Sik Hung Ng
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 109113 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sik Hung Ng |
| NOMBRES | Sik Hung |
| APELLIDO | Ng |
| FIRMA | NG S H |
| AFILIACIONES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1225-7466 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 448 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Exploring the herding behavior of investors in the Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency markets
This paper analyzes the time-varying herding behavior in the non-fungible token (NFTs) and cryptocurrency markets and investigates their interrelationship. Using the daily market data from January 1st, 2020 to April 30th, 2023, our study covers the period characterized by Covid and post-Covid-19 induced global financial market volatility, capturing the dynamics in the global macroeconomic system and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy. Bas…
Obituary
Let our collective remembering of Professor James Hou-Fu Liu be a blessing. Jim passed away on 11 August 2024 in an unfortunate accident that started while snorkelling off a beach in Indonesia. He was survived by his wife Belinda Bonzon-Liu and daughter Brianna Bonzon-Liu. His other surviving kin include his mother Liu Liu An-Yun and brother Liu Chieh-Fu (Jeff). In a broader sense, members of the Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP), rig…
The violent turn in non‐violent collective action
Collective actions (e.g., protest marches, social movements) that begin peacefully sometimes turn into violent clashes between demonstrators and police, with alarming consequences. Research on the violent turn, informed by intergroup social psychology and micro‐sociology, has made significant but separate advances. We review them jointly to form an integrated, fuller understanding of the violent turn and promote interdisciplinary dialogue by disc…
Export response to technical barriers to trade
This study explores the impact of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) on China's high-tech exports to the United States (US). We use the UN Comtrade database and the WTO/TBT-SPS Notification and Enquiry of China for the period 2003 to 2018 to quantify TBTs and estimate their effects. Overall, our findings support and are in line with the demand-enhancing promoting effects of TBTs on China's high-tech exports, indicating that TBTs can act as a cata…
Covid-19 Pandemic and Positive Ageing
Given the havoc of the worldwide coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the older population, this article outlines a positive ageing framework for understanding and assuaging the havoc. Positive ageing follows the dual ageing ethics of living positively for self (maintaining health and functional independence) and for the betterment of others (other individuals and society at large). However, it suffers from the pandemic because the pan…
Income robustly predicts self-regard emotions
There is robust evidence that higher income makes people evaluate their lives more favorably, but there is no consistent evidence on whether it makes people feel better. Analyzing data from five large surveys spanning 162 countries, we predicted and found the most comprehensive evidence to date that income reliably predicted greater positive self-regard emotions (e.g., pride) and lower negative self-regard emotions (e.g., anxiety). In contrast, i…
Impact of English on education reforms in China
When China liberalised its economy and opened up to the (Western) world, it actively promoted the English language at schools and universities on a massive scale. This learn-English movement, riding on the back of English as the dominant international language, has powered English into China's education reforms. We outline the movement and discuss the impact of English on the internationalisation of China's elite universities and the college entr…
Assimilation and Contrast Effects of Culture Priming Among Hong Kong Chinese
Although culture priming research has established consistently that individuals from a bicultural background shift toward one or the other culture that has been primed (assimilation effect), the opposite contrast effect is less clear. We postulated a general explanation covering both effects in terms of the moderation due to the strength of dual cultural selves, and tested it on a sample of Westernized Chinese in Hong Kong ( N = 416), whose Chine…
Social inclusion in an ageing world
This paper provides an introduction to a special issue focusing on diverse examples of policy practice in social inclusion and ageing across different regions of the world. These examples illustrate the multifaceted nature of the concept of social inclusion, and how it is applied in the context of global demographic ageing. The paper begins with an exploration of the history and development of the concept of social inclusion, as applied to ageing…
Positive Approaches to Coping with the Challenges of Ageing
Media Discourse on Globalization in China
China's economic liberalization reforms and quest for global status have raised concerns over ideological inconsistencies (the adoption of market economy is discrepant from China's avowed belief in socialism) and image problems (the world that China wants to embrace perceives her as a menace). Official media discourse makes frequent reference to globalization and uses it to manage the inconsistencies and to bolster China's global image. These dis…
