Tzeng, Oliver

Oliver C.S Tzeng, Ph.D. J.D.

Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
Osgood Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research
Department of Psychology,
402 North Blackford Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 47204-3275
E-mail: IZZj100@iupui.edu
Tel: 317-274-6779

Education and Degrees:

B. Ed. 1966 National Taiwan Normal University 1961-66 Psychology and Education, plus one year's teaching requirement
M. S. 1969 University of Wisconsin - Stout 1968-69
Measurement and school psychology (certified specialist in school psychology, State of Wisconsin)
Ph. D. 1972 University of Illinois at 1969-72 Urbana-Champagne
Major: Quantitative Psychology
Minors: Mathematics,Psycholinguistics, and Cross-Cultural Psychology
J.D. 1995 Indiana University School of Law 1992-95 at Indianapolis.
Primary interest:Psychology and law, international laws, family law, child protections, civil rights and discrimination

Academic Appointments (former and present)

1/68 - 8/69 Research Assistant, Psychovector Research Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Dr. H.B. Shirley, Psychovector system of personality, facial expression and emotion, and research method.
Summer/68 Research Assistant, Dr. Robert Swanson, Dean of Graduate School and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Research methodologies and statistics.
9/68 - 5/69 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin-Stout, General Psychology
9/69 - 5/72 Research Assistant, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois. Dr. Charles E. Osgood. Research methods, computer programming, cross-cultural research, personality and social psychology, and cognitive psychology.
Summer/72 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Stout. Advanced learning theories, graduate research methods and designs.
8/72 - 8/76
- Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois. Dr. Charles E. Osgood. Cross-cultural semantic differential and personality research, quantitative methods, cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois. Research design and methodology.
8/76 - 7/78 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.
8/78 - 7/81 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI).
1981-present. Professor, Department of Psychology, IUPUI.
- Director of the Osgood Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research. Executive Director of the Consortium of Child Abuse and Neglect Resources and Information Services in Indiana.
- Director of Multidisciplinary Graduate Training on Child Abuse and Neglect (1988 - 1992).

Professional Memberships (former and present)

Indiana State Bar Association, Marion County Bar Association
International Academy of Intercultural Research
American Association of Chinese Studies
American Psychological Association (Divisions 5 and 8)
Psychometric Society
Society for Cross-Cultural Research
Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research
Sigma XI, Midwestern Psychological Association
Midwest Asian American Mental Health Research Association
Advisory Board of Family Support Center, Indianapolis

Citations and Honors

Who's Who in Midwest
Who's Who in Frontier Sciences
Who’s Who in the World
Who's Who in the Republic of China
International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement
Men Achievement
All-American Scholars
Cited as one of 42 most published psychologists in the U.S.
Charter Fellow and Board of Director, International Academy of Intercultural Research

Editorial Boards

1975 - Present, International Journal of Intergroup Relations.
1984 - Present, Journal of Psycholinguistics Research
1990 - Present, Journal of Social Distress and homelessness

Other Honors and Professional Experiences

1958 Graduated at the top of 280 students from the Taipei Normal School in Taiwan.
1959 By self studies, passed the Higher Civil Service Examination in the area of Educational Administration. This is the national record in the Republic of China for passing this exam below age 20 in all disciplines.
1963 By self studies, passed the Higher Civil Service Qualified Examination for a lawyer, sponsored by the Central Government of the Republic of China.
1966 Graduated at the top of 98 students in Psychology and Education from National Taiwan Normal University.
1973 Tzeng's Ph.D. dissertation was nominated for the Creative Talent Award sponsored by the American Institute of Research.
1984 Design of new entrance examination policies and procedures for all universities and colleges in Taiwan. The proposal was implemented by Educational Ministry of Taiwan Government.
1986-92 Design and implementation of 15 statewide training workshops for law enforcement, churches, schools, and child care facilities on intervention and prevention of child abuse and neglect
1994 Recognized as "one of the 42 most productive psychologists" in the U.S. as a participant in "great psychologists" research conducted by a New York research team.
1995 Honored on "the dean list" in law School studies for the Fall, 1994 semester. (approximately top 15% of the 800 student body).
1974-Present. Invited to present over 50 papers or addresses at various universities, and national/international conferences.

