Wong Wan-chi
黃蘊智

Wong Wan-chi received her B.A. in History from the University of Hong Kong and her D.Phil. in Psychology from Universität Heidelberg. After long-term service in the Department of Educational Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she retired from her professorship and now serves as an Adjunct Professor at the same institution.

Her recent research focuses on genealogical studies of core psychological concepts. Beyond this focus of the cultural-historical approach, which is basically a macro approach, her research endeavors also ventured into microdevelopmental/microgenetic studies along the implicit-explicit dimension. Investigation into young children’s understanding of the concept of justice is a case in point. In pursuit of attaining the micro-macro link, she has conducted a microdevelopmental study from a cultural-historical perspective on the theme of the dialogical self. A further byway of her research activity lies in creativity, an important aspect of higher psychological processes.

Investigating the intersection areas of psychology, history, and philosophy, her work has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Philosophical Psychology, History of Psychology, Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, Monumenta Serica, and Anthropology of Consciousness. She also published in psychology journals including Child Development, Cognitive Development, Personality and Individual Differences, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Frontiers in Psychology.