Dr Gloria Wai Shan Ma
About
Biography
I completed my BA in Psychology at Columbia University and MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences at University College London. In 2023, I completed a D.Phil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, investigating the consequences of social sharing of emotions associated with COVID-19 and the impact of bivalent emotions (i.e., feeling positive and negative emotions at the same time) on social behaviour. Currently, I am teaching at the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in Psychology (Teaching Track).
University roles and responsibilities
- Lecturer in Psychology
ResearchResearch interests
My research centres around the role of human emotions in predicting social behaviour. I am currently interested in pursuing research in the relatively unexplored area of bivalent emotions—particularly, how these emotions might influence intergroup judgment.
Research interests
My research centres around the role of human emotions in predicting social behaviour. I am currently interested in pursuing research in the relatively unexplored area of bivalent emotions—particularly, how these emotions might influence intergroup judgment.
Publications
Ma, G. W. S., & Parkinson, B. (2023). Effectiveness of perceiving normal and extreme outgroups’ bivalent emotions in reducing infrahumanisation (or intergroup preference) [Manuscript in preparation].
Ma, G. W. S. (2023). Social sharing of emotions and bivalent emotions [Doctoral thesis, University of Oxford]. Oxford University Research Archive. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7bc64bb0-0801-4535-b7dc-b0600fc774f5
Ma, G. W. S., Pavey, C., Eiroa-Solans, C., & Parkinson, B. (2023). Effects of chatting styles on sharers’ emotions during online conversations [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/exbnz
Ma, G. W. S., Schöne, J. P., & Parkinson, B. (2022). Social sharing of emotion during the collective crisis of COVID-19 [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9p3wh
Harris, A. J. L., Jenkins, S. C., Ma, G. W. S., & Oh, A. (2021). Testing the adaptability of people’s use of attribute frame information. Cognition, 212(104720), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104720