Research Grants and Awards

1977 Indiana University Faculty Summer Fellowship
1977-78 Study of etiology of psychoactive drug use Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis Faculty Grant-in-Aids, $800.
1977-79 Study of student vandalistic behaviors in school. Spencer Foundation Grant, $2,700.
1977-79 Evaluation of race-relations training data. U.S. Army Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. $14,284.
1978-79 Evaluation of Marion County Prison Project. Marion County Sheriff's Office. Co-project Director.
1979-80 Assessment of personality and self concept changes for shoplifting first offenders. Marion County, Indian.
1977-79 Undergraduate summer research grants (three years), NSF 1981 participant faculty of Psychology Department.
1982 IUPUI grant proposal to Department of Education for graduate student fellowships.
1984-85 Cross-cultural comparisons on Personality Conceptions and emotions. President's Council on the Social Sciences.
1985-86 Family Support Center. Statewide training for law enforcement on child abuse and neglect.
1985-87 Indianapolis Research Service Committee. Cross- cultural research and program developments.
1986-87 Indiana Department of Aging and Community Services. Development of Consortium of Child Abuse & Neglect Resources and Information Services ($10,000, PI)
1987-90 Indianapolis Foundation. Consortium of Child Abuse and Neglect Resources and Information Services ($60,000, PI).
l987-88 U.S. Department of Human Services, Feasibility study in developing a multidisciplinary graduate training program on child abuse and neglect in Indiana ($10,000, PI).
1990 Stanford University Press. Modernization of the Strong Interest Inventory. ($4,000, PI).
1987-91 U.S. Department of Human Services. Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Graduate Training Program on Child Abuse and Neglect ($450,000, PI).
1989-92 Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis.
Implementation of Training and education program on child abuse and neglect ($60,000, PI).
1988-92 Lilly Endowment: Consortium of Child Abuse and Neglect Resource and Information Services ($60,000, PI)
1996 Indiana University School of Nursing. Research on
quantitative methodology.

Research Activities and Interests

Psychosocial and legal issues in families, self-socializations, Child protections, and international conflicts.
Psychology and laws in job discrimination and business.
Invalidity and unreliability of product-moment correlation and covariance in measurement and multivariate techniques (this is to correct and revolutionize massive and serve errors in college education, research and testing in social and behavioral sciences for over 50 years).
Theories and measurements of love and intimate relations.
Inter-group and inter-cultural comparisons on various social issues.
Semantic differential affective studies of 30 language/cultures in some 50 context domains.

Teaching Interests and Activities

Quantitative methodologies: statistics, tests and measurements, multivariate techniques; factor analysis
Cross-Cultural social psychology and personality
Social Issues and intercultural relations
Multidisciplinary training on child abuse/neglect
Criminal procedures and psychology on child abuse and neglect (joint teaching at IU Law School for over 10 years)

Publications
Monographs and Book Chapters

Lee, T.S., Tzeng, O.C.S. and Woo, W.T. (1967). The high school teacher population survey in Taiwan. Department of Secondary Education, the Ministry of Education, The Republic of China.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1976). Application of semantic differential technique in social and behavioral science research. The Consortium of the International Studies Program.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1977). Differentiation of affective and denotative semantic subspaces. In L.L. Adler (ed.) Issues in Cross-cultural Research. New York Academy of Science, 476-504.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. (1979). A multidimensional scaling methodology for cross-cultural research in communications. In M. Asante and E. Newmark (eds). Handbook of cross-cultural communication. Beverly Hills: Sage, 283-317.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Osgood, C.E. and May, W.H. (1979). Toward universal macro-denotative meaning systems via a cross-cultural multivariate quantification procedure. Multivariate Analysis - V. 651-671.

