Andy received his BA in psychology at York University in 2007 and his MA in social and personality psychology at York University in 2010. In the summer of 2015 Andy graduated from our program with his PhD. Andy's primary supervisor was Dr. Michaela Hynie, but during his time at York University he also collaborated with a number of faculty members including Dr. Jennifer Steele and Dr. Joni Sasaki (York University), Dr. Adam Cohen (Western University), as well as Dr. Peter Darke (Schulich School of Business).

The goal of Andy’s research program is to further our understanding of cultural differences and similarities in human thoughts and actions. With his supervisor, Andy investigated how attitudinal ambivalence functioned differently in different cultural contexts in his Master’s thesis. Consistent with previous research on cultural differences in tolerance for contradictory information, results indicated that whereas Canadians of European descent demonstrated increased degree of attitude change when they were ambivalent than when they were not, Canadians of East Asian descent did not exhibit this tendency.

In collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Steele, Andy has examined how memory can be affected by culturally situated motivational factors. In one specific research project, Andy investigated cultural differences in face recognition for novel targets who belong to different racial categories. Consistent with previous research on cultural differences in the conception of ingroups, results indicate that culture moderates the relationship between interdependence and face recognition accuracy for novel targets of the same race; this relationship was positive for European Canadians, but negative for East Asian Canadians.

More information about Dr. Andy’s Ng’s publications can be found at: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=9sTnk9EAAAAJ&hl=en