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San Jose State University: San Jose, CA, US

2019-08-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Psychology)
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Christine Ma-Kellams

University of La Verne: La Verne, CA, US

2014-08-01 to 2019-06-30 | Assistant Professor (Psychology)
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Christine Ma-Kellams

Education and qualifications (3)

Harvard Kennedy School: MA, MA, US

2013-08-01 to 2014-06-30 | Postdoctoral Fellow
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Christine Ma-Kellams

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

2011-08-01 to 2013-05-31 | College Fellow (Psychology)
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Christine Ma-Kellams

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2006-08-01 to 2011-12-15 | PhD (Psychology)
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Works (27)

Cultural Variation and Similarities in Cognitive Thinking Styles Versus Judgment Biases: A Review of Environmental Factors and Evolutionary Forces

Review of General Psychology
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85078945801

Part of ISSN: 10892680
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Gender, behavioral inhibition/activation, and emotional reactions to negative natural and social events

Personality and Individual Differences
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85077375230

Part of ISSN: 01918869
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Wu, M.S.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Mortality Salience and Uncertainty Threat among Younger vs. Older Adults

GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85091821224

Part of ISSN: 1662971X 16629647
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Harrison, R.; Nguyen, M.N.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Using google search volume to inform early detection interventions for public health crises: A policy brief

International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85084534581

Part of ISSN: 21573891 21573883
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Weak and Variable Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cognitive Reflection Test Performance in Three Experiments: Commentary on Nave, Nadler, Zava, and Camerer (2017)

Psychological Science
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85084251726

Part of ISSN: 14679280 09567976
Contributors: Knight, E.L.; McShane, B.B.; Kutlikova, H.H.; Morales, P.J.; Christian, C.B.; Harbaugh, W.T.; Mayr, U.; Ortiz, T.L.; Gilbert, K.; Ma-Kellams, C. et al.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Capturing the Worldview of Global Citizens: Development and Validation of an Improved Measure of Global Citizenry

Peace and Conflict
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85068893037

Part of ISSN: 10781919
Contributors: Wannamaker, S.; Ma-Kellams, C.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Suicide contagion in response to widely publicized celebrity deaths: The roles of depressed affect, death-thought accessibility, and attitudes

Psychology of Popular Media Culture
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85045074321

Part of ISSN: 21604142 21604134
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Baek, J.H.; Or, F.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

The Yin and Yang of attitudes and related constructs: Dialectical and holistic influences

The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition: Contradiction, Change, and Holism
2018 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85049545160

Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Spencer-Rodgers, J.; Peng, K.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Using “Big Data” Versus Alternative Measures of Aggregate Data to Predict the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election

Psychological Reports
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85046023393

Part of ISSN: 1558691X 00332941
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Bishop, B.; Zhang, M.F.; Villagrana, B.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

What is dialectical thinking? Conceptualization and measurement

The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition: Contradiction, Change, and Holism
2018 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85049546095

Contributors: Spencer-Rodgers, J.; Anderson, E.; Ma-Kellams, C.; Wang, C.; Peng, K.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Cultural Psychology

Rowman & Littlefield
2018-09 | Book
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Christine Ma-Kellams

Attractiveness and relationship longevity: Beauty is not what it is cracked up to be

Personal Relationships
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85012248781

Part of ISSN: 14756811 13504126
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Wang, M.C.; Cardiel, H.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Is There Such a Thing as “Ultimate” Meaning? A Review of Fluid versus Fixed Models of Different Forms of Human Striving

Basic and Applied Social Psychology
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85031491855

Part of ISSN: 01973533
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Zhang, E.M.F.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

The contribution of trait negative affect and stress to recall for bodily states

Physiology and Behavior
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84989347228

Part of ISSN: 1873507X 00319384
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Lai, L.; Taylor, S.E.; Lerner, J.S.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Trust your gut or think carefully? Examining whether an intuitive, versus a systematic, mode of thought produces greater empathic accuracy

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84978779851

Part of ISSN: 00223514
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Lerner, J.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Perceiving Others’ Feelings: The Importance of Personality and Social Structure

Social Psychological and Personality Science
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84930447198

Part of ISSN: 19485514 19485506
Contributors: Sherman, G.D.; Lerner, J.S.; Renshon, J.; Ma-Kellams, C.; Joel, S.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

When Perceiving the Supernatural Changes the Natural: Religion and Agency Detection

Journal of Cognition and Culture
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84941264823

Part of ISSN: 15685373 15677095
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Rethinking suicide surveillance: Google search data and self-reported suicidality differentially estimate completed suicide

Clinical Psychology Science
2015-08-11 | Journal article
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Christine Ma-Kellams

Cross-cultural differences in somatic awareness and interoceptive accuracy: A review of the literature and directions for future research

Frontiers in Psychology
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84923320762

Part of ISSN: 16641078
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Not all education is equally liberal: The effects of science education on political attitudes

Journal of Social and Political Psychology
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85015470788

Part of ISSN: 21953325
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Ruiz, A.R.; Lee, J.; Madu, A.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Does "Science" Make You Moral? The Effects of Priming Science on Moral Judgments and Behavior

PLoS ONE
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84874597222

Part of ISSN: 19326203
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Blascovich, J.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

The ironic effect of financial incentive on empathic accuracy

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84867547457

Part of ISSN: 00221031 10960465
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Blascovich, J.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Culture and the body: East-West differences in visceral perception

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84864528945

Part of ISSN: 00223514
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Blascovich, J.; McCall, C.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Enjoying life in the face of death: East-West differences in responses to mortality salience

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84874499480

Part of ISSN: 00223514
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Blascovich, J.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Inferring the Emotions of Friends Versus Strangers: The Role of Culture and Self-Construal

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84862016745

Part of ISSN: 01461672 15527433
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Blascovich, J.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

Culturally divergent responses to mortality salience

Psychological Science
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80051637636

Part of ISSN: 14679280 09567976
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Blascovich, J.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier

I am against us? Unpacking cultural differences in ingroup favoritism via dialecticism

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78650444106

Part of ISSN: 01461672 15527433
Contributors: Ma-Kellams, C.; Spencer-Rodgers, J.; Peng, K.
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Christine Ma-Kellams via Scopus - Elsevier