A Psychologist with High Curiosity
A Psychologist with High Curiosity
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Chee-Seng Tan is a psychologist passionate about contemplating issues and enjoys appreciating life's beauty. His experience in psychological research and self-awareness has led him to believe that everything has bright and dark sides.
He sees himself as a navigator, guiding others to discover their hidden strengths. He enjoys assisting people in realizing their potential and advocates using scientific methods to explore sustainable well-being and ways to improve life satisfaction.
Research Interests
Research Interests
Creativity
I investigate interventions and mechanisms that enhance creative performance. My Ph.D. thesis explored a hotly debated topic in the fields of cognition, emotion, and creation – what role emotion plays on creativity. I have argued that the previous approach overlooked the effect of self-appraisal and hence, fails to describe the whole picture of the relationship between emotion and creativity. Therefore, instead of examining the impact of positive and negative emotions alone, I proposed a new conceptual model to investigate the impact of self-appraisal in the emotion-creativity link. In three experiments, I found that both positive and negative emotions could improve creative performance. The facilitation effect, however, is subject to how the individual interprets the task. For instance, negative emotion is only conducive to creative performance when individuals perceived the task as important.
Scale Development and Validation
Measurements with good qualities are critical to research. I examined the psychometrics qualities of measurements that developed in other cultural backgrounds to understand if they are usable in the Malaysian context.
Positive Psychology
My interest also extends to exploring psychological factors and interventions that enhance human well-being.
Selected Award
Selected Award
Research Excellence Award 2022 (Category of Social Science, Arts, Humanities, Management and Accounting) from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Top Cited Article 2019-2020 “Openness to experience enhances creativity: The mediating role of intrinsic motivation and the creative process engagement” (The Journal of Creative Behavior), April 15, 2021
Teaching Performance (scored 4.65/5) for UAPG1004 Research Methods in Behavioural Science May trimester, 2020
Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 “Extraversion and happiness: The mediating role of social support and hope” (PsyCH journal), April 30, 2020
KS Yang Travel Award issued by Asian Association of Social Psychology, July 2019
Top 20 most downloaded article 2017-2018 “Extraversion and happiness: The mediating role of social support and hope” (PsyCH journal), June 2019
Top 20 most downloaded recent papers “Openness to experience enhances creativity: The mediating role of intrinsic motivation and the creative process engagement” (Journal of Creative Behavior), May 2018
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