Second Asian Winter School of Social Psychology 

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December 7-11, 2009 

Objectives   

The PhD students in social psychology of various Asian universities need to come together to learn from one another and to receive specialized training from experts beyond their own nationalities.  Just as important as the educational objective, the Asian Winter School would help to promote cross-cultural contact and understanding among future academic leaders, along with the broadening of their academic visions beyond the confines of their own localities.   

Participants

About 40 Ph.D. Students in social psychology or related areas from various Asian countries.  

Venue and date 

The Winter School will take place right before the Eighth Biannual Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP) in Delhi, India. It will kick off with an orientation and a welcome dinner at 6:00 on December 7, 2009 (Monday) and close with a farewell lunch on December 11 (Friday). The venue will be the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. 

Fee 

US$ 150, which will cover accommodation, all lunches, and the welcome dinner. We are able to charge a low fee because of the subsidy of Asian Association of Social Psychology. However, if you are accepted into the Winter School, you need to become a student member of AASP and register for the ASSP conference that follows the Winter School.  

Program and Faculty members

The principal is Kwok Leung from City University of Hong Kong. There will be three streams, with 12-15 students in each stream. There will be lectures, group discussions, presentations, consultations with teachers, and library research. The three streams are as follows:           

Ramadhar Singh, National University of Singapore 

Impression formation and interpersonal attraction - People form impressions of and get drawn to others based on their acts, attitudes, photos, and traits. The process is as fast as 1/10 of a second or as slow as the relationship never actually develops. Recent research shows that affect, self-validation, and self-enhancement among the participants and inferred attraction of, respect for, and trust in the stranger intervene between awareness of the person and liking for or attraction toward him or her. Students interested in this area will read assigned materials (chapters, articles) and will be given an overview of the issues on Day 1. On Day 2, they will learn the approaches to the construct distinction (exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses) and mediation analyses, and begin planning research on an issue of their interests (in small groups of 5). On Day 3, they will present their plan, and after receiving feedback, get ready for presentation with other students of the School. 

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Girishwar Misra,  University of Delhi, and Uichol Kim, Inha University, Korea

 
Indigenous and cultural psychology - Traditionally the goal of general psychology attempted to discover psychological universals that are mechanical, decontextualized, and biologically-based. Indigenous psychology as an alternative paradigm emphasizes the understanding of people in their cultural context and in developing methods that are suitable for people who are agents of their actions and for understanding cultures that shape meaning, motivation and goals of its members. The second part of this course traces the emergence of indigenous psychology in developing countries, especially in Asia. The third part of this course reviews the issues, content and context of research in indigenous psychology. The fourth part of this course examines the intra- and interdisciplinary relationship of indigenous psychology to various areas in psychology and to sister disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. The fifth part of this course will provide specific examples of indigenous research and the application of indigenous research. The sixth part of this course will provide an outline of program of research that has been conducted in India and Korea. Finally, this course will encourage each participant to develop their own research project in indigenous psychology.

James Liu, Victoria University of Wellington, and Janak Pandey, Central University of Bihar   

National psychologies and national development - Among the most cherished projects of Asian people in the past century has been national development, including basic infrastructure but also the articulation of psychological resources like national identity.  Students will begin by reading and discussing some two basic types of research relevant to national development: (DAY 2) empirically focused research on topics like national identity (and social identity), nationalism (and other political ideologies), and history as a source of identity (and representational approaches to psychology). (DAY 3) More practically focused action research that tries to produce concrete outcomes of benefit to research participants during the process of conducting research; this section includes action research, community-based participant research, and working with NGOs and government. The goal of the course is to not only familiarize the delegates with the theoretical tools that enable national development, but also methodological tools that enable research to be part of the process of national development. 

Initially, students will:

1. Read assigned papers (before arrival)
2. Discuss the papers, in terms of both theory and methods
3. Consider how the assigned readings might lead to future research and do group work thinking about appropriate research designs, methods, hypotheses, etc.

 Once the basic reading materials have been covered, students will

1. Break into small groups to design a prospective research project
2. Present their research ideas to the Winter School

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Schedule

  

Biographic Sketches of Faculty Members

Principal 

Kwok Leung (Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Chair professor and Head of management department at City University of Hong Kong. His research areas include justice and conflict, cross-cultural psychology, cross-cultural research methods, and international business. He is a senior editor of Management and Organization Review, and on the editorial board of several journals, including Journal of Management, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods. Previously, he was a Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Journal of International Business studies, the editor of Asian Journal of Social Psychology, as well as an associate editor of Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He is the president-elect of International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, a past chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, and a past president of Asian Association of Social Psychology. He is a fellow of Academy of Intercultural Research, Association for Psychological Science (USA), Academy of International Business, and Hong Kong Psychological Society, as well as a member of the Society of Organizational Behavior.  

