{"id":2629,"date":"2026-01-31T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/people\/professor-karim-bettache\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:18:48","slug":"professor-karim-bettache","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/people\/professor-karim-bettache\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Karim BETTACHE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section block-name=\"banner\" class=\"relative\">\n    <div class=\"bg-banner-gradient w-full h-full absolute left-0 top-0 z-[1]\"><\/div>\n\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/wp-content\/themes\/cuhk-sgps\/public\/images\/our-mission\/mission-banner.png\" alt=\"Academic Staff\"\n        class=\"w-full aspect-[1920\/480] object-cover min-h-[400px]\" \/>\n\n    <div class=\"container py-5 md:py-10 lg:py-[60px] w-full h-full flex items-end absolute left-0 bottom-0 z-[2]\">\n        <div class=\"container-lg\">\n  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(University of Groningen, the Netherlands)<\/p>\n<p>BSc (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Taught Courses<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <ul>\n<li>General Psychology<\/li>\n<li>International Relations<\/li>\n<li>Political Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Social Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Cultural Psychology and Globalization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Services\/ Posts<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <div id=\"idTextPanel\" class=\"jqDnR\">\n<ul>\n<li><span role=\"presentation\">Editorial Fellow,\u00a0<i>Psychological Review<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor,\u00a0<i>The Asian Journal of Social Psychology<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Editorial Board Member,\u00a0<i>Personality and Social Psychology Review<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Editorial Board Member,\u00a0<i>The British Journal of Social Psychology<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Research interests<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <ul>\n<li>Cultural Psychology of Globalization<\/li>\n<li>Intergroup Processes<\/li>\n<li>Racism and Stereotyping in a global context of Western Imperialism<\/li>\n<li>Social Psychology of Neoliberalism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am interested in how the asymmetrical cultural flow from the West into societies across the world, reinforced by corporate hegemony in a neoliberal global political economy (e.g., dominance in the spheres of social media, the movie industry and fashion), influences the individual psychology of the global population. In particular, the effects of racism\/white supremacy, capitalism and colonialism hold my strong attention. My research revolves around questions such as: Why do racism and colorism follow highly similar patterns across the globe; How do (Western) social media platforms perpetuate racial hierarchies in cultures across the globe; What are the psychological ramifications of colonialism; What is the relationship between neoliberal political economies and our understanding of human nature?<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Research Grants and Projects<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <p class=\"rp-subheading\"><strong>Principal Investigator\/Supervisor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp-rows flex\">\n<div class=\"rp-year\">2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-desc\">\n<p><strong>Proximal Explanations for East \u2013 West Cultural Differences: Testing a Class versus Epistemic Pathway Model (Project ID:399861078); CUHK Research Committee \u2013 Direct Grants; 2023-06-15 to\u00a02026-06-16;\u00a0HKD35,500.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-rows flex\">\n<div class=\"rp-year\">2025<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-desc\">\n<p><strong>Toward an International Scale of Internalized Colonialism (Project ID: 498593590); Research Grants Council (RGC) \u2013 Early Career Scheme (ECS); 2025-01-01 to\u00a02027-06-30;\u00a0HKD427,500.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-rows flex\">\n<div class=\"rp-year\">2024<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-desc\">\n<p><strong>The Persistence of Empire: Assessing Attitudes of Colonial Mentality Among Whites in Former Imperial Nations (Project ID: 497362172); CUHK Faculty of Social Science \u2013 MGPE Research Fund; 2024-03-01 to\u00a02026-03-01;\u00a0HKD197,500.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-rows flex\">\n<div class=\"rp-year\">2022<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-desc\">\n<p><strong>Racial Representation in the Imagery of Social Psychology Textbooks; CUHK Research Committee \u2013 Direct Grants; 2021-05-05 to\u00a02022-12-31;\u00a0HKD20,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"rp-subheading\"><strong>Co-Investigator\/Co-Supervisor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp-rows flex\">\n<div class=\"rp-year\">2024<\/div>\n<div class=\"rp-desc\">\n<p><strong>Secret Power (Project ID: 497588664); European Research Council \u2013 Secret Power; 2024-04-01 to\u00a02027-11-01;\u00a0GBP1,221,670.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Publications<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <ul>\n<li>Bettache, K., Travaglino, G. A., Beattie, P. (in press). Redefining Power in Social Psychology.\u00a0<em>British Journal of Social Psychology<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache,\u00a0K., Chiu, C. Y., Khan, S. (in press). Geopolitical psychology: an emerging perspective.\u00a0<em>Journal of Social Issues<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K. (2025). Racial representation in psychology textbooks.