AJSP Editors Podcast
Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan
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Welcome to the AJSP Editors Podcast! As a new initiative of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology, this podcast series introduces papers appearing in the journal and delivers insights regarding the conduct and publication of social psychological research to the global community!
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Dec 19, 2022
Episode 7-8 (2022)
Welcome to the combined 7th and 8th episode of the podcast, which is a special episode in celebration of the 25th anniversary of AJSP, brought to you by Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan!
We have dedicated the entire episode to the topic of “culture,” which has been the most widely researched topic among all AJSP publications to date. In the Editors’ Pick section, we highlight the strong presence of culture-related research in our journal by discussing several articles in the September and December issues. After that, we had two separate stimulating conversations with our special guests, first Takeshi Hamamura about cultural change, and then with Takahiko Masuda about culture and cognition.
Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Links to the articles referred to by Takahiko Masuda:
Masuda and colleagues (2019) - Perception and cognition
Masuda (2017) - Culture and attention: Recent empirical findings and new directions in cultural psychology
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Aug 29, 2022
Episode 6 (2022)
Welcome to the sixth episode of the AJSP Editors podcast, brought to you by Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan!
Among the papers published in the June 2022 issue of the journal, we selected a pair of articles about social motives, both led by Emiko S. Kashima, as our Editors’ Pick and discussed their strengths and significance. After that, we had a very inspiring conversation about the psychology of conspiracy theories with our special guests Ying-yi Hong and Hoi-Wing Chan. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Links to special issues and articles discussed in the second section of the podcast:
Hong, Chan, & Douglas (2021) - Conspiracy theories about infectious diseases (introduction to special issue in Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology)
Chan, Chiu, Zuo, Wang, Liu, & Hong (2021) - Not-so-straightforward links between COVID-19 conspiracy-theory beliefs and disease-preventive behaviours
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Apr 4, 2022
Episode 5 (2022)
Welcome to the fifth episode of the AJSP Editors podcast, brought to you by Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan!
Among the papers published in the March 2022 issue of the journal, we selected the one about cross-level antecedents of organisational citizenship behaviour, written by Kao and colleagues, as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very exciting conversation on the psychology of economic inequality and social class, the special issue topic published in the same issue of the journal, with our special guests Hongfei Du and Ronnel King. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Links to the books and articles discussed in the episode can be found below:
Buttrick and Oishi (2017) - The Psychological Consequences of Income inequality
Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) - The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Wilkinson and Pickett (2019) - The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
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Jan 21, 2022
Episode 4 (2021)
Welcome to the fourth episode of the AJSP Editors podcast, brought to you by Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan!
Among the papers published in the December 2021 issue of the AJSP, we selected the paper on competence and warmth in person perception, written by Chen and Guo, as our Editors’ Pick and discussed it. After that, we had a conversation about the peer-review process. We offered advice to authors as to how to prepare a manuscript, how to cope with rejection, and how to respond to reviewers’ comments for revisions and resubmissions. We also identified some good practices that reviewers should follow. Our conversation is particularly useful for students and early-career researchers. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
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Oct 26, 2021
Episode 3 (2021)
Welcome to the third episode of the AJSP Editors podcast, brought to you by Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan!
This time, we dedicated our Editors’ Pick section to the special issue titled “Collective Remembering of Living Historical Memories” just published in the September (2021) issue of the journal. We had the honour to discuss this special issue in great depth with one of its editors, Professor James Liu. After that, we had a thought-provoking conversation on cross-cultural research with our special guest Professor Taciano Milfont. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Links to some of the books and articles discussed in the podcast cand be found below:
Special issue on Collective Remembering published in the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology
Fox (2004) - Watching the English
Milfont & Fischer (2010) - Testing Measurement Invariance Across Groups: Applications in Cross-Cultural Research
Lieberoth et al. (2021) - Stress and Worry in the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic: Relationships to Trust and Compliance with Preventive Measures Across 48 Countries in the COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey
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Jul 1, 2021
Episode 2 (2021)
Welcome to the second episode of the AJSP Editors podcast, brought to you by Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan!
Among the papers published in the June (2021) issue of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology, we selected “Cultural values in Chinese proverbs reported by Chinese college students” by Weng and colleagues as our Editors’ Pick and discuss its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very stimulating conversation on the social psychology of climate change with our special guest Professor Susan Clayton.
Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
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May 11, 2021
Episode 1 (2021)
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the AJSP Editors Podcast, brought to you by Kim-Pong Tam, Angela Leung, and Sammyh Khan! In the first half of this episode, among the many interesting papers published in the March 2021 issue of the journal, we selected the one about power, status, and selfishness, written by Jin et al., and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very inspiring conversation on the COVID-19 Pandemic with our special guest Sylvia Chen, President-Elect of the Asian Association of Social Psychology. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Links to the issues and papers discussed in the podcast can be found below:
AJSP Volume 24, Issue 1 - with the Special Forum on Social Psychology and the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Editors' Pick: Ji, Li, and Liu (2021) - Selfish Power and Unselfish Status in Chinese Work Situations
AJSP Volume 7, Issue 1 - with the Special Issue on Psychology of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS):
Chen, Lam, Liu, Choi, Kashima, and Bernardo (2021) - Effects of Containment and Closure Policies on Controlling the COVID‐19 Pandemic in East Asia:
Hult Khazaie and Khan (2020) - Social Psychology and Pandemics: Exploring Consensus about Research Priorities and Strategies using the Delphi Method
Salvador, Berg, Yu, San Martin, and Kitayama (2020) - Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study
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