Landis, D., Strommen, M. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Cross-cultural study of affect toward educational concepts. In G.K. Verma and C. Bagely (eds). Multicultural Education. London: Macmillin.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). The use of the Atlas of affective meanings in inter-cultural training. In D. Landis and R. Brislin (eds.) Handbook of inter-cultural training, Pergamon Press, 224-252.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Schilessmann, R.A. & Moore, D.T. (1986). Theorization of a psychosemantic process model for human aggression and violence. In Jacobsen, J.J. (eds.) Psychiatric Sequelae of Child Abuse, Springfield, Ill: Charles Thomas.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Jacobsen, J.J. & Schilessmann, R. (1986). Reconnaissance of child abuse and neglect: Evaluation, prospects and recommendations. In Jacobsen, J.J. (eds.) Psychiatric Sequelae of Child Abuse, 1986. Springfield, Ill: Charles Thomas.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1987). Introduction to the nature and etiology of human aggression and violence. In Tzeng,O.C.S. & Jacobsen, J.J. (eds.) Sourcebook for child abuse and neglect: Intervention, treatment, and prevention crisis programs, Springfield, Ill: Charles Thomas.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Hanner, L.J. (1987). Abuse and neglect: Phenomenon and typology. In Tzeng, O.C.S. & Jacobsen, J.J. (eds.) Sourcebook for child abuse and neglect: Intervention, treatment, and prevention crisis programs, Springfield, Ill: Charles Thomas.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Hanner, L.J. (1987). National trends of state laws for protecting child victimization. In Tzeng, O.C.S. & Jacobsen, J.J. (eds.) Sourcebook for child abuse and neglect: Intervention, treatment, and prevention crisis programs, Springfield, Ill: Charles Thomas.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Allison, M. (1987). Crisis centers in the United States: A review. In Tzeng, O.C.S. & Jacobsen, J.J. (eds.) Sourcebook for child abuse and neglect: Intervention, treatment, and prevention crisis programs, Springfield, Ill: Charles Thomas.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Hanner, L.J. (1987). Establishing a local crisis center assistance organization: Format, procedures and materials used. In Tzeng, O.C.S. & Jacobsen, J.J. (eds.) Sourcebook for child abuse and neglect: Intervention, treatment, and prevention crisis programs, Springfield, Ill: Charles Thomas.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1987) Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. In D.J. Keyser & R.C. Sweetland (Eds.) Test critiques compendium. Kansas City, MI: Test Corporation of America, 487-500.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Tzeng, D. (1988). AIDS: Incurable disease with curable epidemic phenomena. Taipei, Taiwan: China Post Company, (in Chinese).

Tzeng, O.C.S., & Jacobsen, J.J. (1988). Sourcebook for child abuse and neglect. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Pub.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Tzeng, D. (1989). Love's I-Ching and Vectors: Conspiracy, conflicts, resolution, harmony and fraternity. Taipei, Taiwan, China Post Com. (in Chinese).

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1990). Three magnificent themes of a dinosaur caper. In Osgood, C.E. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (Eds.) Language, Meaning and Culture. New York: Praeger.

Osgood, C.E. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1990) (Eds.) Language, Meaning and Culture. New York: Praeger.

Reiber R. Weidmann, C. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1990) A cross-cultural study of language universals: emotional meanings of iconic and graphic stimuli. In R.W. Reiber (Ed.) The individual, community and culture. Cambridge University Press, N.Y.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Jackson, J.W., Karlson, H.C. (1991). Theories of child abuse and neglect: Differential perspectives, summaries and evaluations, New York: Praeger

Tzeng, O.C.S. Gomez, M. & Chataignier, C. (1992) Psychosemantic process paradigm for love formation, development and evaluation. In Tzeng C.S. (Ed.) Theories of Love development, maintenance, and dissolutions: Octagonal cycle and differential perspectives. New York: Praeger.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Gomez, M. (1992). Personality attribution paradigm of love: Personality and childhood experiences. In Tzeng C.S. (Ed.) Theories of Love development, maintenance, and dissolutions: Octagonal cycle and differential perspectives. New York: Praeger.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Gandarillas, M. (1992). Theological view of love and marriage. In Tzeng C.S. (Ed.) Theories of Love development, maintenance, and dissolutions: Octagonal cycle and differential perspectives. New York: Praeger.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Chataignier, C. (1992). Family systems theory perspective on love: development, maintenance and intervention. In Tzeng C.S. (Ed.) Theories of Love development, maintenance, and dissolutions: Octagonal cycle and differential perspectives. New York: Praeger.