\u00a0<em>Journal of Social Issues<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K. (2024). Where Is Capitalism? Unmasking Its Hidden Role in Psychology.<em>\u00a0Personality and Social Psychology Review<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K. (2023). The WEIRD Microcosm of Microaggression Research: Toward a Cultural Psychological Approach.\u00a0<em>Perspectives on Psychological Science<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Beattie, P., Chen, R., &amp; Bettache, K. (2022). When left is right and right is left: The psychological correlates of political ideology in China.\u00a0<em>Political Psychology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>43<\/em>(3), 457-488.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K. (2020). A Call to Action: The Need for a Cultural Psychological Approach to Discrimination on the Basis of Skin Color in Asia.\u00a0<em>Perspectives on Psychological Science<\/em>, 1745691620904740.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K., Chiu, C. Y., &amp; Beattie, P. (2020). The merciless mind in a dog-eat-dog society: neoliberalism and the indifference to social inequality.\u00a0<em>Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences<\/em>,\u00a0<em>34<\/em>, 217-222.<\/li>\n<li>Shi, Y., Bettache, K., Zhang, N., &amp; Xue, L. (2020). Constructing nostalgia in tourism: A comparison analysis of genuine and artificial approaches.\u00a0<em>Journal of Destination Marketing &amp; Management<\/em>,\u00a0<em>19<\/em>, 100488.<\/li>\n<li>Dobrowolska, M., Groyecka-Bernard, A., Sorokowski, P., Randall, A. K., Hilpert, P., Ahmadi, K., Bettache. K., \u2026 &amp; Sorokowska, A. (2020). Global perspective on marital satisfaction.\u00a0<em>Sustainability<\/em>,\u00a0<em>12<\/em>(21), 8817.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K., &amp; Chiu, C. Y. (2019). The invisible hand is an ideology: Toward a social psychology of neoliberalism.\u00a0<em>Journal of Social Issues<\/em>,\u00a0<em>75<\/em>(1), 8-19.<\/li>\n<li>Beattie, P., Bettache, K., &amp; Chong, K. C. Y. (2019). Who is the neoliberal? Exploring neoliberal beliefs across East and West.\u00a0<em>Journal of Social Issues<\/em>,\u00a0<em>75<\/em>(1), 20-48.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K., Hamamura, T., Amrani Idrissi, J., Amenyogbo, R. G. J., &amp; Chiu, C. Y. (2019). Monitoring moral virtue: when the moral transgressions of in-group members are judged more severely.\u00a0<em>Journal of cross-cultural psychology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>50<\/em>(2), 268-284.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K., &amp; Chiu, C. Y. (2019). Why American conservatives and individuals from traditionalist cultures may share a preference for group uniformity.\u00a0<em>Asian Journal of Social Psychology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>22<\/em>(3), 325-330.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K., &amp; Chiu, C. Y. (2018). The populist effect: Threat and the handover of freedom.\u00a0<em>Personality and Individual Differences<\/em>,\u00a0<em>130<\/em>, 102-106.<\/li>\n<li>Sorokowska, A., Groyecka, A., Karwowski, M., Frackowiak, T., Lansford, J. E., Ahmadi, K., Bettache.K., \u2026 &amp; Sorokowski, P. (2018). Global study of social odor awareness.\u00a0<em>Chemical senses<\/em>,\u00a0<em>43<\/em>(7), 503-513.<\/li>\n<li>Hamamura, T., Bettache, K., &amp; Xu, Y. (2018). Individualism and collectivism.\u00a0<em>The Sage Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Hilpert, P., Cantarero, K., Frackowiak, T., Ahmadi, K., Bettache, K., \u2026 &amp; Pierce Jr, J. D. (2017). Preferred interpersonal distances: a global comparison.\u00a0<em>Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>48<\/em>(4), 577-592.<\/li>\n<li>Hilpert, P., Randall, A. K., Sorokowski, P., Atkins, D. C., Sorokowska, A., Ahmadi, K., Bettache, K., \u2026 &amp; Yoo, G. (2016). The associations of dyadic coping and relationship satisfaction vary between and within nations: A 35-nation study.\u00a0<em>Frontiers in psychology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>7<\/em>, 1106.<\/li>\n<li>Sorokowski, P., Randall, A. K., Groyecka, A., Frackowiak, T., Cantarero, K., Hilpert, P., Bettache, K., \u2026 &amp; Sorokowska, A. (2017). Marital satisfaction, sex, age, marriage duration, religion, number of children, economic status, education, and collectivistic values: Data from 33 countries.\u00a0<em>Frontiers in psychology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>8<\/em>, 1199.<\/li>\n<li>Bettache, K. (2015).\u00a0<em>A Case of Shifting Moral Standards: How Biculturalism Shapes Morality<\/em>\u00a0(Doctoral dissertation).<\/li>\n<li>Van Zomeren, M., Postmes, T., Spears, R., &amp; Bettache, K. (2011). Can moral convictions motivate the advantaged to challenge social inequality? Extending the social identity model of collective action.\u00a0<em>Group Processes &amp; Intergroup Relations<\/em>,\u00a0<em>14<\/em>(5), 735-753.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*For a more popular, non-academic, discussion of psychology and society, follow Prof. Bettache\u2019s writings on Psychology Today:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/contributors\/karim-bettache-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/contributors\/karim-bettache-phd<\/a><\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                    \n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":2630,"menu_order":117,"template":"","people_category":[49],"department":[],"class_list":["post-2629","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_category-academic-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"people_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_category?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}