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School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences

Associate Professor Ts Dr Tan Kian Lam (Andrew)

Dr. Chin Wen Cong

Lecturer

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Education:

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Social Science), Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
  • Master of Child Psychology, UCSI University
  • Bachelor of Science (Psychology), Upper Iowa University

Notable Experience: 

  • Executive, Centre for Research and Innovation, Wawasan Open University
  • Assistant Professor, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology
  • Research Assistant, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

Area of Research Interest: 

  • Adolescent mental health
  • Family studies
  • Psychometrics

Professional Highlights:

  • First Director of Research for Malaysian Association of Psychology Students
  • Keynote Speaker for International Research Conference and Presentation, Philippines
  • Invited ad-hoc reviewer for 70+ journal manuscripts
  • Editorial Board Member of BMC Psychology

Published Work:

Published 10+ articles in high-impact journals indexed by both Web of Science and Scopus in the field of psychology.

Publication Highlights:

  • Buchanan, E. M., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T., van Berkel, N., … Comesaña, M., Chin, W. C., Cowan, C., … (2025). Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages. Nature Human Behaviour. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x
  • Eastwick, P. W., Sparks, J., Finkel, E. J., Meza, E. M., … Chwiłkowska, P., Chin, W. C., Copping, L. T., … (2025). A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(1), 123–146. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000524
  • Tan, C.-S., Swami, V., Cheng, S.-M., & Chin, W. C. (2025). Personality and positive body image: Associations between the big five facets and body appreciation in Malaysian adults. Journal of Individual Differences, 46(1), 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000430
  • Tan, C.-S., Cheng, S.-M., Nakayama, T., & Chin, W. C. (2025). Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the Attitudes toward Singlehood Scale. Japanese Psychological Research, 67(1), 75–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12439

Awards and Recognition: 

  • Won the ISSEP Cross-Cultural Existential Psychology Best Paper Award as co-author in the 8th annual Existential Psychology SPSP Preconference (2026)
  • Awarded Outstanding Researcher of the Year by Instabright International Guild of Researchers and Educators (2024)
  • Recipient of Asian Association of Social Psychology Summer School Research Grant (2021)
  • Recipient of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Research Scholarship Scheme (2020)