Department of Psychology

Prof. Chang Lei

Chair Professor and Head of Department

Room: E21-3045
Tel: +(853) 8822 8386
E-mail: chang@um.edu.mo

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., University of Southern California 1992
• M.S., University of Southern California 1988
• B.A., Hebei University 1982

Editorship

Acta Psychologica Sinica心理学报; Advance in Psychological Science心理科学进展; Asian Journal of Social Psychology; Child Development Research; Educational and Psychological Measurement; Evolutionary Psychology; Evolutionary Psychological Science; Frontiers in Psychology: Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience; International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment; International Journal of Behavioral Development; International Journal of Social Research Methodology; Journal of Psychological Science心理科学; Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies华人心理学报; Parenting: Science and Practice; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; Journal of Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

h-Index = 59; over 18,000 citations; over 200 refereed journal papers

Selected Publications

Nan Zhu, Hui Jing Lu, Lei Chang. (2021). Trust as social investment: A life-history model of environmental effects on ingroup and outgroup trust. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 168, 2021, 110303, ISSN 0191-8869, doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110303

Wang, X., Zhao, S., Zhang, M.X. et al. Life History Strategies and Problematic Use of Short-Form Video Applications. Evolutionary Psychological Science (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s40806-020-00255-9

Guo Shaolingyun, Lu Hui Jing, Zhu Nan, *Chang Lei. (2020). Meta-Analysis of Direct and Indirect Effects of Father Absence on Menarcheal Timing. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 11, 2020:1641. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01641

Zhu, N., O, J., Lu, H.J. and *Chang, L. (2020). Debate: Facing uncertainty with(out) a sense of control – cultural influence on adolescents’ response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Child Adolesc Ment Health, 25: 173-174. doi.org/10.1111/camh.12408

Rothenberg, W.A., Lansford, J.E., Bornstein, M.H., Chang, L., Deater‐Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L.M., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Alampay, L.P., Al‐Hassan, S.M. and Bacchini, D. (2020). Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures. J Res Adolesc, 30: 835-855. doi.org/10.1111/jora.12566

Cheung, F., & Halpern, D. (Eds.). (2020). The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108561716

Zhu N., *Chang L. (2020) Contingent Reciprocity. In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1219-1

Rothenberg, WA, Lansford, JE, Bacchini, D, et al. (2020). Cross‐cultural effects of parent warmth and control on aggression and rule‐breaking from ages 8 to 13. Aggressive Behavior. 2020; 46: 327– 340. doi.org/10.1002/ab.21892

Nan Zhu, *Lei Chang. (2020). An evolutionary life history explanation of sexism and gender inequality. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 157, 2020, 109806, ISSN 0191-8869, doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109806

Kapetanovic, S., Rothenberg, W.A., Lansford, J.E. et al. Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent–Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups. J Youth Adolescence 49, 1225–1244 (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01212-2

W. Andrew Rothenberg, Jennifer E. Lansford, *Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, et al. (2020). Examining the internalizing pathway to substance use frequency in 10 cultural groups. Addictive Behaviors, Volume 102, 2020:106214. doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106214

Hou Lulu, *Chang Lei, Chen Lirong, Zhou Renlai. (2020). Reduced Reward Responsiveness in Women With Moderate - to - Severe Premenstrual Syndrome: Evidence From a Probabilistic Reward Task. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Volume 11, 2020:28. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00028

Schenck‐Fontaine, A., Lansford, J.E., Skinner, A.T., Deater‐Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Malone, P.S., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L.M., Alampay, L.P., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M.H. and *Chang, L. (2020). Associations Between Perceived Material Deprivation, Parents’ Discipline Practices, and Children's Behavior Problems: An International Perspective. Child Dev, 91: 307-326. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13151

Rothenberg, W., Lansford, J., Alampay, L., Al-Hassan, S., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M., . . . Yotanyamaneewong, S. (2020). Examining effects of mother and father warmth and control on child externalizing and internalizing problems from age 8 to 13 in nine countries. Development and Psychopathology, 32(3), 1113-1137. doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419001214

Rothenberg, W.A., Lansford, J.E., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M.H., Chang, L., Deater‐Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Maria Uribe Tirado, L., Yotanyamaneewong, S. and Peña Alampay, L. (2020), Examining effects of parent warmth and control on internalizing behavior clusters from age 8 to 12 in 12 cultural groups in nine countries. J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 61: 436-446. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13138

