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Volume 11 Issue 3 (September 2021)
Announcement
BSI Director Professor David Chan has been re-appointed for a two-year term as a member of the Diabetes Prevention and Care Taskforce, chaired by the Minister for Health, Mr Ong Ye Kung and the Minister for Education, Mr Chan Chun Sing. He has also been appointed as Chairman of the Selection Panel for the A*STAR’s Social Sciences Innovation Seed Fund.
BSI Research
The following chapter by Professor Chan has been published in the book that was launched by Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan at the opening session of the Conference on Public Diplomacy Asia held in July 2021, organized by the SIF (Singapore International Foundation) in partnership with the USC (University of Southern California) Center on Public Diplomacy. Chapter authors are from the different countries in ASEAN. Singapore Senior Minister, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam wrote the Foreword in the book and Professor Chan’s chapter was selected as the Afterword in the book to emphasize the importance of psychological processes in cross-cultural interactions as the foundation for people-to-people diplomacy.
Chan. D. (2021). The psychology of international interactions and people-to-people relations. In S-A. Chia (Ed). Winning hearts and minds: Public diplomacy in ASEAN. Singapore: Singapore International Foundation.
Upcoming BSI Seminars
19 October 2021 Have You Heard? Examining the Relationship Between Leader Positive Gossip and Prosocial Behaviour
Seminar by Kenneth Tai
Assistant Professor of OBHR, LKCSB, SMU
2 November 2021 Too Tired for Meaning: Not All Negative Emotions Interfere with Meaningful Experiences
Seminar by Keh Jun Sheng
Psychology PhD Candidate, SMU
Highlights of Recent BSI Webinars
31 August 2021
Hannah Chang, Associate Professor of Marketing, SMU, presented a webinar titled “The Persuasive Impact of Single versus Multiple Narrator Voices in Videos”. She shared her research findings involving large-scale crowdfunding and advertisement datasets and controlled experiments, which showed that when viewing a broadcast video, hearing more voices narrate a persuasive message encourages consumers’ attention and processing of the message, thereby facilitating persuasion.
7 September 2021
Setoh Pei Pei, Associate Professor of Psychology, NTU, presented a webinar titled “Shaping Racial Harmony: Reducing Intergroup Bias in Early Childhood”. She shared her research on the impact of children’s categorization of faces by race and other-race contact on implicit and explicit racial biases in early childhood. She also discussed ways in which her findings may reduce implicit and explicit in-group preferences in pre-schoolers.
21 September 2021
Huang Tengjiao, Psychology PhD Candidate, SMU, presented a webinar titled “Harnessing Paradox Mindset To Promote Working Motherhood Through Career-Motherhood Enrichment”. She shared her research findings on how a paradox mindset can help women pursue seemingly incompatible career and motherhood endeavours through a deeper appreciation of career-motherhood enrichment opportunities.
28 September 2021
Tang Bek Wuay, Psychology PhD Candidate, SMU, presented a webinar titled “Cross-Country Differences Between Americans and Singaporeans in Estimation (and Over-Estimation) of Social Mobility”. She discussed the discrepancy between people’s estimations of social mobility and objective data on actual social mobility and shared her research findings on factors predicting social mobility estimates across American and Singaporean samples.
Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences
In this section on Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences, we feature an invited talk (20 mins) by Professor David Chan on "The Psychology of Trust" that was delivered on 15 Aug 2021 to data scientists at a global conference by the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining SIG of the Association for Computing Machinery (SIGKDD).
The Behavioural Sciences Initiative (BSI) is a multi-disciplinary research initiative for creating, disseminating and applying scientific knowledge about human behaviours in various social, organisational and cultural settings. For more information, please refer to our website.
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