Prof. WONG Wang, Ivy
Personal Information
Academic Background
Current Position
Associate Professor & Director of Gender Studies Programme
Associate Professor of Department of Psychology (By Courtesy)
By-Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
Introduction
Prof. Ivy Wong specializes in gender development throughout the life span. She is particularly interested in controversial and impactful issues that necessitate a scientific understanding of gender, such as gender-typed play, stereotyping and socialization, institutional sex segregation, gender nonconformity, gender identity, and sexual orientation. She is also interested in social and developmental phenomena in general, especially interpersonal interactions and social cognitions. Her research involves the application of a range of methodologies, including cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental designs, and adopts an eclectic theoretical perspective, drawing upon social learning, cognitive, and hormonal theories. Some of her collaborative work with researchers from Canada, the Netherlands, the United States and China emphasize a cultural perspective. Her work has received support from the Gates Cambridge Trust, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and has been published in leading journals in the fields of Psychology as well as Gender and Sexuality.
She sits on the editorial board of Archives of Sexual Behavior and reviews for journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Journal of Sex Research, Sex Roles, Cognitive Development, Social Development, Infant and Child Development, and British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
To learn more about her work, please visit Gender Development Laboratory at https://psycgen.wixsite.com/pagelab
Selected awards and recognitions
By-Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Invited speaker for The Big Conversation: Sex/Gender Differences in New Mexico, 2023
Invited speaker for the New Investigators session for promising young scholars, Gender Development Research Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Gates Cambridge Scholar
Hong Kong University Alumni Prize
Courses Taught
- GDRS3024 (UGEC3225) – Gender Biases in Education and the Workplace
- GDRS4012 – Gender Development from a Lifespan Perspective
- GDRS5090 – Special Topics
- GDRS5640 – Psychology and Gender
- GDRS3003 – Field Study
- Other teaching areas: Developmental Psychology, research internships, thesis supervisions
Research Interests
Psychology of gender
Gender development
Social and developmental psychology
Social cognitions
Selected Publications
* corresponding author; ^ student supervisee
Edited book
VanderLaan, D., & Wong, W. I. (2022). Gender and Sexuality Development: Contemporary Theory and Research. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84273-4
Articles and chapters
Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.^, Li, G., & Ng, P. H. (Accepted). A long-term prospective cross-lagged study of gender-typed play and mental transformation in children. Child Development. doi:10.1111/cdev.14211
Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y., Li, G., Liben, L, S., Leung, J. S-Y., & Chen, Z. (Accepted). Mixed-gender anxiety and gender-based relationship efficacy: A cross-lagged study of single-sex (ss) versus coeducational (ce) schooling bridging high school graduation. Journal of School Psychology.
Wong, W. I.*, Shi, Y.^, van der Miesen, A. I. R., Ngan, C.^, Lei, H. L.^, & VanderLaan, D. P. (In press). Observations on gender variance in Chinese community children measured by the Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-02889-3
Shi, S. Y.^, Li, G., Liben, L. S., Chen, Z., & Wong, W. I.* (2024). Gender cognitions before and after graduating from single-sex versus coeducational high schools: A longitudinal study using propensity score matching. Journal of Educational Psychology, 116(8), 1437–1454. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000879
van der Miesen, A., Shi, Y.^, Lei, H. L.^, Ngan, C.^, VanderLaan, D. P., & Wong, W. I.*. (2024). Gender diversity in a Chinese community sample and its associations with autism traits. Autism Research, 17, 1407-1416. doi: 10.1002/aur.3075
Kwan, K. M. W.^, Shi, S. Y.^, MacMullin, L. N., Nabbijohn, A. N., Peragine, D. E., VanderLaan, D. P.*, & Wong, W. I.* (2024). “He did girls’ things!” Hong Kong and Canadian children’s reasoning about moral judgments of peers’ gendered behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 60(6), 1066–1081. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001698
Qian, M., Wong, W. I., Nabbijohn, N., Wang, Y., MacMullin, L. N., James, H., Fu, G, Zuo, B., VanderLaan, D. P. (2023). Children’s implicit gender-toy association development varies across cultures. Developmental Psychology, 59, 2289-2296. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001590
Wong, W. I.*, van der Miesen, A., Shi, Y.^, Lei, H. L.^, Ngan, C.^, Leung, S. Y.^, & VanderLaan, D. P. (2023). Gender variance and psychological wellbeing in Chinese community children. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance Online Publication
Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.^, & Yeung, S. P.^ (2023). Girls are better students but boys will be more successful at work: Discordance between academic and career gender stereotypes in middle childhood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 1105-1121. doi: 10.1007/s10508-022-02523-0
Li, G., Sham, W. W. L., & · Wong, W. I.* (2022). Are romantic orientation and sexual orientation different? Comparisons using explicit and implicit measurements. Current Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03380-9
Wong, W. I.*, Tsui. W. B. ^, & Siu, T. S. (Epub). Empathic accuracy of young boys and girls in ongoing parent-child interactions: Performance and (mis)perception. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 203, 105042.
