Cecilia Cheng is Associate Dean (Postgraduate Education) and Professor at the Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong. She is an elected fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the board secretary of the International Council of Psychologists (ICP). She was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley and Hughes Hall Fellow of the University of Cambridge. She received the ICP Early Career Research Award in 2000, and the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in 2009. She was formerly the Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Personality Processes and Individual Differences section). Her research interests lie in the areas of personality and social psychology, health psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and applied social psychology. She emphasizes in her teaching the development of discriminative thinking and the application of experiential learning, and adopts the student-centered approach to the contexts of advanced psychology courses and graduate seminars.

Social and Personality Psychology Health Psychology Cross-cultural Psychology Applied Social Psychology