Kim-Pong Tam
Biographic Data
| ID | 3793959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim-Pong Tam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim-Pong |
| FAMILY NAME | Tam |
| SIGNATURE | TAM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Psychological symptoms and their correlates in pneumoconiosis patients
Purpose: Pneumoconiosis remains a global occupational and public health problem. This scoping review is aimed to identify the psychological symptoms and their correlates among pneumoconiosis patients. Methods: We conducted a bilingual scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Studies published between 2000 and 2025 were identified through searches of English-language (PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect) and Chinese-language (…
Affective relationships as non-material capital assets in building resilience within the rice-terraced cultural landscapes of the Philippine Cordillera
Rice, resilience, and relationships
Towards cross-cultural environmental psychology
Environmental psychology is a field concerned with transactions between humans and their environments. Since human–environment interactions are culture-bound, a fuller understanding of such interactions requires sensitivity to the role of culture in the ways researchers theorize human behavior, conduct empirical studies, and interpret observed findings. In this article, we aim to advance the development of a culturally informed understanding of h…
Generalized trust narrows the gap between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior
I Am Dumber When I Look Dumb in Front of Many (vs. Few) Others
People from all cultures are averse to looking dumb in front of others, especially if there is a large audience. However, there could be a difference between Face and Dignity cultures in the extent to which their members see themselves as dumb when they perform poorly before a large versus small audience. In the present study, Chinese and Americans were asked to imagine themselves performing poorly on tasks either in front of 10 others or one oth…
Understanding the Lack of Parent-Child Value Similarity
The parent-child value similarity is typically far from perfect. In this research, we propose that this phenomenon is attributable to the very first step in value socialization-parents' selection of socialization values. The premise of this account is that parents consider not only values they personally endorse but also values they perceive to be normative in relevant societies when socializing children. Accordingly, parent-child similarity is n…
A Conclusion, Yet an Opening to Enriching the Normative Approach of Culture
We compile in this article the target article authors' thoughtful responses to the commentaries. Their responses identify some common threads across the rich contents of the commentary pieces, interlink the observation and theoretical propositions in the commentaries with broader streams of research, present new perspectives inspired by the commentary contributors, and pose provocative questions to further ignite research efforts on the normative…
Understanding Intergenerational Cultural Transmission Through the Role of Perceived Norms
Intergenerational cultural transmission refers to the transmission of cultural ideas (e.g., values, beliefs, knowledge, practices) from one generation to the next generation. Among all available cultural ideas, which ones do parents select for transmission? As the recent normative approaches in cultural psychology highlight, cultural members do not just passively act out their internalized characteristics; they also strategically use their unders…
Parents as Cultural Middlemen
As the world is increasingly globalized, more and more families now reside in a society culturally differing from their ethnic origin and thus face a bicultural environment. Ethnic minority families exemplify this situation. What values do parents from these families prefer when they socialize their children? To answer this question, the present research examines an extension of the intersubjective model of value transmission. In two studies cond…
Dispositional empathy with nature
Saving Mr. Nature
Concepts and measures related to connection to nature
The Better-Than-Average Effect in Hong Kong and the United States
People tend to make self-aggrandizing social comparisons on traits that are important to the self. However, existing research on the better-than-average effect (BTAE) and trait importance does not distinguish between personal trait importance (participants' ratings of the importance of certain traits to themselves) and cultural trait importance (participants' perceptions of the importance of the traits to the cultural group to which they belong).…
Cultural Construction of Success and Epistemic Motives Moderate American-Chinese Differences in Reward Allocation Biases
When the relative contribution of the self and the group to a group success is unclear, Americans tend to exhibit a self-serving bias (rewarding the self more than what the self deserves), whereas the Chinese tend to exhibit an other-serving bias (rewarding the group more than the group deserves). In a study comparing the reward allocation biases of Americans and Chinese in different group outcome conditions, the authors showed that the abovement…
Culture and Subjective Well-Being
Adopting the dynamic constructivist approach, the present research tested the hypothesis that bicultural people's subjective well-being (SWB) is more contingent on satisfaction with relationship-related domains and less contingent on satisfaction with self-related domains when Chinese cultural ideas are activated than when American ideas are activated. Two studies on Hong Kong undergraduates with different activation procedures (exposure to cultu…
What Values Do Parents Want to Socialize in Their Children? The Role of Perceived Normative Values
This study concerns what values parents prefer in their children. Documenting similarity between the value profiles of parents and children, past studies implicitly assumed that parents want their children to acquire a direct, full copy of their personal values. Incorporating social psychology research on social norms, the authors obtained initial evidence from a study of 80 Singaporean mothers that, apart from referencing what they personally va…
Attributionally more complex people show less punitiveness and racism
Measuring Cultures through Intersubjective Cultural Norms
