Advancing the health of people and nature
with psychological insights
I strive to advance the health of people and nature through my psychological expertise. I conduct research on a range of environmental topics, teach environmental psychology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and consult with local and international organizations to drive meaningful change.
I investigate the intricate ways in which humans interact with the environment. My research centers on three key areas: (i) uncovering the connections between people's interactions with nature and their health and behavior; (ii) exploring how culture and contextual factors shape human-environment relationships; and (iii) analyzing how individuals respond to climate change, focusing on the psychological processes that drive potential solutions.
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Upcoming events:
21 October 2026: To deliver a workshop for the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Special issues:
Ongoing - Environmental psychology: Trends and reflections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/328834/environmental-psychology-trends-and-reflections
Published - Psychological understanding of misinformation and disinformation in the face of environmental crises
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/20448295/2026/117/S1
Publications in 2026:
Gratitude to nature, environmental stewardship, and well-being in 10 countries. Scientific Reports.
The significance of global identity in shaping individual behavior and policy support: Focus on plastic purchasing and consumption. Environmental Psychology Research.
Measuring nature connectedness in children and adults: Validation of the Chinese Nature Connection Index. Environmental Psychology Research.
From identity to caring: A 44-country examination of the role of global social identifications in concern for global issues. Political Psychology.
Hope amidst climate change: Psychometric properties and cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Climate Change Hope Scale among youth in Global South countries. PsyEcology.
Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries. British Journal of Psychology.
Energy insecurity and air conditioning in urban environments: Structural constraints, coping practices, and wellbeing in Hong Kong. Energy Research and Social Science.
Normalising energy insecurity? Housing precarity, well-being, and constrained endurance in urban Hong Kong. Energy Strategy Reviews.
Nature connectedness in the family context: A systematic scoping review. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio-cultural and economic predictors. Political Psychology.
Curvilinear relationship between climate advocates’ word-deed consistency and public willingness to follow. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Measuring household energy insecurity in a dense, warm-climate city: Behavioural coping profiles and perceived financial burden in Hong Kong. Energy Policy.
Research trends in environmental psychology: A bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed publications, 2004-2024. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Intergenerational pathway to nature connectedness. Journal of Environmental Psychology.