
Affiliation
chang@um.edu.mo
Tel
+853 8822 8386
Office
Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 3045
Consultation Hours
Personal Website
Chang LEI 張雷
Chair Professor
Head of Department
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D., University of Southern California 1992
M.S., University of Southern California 1988
B.A., Hebei University 1982
Research Interests
Teaching Areas
Publications
Zhu, N., & *Chang, L. (2020). An evolutionary life history explanation of sexism and gender inequality. Personality and Individual Difference. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109806
*Chang, L.… & Yotanyamaneewong, S. (2019). External environment and internal state in relation to life history behavioral profiles of adolescents in nine countries. 286. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2097
Zhu, N. & *Chang, L. (2019). Evolved but Not Fixed: A Life History Account of Gender Roles and Gender Inequality. Frontiers of Psychology. 10:1709. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01709
*Chang, L……& Tapanya, S. (2019). Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries. Developmental Psychology, 55, 890-903. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000655
Lu, H.J. & *Chang, L. (2019). Aggression and risk‐taking as adaptive implementations of fast life history strategy. Developmental Science. doi.org/10.1111/desc.12827
Xiu, L., Wu, J., Chang, L., & Zhou, R. (2019). Working memory training improves emotion regulation ability. Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31495-2
Zhu, N., Hawk, S., & *Chang, L. (2019). Unpredictable and competitive cues affect prosocial behaviors and judgments. Personality and Individual Differences, 138, 203-211. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.10.006
Putnick, D.L., Bornstein, M.H., Lansford, J.E., Chang, L., et al. (2018). Parental acceptance-rejection and child prosocial behavior. Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000565
*Chang, L., & Lu, H.J. (2018). Resource and extrinsic risk in defining fast life histories of rural Chinese left-behind children. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 59-66. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.003
*Chang, L., & Lu, H. J. (2018). Life history theory. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.) & M. Arterberry, K. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Assoc. Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of lifespan human development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n480
Zhu, N., Hawk, S., & *Chang, L. (2018). Living slow and being moral: Life history predicts the dual process of other-centered reasoning and judgments. Human Nature, 29,186–200. doi.org/10.1007/s12110-018-9313-7
Lansford, J.E., Godwin, J., Bornstein, M.H., Chang, L., et al. (2017). Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1675-1688. doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417001328
Lu, H.J., Wong, K., & *Chang, L. (2017). The association between life history strategy and mate preference in men. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 157-163. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.047
*Chang, L., Lu, H.J., & Zhu, X.Q. (2017). Good genes, good providers, and good fathers and mothers: The withholding of parental investment by married couples. Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 11, 199-211. doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000086
*Chang, L., & Lu, H. (2017) Environmental risks. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes–Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Sciences. New York: Springer Meteor.
Lu, H.J., & *Chang, L. (2016). Resource allocation to kin, friends, and strangers by 3- to 6-year old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 194-206. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.05.018
Chen, B.B., & *Chang, L. (2016). Procrastination as a fast life history strategy. Evolutionary Psychology. doi.org/10.1177/1474704916630314
Mesoudi, A., Chang, L., Dall, S.R.X., Thornton, A. (2016). The evolution of individual and cultural variation in social learning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.012
Chen, B., & *Chang, L. (2015). Creativity and aggression as ornament and armament: Intersexual and intrasexual selection on men’s mating behaviors. Evolutionary Psychology, 13, 262-278. doi.org/10.1177/147470491501300118
Lu, H.J., Zhu, X., & *Chang, L. (2015). Good genes, good providers, good fathers: Economic development involved in how women select a mate. Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 9, 215-228. doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000048
Mesoudi, A., Chang, L., Murray, K., & Lu, H.J. (2015). Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2209
Lu, H.J., & *Chang, L. (2014). Deceiving yourself to better deceive high-status compared to equal-status others. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 635-654. doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200310
Peng, M., *Chang, L., & Zhou, R. (2013). Physiological and behavioral responses to strangers compared to friends as a source of disgust. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 94-98. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.10.002
