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Dr. Buchtel received her PhD in cultural psychology (social/personality area; quantitative minor) from the University of British Columbia in 2009, and her B.A. from Yale University in 1999. In between, she spent four years in Changsha and Beijing, teaching English at the high school and university levels and learning Mandarin Chinese.
Research interests
My research seeks to explore and deepen our understanding of Chinese cultural influences on psychology, including moral concepts, values, motivation and reasoning styles, and their implications for Western theories. I use interdisciplinary approaches, multiple/mixed methods with cross-cultural data (e.g. psychophysiological data, qualitative data, quantitative surveys and experiments) and adopt open-science practices.
See updated publications and projects at: https://repository.eduhk.hk/en/persons/emma-ellen-kathrina-buchtel
Teaching Interests
In my teaching, I aim to cultivate positive attitudes towards diversity, curiosity and excitement about new ideas, and to teach skills that help my students learn and benefit from different perspectives. Please take a look at our pedagogical projects on teaching discussion skills in the Hong Kong context (https://eduhk-pt.wixsite.com/ptindiscussion) and teaching Global Perspectives through a focus on affective pedagogy and affective cultural competence (https://cultivateglobalpers.wixsite.com/home), an animated video to help visualize how "within culture differences are (almost) always bigger than between-culture differences," (De-essentializing Bar Graphs: Diversity within Differences"), and my TEDx talk, “Culture, Morality and Connecting Across Differences” (https://youtu.be/LToLDHWKGBE).
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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The Meaning of Cognitive Conflict across Cultures: Using Pupil Dilation to Identify Culturally-Relevant Meaning Disruptions and Conflict Compensation (R1287 / 18605921)
BUCHTEL, E. E. K., Proulx, T. & Sleegers, W.
01/01/22 → 30/06/24
Project: Research project
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Understanding China’s Changing Moral Psychology
BUCHTEL, E. E. K., Ryan, N., Bond, M. H., Hamamura, T., Han, S., Head, J., Jing, Y., Link, P., Lun, V., Slingerland, E., Su, Y., Sun, A., Wasserstrom, J., Xu, J., Yan, X. & Zhu, L.
01/01/19 → 30/06/23
Project: Research project
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Filial Values and “Unhealthy Practices:” When is Corruption Increased by Confucian Virtues? The Roles of Moral Conflict and Societal Transparency
BUCHTEL, E. E. K., GUAN, Y., Liu, X. & Sarkissian, H.
01/01/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research project
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Chinese Moral Character: What Does It Mean to be Principled in a Confucian Culture?
01/01/16 → 30/06/18
Project: Research project
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International Situations Project
BUCHTEL, E. E. K. & FUNDER, D.
01/09/15 → 31/08/18
Project: Research project
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Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction
GUAN, Y., JIANG, D., WU, C., DENG, H., SU, S., BUCHTEL, E. E. K. & CHEN, S. X., Jul 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: American Psychologist.Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality
BUCHTEL, E. E. K., 2023, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 46, e298.Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Morality as fish: Defining morality as a prototype concept
BUCHTEL, E. E. K., 2023, In: Psychological Inquiry. 34, 2, p. 80-85Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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The economic well-being of nations is associated with positive daily situational experiences
GARDINER, G., LEE, D. I., BARANSKI, E., FUNDER, D. C., Members of The International Situations Project & BUCHTEL, E. E. K., 2023, In: Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. 4, 100088.Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
What, exactly, is wrong with Confucian filial morality?
SARKISSIAN, H. & BUCHTEL, E. E. K., Jan 2023, In: Res Philosophica. 100, 1, p. 23-41Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
Prizes
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President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Administrative Services (Team Award)
CHENG, Wing Yi, Rebecca 鄭穎怡 (Recipient), BUCHTEL, Emma Ellen Kathrina 蒲安梅 (Recipient), POON, Ching Yan (Recipient), FOK, Ji Ni, Sherjina (Recipient) & WONG, Wai Ting (Recipient), 14 May 2018
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President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching 2014/15
BUCHTEL, Emma Ellen Kathrina 蒲安梅 (Recipient), May 2015
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