Bicultural Self, Multiple Social Identities, and Dual Patriotisms Among Ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong
This research tests a model of bicultural self and its implications for social identity (Study 1) and compares the effects of bicultural self and social identity on patriotism (Study 2). Studies are grounded in Hong Kong's cultural-political context, where the century-long bicultural development of Chinese and Western selves is now realigning with Hong Kong's recent reunification with China and the resultant expectation to identify with and be pa…
Wealth and happiness across the world
The Gallup World Poll, the first representative sample of planet Earth, was used to explore the reasons why happiness is associated with higher income, including the meeting of basic needs, fulfillment of psychological needs, increasing satisfaction with one's standard of living, and public goods. Across the globe, the association of log income with subjective well-being was linear but convex with raw income, indicating the declining marginal eff…
Ageing in Hong Kong and the UK
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Effects of Culture Priming on the Social Connectedness of the Bicultural Self
This research tests the theoretical prediction that the self-concept of bicultural Chinese would become more socially connected when Chinese primed than when Western primed. Measures of social connectedness are derived from the Self-Reference Effect, according to which information will be memorized better when it references the Self than when it references the non-Self. Under Western priming ( n = 91), memory of information referencing Self is be…
Affluence, Feelings of Stress, and Well-being
Language-Based Discrimination
This article integrates the language-discrimination nexus under four headings: the linguistic justification of discrimination and its linguistic encoding, enactment, and routinization. (a) Barriers to jobs, education, and citizenship can be legally justified on the basis of language requirements to exclude particular groups. Once legalized, the language requirement provides a stowaway for more subtle discrimination against other target groups. (b…
From Language Acculturation to Communication Acculturation
A practical problem facing minority family members is how best to acculturate to mainstream culture while maintaining their heritage language and ways of communicating. Language acculturation is well known and includes bilingualism, code-switching, and so forth. At a more subtle level, acculturation affects ways of communicating, referred to here as communication acculturation. This article serves two purposes. First, it highlights the importance…
Two Decades of Change in Cultural Values and Economic Development in Eight East Asian and Pacific Island Nations
In a 1982 publication, Ng et al. surveyed the cultural values of select East Asian and Pacific Island nations. In 2002, this study repeated their work, using the same sampling frame, questionnaire, and collaborators, where possible. The authors also reclassified the 1982 and 2002 survey results using Schwartz's cultural-level value dimensions. Submission versus Dionysian values that differentiated the nations in 1982 continued to do so in 2002. F…
Cultural associations and food choice
Impacts of filial piety on preference for kinship versus public care
Elder care can involve the elder's children, other relatives, friends, community, and services sponsored by the government. According to the compensatory view, an individual prefers to rely on only one mode of elder care (i.e., care of elders in society, not just one's parents). In contrast, the complementary view suggests that the individual desires to combine elder care from multiple sources. This view expects that someone who practices filial …
The Dynamics of Intragroup Differentiation in an Intergroup Social Context
Journal Article The Dynamics of Intragroup Differentiation in an Intergroup Social Context Get access Scott A. Reid, Scott A. Reid 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93105-4060 1Scott A. Reid; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sik Hung Ng Sik Hung Ng 2Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Search for other works by this author on: …
Perception of Economic Distributive Justice
This study assessed the power of four theories in predicting individuals' perception of economic distributive justice: Self-interest Theory, Belief in a Just World, Attribution Theory, and Ideology. On the basis of a community survey of 487 adults, regression analyses showed that Self-interest Theory and Belief in a Just World provided moderate predictions of economic distributive justice perception; and Attribution Theory and Ideology yielded th…
Adult economic model and values survey
Intergroup Behaviour and Ethnicity
