Lab Coordinator

Davin YEUNG | Email | CV

BSSc in Psychology, CUHK (2024)

Davin, who obtained a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, became a member of the lab in July 2024. During his undergraduate studies, he examined the potential trade-off between accurate recognition of emotion cues and swift response among individuals with Alexithymia. Presently, his research interest includes exploring the socio-cognitive mechanisms that underlie how individuals acquire and interpret affective information.

Research Assistant Professor

Mary MA | CV

PhD in Social Science, HKUST (2023)

Mary is a Research Assistant Professor at the Division of Social Science, HKUST. Prior to joining the division, she served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Virginia from 2023 to 2024, and as a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University from 2022 to 2023. Her research focuses on social cognitive and emotional development, with a particular interest in how both children and adults utilize various cues to identify reliable partners for cooperation and trustworthy informants for learning in the social environment.

Postgraduate Students

Jacky FENG | CV

MPhil in Social Science, HKUST (expected in 2026)

After obtaining the MA degree in Social Science from HKUST, Jacky decided to pursue his MPhil study in Fall 2024. His research interest focuses on the intersection between prosocial behavior and emotion.

Felity KWOK | CV

PhD in Social Science, HKUST (expected in 2024)

Felity joined the lab in 2016 and served as a Lab Co-ordinator for four years before starting graduate studies at HKUST. She is currently completing her PhD study on coping and emotion. Felity is an awardee of HKPFS

Vivian ZHANG | CV

MPhil in Social Science, HKUST (expected in 2026)

Vivian joined the lab in September 2024. Her research interests are self-compassion, stress and coping, and emotion regulation. She focuses on the application of theories and intervention methods to make people happy.


Poppy ZHU | CV

MPhil in Social Science, HKUST (expected in 2025)

Poppy joined the lab in August 2023 after obtaining her MA degree in social science from HKUST. She is now completing her MPhil study. Her research interest lies in the sentiment analysis of social media data.

Visiting Postgraduate Student

Eva LIU | CV

PhD in Social-Personality Psychology, Yale University (expected in 2027)

Eva is currently a fourth-year graduate student in the Social Psychology area at Yale. She recently obtained her MPhil in Psychology from Yale. She graduated with a double major in Business Psychology and Cognitive Science (specialization in language and culture) from the University of California, San Diego. Her research interest lies at the intersection of culture, emotion and interpersonal relationships, where she hopes to use a multi-disciplinary approach to understand the various ways in which people in close relationships, across and within cultures, experience and perceive emotions. Eva is visiting the Emotion and Personality Lab during Fall 2024.

FOK Hung-kit

Lecturer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

JIANG Da

Associate Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong

Ines LIN

Research Assistant Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong

Winnie YANG

PhD Candidate, University of Groningen

Eva CHEN

National Tsing Hua University

Jose Miguel FERNANDEZ DOLS

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Peter KUPPENS

KU Leuven

Jeff MCCRAE

National Institute on Aging

Del PAULHUS

University of British Columbia

James RUSSELL

Boston College

Nicolson SIU

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ellick WONG

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology