Associate Professor Dr Lin Mei-Hua

Associate Professor Dr Lin Mei-Hua

  • Deputy Dean (Employability and Alumni)
  • Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

Biography

Associate Professor Dr Lin Mei-Hua is an Industrial and Organisational Psychologist. Her early research focused on national differences in cognition and its influence on information management and sense-making. Dr Lin was involved in a cross-cultural research effort that includes seven nations from the regions of North America, South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia. She has presented her work on topics including cross-cultural cognition, performance measures, group processes, decision-making and multinational teamwork at various international conferences. She has also published in the area of human development. Her current research focuses on national differences in causal reasoning, trust and mistrust development, and sense-making. She has been awarded several research grants and travel awards from the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD); a field office of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Dr Lin also consults on industrial projects such as wellness programmes, job performance in organisation and stress management.

 

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD in Human Factors and Industrial Organisational Psychology, Wright State University, USA (2008)
  • MSc in Human Factors and Industrial Organisational Psychology, Wright State University, USA (2004)
  • BSc in Psychology, University of Iowa, USA (2000)

Research Interests

  • Trust and mistrust development in organisations
  • Teamwork in organisations
  • National differences in cognition
  • Decision making and sense-making

Notable Publications

  1. Azalea, A., & Lin, M. H. (2015). Job satisfaction and turnover intention of Malaysian lecturers: Public vs. private. 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences - “ASEAN 2015: Challenges and Opportunities” (pp. 362-373). Songkhla, Thailand.
  2. Klein, G., Rasmussen, L., Lin, M. H., & Hoffman, R. (2012). Preferences for different forms of causal explanation (FA8650-04-D-6546). Dayton, Ohio: AFRL/Sensemaking and Organizational Effectiveness.
  3. Klein, G., Rasmussen, L., Lin M. H., Hoffman, R. R., & Case, J. (2014). Influencing preferences for different types of causal explanation of complex events, human factors. The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 56(8), 1380-1400. doi: 10.1177/0018720814530427.
  4. Klein, H. A., Lin, M. H., & Klein, G. (2005). International perspectives on naturalistic decision making functions. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  5. Klein, H. A., Lin, M. H., Radford, M., Masuda, T., Choi, I., Lien, Y-W., … & Chu, C. (2006). The rosetta project: Measuring national differences. Dayton, Ohio and Tokyo, Japan: Air Force Research Laboratory/Human Effectiveness and AOARD.
  6. Klein, H. A., Lin, M. H., Peng, K., Bhal, K., Radford, M., Choi, I., ... & Chan, D. (2008). Rosetta phase II: Measuring and interpreting cultural differences in cognition (FA48690714043). Dayton, Ohio and Tokyo, Japan: Air Force Research Laboratory/Human Effectiveness and AOARD.
  7. Klein, H. A., Lin, M. H., Radford, M. H. R, Masuda, T. Choi, I., Lien, Y-W., ... & Boff, K. R. (2009). Rosetta phase I: Explorations of cultural differences in cognition. Psychological Reports, 105 (2), 659-674.
  8. Klein, H. A., Lippa, K., & Lin, M. H. (2011). As human computer interactions go global. In C. Hayes & C. Miller (Eds.), Human computer etiquette (pp. 15-34). Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis.
  9. Klein, H. A., Lin, M. H., Miller, N. L., Militello, L. G. Jarosz, A., Finkeldey, J. G., & Klein, G. (2011). Mapping the terrain of multinational trust (FA8650-04-D-6405).
  10. Kochanska, G., Gross, J. N., Lin, M. H., & Nichols, K. E. (2002). Guilt in young children: Development, determinants, and relations with a broader system of standards. Child Development, 72(2), 461-482.
  11. Lin, M. H., & Klein, H. A. (2008). Athletes, murderers, and a Chinese farmer: Cultural perspectives on sensemaking. In J. M. C. Schraagen, L. Militello, T. Ormerod, & R. Lipshitz (Eds.), Naturalistic decision making and macrocognition (pp. 159-181). Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
  12. Lin, M. H., & Klein, H. A. (2009). Sensemaking during unfolding events. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making. London, UK.
  13. Lin, M. H. (2010). Analytic-holistic thinking influence on information use during sensemaking. Sunway Academic Journal, 6, 17-32.
  14. Lin, M. H., & Priyadarshini, M. S. (2010). Effective performance in Sunway Shared Services Centre. Selangor, Malaysia: Sunway Shared Services Centre.
  15. Lin, M. H. (2012). Influence of cultural cognition, social aspect of culture, and personality on trust (Malaysian comparison) (FA2386-11-1-4086). Tokyo: AOARD.
  16. Lin, M. H. (2012). Understanding the cognition of Malaysians. In N. M. Noor & M. A. Dzulkifli (Eds.), Psychology in Malaysia: current research and future directions (pp. 273-288). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Pearson.
  17. Lin, M. H., Ding, A. Y. L., Ho, Y. W., Tan, W. Y., & Yeo, A. (2013). Influence of cultural cognition, social aspect of culture, and personality on trust (FA2386-11-1-4086). Tokyo: AOARD.
  18. Lin, M. H., Schwartz, C., Lyons, J., Eschleman, K., Chen, F., & Culbertson, J. (2014). Exploring dynamic model of trust management (AFRL-RH-WP-TR-2014-0093). Ohio: Wright-Patterson AFB.
  19. Russell, D., & Lin, M. H. (2015). Aiyo! The state of I-O psychology in Malaysia, lah. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 53(1), 90-95.
  20. Yap, R. W. K., Lin. M. H., Shidoji, Y., & Yap, W. S. (2017). Association and gene-environment interaction effect of AGRT1 and VEGFR-2 gene polymorphisms with mental health on metabolic risk factors of non-communicable diseases in Chinese Malaysian female adults [Abstract]. Journal of Nutrigenet and Nutrigenomics, 10, 121.