Core values of a culture may refer to values endorsed by most members of the culture or to values members of the culture generally believe to be widely shared in the culture. The authors propose an intersubjective consensus approach to identifying core cultural values based on the latter definition. In three studies, they illustrated the utility of the intersubjective consensus approach for identifying the cultural values that differentiate two o…
Culture and Counterfactuals
Past research, with its emphasis on affective regulatory processes, has failed to find cross-cultural differences in counterfactual thoughts. In the current study, the authors examine the tendency to generate additive counterfactuals (those that focus on the addition of new aspects that were not in fact present) and subtractive counterfactuals (those that focus on subtraction of factual aspects) among Mainland Chinese and European American univer…
Concepts and measures related to connection to nature
Saving Mr. Nature
Generalized trust narrows the gap between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior
Measuring Cultures through Intersubjective Cultural Norms
Core values of a culture may refer to values endorsed by most members of the culture or to values members of the culture generally believe to be widely shared in the culture. The authors propose an intersubjective consensus approach to identifying core cultural values based on the latter definition. In three studies, they illustrated the utility of the intersubjective consensus approach for identifying the cultural values that differentiate two o…
Understanding Intergenerational Cultural Transmission Through the Role of Perceived Norms
Intergenerational cultural transmission refers to the transmission of cultural ideas (e.g., values, beliefs, knowledge, practices) from one generation to the next generation. Among all available cultural ideas, which ones do parents select for transmission? As the recent normative approaches in cultural psychology highlight, cultural members do not just passively act out their internalized characteristics; they also strategically use their unders…
What Values Do Parents Want to Socialize in Their Children? The Role of Perceived Normative Values
This study concerns what values parents prefer in their children. Documenting similarity between the value profiles of parents and children, past studies implicitly assumed that parents want their children to acquire a direct, full copy of their personal values. Incorporating social psychology research on social norms, the authors obtained initial evidence from a study of 80 Singaporean mothers that, apart from referencing what they personally va…
Parents as Cultural Middlemen
As the world is increasingly globalized, more and more families now reside in a society culturally differing from their ethnic origin and thus face a bicultural environment. Ethnic minority families exemplify this situation. What values do parents from these families prefer when they socialize their children? To answer this question, the present research examines an extension of the intersubjective model of value transmission. In two studies cond…
Culture and Subjective Well-Being
Adopting the dynamic constructivist approach, the present research tested the hypothesis that bicultural people's subjective well-being (SWB) is more contingent on satisfaction with relationship-related domains and less contingent on satisfaction with self-related domains when Chinese cultural ideas are activated than when American ideas are activated. Two studies on Hong Kong undergraduates with different activation procedures (exposure to cultu…
The Better-Than-Average Effect in Hong Kong and the United States
People tend to make self-aggrandizing social comparisons on traits that are important to the self. However, existing research on the better-than-average effect (BTAE) and trait importance does not distinguish between personal trait importance (participants' ratings of the importance of certain traits to themselves) and cultural trait importance (participants' perceptions of the importance of the traits to the cultural group to which they belong).…
A Conclusion, Yet an Opening to Enriching the Normative Approach of Culture
We compile in this article the target article authors' thoughtful responses to the commentaries. Their responses identify some common threads across the rich contents of the commentary pieces, interlink the observation and theoretical propositions in the commentaries with broader streams of research, present new perspectives inspired by the commentary contributors, and pose provocative questions to further ignite research efforts on the normative…
Attributionally more complex people show less punitiveness and racism
Understanding the Lack of Parent-Child Value Similarity
The parent-child value similarity is typically far from perfect. In this research, we propose that this phenomenon is attributable to the very first step in value socialization-parents' selection of socialization values. The premise of this account is that parents consider not only values they personally endorse but also values they perceive to be normative in relevant societies when socializing children. Accordingly, parent-child similarity is n…
Culture and Counterfactuals
Past research, with its emphasis on affective regulatory processes, has failed to find cross-cultural differences in counterfactual thoughts. In the current study, the authors examine the tendency to generate additive counterfactuals (those that focus on the addition of new aspects that were not in fact present) and subtractive counterfactuals (those that focus on subtraction of factual aspects) among Mainland Chinese and European American univer…
Cultural Construction of Success and Epistemic Motives Moderate American-Chinese Differences in Reward Allocation Biases
When the relative contribution of the self and the group to a group success is unclear, Americans tend to exhibit a self-serving bias (rewarding the self more than what the self deserves), whereas the Chinese tend to exhibit an other-serving bias (rewarding the group more than the group deserves). In a study comparing the reward allocation biases of Americans and Chinese in different group outcome conditions, the authors showed that the abovement…
Culture and Counterfactuals
Past research, with its emphasis on affective regulatory processes, has failed to find cross-cultural differences in counterfactual thoughts. In the current study, the authors examine the tendency to generate additive counterfactuals (those that focus on the addition of new aspects that were not in fact present) and subtractive counterfactuals (those that focus on subtraction of factual aspects) among Mainland Chinese and European American univer…
Measuring Cultures through Intersubjective Cultural Norms