Tzeng O.C.S. (1992) (Ed.) Theories of Love development, maintenance, and dissolutions: Octagonal cycle and differential perspectives. New York: Praeger.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1993). Measurements of love and intimate relations: Theories, scales, and applications for love development, maintenance, and dissolution. New York: Praeger. (a 9-chapter book)

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Karlson, H.C. Theories and practice of child neglect. (Book in progress, drafts for chapters completed).

Tzeng, O.C.S. Parenting practices. (Book in progress; draft of 600 pages manuscript completed).

Tzeng, O.C.S. Conflicts and resolutions: Theories and strategies (Book in progress; theoretical developments in progress with initial draft of chapters).

Articles

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Dimit, M. (1974). Attitudinal differences of college students and their parents. Psychology Reports, 35, 1247-1249.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & May, W.H. (1975). More than E, P, and A in semantic differential scales: an answer to questions raised by Silvia T.M. Lane. International Journal of Psychology, 10, 101-117.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Skafidas, T. (1975). Differentiation of psychoactive drug users and non-users. Drug Education.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1975). Differentiation of affective and denotative meanings systems and their influence in personality ratings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32, 978-988.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1975). Reliability and validity of semantic differential E-P-A markers for an American English representative sample. Psychological Reports, 37, 292.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Ku, E. and Tzeng, D. (1975). The necessary approach for future college entrance examination. Central Daily News, April.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Osgood, C.E., and May, W.H. (1976). Idealized cultural differences in kinship conceptions. International Journal of Psycholinguistics, 5, 51-77.

Tzeng, O.C.S., & Osgood, C.E. (1976). Validity tests for componential analyses of conceptual domains: a cross-cultural study in methodology. Behavioral Sciences, 21, 69-85.

Alexander, H.Hl, Alexander, M.A., & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1976). Identification of consumer behavior patterns through the analysis of variable responses. Journal of Interior Design Education and Research, 2, 55-70.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1977). A quantitative method for separation of semantic subspace. Applied Psychological Measurement. 2, 55-70.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1977). Individual differences in self conceptions: a multivariate approach. Perceptions and Motor Skills, 45, 1119-1124.

Randolph, G., Landis, D., & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1977). The effects of time and practice upon cultural assimilator training. International Journal of Intergroup Relations. 4, 105-118.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1978). The conceptions of numbers. Central Daily News, December 15-16. (in Chinese, 3,000 words in length).

Alexander, H.H., Alexander & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1968). Semantic differential scales for measurement of the near environment - a case study. Home Economics Research Journal, 4, 293-304.

Tzeng, C.H. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1978). Tolerance spaces and almost periodic functions. Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics Academia Sinica, 6(1), 159-173.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. (1978). Three-mode multidimensional scaling with points-of-view solutions. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 13, 181-213.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & May, W.H. (1979). On rotation of a Johnson hierarchical tree structure. Educational and Psychological Measurement.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1980). On series of Asian Civilization. Central Daily News, February 10-13 (in Chinese 6,000 words).

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Tzeng, C.H. (1981). What is wrong with using entropy in stratifying semantic subspaces. Psychologia, 24, 115-128.

Hazer, J., Tzeng, O.C.S., Reissman, L., & Landis, D. (1981). Cross-cultural determinants of occupational affect. Journal of Occupational Psychology.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. (1982). Social institutions and achievement factors: A cross-cultural perspective. In Proceedings of Human Factors Panel, N.A.T.O. Conference, Kingston, Canada.

