Biography
Dr. Violet Cheung is an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of San Francisco. Her research on mass emotions started 15 years ago while she was completing her doctorate degree at UC Berkeley. She examined angry responses to the 9/11 terrorist attack and how the public sentiment precipitated the U.S. to go to war. She now focuses on anxious and fearful responses in the new contexts of cyber insecurity and the migrant crisis. Her research was funded by the American Psychological Association and her first-author publications appeared in journals such as Aggressive Behavior, Political Psychology and Emotion.
- Appointments
- Member-at-large, Division 48, American Psychological Association
- Board member, Society for Terrorism Research
- Associate editor, Behavioral Studies of Terrorism and Political Aggression journal
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Research
- Emotion processes
- Self-regulation
- Selected Publications
Cheung-Blunden, V., Cropper, K., Panis, A. & Davis, K. (in press). Functional Divergence of Two Threat-induced Emotions: Fear-based versus Anxiety-based Cybersecurity Preferences. Emotion.
Cheung-Blunden, V. & Khan, S. (2017). "A Modified Peer Rating System to Recognize Rating Skill as a Learning Outcome." Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.
Cheung-Blunden, V. and Ju, J. (2016). "Anxiety as a Barrier to Information Processing in the Event of a Cyberattack." Political Psychology. 37(3), 387-400.
Blunden, B. and Cheung, V. (2014). Behold a Pale Farce. Walterville, OR: Trine Day LLC.
Cheung-Blunden, V. and Blunden, B. (2013). "Cyber-Terrorism: Fear, Anger and Anxiety as Agents of Change." In Radicalization, Terrorism, and Conflict, eds. T. Walters, R. Monaghan, and J. M. Ramirez. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 268-290.
Cheung-Blunden, V. & Blunden, B. (2008). "Paving the Road to War with Group Membership, Appraisal Antecedents and Anger." Aggressive Behavior, 34, 175-189.
Cheung-Blunden, V. and Blunden, B. (2008). "The Emotional Construal of War: Anger, Fear, and Other Negative Emotions." Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 14, 123-150.
Cheung-Blunden, V. & Juang, L. P. (2008). "Expanding Acculturation Theory: Are Acculturation Models and the Adaptiveness of Acculturation Strategies Generalizable in a Colonial Context?" International Journal of Behavioral Development, 32, 21-34.