David CHAN
Professor of Psychology; LSEI Fellow
davidchan@smu.edu.sg
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Research Areas
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Communication Management
- Crisis Communication & Management
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Marketing
- Consumer Judgment and Decision-making
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- Ethics, Trust, Fairness
- Leadership
- Judgement and Decision-making, Negotiation
- Culture and Cross-cultural Management
- Organisational Creativity and Innovation
- Positive Organisation (Mindfulness, Humility, Proactivity)
- Power and Status
- Well-being and Stress
- Social Inclusion
- School of Computing and Information Systems
- Health & Wellbeing
- Biomedical Informatics
- Lifestyle & Wellness
- Social Analytics
- Safety, Security & Fairness
- Urban & Sustainability
- Urban Mobility & Smart Environment
- School of Social Sciences
- Adaptive Cognition, Resilience & Well-being
- AI & Computational Social Science
- Family, Work & Ageing Societies
- Psychology
- Social & Personality Psychology
- Psychology of Emotions & Wellbeing
- Industrial & Organisational Psychology
Strategic Priorities
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- Digital Transformation
- Sustainable Living
David Chan is Professor of Psychology at SMU and a member of the Global Advisory Panel on Skills (GAPS), which is an initiative on skills and employment jointly convened by the Center for Global Development and the World Bank Group, a member of the Singapore Social Science Research Council, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), which is a scientific appointment for distinguished individuals with urban development knowledge and expertise to provide strategic and technical advice to the CLC jointly established by the Singapore’s Ministry of National Development (MND) and the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE), and a Research Fellow at the SMU Longevity Societies and Economies Institute (LSEI).
His works in diverse areas of social-behavioural sciences published in top psychology, management and methods journals have been cited extensively in various disciplines. A 2020 study by Stanford University on researcher impact among all scientists across all disciplines named him in the top one percent worldwide. He is Elected Fellow of six international psychological associations and has received numerous international achievement awards in psychology. Together with Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Daniel Kahneman, he served on an international committee who authored a report on national well-being across countries which was subsequently incorporated by the United Nations in its Human Development Report. He has delivered over 150 keynote addresses and other invited presentations at conferences and various scientific, practitioner and public policy forums. He has served on numerous national councils, committees and boards. He was an invited columnist for The Straits Times and a consultant to Channel NewsAsia on several award-winning documentary series. Prior to entering academia, he was a police officer in the Singapore Police Force.
Qualifications
- PhD (Psychology), Michigan State University, 1998
- MA (Psychology), Michigan State University, 1996
- BSocSc (First Class Honors, Psychology), National University of Singapore, 1990
Research Interests
- Research methods & Data Analysis
- Behavioural Sciences & Public Policy
- Well-Being and Quality of Life
- Personnel Selection
- Adaptation to Changes at Work
- Organisational Health & Workplace Climate
- Computational Social-Behavioural Sciences
Course(s) Taught in SMU
- Research Methods in the Social Sciences (UG)
- Industrial and Organisational Psychology (UG)
- Psychology of Individual Differences (UG)
- Subjective Well-Being (UG)
- Capstone Seminar (UG)
- Industrial and Organisational Psychology (PG)
- Public Policy and Behaviour (PG)
- Psychology of Well-Being (PG)