Teachers 

Ramadhar Singh received his B.A. Hons (1965) and M. A. (1968) degrees in psychology from the University of Bihar, Muzaffarpur, India, and M. S. (1972) and Ph. D. (1973) in social psychology from Purdue University, USA. During his career in India, he was a Lecturer at Patna Univeristy (1968-1973), an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1973-1979), and a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedbad (1979-1988). Has been a Professor of Psychology at the National University of Singapore since 1997. Spent his sabbatical leave at the University of Rochester and the University of Oxford during 2003-04 and at Purdue University during August through Decemer 2008. Singh is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association of Psychological Science, British Psychological Society, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Singapore Psychological Society, and National Academy of Psychology (India).  Has published in journals of applied (Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Applied Psychology: An International Review), developmental (Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology) and social (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Basic and Applied Social Psychology,  British Journal of Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Social Psychology) psychology.

Girishwar Misra is currently professor of psychology at University of Delhi, India.  Before joining Delhi University, he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Swarthmore College and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991-92). He is the recipient of Radha Krishnan and Doctor Hari Singh Gaur Awards for contributions to social sciences and University Grants Commission, New Delhi Research Award. He has undertaken major research projects and published extensively in the areas of poverty, stress, socialization. His current interest is in cultural psychology of self and emotions, creativity, and well-being. He is the Past President of the National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) India and he currently edits its journal Psychological Studies which is being published by Springer.  He has been consulting editor of Culture and Psychology (SAGE) and Psychology and Developing Societies (SAGE). He is also Editor–in-Chief of the Fifth Survey of Psychological Research in India, a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He is currently editing a volume on Foundations of Indian Psychology and a Volume on Psychology and Psychoanalysis in India. He has delivered a Keynote Address at ICP 2008 at Berlin.  

Uichol Kim is currently a professor at College of Business Administration, Inha University, Korea. He has previously taught at Chung-Ang University, Korea (1995-2005) and University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA (1988-1994). He has conducted research in indigenous and cultural psychology, focusing on family and parent-child relationship, education attainment and school violence, organizational culture, business ethics and strategic management, health and quality of life, and democracy, human rights and political culture. He has published over 200 articles and 15 books and monographs, including Indigenous psychologies (Sage, 1993), Individualism and collectivism (Sage, 1994), Democracy, human right and Islam in Modern Iran (with H. S. Aasen & Shirin Ebadi - the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Peace, Fagbokforlaget, 2003) and Indigenous and cultural psychology (2006, Springer.) He is the founding editor of Asian Journal of Social Psychology and president-elect of AASP. He has provided consulting services for governmental agencies and global companies in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, including Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the USA (Stryker Corporation), France (La Poste), Germany (BASF) and Korea (LG).  

Janak Pandey (B.A. Hons, Ranchi University, M.A. Patna, Ph.D. Kansas State University) is Currently Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Bihar. Earlier, he was Head, UGC Centre of Excellence for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, & Co-ordinator, Centre for Advanced Study in Psychology, Allahabad University. He has also been a National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Senior Commonwealth Fellow, University of Manitoba; Fulbright Doctoral Fellow at KSU and Scholar-in-Residence / Visiting Professor, Wake Forest University, and Honorary Fellow, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). He is a past President of IACCP, NAOP (India) and Currently member of the Board of IAAP. He Specializes in Social Psychology and Cross-cultural Psychology. He has published over 80 Scientific papers in Journals like: Journal of Personality, Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Environment and Behaviour, Environmental Psychology, International Journal of Psychology; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; International Review of Applied Psychology, etc. He has also edited two rounds of ICSSR review of psychological research in India. The first round was published in 1988 in three volumes as Psychology In India: State of the art (New Delhi: Sage Publisher).The second round also resulted in three volumes (2001, 2002, 2004) as: Psychology in India state of the art: Revisited (New Delhi: Sage). As a member of IUPsyS Executive Council he chairs a work group on Education of Psychologists." 

James Liu is Associate Professor of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington and Deputy Director of its Centre for Applied Cross Cultural Research (CACR); CACR specializes in basic and applied cross-cultural research on managing ethnic diversity, and has relationships with major governmental and non-governmental organizations in New Zealand.  James was born in Taiwan and grew up in the United States.  He completed a PhD in social psychology in 1992 at UCLA, and has been at Victoria University since 1994.  His research is at the intersection between cross-cultural psychology, political psychology, and inter-group relations/social identity.  He specializes in the study of history and identity.  He has more than 100 academic publications, and his edited volumes include New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations, Restorative Justice and Practices in New Zealand, Ages Ahead: Promoting intergenerational relationships, and Progress in Asian Social Psychology, Volumes 2 and 6.  He was Secretary General of the Asian Association of Social Psychology 2003-2007, Treasurer from 1999-2003, and is now editor of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology.  He is Chair of the Bicultural Development Committee of the School of Psychology, which is dedicated to improving academic performance and research capability for the indigenous people of NZ.  A naturalized citizen of two countries, he describes himself as a “Chinese-American-New Zealander”.  He is married to Belinda Bonzon Liu, and they have a 6 year old daughter who is even more hyphenated: a Chinese-American-Filipino-New Zealander. 
 

Application procedure

Complete the registration form in the appendix and e-mail it to mgnancy@cityu.edu.hk before October 20, 2009