Melody Manchi Chao
- SPN Mentor
Melody Chao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her current research examines the dynamics of psychological processes in multicultural and intercultural contexts. Her analysis focuses on how individuals actively participate in cultural processes and how they negotiate between conflicting cultural values and norms. She also seeks to bridge research on culture, social identification, and intergroup relations.
Specifically, her research on justice and conflicts examines how culture interplays with social and psychological forces to influence individuals’ justice and conflict management judgments in multicultural settings. Her research on lay theories (beliefs) and cultural diversity investigates how very simple beliefs about the social world can have profound psychological consequences for individuals living in a diverse socio-cultural environment.
Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Intergroup Relations
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Organizational Behavior
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
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Responses to Five Questions About the World After Covid
Journal Articles:
- Chao, M. M., Chen, J., Roisman, G., & Hong, Y. (2007). Essentializing race: Implications for bicultural individuals’ cognition and affect. Psychological Science, 18, 341-348.
- Chao, M. M., Chiu, C., Chan, W., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Kwok, C. (2012). The implications of exposure to the “model minority” ideal to self and racial perceptions. Asian American Journal of Psychology. doi: 10.1037/a0028769.
- Chao, M. M., Chiu, C., & Lee, J.S. (2010). Asians as the model minority: Implications for U.S. government’s policies. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13, 44-52.
- Chao, M.M., Hong, Y., & Chiu, C. (accepted). Essentializing race: Its implication for social categorization and racial perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Chao, M.M., Okazaki, S., & Hong, Y. (2011). The quest for multicultural competence: Challenges and lessons learned from clinical and organizational research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 263-274.
- Chao, M.M., Zhang, Z-X., & Chiu, C. (2010). Adherence to perceived norms across cultural boundaries: The role of need for cognitive closure and ingroup identification. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 69-89.
- Chao, M. M., Zhang, Z-X., & Chiu, C. (2008). Personal and collective culpability judgment: A functional analysis of East Asian-North American differences. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39, 730-744.
- Cheng, S. Y., Rosner, J. L., Chao, M.M., Peng, S., Chen, X., Li, Y., Kwong, J.Y., Hong, Y., Chiu, C. (2011). One world, one dream? Intergroup consequences of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 296-306.
- Fu, J. H., Morris, M. W., Lee, S., Chao, M., Chiu, C., & Hong, 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.
- Hong, Y., Chao, M.M., & No, S. (2009). Dynamic Interracial/intercultural Processes – The Role of Lay Theories of Race. Journal of Personality. Special issue: Personality and racial/ethnic relations, 77, 1283-1310.
- No, S., Hong, Y., Liao, H., Lee, K., Wood, D., & Chao, M. M. (2008). Lay theory of race affects and moderates Asian Americans’ responses toward American culture. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 991-1004.
- Tadmor, C., Chao, M., Hong, Y., Polzer, J.T. (in press). Not just for stereotyping anymore: Racial essentialism reduces domain-general creativity. Psychological Science.
- Tadmor, C., Hong, Y., Chao, M.M., Wiruchnipawan, F. & Wang, W. (2012). Multicultural experiences reduce intergroup bias through epistemic unfreezing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 750-772.
- Tam, K., Lee, S., Kim, Y., Li, Y., & Chao, M.M. (2012). Intersubjective model of value transmission: Parents using perceived norms as reference when socializing children. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1041-1052.
Other Publications:
- Chiu, C., & Chao, M. M. (2009). Society, culture, and the person: Ways to personalize and socialize cultural psychology. In R. S. Wyer, C-y. Chiu, & Y. Y. Hong (Eds.), Understanding culture: Theory, research and application (pp. 457-468). New York: Psychology Press.
Courses Taught:
- Business, Society, and the Individual (Business Ethics)
- Introduction to Social Psychology
- Organizational Behavior
- Psychology of Personality
- Research Methods in Social Psychology
Melody Manchi Chao
Department of Management
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
Hong Kong
- Phone: (852) 2358-7739
- Fax: (852) 2335-5325