Chen, B.B., & *Chang, L. (2012). Adaptive insecure attachment and its relationships with resource control strategies during middle childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 48, 479-482. doi.org/10.1177/0165025412445440
Wu, B.P., & *Chang, L. (2012). The social impact of pathogen threat: How disease salience influences conformity. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 50-54. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.023
Lu, H. J., & *Chang, L. (2012). Automatic attention towards face or body as a function of mating motivation. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 120-135. doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000113
Chen, B.B. & *Chang, L. (2012). Bitter struggle for survival: Evolved bitterness embodiment of survival motivation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 579-582. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.11.005
Lu, H. J., & *Chang, L. (2011). The association between self-deception and moral self-concept as functions of self-consciousness. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 845-849. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.014
*Chang, L., Lu, H. J., Li, H., & Li, T. (2011). The face that launched a thousand ships: The mating-warring association in men. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 976-984. doi.org/10.1177/0146167211402216
*Chang, L., Wang, Y., Shackelford, T. K, & Buss, D. M. (2011). Cultural evolution and continuity in Chinese mate preferences across a quarter of a century. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 678-683. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.016
*Chang, L., Chen, B-B., & Ji, L. (2011). Attributions and attitudes of mothers and fathers in China. Parenting: Science and Practice. 11, 102-115. doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2011.585553
*Chang, L., Mak, M. C. K., Li, T., Wu, B. P., Lu, H. J., & Chen, B. B. (2011). Cultural adaptations to environmental variability: An evolutionary account of East-West differences. Educational Psychology Review, 23, 99-129. doi.org/10.1007/s10648-010-9149-0
*Chang, L., Lu, H. J., Li, H., Lee, L. Y., Li, T., & Sui, S. (2010). Patrilocal residence and father-child resemblance beliefs in relation to paternal investment. Parenting: Science and Practice, 10, 274-285. doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2010.492039
Lu, H. J., & *Chang, L. (2009). Kinship effect on subjective temporal distance of autobiographical memory. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 595-598. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.05.014
*Chang, L., Liu, H., Fung, K. Y., Wang, Y., Wen, Z., Li, H., & Farver, J. M. (2007). The mediating and moderating effects of teacher preference on the relations between students’ social behaviors and peer acceptance. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 53, 603-630. doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2008.0006
*Chang, L., Li, L., Li, K. K., Lui, H., Guo, B., Wang, Y., & Fung, K.Y. (2005). Peer acceptance and self-perceptions of verbal and behavioral aggression and social withdrawal. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29, 48-57. doi.org/10.1080/01650250444000324
*Chang, L. (2004). The role of classrooms in contextualizing the relations of children’s social behaviors to peer acceptance. Developmental Psychology, 40, 691-702. doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.40.5.691
*Chang, L., Lansford, J. E., Schwartz, D., & Farver, J. M. (2004). Marital quality, maternal depressed affect, harsh parenting and child externalising in Hong Kong Chinese families. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28, 311-318. doi.org/10.1080/01650250344000523
*Chang, L., Liu, H., Wen, Z., Fung, K. Y., Wang, Y., & Xu, Y. (2004). Mediating teacher liking and moderating authoritative teachering on Chinese students’ perceptions of antisocial and prosocial behaviors. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 369-380. doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.96.2.369
*Chang, L., Schwartz, D., Dodge, K., & McBride-Chang, C. (2003). Harsh parenting in relation to child emotion regulation and aggression. Journal of Family Psychology, 17, 598-606. doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.17.4.598
Chen, X., Chang, L., & He, Y. (2003). The peer group as a social context: Mediating and moderating effects on relations between academic achievement and social functioning in Chinese children. Child Development, 74, 710-727. doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00564
*Chang, L. (2003). Variable effects of children’s aggression, social withdrawal, and prosocial leadership as functions of teacher beliefs and behaviors. Child Development, 74, 535-548. doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.7402014
*Chang, L., McBride-Chang, C. Stewart, S., & Au, E. (2003). Life satisfaction, self-concept, and family relations in Chinese adolescents and children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, 182-190. doi.org/10.1080/01650250244000182