Social-Personality Division

My current research focuses on cultures as knowledge traditions, and the social, cognitive, and motivational processes that mediate the construction and evolution of social consensus. I am also interested in the dynamic interactions of cultural identification and cultural knowledge traditions, and their implications for cultural competence and intercultural relations. Finally, my recent research on group processes examines the role of lay theories in entitativity perception.

Representative Publications:

• Leung, A. K-y., Maddux, W. W., Galinsky, A. D., & Chiu, C-y. (2008). Multicultural experience enhances creativity: The when and how. American Psychologist, 63, 169-181.
• Fu, H-y., Morris, M. W., Lee, S-l. Chao, M-c., Chiu, C-y., & Hong, Y-y. (2007). Epistemic motives and cultural conformity: Need for closure, culture, and context as determinants of conflict judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 191-207, 92, 337-354.
• Wan, C., Chiu, C-y., Tam, K-p., Lee, S-l., Lau, I. Y-m., & Peng, S-q. (2007). Perceived cultural importance and actual self-importance of values in cultural identification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 337-354.
• Chiu, C-y., & Cheng, S. Y-y. (2007). Toward a social psychology of culture and globalization: Some social cognitive consequences of activating two cultures simultaneously. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 84-100.
• Chiu, C., & Hong, Y. (2006). The social psychology of culture. New York: Psychology Press.

Classes Recently Taught:

• Theory and Methods in Social Psychology II (Graduate Seminar)
• Social Motivation (Graduate Seminar)