Professor Kaiping
Peng is a tenured faculty member at the Department of Psychology of the
University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Social
Psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1997. Before
coming to the US in 1989, he had been a faculty member at the
Psychology Department of Peking University of China for five years. He
had been the assistant chair of the psychology department of Beijing
University, head of the social/personality psychology area in Berkeley,
member of the American Psychological Association Leadership Council,
executive committee of the Institute of East-Asian Studies, steering
committee for the Diversity Research at UC Berkeley, the co-president
of the Fifth International Conference of Chinese Psychologists
Worldwide, and numerous other national and international professional
academic services. As part of the Berkeley-Tsinghua collaborative
project, he was appointed as the founding chair of the Psychology
Department of Tsinghua University in 2008. He also directs the Culture
and Cognition Lab and the Berkeley Program of Psychological Studies in
China at UC-Berkeley. He has published eight books and more than 100
articles and essays on cultural and social psychology, as well as
methodological issues of psychology. According to a recent
study, he had been the world most
cited social psychologist at the associate professor level untill 2007.
Kaiping
Peng, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of California
3210 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 USA
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Peng's Homepage
510-642-7096 (office phone), 510-642-5293 (department fax)