Qian, M. K., Wang, Y., Wong, W. I., Fu, G., Zuo, B., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2021). Children’s social appraisals at the intersection of race, gender identity, and gender-typed behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50, 807-820.
Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., Kwan, K. M. W., Santarossa, A., Peragine, D. E., Wong, W. I.*, & VanderLaan, D. P.* (2020). Children’s bias in appraisals of gender-variant peers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 196, 104865.
Kwan, M. W. ^, Shi, Y.^, Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., VanderLaan, D.*, & Wong, W. I*. (2020). Children’s appraisals of gender-nonconformity: Developmental pattern and intervention. Child Development, 91, e780-e798.
SRCD press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/797745
Wong, W. I.*, & VanderLaan, D. P. (2020). Early sex differences and similarities: Evidence across cultures? In F. M. Cheung & D. F. Halpern (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of International Psychology of Women (pp. 83-95). Cambridge University Press.
Wong, W. I., van der Miesen, A., Li, T. G. F., MacMullin, L. N., & VanderLaan, D*. (2019). Childhood Social Gender Transition and Psychological Well-Being: A Comparison to Cisgender Gender-Variant Children. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology (APA), 7, 241-253.
Wong, W.I.* & Yeung, S.-P. (2019). Early Gender Differences in Spatial and Social Skills and Their Relations to Play and Parental Socialization in Children from Hong Kong. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1589-1602.
Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.^*, & Chen, Z. S. (2018). Students from single-sex schools are more gender-salient and more anxious in mixed-sex situations: Results from high school and college samples. Plos ONE, 13(12): e0208707.
Featured in Times Higher Education: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/students-single-sex-schools-anxious-mixed-universities
Yeung, S. P.^, & Wong, W. I.* (2018). Gender labels on gender-neutral colors: Do they affect children’s color preferences and play performance? Sex Roles, 79, 260-272.
Springer press release: http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/pretty-in-pink-and-boisterous-in-blue-/15327536
Li, G., & Wong, W. I.* (2018). Single-sex schooling: Friendship, dating, and sexual orientation. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47, 1025-1039.
Li, R. Y. H.^, & Wong, W. I.* (2016). Gender-typed toy play and social abilities in boys and girls: Are they related? Sex Roles, 74, 399-410.
Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2016). Interpreting digit ratio (2D:4D)-behavior correlations: 2D:4D sex difference, stability, and behavioral correlates and their replicability in young children. Hormones & Behavior, 78, 86-94.
Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2015b). Preferences for pink and blue: The development of color preferences as a distinct gender-typed behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1243-1254.
Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2015a). Effects of gender color-coding on toddlers’ gender-typical toy play. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1233-1242.
Wong, W. I.*, Pasterski, V., Hindmarsh, P. C., Geffner, M. E., & Hines, M. (2013). Are there parental socialization effects on the sex-typed behavior of individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 381-391.
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