CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
- Health of People and Populations
- Migration and Settlement
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
Dr. Priscilla Lui is a licensed clinical psychologist and conducts multicultural research related to mental health and health disparities. She is interested in how people from diverse sociocultural backgrounds make sense of the world, and how their lived experiences associated with culture, ethnicity, and race affect their psychopathology symptoms and substance use behaviors. Grounded in a social ecological framework, this research incorporates a range of designs, methodological, sampling, and analytic approaches, and focuses on processes involved in intercultural contact, cultural values, practices, and beliefs, close and supportive relationships, and personality and individual difference determinants of psychopathology and addictive behaviors. To the extent that knowledge on the prediction and explanation of human psychology only is as good as researchers’ ability to assess these concepts, Priscilla Lui is interested in scale development and evaluation of the quality of psychological measures. Finally, she conducts meta-science research to understand how psychological scholars leverage open science and cultural competency research frameworks and tools to produce credible and impactful knowledge, and to ensure an ethical, equitable, and transparent scientific process.