Core values of a culture may refer to values endorsed by most members of the culture or to values members of the culture generally believe to be widely shared in the culture. The authors propose an intersubjective consensus approach to identifying core cultural values based on the latter definition. In three studies, they illustrated the utility of the intersubjective consensus approach for identifying the cultural values that differentiate two o…
Attributionally more complex people show less punitiveness and racism
What Values Do Parents Want to Socialize in Their Children? The Role of Perceived Normative Values
This study concerns what values parents prefer in their children. Documenting similarity between the value profiles of parents and children, past studies implicitly assumed that parents want their children to acquire a direct, full copy of their personal values. Incorporating social psychology research on social norms, the authors obtained initial evidence from a study of 80 Singaporean mothers that, apart from referencing what they personally va…
The Better-Than-Average Effect in Hong Kong and the United States
People tend to make self-aggrandizing social comparisons on traits that are important to the self. However, existing research on the better-than-average effect (BTAE) and trait importance does not distinguish between personal trait importance (participants' ratings of the importance of certain traits to themselves) and cultural trait importance (participants' perceptions of the importance of the traits to the cultural group to which they belong).…
Cultural Construction of Success and Epistemic Motives Moderate American-Chinese Differences in Reward Allocation Biases
When the relative contribution of the self and the group to a group success is unclear, Americans tend to exhibit a self-serving bias (rewarding the self more than what the self deserves), whereas the Chinese tend to exhibit an other-serving bias (rewarding the group more than the group deserves). In a study comparing the reward allocation biases of Americans and Chinese in different group outcome conditions, the authors showed that the abovement…
Culture and Subjective Well-Being
Adopting the dynamic constructivist approach, the present research tested the hypothesis that bicultural people's subjective well-being (SWB) is more contingent on satisfaction with relationship-related domains and less contingent on satisfaction with self-related domains when Chinese cultural ideas are activated than when American ideas are activated. Two studies on Hong Kong undergraduates with different activation procedures (exposure to cultu…
Dispositional empathy with nature
Saving Mr. Nature
Concepts and measures related to connection to nature
A Conclusion, Yet an Opening to Enriching the Normative Approach of Culture
We compile in this article the target article authors' thoughtful responses to the commentaries. Their responses identify some common threads across the rich contents of the commentary pieces, interlink the observation and theoretical propositions in the commentaries with broader streams of research, present new perspectives inspired by the commentary contributors, and pose provocative questions to further ignite research efforts on the normative…
Understanding Intergenerational Cultural Transmission Through the Role of Perceived Norms
Intergenerational cultural transmission refers to the transmission of cultural ideas (e.g., values, beliefs, knowledge, practices) from one generation to the next generation. Among all available cultural ideas, which ones do parents select for transmission? As the recent normative approaches in cultural psychology highlight, cultural members do not just passively act out their internalized characteristics; they also strategically use their unders…
Parents as Cultural Middlemen
As the world is increasingly globalized, more and more families now reside in a society culturally differing from their ethnic origin and thus face a bicultural environment. Ethnic minority families exemplify this situation. What values do parents from these families prefer when they socialize their children? To answer this question, the present research examines an extension of the intersubjective model of value transmission. In two studies cond…
I Am Dumber When I Look Dumb in Front of Many (vs. Few) Others
People from all cultures are averse to looking dumb in front of others, especially if there is a large audience. However, there could be a difference between Face and Dignity cultures in the extent to which their members see themselves as dumb when they perform poorly before a large versus small audience. In the present study, Chinese and Americans were asked to imagine themselves performing poorly on tasks either in front of 10 others or one oth…
Understanding the Lack of Parent-Child Value Similarity
The parent-child value similarity is typically far from perfect. In this research, we propose that this phenomenon is attributable to the very first step in value socialization-parents' selection of socialization values. The premise of this account is that parents consider not only values they personally endorse but also values they perceive to be normative in relevant societies when socializing children. Accordingly, parent-child similarity is n…
Generalized trust narrows the gap between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior
Towards cross-cultural environmental psychology
Environmental psychology is a field concerned with transactions between humans and their environments. Since human–environment interactions are culture-bound, a fuller understanding of such interactions requires sensitivity to the role of culture in the ways researchers theorize human behavior, conduct empirical studies, and interpret observed findings. In this article, we aim to advance the development of a culturally informed understanding of h…
Psychological symptoms and their correlates in pneumoconiosis patients
Purpose: Pneumoconiosis remains a global occupational and public health problem. This scoping review is aimed to identify the psychological symptoms and their correlates among pneumoconiosis patients. Methods: We conducted a bilingual scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Studies published between 2000 and 2025 were identified through searches of English-language (PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect) and Chinese-language (…
Affective relationships as non-material capital assets in building resilience within the rice-terraced cultural landscapes of the Philippine Cordillera
Rice, resilience, and relationships
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 works) · Normative (5 works) · Social science (5 works)