About Kang Lee

B.Sc., Hangzhou University, Zhejiang, P. R. China
M.A., Hangzhou University, Zhejiang, P. R. China
Ph.D. University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

Professional Experience

2005-present Institute of Child Study, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, OISE,
University of Toronto

2003-2005 Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego

1994-2003 Department of Psychology, Queen’s University

1996-1998 Department of Psychology, Hangzhou University

Research Interests

I have two major foci of research.

The first focus is on the development of lying. For more information about this research please visit the following link: Child Development Research Group

The second focus of my research is on face processing in children and adults. I use psychophysical methods to study how children and adults process both stable and dynamic information in a face. With regard to stable facial information processing, I focus on how children and adults perceive, encode, and recognize different kinds of faces. With regard to dynamic facial information processing, I study how children and adults detect and interpret others’ gaze displays in various social contexts. In addition, I explore neuro-physiological correlates of face processing in children and adults.

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Current research projects:
1) Development of Face Processing Expertise (a R01 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development, approximately US $1,125,000)

2) Children’s Moral Conceptions of Lying: East-West Comparison (a R01 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development, approximately US $1,600,000)

3) Genotyping and Phenotyping of Chinese Children with Mental Retardation (a R21 grant from the National Institute of Health with Dr. Annette Karmiloff-Smith, approximately US $200,000).

4) Children's Reports of Stressful Events: Bridging Psychological & Legal Perspectives (a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; with Prof. Nick Bala, Victoria Talwar, & Rod Lindsay, approximately CD$180,000, at http://qsilver.queensu.ca/law/witness/witness.htm)

5) The Emergence of Social Attention-Sharing in Infancy (a grant from the National Science Foundation, US with Gideon Deak, approximately $775,000)

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