My current research is concerned with some of the various ways in which psychological factors are involved in physical health. My research topics include 1) stress, emotion, and heart disease, 2) the psychosocial aspects of HIV and AIDS, and 3) illness cognition and behavior.

Reseach Interests :

• Psychological stress
  
• Psychosocial aspects of physical illness
  
• Cross-cultural differences in emotion and emotional expression
  
• Genetic and psychosocial factors in coronary heart disease
  

• Bishop, G. D., Pek, J., & Ngau, F. (2006). Blunted cardiovascular responses to daytime activities as related to reduced nocturnal blood pressure decline. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 248-253.
  

• Bishop, G. D. (2005, August). Best practices in the prevention of HIV/AIDS: What can be done to stem the tide of new infections? Paper accepted for presentation at the NUS Centennial Conference on "Asian Horizons: Cities, States and Societies,î Singapore.
  
  

• De Zwart, O., Veldhuijzen, I. K., Elam, G., Aro, A. R., Abraham, T., Bishop, G. D., Richardus, J. H., & Brug, J. (2007). Avian flu risk perception: Europe and Asia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 13, 290-293.

Interested in interpersonal and groups relations (attraction, cross-categorization, and people as intuitive pragmatic politicians, principled theologians, and prudent prosecutors.

Reseach Interests :

• Cultural and developmental differences
  
• Interpersonal and group relations
• Models of humans: Pragmatic politicians, prudent prosecutors, and principled theologians

• Singh, R., Ng, R., Ong E. L., & Lin, P. K. F. (2008). Different mediators of the age, gender, and attitude similarity effects in interpersonal attraction. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, in press.

• Singh, R., Poh, W. Y., & Chang, A. P. M. (2007). Competitive versus cooperative attitude in crossed-categorization effects: Tests of the category dominance and equivalence models. Journal of Social Psychology, in press.

• Tetlock, P. E., Visser, P., Singh, R., Polifroini, M. Scott, A., Elson, B., & Mazzocco, P. (2007). People as intuitive prosecutors: The impact of social-control goals on punitiveness and attributions of responsibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,43,195-209.

Professor Catherine So-kum Tang obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Texas, USA and LLB at the University of London, UK. She has been a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies in Clinical Psychology, Postgraduate Degree Programs in Trauma Psychology, Gender Research Program, and Gender Studies Program in the Chinese University of Hong Kong until 2007. Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore. Professor Tang was the past Chairperson of the Division of Clinical Psychology, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Psychological Society, and one of the founding members of the Asian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She also serves as the Associate Editor for Asian Journal of Social Psychology and a member of the Editorial Board for Sex Roles: A Journal of Research and Applied Psychology: Health & Well-Being.

Professor Tang is an active researcher with over 250 peer-reviewed academic publications, book chapters, and conference presentations on violence against women (rape, sexual harassment, and child sexual abuse), family violence (child abuse, wife abuse, and elder abuse), women’s health, clinical aspects of social issues, health psychology, psychotherapy treatment outcome, and trauma psychology.

Reseach Interests :

• Violence against women (rape, sexual harassment, and child sexual abuse)
  
• Family violence (child abuse, wife abuse, and elder abuse)
  
• Addictive behavior and health psychology
  
• Women's health
  
• Trauma psychology

• Tang, C., & Lai, B. (2007, in press). A review of empirical literature on the prevalence and risk markers of male-on-female intimate partner abuse in contemporary China, 1987-2006. Aggression & Violent Behavior.

• Tang, C. (2007).Trajectory of traumatic stress symptoms in the aftermath of extreme natural disaster. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 1-6.

• Tang, C., Wu, A., & Tang, J. (2007). Gender differences in characteristics of Chinese treatment-seeking problem gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies, 23, 145-156.