Humans exist not only as unique individuals, but also as members of social groups that are formed on the basis of ethnicity, gender, age and so forth. Reflecting this duality are interpersonal and intergroup modes of behaviour, respectively. Thus, humans can act in terms of their personal self and treat others as individuals (interpersonal behaviour); they can also act in terms of group membership and relate to others as members of this or that g…
Wealth and happiness across the world
The Gallup World Poll, the first representative sample of planet Earth, was used to explore the reasons why happiness is associated with higher income, including the meeting of basic needs, fulfillment of psychological needs, increasing satisfaction with one's standard of living, and public goods. Across the globe, the association of log income with subjective well-being was linear but convex with raw income, indicating the declining marginal eff…
Younger Adults' Communication Experiences and Contact With Elders and Peers
Intergenerational communication research has overemphasized dissatisfying experiences and treated elderly conversation partners as an undifferentiated category. To redress these limitations, the authors surveyed 100 younger adults' (16–46 years) satisfying and dissatisfying experiences with both family and nonfamily elders, and compared these with own-age peers. Measures of social contact were also taken. As hypothesized, positivity of experience…
Intergenerational Communication Across Cultures
Language-Based Discrimination
This article integrates the language-discrimination nexus under four headings: the linguistic justification of discrimination and its linguistic encoding, enactment, and routinization. (a) Barriers to jobs, education, and citizenship can be legally justified on the basis of language requirements to exclude particular groups. Once legalized, the language requirement provides a stowaway for more subtle discrimination against other target groups. (b…
Children's ideas about the bank and shop profit
Androcentric coding of man and his in memory by language users
Age Vitality Across Eleven Nations
This paper is the second in a series of empirical applications of the concept of (ethnolinguistic) vitality into the intergenerational arena. It examines young people's assessments of the subjective vitalities of young, middle-aged, and elderly targets in four Western (midwest USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) and seven south and east Asian sites (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, mainland China, The Philippines, and India). The resul…
College students' trait ratings of three age groups around the Pacific Rim
Language, Power, and Intergroup Relations
Language is a communication medium for turning a power base into influence. But more than that, the creation of power and its maintenance or change can also occur in and through language. In the present article, we discuss some of the dynamic links between language and power to underscore their relevance to the study of intergroup relations. In particular we address the means by which low‐power groups might achieve power, and how those who are in…
Sex bias in visual images evoked by generics
Human values, utilitarian benefits and identification
The present studies explored the associations among food's utilitarian benefits, the human values symbolised by meat, individuals' endorsement of those values, and individuals' meat identification, attitudes and consumption. A preliminary study revealed that participants perceived that meat, particularly red meat, symbolises the endorsement of inequality and hierarchy values more than other basic foods. Studies 1 and 2 found that the endorsement …
Older adults' trait ratings of three age-groups around the Pacific rim
Interruption and Influence in Discussion Groups
This study examines two aspects of conversational behavior that might lead to high perceived social influence in newly formed discussion groups, namely, to gain speaking turns by interrupting others and, conversely, to retain speakership against others' interruptions. Subjects discussed the issue of euthanasia and afterward ranked their own and each other's influence. Relative to low-ranking members, high-ranking members were more successful in i…
Intergroup bias by defensive and offensive groups in majority and minority conditions
Language and Social Influence in Small Conversational Groups
University students, in groups of 3 or 4, discussed legal aspects of commercial surrogacy and afterwards ranked the relative influence of each group member. As predicted, high-influence members spoke more words and had more successful turns during the conversation than low-influence members. The latter used a greater rate of intonation and intensifiers than the former. A closer examination of the results showed that turns were particularly import…
Social inclusion in an ageing world
This paper provides an introduction to a special issue focusing on diverse examples of policy practice in social inclusion and ageing across different regions of the world. These examples illustrate the multifaceted nature of the concept of social inclusion, and how it is applied in the context of global demographic ageing. The paper begins with an exploration of the history and development of the concept of social inclusion, as applied to ageing…
Affluence, Feelings of Stress, and Well-being
Impacts of filial piety on preference for kinship versus public care
