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D-Index
33
Citations
13504
World Ranking
6991
National Ranking
18

Kwang-Kuo Hwang publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kwang-Kuo Hwang sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 125 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Kwang-Kuo Hwang D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kwang-Kuo Hwang sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • The social psychology of Chinese people.

    Michael Harris Bond;Kwang-kuo Hwang

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

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

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

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

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

    Olwen Bedford;Kwang-Kuo Hwang

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

    William K. Gabrenya Jr.;Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • Chinese Relationalism: Theoretical Construction and Methodological Considerations

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • Foundations of Chinese Psychology: Confucian Social Relations

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • Indigenous and Cultural Psychology

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

  • The Deep Structure of Confucianism: A social psychological approach

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • Contributions to Indigenous and Cultural Psychology

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

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

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • Self-Cultivation: Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapies in Confucian Societies

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang;Jeffrey Chang

  • 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

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

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • 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

  • The Mandala Model of Self

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • Constructive Realism and Confucian Relationalism

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • The Development of Indigenous Counseling in Contemporary Confucian Communities

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

  • Face and morality in Confucian society

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang;Kuei-Hsiang Han

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

    K. K. Hwang

  • Filial piety and loyalty: Two types of social identification in

    Kwang-Kuo Hwang

Frequent Co-Authors

Vassilis Saroglou
Vassilis Saroglou Université Catholique de Louvain
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Filip Boen
Filip Boen KU Leuven
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
David L. Sam
David L. Sam University of Bergen
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Kimberly A. Noels
Kimberly A. Noels University of Alberta
Colleen Ward
Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Félix Neto
Félix Neto University of Porto
Xu Huang
Xu Huang University of Glasgow

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