Dr Gloria Wai Shan Ma
About
Biography
I was awarded two bachelor's degrees in psychology from Columbia University and City University of Hong Kong. Then, I moved to the UK to complete an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences at University College London and a D.Phil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. During my doctoral studies, I investigated the consequences of social sharing of emotions associated with COVID-19 and the social effects of bivalent emotions (i.e., feeling positive and negative emotions at the same time). Currently, I am teaching at the University of Surrey as a Lecturer A in Psychology.
Areas of specialism
University roles and responsibilities
- Lecturer A in Psychology
ResearchResearch interests
My research centres around the role of human emotions (especially bivalent ones) in social cognition and behaviour. I am currently interested in pursuing such research in intergroup contexts.
Research interests
My research centres around the role of human emotions (especially bivalent ones) in social cognition and behaviour. I am currently interested in pursuing such research in intergroup contexts.
Teaching
PSY1019 Social Psychology with Research Methods 1
PSY2016/PSYM093 Social Psychology with Research Methods 2
PSY3093 Morality and Emotions
Undergraduate Dissertation Supervision
Publications
Highlights
Ma, G. W. S., & Parkinson, B. (2025). Effectiveness of perceiving normal and extreme outgroups’ bivalent emotions in reducing infrahumanisation (or intergroup preference). Proceedings of the Global Conference on Psychology, 1(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.33422/psychologyconference.v1i1.376
Ma, G. W. S., Schöne, J. P., & Parkinson, B. (2024). Social sharing of emotion during the collective crisis of COVID-19. British Journal of Psychology, 115(4), 843-879. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12729
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104720