Elder care can involve the elder's children, other relatives, friends, community, and services sponsored by the government. According to the compensatory view, an individual prefers to rely on only one mode of elder care (i.e., care of elders in society, not just one's parents). In contrast, the complementary view suggests that the individual desires to combine elder care from multiple sources. This view expects that someone who practices filial …
Simultaneous Speech in Small Group Conversation
From a turn-takingperspective, simultaneous speech in conversation can be an aberration according to the one-speaker-at-a-time norm or a legitimate form of nondisruptive talk according to the all-together-now view. A coding system was devised that identified unambiguous instances of both of these types of simultaneous speech and tested whether the relative distribution of these two types of simultaneous speech varies according to the characterist…
Children's ideas about the bank
A Hong Kong study by Ng (1983) showed that the development of the understanding of bank interest and profit was essentially similar to that of a Scottish sample reported by Jahoda (1981). It also uncovered two minor stages in addition to Jahoda's six. The present study confirmed the presence of these two stages as well as the others; and, like the Scottish sample, showed a New Zealand ‘lag’ behind Hong Kong
Bicultural Self, Multiple Social Identities, and Dual Patriotisms Among Ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong
This research tests a model of bicultural self and its implications for social identity (Study 1) and compares the effects of bicultural self and social identity on patriotism (Study 2). Studies are grounded in Hong Kong's cultural-political context, where the century-long bicultural development of Chinese and Western selves is now realigning with Hong Kong's recent reunification with China and the resultant expectation to identify with and be pa…
Choosing between the ranking and rating procedures for the comparison of values across cultures
Effects of Culture Priming on the Social Connectedness of the Bicultural Self
This research tests the theoretical prediction that the self-concept of bicultural Chinese would become more socially connected when Chinese primed than when Western primed. Measures of social connectedness are derived from the Self-Reference Effect, according to which information will be memorized better when it references the Self than when it references the non-Self. Under Western priming ( n = 91), memory of information referencing Self is be…
Self‐Interest, Economic Beliefs, and Political Party Preference in New Zealand
This study explored the associations among income level, economic beliefs, and political party preference in terms of self‐interest and ideological theories of party preference. Results from a survey of 487 New Zealand voters showed that the income levels and economic beliefs of supporters of the four major parties were organized along a single dimension: ACT supporters had the highest income and strongest neoliberal economic beliefs, followed cl…
The direct and indirect influences of human values on product ownership
Minimal Social Categorization, Political Categorization, and Power Change
A theory has been proposed by Mulder that the tendency to take over superordinate power varies inversely with the power distance between ego and the target. As compared to the person who occupies the middle rank, an individual who is on the bottom rank has been shown to be less inclined to take over the top position. What will happen, however, if the latter individual had to act in terms of group instead of self? Will the induction of social cate…
Choosing between the ranking and rating procedures for the comparison of values across cultures
Children's ideas about the bank and shop profit
Children's ideas about the bank
A Hong Kong study by Ng (1983) showed that the development of the understanding of bank interest and profit was essentially similar to that of a Scottish sample reported by Jahoda (1981). It also uncovered two minor stages in addition to Jahoda's six. The present study confirmed the presence of these two stages as well as the others; and, like the Scottish sample, showed a New Zealand ‘lag’ behind Hong Kong
Equity, Intergroup bias and Interpersonal bias in Reward allocation
Decisions to allocate rewards to ingroup and outgroup members are under the dual pressures of equity and intergroup bias. This study examined variations in equity and bias resulting from the incongruity and salience of intergroup status. Incongruity arose from a mismatch between high subjective and low accorded status. Congruity occurred when subjective status and accorded status were both high or both low. By pairing school classes with known su…
Language and Social Influence in Small Conversational Groups
University students, in groups of 3 or 4, discussed legal aspects of commercial surrogacy and afterwards ranked the relative influence of each group member. As predicted, high-influence members spoke more words and had more successful turns during the conversation than low-influence members. The latter used a greater rate of intonation and intensifiers than the former. A closer examination of the results showed that turns were particularly import…
