Wong Wan-chi
Professor
Educational pyschology
Science and Technology Facilities Councilt
Hong Kong
Biography
Wan-chi Wong received a PhD (Dr. phil.) at the Psychological Institute of Universität Heidelberg. She joined the Department of Educational Psychology (CUHK) since 1994. In 2002-2003, she was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University. Currently she offers the following courses: Psychological Development of the Child, Child and Adolescent Development, Psychological Development of Teachers, The Developmental Process of Motivation and its Role in Human Development.
Research Interest
Sign and Thought, Conceptual Development and Theories of Mind, Development of Reflective Thinking and Empathy, Creativity Development, Expertise Development, Psychology of Aesthetic Experience, Structure and Content of "Implicit Theories", Lewinian Field Theory and its Application, Cultural-historical Psychology.
Publications
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He, W.-J., Wong, W.C., & Hui, A.N.N. (2015). Gender differences in means and variability on creative thinking: Patterns in childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. In A.-G. Tan & C. Perleth (Eds.), Creativity, culture, and development (pp.85-98). Singapore: Springer.
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He, W.-J., & Wong, W.C. (2015). Creativity slump and school transition stress: A sequential study from the perspective of the cognitive-relational theory of stress. Learning and Individual Differences, 43, 185-190. 2015:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2015.08.034
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He, W.-J., Wong, W.C. (2017). Overexcitabilities as important psychological attributes of creativity: A Dabrowskian perspective. Thinking Skills and Creativity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2017.06.006
