Meet Our Team
Prof. Skyler HAWK
Lab Director | Department of Educational Psychology
Professor HAWK received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Drake University. He then obtained Masters degrees in Social Psychology (University of Hawaii-Manoa) and Adolescent Development (Utrecht University). He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, examining the topics of emotion expression and empathy.
He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Utrecht University's Research Centre for Adolescent Development, where he studied the role of empathy in parent-child conflict resolution, as well as the development of adolescent privacy and experiences of parental privacy invasion.
His current areas of research interest and specialization include:
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Privacy, disclosure and secrecy in close relationships
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Emotion communication, emotion regulation, and empathy
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Social networking behavior and media use in adolescence
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Sexual development
Natalie WONG
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Natalie WONG received her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has published theoretical and intervention research on cyberbullying and social development in journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Personality and Individual Differences, and the Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology.
She is particularly interested in the multi-method approaches and cross-cultural perspectives in research on cyberaggression and social development in the internet era. Her current project involves developing an eye-tracking assessment of social information processing in cyberaggression.
Ying WANG
Ph.D. Student
Ying WANG received a Masters degree in education from Beijing Normal University in 2021. She is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Psychology at CUHK. Her research focuses on adolescents' narcissistic traits and how they predict both antisocial and prosocial behavior on social media.
Yue WANG
Ph.D. Student
Yue WANG received a Master of Science in Psychology from the Sun Yat-sen University in 2020. She is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology at CUHK. Her research interests include adolescent development, emotion regulation and mental health. In addition, she is also interested in parenting and peer relations. Her Ph.D. research focuses on maternal helicopter parenting in the Chinese context and its implications for both positive and negative youth adjustment outcomes.
Yueqi WANG
Ph.D. Student
Yueqi WANG received her Master’s degree in cognitive psychology from Peking University in 2022. She is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Psychology at CUHK. Her research interests include parental monitoring, parental intrusiveness, and emotional development in adolescence and emerging adulthood.
Shisang PENG
Ph.D. Student
Shisang PENG received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at Shaanxi Normal University. She received her Masters degree in Educational Psychology at CUHK in 2023. She is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Psychology at CUHK. Her research interests include parental monitoring, family privacy negotiations, and youth information management behaviors.
Andy Hoi On CHO
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) Student
Andy Hoi On CHO is currently a second-year Education Doctorate (Ed.D.) student in Educational Psychology at CUHK. He received a Master of Social Sciences degree in Psychology of Education at City University of Hong Kong (with distinction). With over 10 years of teaching experience in secondary and tertiary education, he recognizes that parental involvement is one of the significant factors that can alter student’s development in various aspects. His research examines how parental characteristics such as the amount of care, emotional stability, and empathy predict children’s social and emotional development, particularly in terms of perseverance and coping.
Yan ZHANG
Lab Alumnus
Yan ZHANG received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 2017 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where her research focused on the development of Chinese adolescents’ materialistic values. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Media and Communication of Shenzhen University. Her interests revolve around affective, cognitive, and environmental factors that facilitate consumption behaviors, social media use, and identification with pop culture.
Nan ZHU
Lab Alumnus
Nan ZHU received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. He held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Macau from 2018-2022, where he now works as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. His research interests include moral reasoning and judgments, cooperation and altruism, and cross-cultural differences/similarities in social psychology. He pursues a theoretical understanding of these various topics using the life history theory, the dual-process theory of morality, the social domain theory, and other theoretical perspectives.
Yingqian WANG
Lab Alumnus
Yingqian WANG received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. Her research mainly focuses on children’s emotion regulation, especially flexibility in emotion regulation strategies, and its links with psychosocial adjustment. She is also interested in parenting and peer relations in adolescence.
Wenqing ZONG
Lab Alumnus
Wenqing ZONG received a Master of Arts in Linguistics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. She received her Ph.D. from CUHK in 2022, where her research focused on maternal envy and intrusive parenting in Mainland Chinese families. Her research interests include emotion regulation, parenting behavior, and psycholinguistics. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences at Hong Kong University
Past and Current Lab Assistants
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Charlotte Ka Ching YU
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Zalman CHAN
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Jocelyn WONG
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Bonnie YUEN
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Jiayu (Anna) ZHANG
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Yizhe (Ryan) GUO