Landis, D. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Cross-cultural comparison on sex-role conceptions. In Proceedings of Human Factors Panel, N.A.T.O. Conference, Kingston, Canada.

Blake, B.F., Heslin, R., Landis, D., & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Issues in the assessment of attitudes in pre- and marginally-literate cultures. In Proceedings of Human Factors Panel, N.A.T.O. Conference, Kingston, Canada.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Tzeng C.H. (1982). Myth or fact of implicit personality theory? An illustration of how empirical research can miss. Journal of Personality, 30, 2, 223-239.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). The artificial dispute over implicit personality theory research. Journal of Personality, 50, 2, 253-260.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Structure of New Social Studies. Taiwan Institute of Teachers Inservices (Handbook in Chinese).

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Assessment of the proposed alternatives of college entrance examination, China Times, May 30 (in Chinese, 3500 words) (1).

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Assessment of the proposed alternatives of college entrance examination, China Times, May 31 (in Chinese, 3000 words) (2).

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). New procedures for college entrance examination. Central News, February 28, 1982 (in Chinese, 5500 words).

Blake, B.R., Heslin, R., Landis, D. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Issues in the assessment of attitudes in pre- and marginally-literate cultures. Journal of Social Psychology.

Champion, V., Austin, J., and Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Assessment of relationships between self concept and body image using multivariate techniques. Research in Nursing and Health.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. (1982). Relationship between intercultural awareness and personality variables in interracial encounters. APA Journal Supplement Abstract Service, February.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1983). Response methods in measurement of personality. in P.C. Sun (ed.) Contemporary Issues in Education, National Taiwan Normal University.

Tzeng. O.C.S. (1983). On implementation of new college entrance examination policy. China New, December 19-24, (14,000 words).

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1983). A comparative evaluation of four response formats in personality ratings. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 935-950.

Neel, R.G., Tzeng, O.C.S. & Baysal, C. (1983). Comparative studies of authoritarian-personality characteristics across culture, language, and methods. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 7, 393-400.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Everett, A.V. (1984). A cross-cultural perspective of self-related conceptions in adolescence. International Journal of Psychology.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Maxey, W.A., Fortier, R. & Landis, D. (1984). Construct evaluation of the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. Educational and Psychological Measurement.

Champion V., Austin, J.K. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1982). Assessment of relationship between self concept and body image using multivariate techniques. Mental Health Nursing, Vol 4: 299-315.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Outcalt, D., Boyer, S.L. & Ware, R. Item validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1984, 48(3), 255-256.

Landis, D., Brislin, R.W. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1985). Some effects of acculturative training: A field evaluation. International Journal of Group Tensions, Vol. 15.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Duvall, C.J. & Moore, D. (1985). Comparative studies of affective meanings in organizational behaviors. in I.R. Lagunes & Poortinga, Y.H. From a Different perspective: studies of behavior across cultures. Swets and Zeitlinger B.C., Lisse.

Champion, B., Austin, J.K. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1985). Cross-cultural comparisons of images of nurses and physicians. International Journal of Nursing Studies.

Austin, J.K., Champion, V.L. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1985). Cross-cultural comparison on nursing image. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 22, 231-239.

Tzeng. O.C.S. (1985). Strong Vocational Interest Inventory and its psychometric properties. Test Critiques. Kansas City, Missouri: Test Corporation of America,

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Everett, A.V. (1985). A cross-cultural perspective of self-related conceptions in adolescence. International Journal of Psychology, 22, 231-239.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Duvall, C.J., Ware, R., Neel, R. & Fortier, R. (1986). Subjective intergroup distances of Black and White. International and Intercultural Communication Annual

Tzeng, O.C.S., Ware, R., Outcalt, D. & Boyer, S. (1986). Assessment of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Items. Psychological Documents, 15(2), 17-18.