*Chang Lei, Lu Hui Jing, Lansford Jennifer E., Bornstein Marc H., Steinberg Laurence, Chen Bin-Bin, Skinner Ann T., et al. (2019). External Environment and Internal State in Relation to Life-History Behavioural Profiles of Adolescents in Nine Countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286:2019.2097. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2097

Alampay L, Garcia A. Education and parenting in the Philippines. In: Sorbing E, Lansford J , editors. School systems, parent behavior, and academic achievement. Young people and learning processes in school and everyday life. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing; 2019. 15-28. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28277-6 Zhu, N. & *Chang, L. (2019). Evolved but Not Fixed: A Life History Account of Gender Roles and Gender Inequality. Frontiers of Psychology. 10:1709. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01709

Icenogle, G., Steinberg, L., Duell, N., Chein, J., *Chang, L., Chaudhary, N., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Fanti, K. A., Lansford, J. E., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Takash, H. M. S., & Bacchini, D. (2019). Adolescents’ cognitive capacity reaches adult levels prior to their psychosocial maturity: Evidence for a “maturity gap” in a multinational, cross-sectional sample. Law and Human Behavior, 43(1), 69–85. doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000315

*Chang, L......& Tapanya, S. (2019). Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries. Developmental Psychology, 55, 890-903. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000655

Lu, H.J. & *Chang, L. (2019). Aggression and risk‐taking as adaptive implementations of fast life history strategy. Developmental Science, 2019; 22:e12827. doi.org/10.1111/desc.12827

Deater‐Deckard, K, Godwin, J, Lansford, JE, et al. (2019). Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families: Links with adolescent adjustment in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Dev Sci. 2019; 22:e12855. doi.org/10.1111/desc.12855

Zhu, N., Hawk, S., & *Chang, L. (2019). Unpredictable and competitive cues affect prosocial behaviors and judgments. Personality and Individual Differences, 138, 203-211. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.10.006

Lansford, J. E., Malone, P. S., Tapanya, S., Tirado, L. M. U., Zelli, A., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M. H., *Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Giunta, L. D., Dodge, K. A., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., & Steinberg, L. (2019). Household income predicts trajectories of child internalizing and externalizing behavior in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43(1), 74–79. doi.org/10.1177/0165025418783272

Xiu, L., Wu, J., *Chang, L. et al. Working Memory Training Improves Emotion Regulation Ability. Sci Rep 8, 15012 (2018). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31495-2

Natasha Duell, Grace Icenogle, Karol Silva, Jason Chein, Laurence Steinberg, Marie T. Banich, Laura Di Guinta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Kostas A. Fanti, Jennifer E. Lansford, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, et al. (2018). A cross-sectional examination of response inhibition and working memory on the Stroop task. Cognitive Development, Volume 47, 2018, Pages 19-31, ISSN 0885-2014, doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.02.003

Agnieszka Sorokowska, Agata Groyecka, Maciej Karwowski, Tomasz Frackowiak, Jennifer E Lansford, Khodabakhsh Ahmadi, et al. (2018). Global Study of Social Odor Awareness. Chemical Senses, Volume 43, Issue 7, September 2018, Pages 503–513, https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjy038

Lansford, J.E., Rothenberg, W.A., Jensen, T.M., Lippold, M.A., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M.H., Chang, L., Deater‐Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L.M., Alampay, L.P. and Al‐Hassan, S.M. (2018). Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries. J Res Adolesc, 28: 571-590. doi.org/10.1111/jora.12381

Lu, H. J., & *Chang, L. (2018). Reciprocity Among Preschoolers in Relation to Resource Allocation Toward Siblings, Friends, and Strangers. Evolutionary Psychology. doi.org/10.1177/1474704918797031

Lansford, J., Godwin, J., Bornstein, M., *Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., . . . Bacchini, D. (2018). Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age 7 to 14 in nine countries. Development and Psychopathology, 30(5), 1937-1958. doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000925

Putnick, D.L., Bornstein, M.H., Lansford, J.E., Chang, L., et al. (2018). Parental acceptance-rejection and child prosocial behavior. Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000565

Zhang Hongxia, *Chang Lei, Chen Xiaoying, Ma Liang, Zhou Renlai. (2018). Working Memory Updating Training Improves Mathematics Performance in Middle School Students with Learning Difficulties. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 12, 2018, Article 154. doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00154

*Chang, L., & Lu, H.J. (2018). Resource and extrinsic risk in defining fast life histories of rural Chinese left-behind children. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 59-66. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.003

*Chang, L., & Lu, H. J. (2018). Life history theory. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.) & M. Arterberry, K. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Assoc. Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of lifespan human development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n480

