People In Our Lab
Lab Director | Professor Hawk received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Drake University. He then obtained Masters degrees in Social Psychology (University of Hawaii-Manoa) and Adolescent Development (Utrecht University). He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, examining the topics of emotion expression and empathy. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Utrecht University's Research Centre for Adolescent Development, where he studied the role of empathy in parent-child conflict resolution, as well as the development of adolescent privacy and experiences of parental privacy invasion.
His current areas of research interest and specialization include:
-
Privacy, disclosure and secrecy in close relationships
-
Emotion communication, emotion regulation, and empathy
-
Social networking behavior and media use in adolescence
-
Sexual development
Wenqing ZONG
Graduate Student | Wenqing ZONG received a Master of Arts in Linguistics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. She is currently a second-year Ph.D. student, focusing on intrusive parenting in Mainland Chinese families. Her research interests include emotion regulation, parenting behavior, and psycholinguistics.
Andy Hoi On CHO
Graduate Student | Andy Hoi On CHO is currently a first-year Education Doctorate (Ed.D.) student in Educational Psychology at CUHK. He received a Master of Social Sciences degree in Psychology of Education at City University of Hong Kong (with distinction). With over 10 years of teaching experience in secondary and tertiary education, he recognizes that parental involvement is one of the significant factors that can alter student’s development in various aspects. His research examines how parental characteristics such as the amount of care, emotional stability, and empathy predict children’s social and emotional development, particularly in terms of perseverance and coping.
Charlotte Ka Ching YU
Research Assistant | Charlotte Yu received a Master of Philosophy in Communication from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. She is currently a full-time research assistant at REALife Lab, focusing on project related to helicopter parenting in Hong Kong. Her research interests range from interpersonal communication (i.e. social media use) to popular culture.
Past and Current Lab Assistants
-
Zalman CHAN
-
Jocelyn WONG
-
Bonnie YUEN
-
Jiayu (Anna) ZHANG
Lab Alumni
Yingqian WANG
Yingqian WANG received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019. She is currently a Lecturer and Executive Assistant in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. Her research mainly focuses on children’s emotion regulation, especially flexibility in emotion regulation strategies, and its links with psychosocial adjustment. In addition, she is also interested in parenting and peer relations in adolescence.
skyork@126.com
Nan ZHU
Nan ZHU received his Ph.D in Educational Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macau, Macau. His research interests include moral reasoning and judgments, cooperation and altruism, and cross-cultural differences/similarities in social psychology. He pursues a theoretical understanding of these various topics using the life history theory, the dual-process theory of morality, the social domain theory, and other theoretical perspectives.
Yan ZHANG
Yan ZHANG received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 2017 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where her research focused on the development of Chinese adolescents’ materialistic values. She is an assistant professor in School of Media and Communication of Shenzhen University. Her interests revolve around affective, cognitive, and environmental factors that facilitate consumption behaviors, social media use, and identification with pop culture.