Bio

Miss Chou currently is a PhD student in industrial and organizational psychology and in social psychology at National Taiwan University. Miss Chou holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with concentration in high-tech marketing and entrepreneurship from University of California at Berkeley, USA. Before pursuing her PhD degree in psychology, Miss Chou had accumulated extensive work experience across Silicon Valley and Asia, heading the department of marketing/business development in high-tech startups. Therefore, Miss Chou’s research interest mainly lies in leader cognition and realistic optimism, both of which are critical to managerial success. In addition to organizational performance, Miss Chou is interested in what it takes for an individual to become wiser in life. Hence, she also researches on self-cultivation in literatures of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.

Selected Publications

Conference Presentations
Chou, S. C. (2013, April). Upper echelons’ choice: To be positive or paranoid? Poster presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Houston, Texas.

Chou, S. C. (2013, May). Optimal Optimism Model: Exploring the cognitive content of realistic optimism. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Washington, DC.       
                                                
Chou, S. C. (2013, June). Optimal optimism: Establishing a motivational model of realistic optimism. Poster presented at the 2013 World Congress on Positive Psychology (WCPP), Los Angeles, California.

Winner: IPPA Student Scholarship

Chou, S. C. (2013, June). Optimal optimism: Establishing a cognitive model of realistic optimism. Poster presented at the 2013 World Congress on Positive Psychology (WCPP), Los Angeles, California.

Winner: IPPA Student Data Blitz Award

Chou, S. C. (2013, June). What is optimal about optimal optimism? The pros and cons of realistic optimism. Poster presented at the 2013 World Congress on Positive Psychology (WCPP), Los Angeles, California.

Chou, S. C. (2013, July). Are positive illusions required for optimism? The moderating effect of perceived control. Poster presented at the 121st American Psychological Association Annual Convention (APA), Honolulu, Hawaii.

Chou, S. C. (2013, July). In search of optimal optimism: Can we be realistically optimistic? Poster presented at the 121st American Psychological Association Annual Convention (APA), Honolulu, Hawaii.