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Kaiping Peng

Kaiping Peng

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Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
22857
World Ranking
6017
National Ranking
58

Overview

Kaiping Peng is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has a research focus primarily within psychology, with a significant emphasis on social psychology. Their scholarly work spans across various subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The researcher's publications have appeared frequently in several academic venues. These include Acta Psychologica Sinica, where they have contributed eight papers, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with four publications, Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Veterinary Science with three papers each, and the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, also featuring three of their papers.

Kaiping Peng has explored multiple research topics related to human behavior and psychological processes. Key topics in their work include:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Seeking the 'Beauty Center' in the Brain: A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Studies of Beautiful Human Faces and Visual Art," 2020, published in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Mulberry Leaf Flavonoids Improve Milk Production, Antioxidant, and Metabolic Status of Water Buffaloes," 2020, published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • "Happiness at Your Fingertips: Assessing Mental Health with Smartphone Photoplethysmogram-Based Heart Rate Variability Analysis," 2020, published in Telemedicine Journal and e-Health
  • "Self-compassion and the Mitigation of Negative Affect in the Era of Social Distancing," 2021, published in Mindfulness
  • "Developing a Quadripartite Existential Meaning Scale and Exploring the Internal Structure of Meaning in Life," 2020, published in Journal of Happiness Studies

Frequent collaborators include Feng Yu, Mengwei Li, Jie Sui, Tong Song, and Zhenhua Tang, each having coauthored multiple papers with Peng. Mengwei Li is noted as a frequent coauthor with a joint count of ten publications.

Best Publications

  • Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition.

    Richard E. Nisbett;Kaiping Peng;Incheol Choi;Ara Norenzayan

  • Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

    Kaiping Peng;Richard E. Nisbett

  • Culture and Cause: American and Chinese Attributions for Social and Physical Events

    Michael W. Morris;Kaiping Peng

  • What's Wrong With Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Subjective Likert Scales?: The Reference-Group Effect

    Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman;Kaiping Peng;Joe Greenholtz

  • Culture, control, and perception of relationships in the environment.

    Li Jun Ji;Kaiping Peng;Richard E. Nisbett

  • Dialectical Self-Esteem and East-West Differences in Psychological Well-Being

    Julie Spencer-Rodgers;Kaiping Peng;Lei Wang;Yubo Hou

  • Validity problems comparing values across cultures and possible solutions.

    Kaiping Peng;Richard E. Nisbett;Nancy Y. C. Wong

  • Cultural Differences in Expectations of Change and Tolerance for Contradiction: A Decade of Empirical Research

    Julie Spencer-Rodgers;Melissa J. Williams;Kaiping Peng

  • Acculturation Strategies and Integrative Complexity The Cognitive Implications of Biculturalism

    Carmit T. Tadmor;Philip E. Tetlock;Kaiping Peng

  • Awe, the diminished self, and collective engagement: Universals and cultural variations in the small self.

    Yang Bai;Laura A. Maruskin;Serena Chen;Amie M. Gordon

  • The Dialectical Self-Concept: Contradiction, Change, and Holism in East Asian Cultures:

    Julie Spencer-Rodgers;Helen C. Boucher;Sumi C. Mori;Lei Wang

  • Effect of growth mindset on school engagement and psychological well-being of Chinese primary and middle school students: The mediating role of resilience.

    Guang Zeng;Hanchao Hou;Kaiping Peng

  • White selves: conceptualizing and measuring a dominant-group identity.

    Eric D. Knowles;Kaiping Peng

  • Dialecticism and the Co-occurrence of Positive and Negative Emotions Across Cultures

    Julie Spencer-Rodgers;Kaiping Peng;Lei Wang

  • Implicit Theories of Creativity Across Cultures: Novelty and Appropriateness in Two Product Domains

    Susannah B. F. Paletz;Kaiping Peng

  • Naïve Dialecticism and the Tao of Chinese Thought

    Kaiping Peng;Julie Spencer-Rodgers;Zhong Nian

  • Distinct and common aspects of physical and psychological self-representation in the brain: A meta-analysis of self-bias in facial and self-referential judgements.

    Chuanpeng Hu;Xin Di;Simon B. Eickhoff;Mingjun Zhang

  • Culture, Education, and the Attribution of Physical Causality

    Kaiping Peng;Eric D. Knowles

  • Kama muta: Conceptualizing and measuring the experience often labelled being moved across 19 nations and 15 languages.

    Janis Heinrich Zickfeld;Thomas Schubert;Beate Seibt;Johanna Katarina Blomster

  • Causal attribution across domains and cultures.

    Michael W. Morris;Richard E. Nisbett;Kaiping Peng

  • Teachers' Growth Mindset and Work Engagement in the Chinese Educational Context: Well-Being and Perseverance of Effort as Mediators.

    Guang Zeng;Xinjie Chen;Hoi Yan Cheung;Kaiping Peng

  • Reasoning: Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic versus Analytic Cognition

    Richard E. Nisbett;Kaiping Peng;Incheol Choi;Ara Norenzayan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jie Sui
Jie Sui University of Bath
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Incheol Choi
Incheol Choi Seoul National University
Ara Norenzayan
Ara Norenzayan University of British Columbia
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Eric D. Knowles
Eric D. Knowles New York University
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michael W. Morris
Michael W. Morris Columbia University
Pia Rotshtein
Pia Rotshtein University of Birmingham
Serena Chen
Serena Chen University of California, Berkeley

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