I am passionate about research on how individuals understand themselves, especially in relation to their sociocultural environment. I have studied the awareness of cultural influence on the self for years, and written my PhD dissertation on the development process of such awareness. Now I am open to research jobs that could either push my theoretical research forward or contribute to the real world.
2017 Ph.D. in Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2010 Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education
2009 B.S. in Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Lu, C. (2017). Becoming aware of culture’s influence on me: The psychological processses of developing cultural self-clarity from cultural experience (Doctoral Dissertation, Nayang Technological University, Singapore). [pdf]
Lu, C., Benet-Martinez, V., & Robins, R. W. (2020). The development of ethnic identity from late childhood to young adulthood: Findings from a ten-year longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(5), 709-717. [pdf]
Lu, C., Wan, C., Hui, P., & Tong, Y.-y. (2020). In response to cultural threat: Cultural self-awareness on collective movement participation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(1), 70-76. [pdf]
Lu, C., & Wan, C. (2018). Cultural self-awareness as awareness of culture’s influence on the self: Implications for cultural identification and well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(6), 823-837. [pdf] [supplementary materials]
Ho, W. T., Yeh, K. H., Lu, C., & Sundararajan, L. K. W. (2017). Proper voicing: Emotion refinement in parent-adolescent conflicts. Indigenous Psychological Research in Chinese Societies, 48, 57-119. - language: Chinese [pdf]
Wan, C. & Lu, C. (2014). Implications for cultural sharedness when sharedness is not assumed. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45, 25-29. [pdf]
Lu, C. & Wan, C. (2019, Oct). Making sense of intergroup differences: Cultural self-awareness contributes to positive outgroup attitude for individuals with less multicultural exposure. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled “Culture and meaning making” at the Annual Conference of Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), Toronto, ON, Canada (conference location). [slides]
Lu, C. & Wan, C. (2019, Jul). Cultural self-awareness buffers the negative effect of right-wing authoritarianism on outgroup attitude. Paper presented at the the Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP), Riverton, WA, Australia. [slides]
Lu, C. & Hisung, F. C. (2019, Feb). Polyculturalism benefits intergroup relations through high cultural self-awareness. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled “Using polyculturalism to improve intergroup relations: Pros, cons, and challenges” at the Annual Convention of Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Washington, DC. [slides]
Lu, C. & Wan, C. (2016, Aug). Understanding cultural self through cognitive engagement when culture is salient. Paper presented at the Congress of International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Nagoya, Japan (conference location). [slides]
Lu, C. & Wan, C. (2015, Aug). Cultural self-clarity: Does awareness of culture’s influence on me make me happier? Paper presented at AASP, Riverton, WA, Australia. [slides] [abstract]
Lu, C. & Wan, C. (2013, Aug). The mainstream is middle class: Middle class identification and mainstream value endorsement. Paper presented at AASP, Riverton, WA, Australia. [slides] [abstract]
Lu, C. (2011, Jul). Influence of Chinese self-concept clarity on social self-esteem and fear of negative evaluation: Moderating effect of perspective taking. Paper presented at AASP, Riverton, WA, Australia.
2018 May APS - Annual Convention of Association for Psychological Science [abstract]
2017 Jun ARP - Biennial Conference of Association for Research in Personality [abstract]
2017 Jan SPSP - Annual Convention of Society for Personality and Social Psychology [abstract]
2018 Mar SPSP - Annual Convention of Society for Personality and Social Psychology [abstract]
2017 May APS - Annual Convention of Association for Psychological Science [abstract]
2016 Jan SPSP - Annual Convention of Society for Personality and Social Psychology [abstract]