梁嘉儀
BSocSc (HKU), MA, PhD (Illinois)
Professor Angela Leung graduated with first class honors in the Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong and was one of the three recipients in Hong Kong for being awarded the HSBC scholarship for a one-year exchange at the University of Chicago. Her overseas experience motivated her to specialize in the study of culture when pursuing her doctoral degree. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2007. Her publications have appeared on top-tier journals including American Psychologist, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Environmental Psychology. She has an H-index of 35, with total citation counts of 7,791 (Google Scholar, 2025). Professor Leung has edited two books on the psychological science of culture: Cultural processes: A social psychological perspective published by the Cambridge University Press in 2010 and Handbook of culture and creativity: Basic processes and applied innovations published by the Oxford University Press in 2018.
Professor Leung has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology and Associate Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Management and Organization Review, and British Journal of Social Psychology. She has received numerous awards, including the Best Paper Award (International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, 2020), the Seisoh Sukemune/Bruce Bain Encouragement of Early Career Research Award (International Council of Psychologists, 2013), Lee Kong Chian Fellowship (SMU, 2018-2020), Lee Foundation Fellowship (SMU, 2009), the Award for Research Excellence (SMU, 2009), and the first honorable mention for the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2009).
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Teaching Areas
- PSYC3610- Culture and Psychology
- GLSD3201- Cultural Psychology and Globalization
Research interests
Her research examines how complex, contradictory, and challenging issues can be transformed into opportunities so that people and society can thrive. Her research topics include multiculturalism and creativity, cosmopolitanism and globalization, paradox management, working motherhood, environmental psychology, and sustainable living. Together, this program of research offers novel understanding of how our mindset makes sense of personal and societal challenges, and the downstream differential consequences of being impaired versus enriched by the accompanying conflicts and tensions.
Publications and Others
Publications
- Besta, T. … Leung, A. K.-y. ….et al., (2025). Anti-immigration conspiracy beliefs are associated with endorsement of conventional and violent actions opposing immigration and attitudes towards democracy across 21 countries. Communications Psychology, 3, 66.
- Besta, T…. Leung, A. K.-y. …et al., (2025). When (and where) do pandemics foster anti-migrant actions? Individual-, contextual- and societal-level drivers affecting social cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108, 102269.
- Choi, S. Y., Zhang, R. J., Valdes, E. A., Xie, T., Lee, I-C., Leung, A. K.-y., Lee, M., Lin, M-h., Hodgetts, D., Chen, S. X., Monares, P., & You, J. (2025). A cross-cultural investigation of the effects of individual privilege, group identification, and societal perceptions on global consciousness. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28, e70060.
- Dai, X., & Leung, A. K.-y. (2025). Building Cosmopolitanism from a Secure Base: Lifetime Spent in the U.S. and Cultural Attachment Moderates the Link Between Multicultural Experience and Cosmopolitan Orientation among American Citizens. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28, e70061.
- Koh, B., & Leung, A. K.-y. (2025). A time for creativity too? How past- versus future-oriented thinking facilitates creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 59, e70062.
- Leung, A. K.-y., Chiu, C-y., & Hong, Y-y. (Eds.) (2010). Cultural processes: A social psychological perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Leung, A. K.-y., Kwan, L. Y-Y., & Liou, S. (Eds.) (2018). Handbook of culture and creativity: Basic processes and applied innovations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Invited Talks
- Leung, A. K.-y. (2024, October). Transforming Challenges and Contradictions into Opportunities: The Case of Career-Motherhood Enrichment. Paper presented at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- Leung, A. K.-y. (2024, October). The Role of Cosmopolitan Orientation in Motivating Global Responsibility: The Case of Climate Change Awareness and Adaptive Management of COVID-19 Pandemic. Paper presented at the 13th Conference for Chinese Psychologists, 2024, Shenzhen, China.
Conference Presentations
- Leung, A. K.-y. (2025, June). The career-motherhood paradox: The role of a paradox mindset. Paper to be presented at the 2025 International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Xian, China.
- Leung, A. K.-y.(2024, August). The role of cosmopolitan orientation in motivating global responsibility: The case of climate change awareness and adaptive management of COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the 27th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Bali, Indonesia.
- Leung, A. K.-y., Ng, S. T., Margorie, T., & Chong, M. (2024, August). Some new insights on the psychology underlying the consumption of cultivated meat. Paper presented at the 27th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Bali, Indonesia.
- Dai, X. & Leung, A. K.-y. (2024, August). Moral and Health-Related Motives Indirectly Relate to Differential Psychological Health Indicators Among Vegetarians. Paper presented at the 27th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Bali, Indonesia.
- Leung, A. K.-y., Maddux, W., Galinsky, A., & Chiu, C-y. (2008). Multicultural experience enhances creativity: The when and how. American Psychologist, 63, 169-181.
- Leung, A. K.-y. & Cohen, D. (2011). Within and between culture variation: Individual differences and the cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 507-526.
- Leung, A. K.-y., Koh, K., & K-P. Tam. (2015). Being environmentally responsible: Cosmopolitan orientation predicts environmental consciousness. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 43, 79-94.
- Leung, A. K.-y., Liou, S., Miron-Spektor, E., Koh, B., Chan, D., Eisenberg, R., & Schneider, I. (2018). Middle ground approach to paradox: Within- and between-culture examination of the creative benefits of paradoxical frames. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 443-464.
- Koh, B. & Leung, A. K.-y. (2019). A time for creativity: How future-oriented schemas facilitate creativity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 1-10.
Research Grants
National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (國家社會科學基金項目), 2024-2026
Awarded CNY 350,000 for the project entitled “Research on intercultural learning: The case of globalization of national science research.”