Zhu, N., Hawk, S., & *Chang, L. (2018). Living slow and being moral: Life history predicts the dual process of other-centered reasoning and judgments. Human Nature, 29,186–200. doi.org/10.1007/s12110-018-9313-7

Steinberg, L, Icenogle, G, Shulman, EP, Breiner, K., Chein, J., Bacchini, D., & *Chang, L., et al. (2018). Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self‐regulation. Dev Sci, 2018; 21:e12532. doi.org/10.1111/desc.12532

Lansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Chen, B.-B., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Alampay, L. P., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Zelli, A. (2018). Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator. Developmental Psychology, 54(2), 362–377. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000416

Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jennifer Godwin, Jennifer E. Lansford, Dario Bacchini, Anna Silvia Bombi, Marc H. Bornstein, *Lei Chang, et al. (2018). Within- and between-person and group variance in behavior and beliefs in cross-cultural longitudinal data. Journal of Adolescence, Volume 62, 2018, Pages 207-217. doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.06.002

Chen, X., Ye, M., *Chang, L., Chen, W., & Zhou, R. (2018). Effect of Working Memory Updating Training on Retrieving Symptoms of Children With Learning Disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 51(5), 507–519. doi.org/10.1177/0022219417712015

Lansford J.E. et al. (2017) Parenting and Positive Adjustment for Adolescents in Nine Countries. In: Dimitrova R. (eds) Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults across Cultures. Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, vol 12. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68363-8_16

Lansford, J.E., Godwin, J., Bornstein, M.H., *Chang, L., et al. (2017). Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1675-1688. doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417001328

Lu, H.J., Wong, K., & *Chang, L.(2017). The association between life history strategy and mate preference in men. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 157-163. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.047

Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Gurdal, S., Lansford, J. E., Bornstein, M. H., *Chang, L., et al. (2017). Cross-national collaboration in the study of parenting and child adjustment. In Child-rearing : Practices, attitudes and cultural differences (pp. 1–19). Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-11262

Duell, N., Steinberg, L., Icenogle, G. et al. Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World. J Youth Adolescence 47, 1052–1072 (2018). doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0752-y

Alampay, L. P., Godwin, J., Lansford, J. E., Bombi, A. S., Bornstein, M. H., *Chang, L., et al. (2017). Severity and justness do not moderate the relation between corporal punishment and negative child outcomes: A multicultural and longitudinal study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41(4), 491–502. doi.org/10.1177/0165025417697852

*Chang, L., Lu, H.J., & Zhu, X.Q. (2017). Good genes, good providers, and good fathers and mothers: The withholding of parental investment by married couples. Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 11, 199-211. doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000086

Hui Jing Lu, Kam-chuen Wong, *Chang, L. (2017). The association between life history strategy and mate preference in men. Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 116, Pages 157-163, ISSN 0191-8869. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.047

*Chang, L., & Lu, H. (2017) Environmental risks. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes–Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Sciences. New York: Springer Meteor.

Ma L, *Chang L, Chen X, Zhou R. (2017). Working memory test battery for young adults: Computerized working memory assessment. PLOS ONE 12(3): e0175047. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175047

Bornstein, M.H., Putnick, D.L., Lansford, J.E., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A.S., *Chang, L., Deater‐Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T. et al. (2017). ‘Mixed blessings’: parental religiousness, parenting, and child adjustment in global perspective. J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 58: 880-892. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12705

Icenogle, G., Steinberg, L., Olino, T.M., Shulman, E.P., Chein, J., Alampay, L.P., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Takash, H.M.S., Bacchini, D., *Chang, L., Chaudhary, N., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Fanti, K.A., Lansford, J.E., et al. (2017), Puberty Predicts Approach But Not Avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a Multinational Sample. Child Dev, 88: 1598-1614. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12655

*Chang L., Lu H.J. (2016) Environmental Risk. In: Weekes-Shackelford V., Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1918-1

Hui Jing Lu, *Lei Chang. (2016). Resource allocation to kin, friends, and strangers by 3- to 6-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Volume 150, 2016, Pages 194-206, ISSN 0022-0965, doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.05.018

彭明 & *张雷.(2016). 厌恶情绪影响道德判断的发展研究. 心理科学(05),1110-1115. doi:10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20160514

Duell, N., Steinberg, L., Chein, J., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., *Chang, L., Chaudhary, N., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Fanti, K. A., Lansford, J. E., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Alampay, L. P. (2016). Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model. Developmental Psychology, 52(10), 1593–1605. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000152

