2026 Kwang-Kuo Hwang: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	33	6992	18	125	13504

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

6992

125

13504

Overview

Kwang-Kuo Hwang was a researcher affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan. Their work spanned several fields within the social sciences, particularly focusing on psychology and social sciences. The subfields of their study included social psychology, sociology and political science, health, communication, and general health professions.

The primary topics addressed in their research covered cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, religion, spirituality and psychology, challenges faced by international students and expatriates, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, religion and society interactions, as well as religion, society, and development.

Hwang published work in a variety of academic journals, including:

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
Emotion
Culture & Psychology

Their recent research articles included the following:

"Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging: The Cognitive, Emotional, Moral, and Social Dimensions of Religiousness across Cultures," 2020, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
"Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice," 2020, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
"An Epistemological Strategy for Initiating Scientific Revolution against WEIRD Psychology," 2022, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
"Escape from Kantian Eurocentric bias in cross-cultural psychology," 2020, Culture & Psychology
"Valuing high arousal negative states increases negative responses toward outgroups across cultures," 2022, Emotion

Hwang frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Magali Clobert, Vassilis Saroglou, Adam B. Cohen, Kathryn A. Johnson, and Kevin L. Ladd.

Best Publications

Face and Favor: The Chinese Power Game

Kwang-kuo Hwang

3362
Citations
The social psychology of Chinese people.

Michael Harris Bond;Kwang-kuo Hwang

2997
Citations
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures

Michael Harris Bond;Kwok Leung;Al Au;Kwok-Kit Tong

729
Citations
Filial Piety and Loyalty: Two Types of Social Identification in Confucianism

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

715
Citations
Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture: A Cross‐cultural Framework from the Perspective of Morality and Identity

Olwen Bedford;Kwang-Kuo Hwang

548
Citations
Chinese social interaction: Harmony and hierarchy on the good earth.

William K. Gabrenya Jr.;Kwang-Kuo Hwang

546
Citations
Chinese Relationalism: Theoretical Construction and Methodological Considerations

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

479
Citations
Foundations of Chinese Psychology: Confucian Social Relations

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

415
Citations
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology

Uichol Kim;Kuo-Shu Yang;Kwang-Kuo Hwang

334
Citations
The Deep Structure of Confucianism: A social psychological approach

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

280
Citations
Contributions to Indigenous and Cultural Psychology

Uichol Kim;Kuo-Shu Yang;Kwang-Kuo Hwang

203
Citations
Moral face and social face: Contingent self‐esteem in Confucian society

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

196
Citations
Self-Cultivation: Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapies in Confucian Societies

Kwang-Kuo Hwang;Jeffrey Chang

133
Citations
Effects of psychoeducation for depression on help-seeking willingness: biological attribution versus destigmatization.

Der-Yan Han;Sue-Huei Chen;Kwang-Kuo Hwang;Hai-Lang Wei

120
Citations
Two Moralities: Reinterpreting the Findings of Empirical Research on Moral Reasoning in Taiwan

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

120
Citations
Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging: The Cognitive, Emotional, Moral, and Social Dimensions of Religiousness across Cultures:

Vassilis Saroglou;Magali Clobert;Magali Clobert;Adam B. Cohen;Kathryn A. Johnson

105
Citations
The Mandala Model of Self

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

100
Citations
Constructive Realism and Confucian Relationalism

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

99
Citations
The Development of Indigenous Counseling in Contemporary Confucian Communities

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

98
Citations
Face and morality in Confucian society

Kwang-Kuo Hwang;Kuei-Hsiang Han

77
Citations
Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi

K. K. Hwang

43
Citations
Filial piety and loyalty: Two types of social identification in

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Vassilis Saroglou Université Catholique de Louvain

Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Filip Boen KU Leuven

Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School

David L. Sam University of Bergen

Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

Kimberly A. Noels University of Alberta

Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington

Félix Neto University of Porto

Xu Huang University of Glasgow

External Links

Personal website of Kwang-Kuo Hwang

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