Sex bias in visual images evoked by generics
Intergroup bias by defensive and offensive groups in majority and minority conditions
Children's endorsement of ownership attributes
Androcentric coding of man and his in memory by language users
Evaluation by females and males of speeches worded in the masculine, feminine, or genderinclusive reference form
A random sample of female and male students ( n = 408) representing three age groups (11, 14, and 17 years) evaluated speeches that were worded using either the masculine ( boy, he, his ), feminine ( girl, she, her ), or gender‐inclusive ( boy/girl, she/he, her/his ) forms of person reference. Significant interaction effects were found between forms of reference on the one hand, and subjects’gender and age on the other hand. The main features of …
A Proportional Hazards Regression Analysis of Employee Turnover Among Nurses in New Zealand
Research on employee turnover has usually relied on employment status (quitters vs. stayers) to index the criterion variable (turnover), and on multiple regression (MR) to model the turnover process. In the present study, which was based on a national sample of nurses in New Zealand (n = 1249), we improved the criterion variable by combining employment status with a continuous measure, namely, job survival duration (length of employment starting …
On becoming a leader
The present research focused on power processes in a simulated organizational structure consisting of three hierarchical levels occupied by different numbers of mules and females. Subjects were presented with a chart showing the organizational hierarchy of which they were a member placed at the lowest level, and asked to nominate any person for the leader position vacated by the current incumbent. The results of Experiment I ( n = 88 Dutch male a…
Polarized Semantic Change of Words Associated with Females and Males
The present laboratory experiment was inspired by semantic changes reported in etymological studies: Many words that at one time had a positive or neutral connotation became negative when later applied to females. In contrast to this negativity bias, male-associated words underwent a positivity bias. Miller and Swift (1976) referred to the gender-based biases as gender-related semantic polarization. We developed the concept further by distinguish…
Children's understanding of public ownership
Children's understanding of public ownership was examined in two studies. In the first, descriptive study, children in three age groups (5–6, 8–9. and 11–12 years) were interviewed about ownership of their school and the city's buses. The hypothesis, that with increasing age the children's understanding of public ownership would change from being based on physical to abstract concepts, was supported. In the second, experimental study, a different…
Simultaneous Speech in Small Group Conversation
From a turn-takingperspective, simultaneous speech in conversation can be an aberration according to the one-speaker-at-a-time norm or a legitimate form of nondisruptive talk according to the all-together-now view. A coding system was devised that identified unambiguous instances of both of these types of simultaneous speech and tested whether the relative distribution of these two types of simultaneous speech varies according to the characterist…
Interruption and Influence in Discussion Groups
This study examines two aspects of conversational behavior that might lead to high perceived social influence in newly formed discussion groups, namely, to gain speaking turns by interrupting others and, conversely, to retain speakership against others' interruptions. Subjects discussed the issue of euthanasia and afterward ranked their own and each other's influence. Relative to low-ranking members, high-ranking members were more successful in i…
Distributive and procedural justice in interpersonal and intergroup situations
College students' trait ratings of three age groups around the Pacific Rim
Expectation of outgroup behaviour
Expectation of outgroup behaviour
Outgroups are usually viewed with suspicion and expected to discriminate against the ingroup. The present study demonstrated that ingroup members attributed past discriminatory behaviour committed by individuals of unknown group membership more to outgroup members than to either ingroup members or members of a neutral group. In contrast, past egalitarian behaviour was attributed less to outgroup members than to members of a neutral group. Ingroup…
Younger Adults' Communication Experiences and Contact With Elders and Peers
Intergenerational communication research has overemphasized dissatisfying experiences and treated elderly conversation partners as an undifferentiated category. To redress these limitations, the authors surveyed 100 younger adults' (16–46 years) satisfying and dissatisfying experiences with both family and nonfamily elders, and compared these with own-age peers. Measures of social contact were also taken. As hypothesized, positivity of experience…
Patterns In Discourse About Elderly People In New Zealand
The direct and indirect influences of human values on product ownership
Social Influence and Social Issues
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