Ming Peng, *Chang, L. and Chi-shing Tse. (2016). Developmental Trend of the Effect of Disgust Emotion on Moral Judgement in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Child & Adolescent, 2016, Volume 4, Issue 5, ISSN 2375-4494. doi.org/10.4172/2375-4494.1000318

Pastorelli, C., Lansford, J.E., Luengo Kanacri, B.P., Malone, P.S., Di Giunta, L., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A.S., Zelli, A., Miranda, M.C., Bornstein, M.H., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L.M., Alampay, L.P., Al‐Hassan, S.M., *Chang, L., et al. (2016), Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries. J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 57: 824-834. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12477

Deng Y, *Chang L, Yang M, Huo M, Zhou R. (2016). Gender Differences in Emotional Response: Inconsistency between Experience and Expressivity. PLOS ONE 11(6): e0158666. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158666

Lansford, J.E., Bornstein, M.H., Deater‐Deckard, K., Dodge, K.A., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A.S., *Chang, L., Chen, B.‐B., Di Giunta, L., Malone, P.S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Alampay, L.P., Uribe Tirado, L.M. and Zelli, A. (2016), How International Research on Parenting Advances Understanding of Child Development. Child Dev Perspect, 10: 202-207. doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12186

Chen, B.B., & *Chang, L. (2016). Procrastination as a fast life history strategy. Evolutionary Psychology. doi.org/10.1177/1474704916630314

Mesoudi, A., *Chang, L., Dall, S.R.X., Thornton, A. (2016). The evolution of individual and cultural variation in social learning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.012

Putnick, D.L., Bornstein, M.H., Lansford, J.E., Malone, P.S., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L.M., Zelli, A., Alampay, L.P., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A.S., *Chang, L., et al. (2015), Perceived mother and father acceptance‐rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries. J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 56: 923-932. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12366

Kenneth A. Dodge, Patrick S. Malone, Jennifer E. Lansford, Emma Sorbring, Ann T. Skinner, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Arnaldo Zelli, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Anna Silvia Bombi, Marc H. Bornstein, *Lei Chang, et al. (2015). Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jul 2015, 112 (30) 9310-9315. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418572112

Lansford, J.E., Godwin, J., Alampay, L.P., Uribe Tirado, L.M., Zelli, A., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A.S., Bornstein, M.H., *Chang, L., Deater‐Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E. and Tapanya, S. (2016), Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries. Int J Psychol, 51: 366-374. doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12185

Bornstein, M.H., Putnick, D.L., Lansford, J.E., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L.M., Zelli, A., Alampay, L.P., Al‐Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A.S., *Chang, L., et al. (2015), Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self‐reports. Int J Psychol, 50: 174-185. doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12084

Chen, B., & *Chang, L.(2015). Creativity and aggression as ornament and armament: Intersexual and intrasexual selection on men’s mating behaviors. Evolutionary Psychology, 13, 262-278. doi.org/10.1177/147470491501300118

Lu, H.J., Zhu, X., & *Chang, L. (2015). Good genes, good providers, good fathers: Economic development involved in how women select a mate. Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 9, 215-228. doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000048

Mesoudi, A., *Chang, L., Murray, K., & Lu, H.J. (2015). Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2209

Hui Jing Lu, Kitty Y. Fung, Jo Ann Farver, Bin Bin Chen, *Lei Chang. (2015). The Influence of Teachers' Preferences on Children's Social Status in Schools. Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 1: 2015. doi.org/10.5539/jedp.v5n1p57

Aitao Lu, Xiuxiu Hong, Yanping Yu, Hong Ling, Haiping Tian, Zuwei Yu, *Lei Chang. (2015). Perceived physical appearance and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model of self-esteem and life experience of deaf and hearing adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, Volume 39, 2015, Pages 1-9, ISSN 0140-1971. doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.11.005

Alex Mesoudi, *Lei Chang, Keelin Murray and Hui Jing Lu. (2015). Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Soceity B, Volume 282, Issue 1798. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2209

Jennifer E. Lansford, Chinmayi Sharma, Patrick S. Malone, Darren Woodlief, Kenneth A. Dodge, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Arnaldo Zelli, Suha M. Al-Hassan, et al. (2014). Corporal Punishment, Maternal Warmth, and Child Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study in Eight Countries. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 43:4, 670-685, doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2014.893518

Lu, H.J., & *Chang, L.(2014). Deceiving yourself to better deceive high-status compared to equal-status others. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 635-654. doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200310

Peng, M., *Chang, L., & Zhou, R. (2013). Physiological and behavioral responses to strangers compared to friends as a source of disgust. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 94-98. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.10.002

