Title:
Instructor

Qualifications:

PhD (HKU) (Date of award is expected to be in 2020/2021)

MA (CUHK)

BBA (HKUST)

Email:

karen-mw.kwan@polyu.edu.hk

Phone:

2766 7737

Office:

EF732

Specialism:

Developmental Psychology

Gender Development

Teaching

Advanced Developmental Psychology

Applied Psychology

Introduction to Psychology

Nurturing the Gifted and Talented: Instructional Models and Professional Practices

Attentional Control and Social Adaptation

Advanced Practices in Learning Disorders and Language Minority

Research Interests

Developmental Psychology

Gender Development

Gender Nonconformity

Kwan, K. M. W., Shi, S. Y., Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., VanderLaan, D. P., & Wong, W. I. (2020). Children’s appraisals of gender nonconformity: Developmental pattern and intervention. Child Development, 91, 780-798. doi:10.1111/cdev.13316

Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., Kwan, K. M. W., Santarossa, A., Peragine, D. E., Wong, W. I., VanderLaan, D. P. (2020). Children’s Bias in Appraisals of Gender-Variant Peers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 196, 104865. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104865

MacMullin, L. N., Nabbijohn, A. N., Kwan, K. M. W., Santarossa, A., Peragine, D. E.,1 Haley J. James,1 Wong, W. I., VanderLaan, D. P. (2020). Testing an Intergroup Relations Intervention Strategy to Improve Children’s Appraisals of Gender-Nonconforming Peers. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 29, 167-181. doi: 10.3138/cjhs.2020-0001