Adrianne John R. Galang completed his Ph.D. training in personality and social psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. After having held teaching positions in both UP Diliman and De La Salle University, he pursued a series of postdoctoral fellowships, first at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and then at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, before returning to take up a faculty position at UP under its Balik Ph.D. program. He was the recipient of the 2016 Dr. Sybil Eysenck Award for Young Researchers from the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID).
AJ mainly works in quantitative psychology, with expertise in psychometrics and behavioral experiment design. His research and publications have ranged over topics such as creativity, risk taking, theoretical psychology, metascience, and personality measurement.
Galang, A. J. R. (2010). The prosocial psychopath: Explaining the paradoxes of the creative personality. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 1241-1248.
Galang, A. J. R., Castelo, V. L. C., Santos, L. C. III, Perlas, C. M. C., & Angeles, M. A. B. (2016). Investigating the prosocial psychopath model of the creative personality: Evidence from traits and psychophysiology. Personality and Individual Differences, 100, 28-36.
Lebuda, I., Karwowski, M., Galang, A. J. R., Szumski, G., & Firkowska-Mankiewicz, A. (2019). Personality predictors of creative achievement and lawbreaking behavior. Current Psychology, 1-10.
Juřík V., Herman L., Snopková D., Galang A. J. R., Stachoň Z., et al. (2020) The 3D hype: Evaluating the potential of real 3D visualization in geo-related applications. PLOS ONE 15(5):e0233353. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233353
Baumert, A., Maltese, S., Reis, D., MacLeod, C., Tan-Mansukhani, R., Galang, A. J. R., ... & Schmitt, M. (2020). A Cross-Cultural Study of Justice Sensitivity and Its Consequences for Cooperation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1948550619896895.
Galang, A. J. R., Ellescas, B. Y. C., Santos, J. M. E., Locsin, M. A. V., & Sy, K. M. D. (2017). Systematic bias in trait attributions for deceased friends and relatives. Personality and Individual Differences, 114, 57-60.
Galang, A. J. R. (2017). Not seeing the forest for the traits: A comment on Hogan and Foster (2017). International Journal of Personality Psychology, 3, 17-19.
Galang, A. J. R., Quiñones, D. M. A, Adriano, J. S., Carvajal, M. E., & Portillo, P. M. (2015). The rise and fall of the Pacquiao Effect: Contrastive priming and national identification. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 18, 270-287.
Reyes, M. L. & Galang, A. J. R. (2009). Motivational and social aspects of the Filipino college experience, Philippine Journal of Psychology, 42, 213-235.
Galang, A. J. R. (2008). Retrospective rationality: An experimental comparison of adolescent and adult risky decision-making. Philippine Journal of Psychology, 41, 66-78.