Putnick, D. L., Bornstein, M. H., Lansford, J. E., *Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Gurdal, S., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P. O., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., et al. (2012). Agreement in Mother and Father Acceptance-Rejection, Warmth, and Hostility/Rejection/ Neglect of Children Across Nine Countries. Cross-Cultural Research, 46(3), 191–223. doi.org/10.1177/1069397112440931

Chen, B.B., & *Chang, L. (2012). Adaptive insecure attachment and its relationships with resource control strategies during middle childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 48, 479-482. doi.org/10.1177/0165025412445440

Wu, B.P., & *Chang, L. (2012). The social impact of pathogen threat: How disease salience influences conformity. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 50-54. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.023

Lu, H. J., & *Chang, L. (2012). Automatic attention towards face or body as a function of mating motivation. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 120-135. doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000113

Chen, B.B. & *Chang, L. (2012). Bitter struggle for survival: Evolved bitterness embodiment of survival motivation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 579-582. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.11.005

Lu, H. J., & *Chang, L. (2011). The association between self-deception and moral self-concept as functions of self-consciousness. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 845-849. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.014

*Chang, L., Lu, H. J., Li, H., & Li, T. (2011). The face that launched a thousand ships: The mating-warring association in men. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 976-984. doi.org/10.1177/0146167211402216

*Chang, L., Wang, Y., Shackelford, T. K, & Buss, D. M. (2011). Cultural evolution and continuity in Chinese mate preferences across a quarter of a century. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 678-683. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.016

*Chang, L., Chen, B-B., & Ji, L. (2011). Attributions and attitudes of mothers and fathers in China. Parenting: Science and Practice. 11, 102-115. doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2011.585553

*Chang, L., Mak, M. C. K., Li, T., Wu, B. P., Lu, H. J., & Chen, B. B. (2011). Cultural adaptations to environmental variability: An evolutionary account of East-West differences. Educational Psychology Review, 23, 99-129. doi.org/10.1007/s10648-010-9149-0

*Chang, L., Lu, H. J., Li, H., Lee, L. Y., Li, T., & Sui, S. (2010). Patrilocal residence and father-child resemblance beliefs in relation to paternal investment. Parenting: Science and Practice, 10, 274-285. doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2010.492039

Lu, H. J., & *Chang, L.(2009). Kinship effect on subjective temporal distance of autobiographical memory. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 595-598. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.05.014

*Chang, L., Liu, H., Fung, K. Y., Wang, Y., Wen, Z., Li, H., & Farver, J. M. (2007). The mediating and moderating effects of teacher preference on the relations between students’ social behaviors and peer acceptance. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 53, 603-630. doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2008.0006

*Chang, L., Li, L., Li, K. K., Lui, H., Guo, B., Wang, Y., & Fung, K.Y. (2005). Peer acceptance and self-perceptions of verbal and behavioral aggression and social withdrawal. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29, 48-57. doi.org/10.1080/01650250444000324

*Chang, L. (2004). The role of classrooms in contextualizing the relations of children’s social behaviors to peer acceptance. Developmental Psychology, 40, 691-702. doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.40.5.691

*Chang, L., Lansford, J. E., Schwartz, D., & Farver, J. M. (2004). Marital quality, maternal depressed affect, harsh parenting and child externalising in Hong Kong Chinese families. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28, 311-318. doi.org/10.1080/01650250344000523

*Chang, L., Liu, H., Wen, Z., Fung, K. Y., Wang, Y., & Xu, Y. (2004). Mediating teacher liking and moderating authoritative teachering on Chinese students’ perceptions of antisocial and prosocial behaviors. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 369-380. doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.96.2.369

*Chang, L., Schwartz, D., Dodge, K., & McBride-Chang, C. (2003). Harsh parenting in relation to child emotion regulation and aggression. Journal of Family Psychology, 17, 598-606. doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.17.4.598

Chen, X., *Chang, L., & He, Y. (2003). The peer group as a social context: Mediating and moderating effects on relations between academic achievement and social functioning in Chinese children. Child Development, 74, 710-727. doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00564

*Chang, L.(2003). Variable effects of children’s aggression, social withdrawal, and prosocial leadership as functions of teacher beliefs and behaviors. Child Development, 74, 535-548. doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.7402014

*Chang, L., McBride-Chang, C. Stewart, S., & Au, E. (2003). Life satisfaction, self-concept, and family relations in Chinese adolescents and children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, 182-190. doi.org/10.1080/01650250244000182

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Prof. Chang Lei

Chair Professor and Head of Department

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