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Kim-Pong Tam is affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Psychology, and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, as well as Social, Applied, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work focuses mainly on topics related to Environmental Education and Sustainability, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research, Social and Intergroup Psychology, and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Kim-Pong Tam has published extensively, with frequent appearances in prominent venues such as the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Asian Journal Of Social Psychology, Virtual Reality, Frontiers in Psychology, and Current Opinion in Psychology.

Recent papers authored by Kim-Pong Tam include:

  • Towards cross-cultural environmental psychology: A state-of-the-art review and recommendations (2020, Journal of Environmental Psychology)
  • Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States (2023, Journal of Environmental Psychology)
  • Research on climate change in social psychology publications: A systematic review (2021, Asian Journal Of Social Psychology)
  • Gratitude to nature: Presenting a theory of its conceptualization, measurement, and effects on pro-environmental behavior (2021, Journal of Environmental Psychology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kim-Pong Tam are:

  • Hoi-Wing Chan
  • Angela K.-Y. Leung
  • Susan Clayton
  • Ying-yi Hong
  • Laurence L. Delina

Best Publications

  • Concepts and measures related to connection to nature: Similarities and differences

    Kim-Pong Tam

  • Culture as common sense: perceived consensus versus personal beliefs as mechanisms of cultural influence.

    Xi Zou;Kim-Pong Tam;Michael W. Morris;Sau-lai Lee

  • Saving Mr. Nature: Anthropomorphism enhances connectedness to and protectiveness toward nature

    Kim Pong Tam;Sau Lai Lee;Melody Manchi Chao

  • Dispositional empathy with nature

    Kim-Pong Tam

  • Environmental concern has a weaker association with pro-environmental behavior in some societies than others: A cross-cultural psychology perspective

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  • Perceived cultural importance and actual self-importance of values in cultural identification.

    Ching Wan;Chi-yue Chiu;Kim Pong Tam;Sau-lai Lee

  • Generalized trust narrows the gap between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior: Multilevel evidence

    Kim Pong Tam;Hoi Wing Chan

  • Towards cross-cultural environmental psychology: A state-of-the-art review and recommendations

    Kim-Pong Tam;Taciano L. Milfont

  • Exclusionary reactions to foreign cultures: Effects of simultaneous exposure to cultures in globalized space

    Carlos J. Torelli;Chi Yue Chiu;Kim pong Tam;Al K.C. Au

  • Measuring Cultures through Intersubjective Cultural Norms Implications for Predicting Relative Identification With Two or More Cultures

    Ching Wan;Chi-Yue Chiu;Siqing Peng;Kim Pong Tam

  • Being environmentally responsible: Cosmopolitan orientation predicts pro-environmental behaviors

    Angela K. Y. Leung Leung;Kelly Koh;Kim-Pong Tam

  • Nature in virtual reality improves mood and reduces stress: evidence from young adults and senior citizens.

    Sarah Hian May Chan;Lin Qiu;Gianluca Esposito;Ky Phong Mai

  • Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States

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  • Intersubjective Model of Value Transmission Parents Using Perceived Norms as Reference When Socializing Children

    Kim Pong Tam;Sau Lai Lee;Young Hoon Kim;Yanmei Li

  • Age differences in personal values: Universal or cultural specific?

    Helene H. Fung;Yuan Wan Ho;Rui Zhang;Xin Zhang

  • Unraveling the link between narcissism and psychological health: New evidence from coping flexibility

    Henry Kin Shing Ng;Ray Yu-Hin Cheung;Kim-Pong Tam

  • Cross-National Variation of Gender Differences in Environmental Concern: Testing the Sociocultural Hindrance Hypothesis:

    Hoi-Wing Chan;Vivien Pong;Kim-Pong Tam

  • Research on climate change in social psychology publications: A systematic review

    Kim-Pong Tam;Angela K.-y. Leung;Susan Clayton

  • What Values do Parents Want to Socialize in Their Children? The Role of Perceived Normative Values

    Kim-Pong Tam;Sau-Lai Lee

  • Terror management among Chinese: Worldview defence and intergroup bias in resource allocation.

    Kim Pong Tam;Chi-Yue Chiu;Ivy Yee-Man Lau

  • Culture and Counterfactuals On the Importance of Life Domains

    Jing Chen;Jing Chen;Chi Yue Chiu;Chi Yue Chiu;Neal J. Roese;Kim Pong Tam

  • Attributionally more complex people show less punitiveness and racism

    Kim Pong Tam;Al K C Au;Angela Ka Yee Leung

  • Culture as Common Sense: Perceived Consensus vs. Personal Beliefs as Mechanisms of Cultural Influence

    Xi Zou;Kim-Pong Tam;Michael Morris;Sau-lai Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Chi-Yue Chiu
Chi-Yue Chiu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Taciano L. Milfont
Taciano L. Milfont University of Waikato
Michael W. Morris
Michael W. Morris Columbia University
Huajian Cai
Huajian Cai University of Oklahoma
C. Harry Hui
C. Harry Hui University of Hong Kong
Jeanne L. Tsai
Jeanne L. Tsai Stanford University
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gianluca Esposito
Gianluca Esposito University of Trento
Susan Clayton
Susan Clayton College of Wooster

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