Awards, Grants and Honors (Selected)


  • Best Paper Award, the Academy of Management, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, August 2006.

  • eHarmony.com Grant: Culture and intimate relations: A cross-cultural study on marital satisfaction, 2006-2007.

  • DOD Grant: Culture and Cognition, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, 2006-2007.

  • NIMH Award: Culture, dialectical thinking and psychopathology, National Institute of Mental Health (R03 MH 072680-01), 2005-2007

  • Chunhui Award for Outstanding Oversea Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China, 2004

  • NSF Award: Dialectical thinking, stereotyping and intergroup relations, National Science Foundation (INT 0242474), 2003- 2004

  • NIMH Award, Cultural Perspectives on Minority Identity. National Institute of Mental Health (F31 MH66450-01). 2002- 2004

  • Hellman Fellow, Culture, Ethnicity and Cognition, Hellman Family Faculty Research Fund. 2001- 2002

  • American Cultures Fellow, Center for Teaching and Studying American Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-2002

  • Regent's Junior Faculty Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-1999

  • Junior Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998

  • Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1996-1997

  • The First Place Award for student poster competition at MPA Convention, The Michigan Psychological Association, October 1996, Ypsilanti, Michigan

  • Dean's Fellowship of Rackham Graduate School, Culture and Cognition Program, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1992-1995

  • Summer Research Partnership, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1993-1996

  • Visiting Scholar of Psychology, Department of Psychology University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1989-1990

  • The Excellence in Research Award to Young Faculty, Beijing University, China, 1988

  • The Outstanding Teaching Award for 1986-1987 Term Beijing University, China, 1987

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