, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Dean's Fellowship of Rackham Graduate School, Culture and Cognition Program, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1992-1995
Summer Research Partnership, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1993-1996
Visiting Scholar of Psychology, Department of Psychology University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1-9-8-9-1990
The Excellence in Research Award to Young Faculty, Beijing University, China, 1988
The Outstanding Teaching Award for 1986-1987 Term Beijing University, China, 1987
Publications
Books
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 (1-9-8-9-1999).Wiley, NY.
Peng, K. (1-9-8-9).Psychological testing: Theories and Practices. Beijing, Huaxia Press.
Peng, K. & Liu, W. (Eds. on a translated edition). (1-9-8-9). 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 naïve dialectical thinking, ethnicity, and creativity. Creativity Research Journal.
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. (1-9-8-9). Chinese value orientation among university students. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 21, 149 - 155. (In Chinese)
Xue, Z., Peng, K., Yu, J. & Wang, R. (1-9-8-9). 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 Trend in social psychology. Beijing Normal University Press. Beijing, China.
Norenzanan, A, Choi, I. & Peng, K. Perception and cognition. (in press). In S. Kitayama, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology. 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.
Peng, K. (2006). Preface for Intimate Relations. In Brehm, S.S., Miller, R.S., Perlman, D. & Campbell, S.M. (2002). Intimate relations (Chinese edition). New Curve Publishing House, Beijing, China.
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. (2004). Preface for self. In Jonathon Brow. The self (Chinese edition). New Curve Publishing House, Beijing, China.
Peng, K. (2004). Preface for judgment and decision mak-ing, In Scott Plous. The Psychology of Judgment and decision mak-ing (Chinese edition). New Curve Publishing House, Beijing, China.
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. **ei, 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.(1-9-8-9). 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)
Manuscript under review
Paletz, S. & Peng, K. (revise and resubmission). Implicit theories of creativity across cultures: Novelty and appropriateness in two product domains. Journal of cross-cultural psychology.
Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M., Hamilton, D. & Peng, K. (revise and resubmission). Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups. Personality and Social Psychology Review
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.
Tadmor, C., Tetlock, P. & Peng, K. Acculturation strategies and integrative complexity: The cognitive implications of biculturalism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Spencer-Rodgers, J., Boucher, H., Mori, S., Wang, L. & Peng, K. ** Dialecticism and East Asian Conceptual Selves: Contradiction, Change, and Holism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Ma, C., Peng, K. & Rodger, J. I am against us? Unpacking the paradox of ingroup derogation via dialectical thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Shiota, M., Mori, S., Keltner, D., & Peng, K. Psychological dialecticism and emotion: Cultural differences in complexity when interpreting emotional faces. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Shiota, M., Campos, B. Gonzaga, G., Keltner, D., & Peng, K. Dialectical epistemology and cultural differences in emotional compleixity during interaction with a romantic partner. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Levinsion, J & Peng, K. Value cultural difference in behavioral economics. Law journals (submitted to multiple law review journals).
EDUCATION
University of Michigan at Ann ArborPh.D., Social Psychology, 1997
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor MS., Social Psychology, 1995
Beijing University, Beijing, China BS., Clinical Psychology, 1983
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