Neel, R.G., Tzeng, O.C.S. & Baysal, C. (1986). Need achievement in Cross-Cultural study. Arastirma Ozetleri, 173-176.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Hoosain, R. (1987). Cross-cultural componential analysis on affect attribution of emotion terms. Journal of Psycholinguistics Research, 16, 5, 443-465.

Champion, V. Austin, J. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1987). Cross-cultural comparison of images of nurses and physicians. International Nursing Review. 34, 2, 272, 43-48.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Karlson, H.C. & Fortier, R. (1988). Handbooks on child abuse and neglect for schools. Osgood Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis,

Tzeng, O.C.S., Karlson, H.C. & Fortier, R. (1988). Handbooks on child abuse and neglect for churches. Osgood Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Karlson, H.C. & Fortier, R. (1988). Handbooks on child abuse and neglect for child care facilities. Osgood Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Tzeng, O.C.S., & Schwarzin, H.J. (1989). Gender and race differences in child sexual abuse correlates. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 14, 135-161.

Austin, J.K., Champion, V. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1989). Cross-Cultural relationships between self-concept and body image. Archives in Psychiatric Nursing Vol.111.4, pp. 234-240.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Ware, R. & Chen, J.M. (1989). Measurement and utility of continuous unipolar ratings for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Journal of Personality Assessment.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1989) Conflicting theories of child abuse and neglect and the expert witness. Child Abuse and Neglect. International Continuing Legal Education forum. The Indiana State Bar Association.

Hibbard, R.A., Spence, C., Tzeng, O.C.S., and Orr, D.P. (1990). Child Abuse and Mental Health Among Adolescents in Dependent Care. Pediatrics.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Trung, N., and Rieber, R.W. (1990) Cross-cultural comparisons on psychosemantics of icons and graphics. International Journal of Psychology, 25, 1-21.

Champion, V.L., Austin, J.K., and Tzeng, O.C.S. (1990). Relationship between cross-cultural health attitudes and community health indicators, Public Health Nursing 7(4) 243-250.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Jackson, J. (1991) Common methodological framework for theory construction and evaluation in the social and behavioral science. General, Genetic and Social Psychology Monograph. 117(1), 49-76.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Ware, R. & Bharadwaj, N. (1991). Comparison between continuous bipolar and unipolar ratings of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Educational and Psychological Measurement. 51, 681-690.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1992). Social distress and theorizations of child victimization. Journal of Social Distress and the Homelessness, 1(1). 37-66.

Tzeng, O.C.S (1992). On reliability and number of principle components: Joinder with Cliff and Kaiser. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75, 929-930.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Jackson, J. (1993) Effects of contact, conflict, and social identity on interethnic group hostilities. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1994) Insufficiency of product-moment correlation for factor analysis of bipolar measurements. Percetual and Motor Skills, 79, 1647-65.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1997). December 16's. (a personal reflection article in Chinese. Submitted to a magazine for publication in Taiwan)

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Tzeng. S. (1997). Mediation effects of family process characteristics for children's successful academic achievement (submitted for editorial review)

Tzeng, O.C.S. Welch, J. (1998). Inconsistencies across three contextual meanings of reliability. Quality and Quantity: International Journal of Methodology. (In press).

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Henderson, M.M. (1998). Relationships between industrial modernization and social progress. International Journal of Intergroup Relations. (in press).

Tzeng, O.C.S, Robinson, R., & Karlson, H. C. (1988). Demographic correlates and judicial determinations of child sexual abuse offenses. Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness. (in press).

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1998). Gender, status and preference differences in behavioral, attitudinal and global loves. Journal of Personal Relatitonships (Paper submitted for editorial review).

Book Reviews:

Triandis, H. & Associates "Variations in black and white perceptions of the social environment." International Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1977, 2, 121-126.

Papers Presented

Tzeng, O.C.S. On the construct validity of multidimensional scaling through the INDSCAL model. Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the Psychometric Society and the Classification Society, Iowa City, April, 1975.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Application of multivariate statistics in cross-cultural research. Invited paper delivered in a symposium on Using Multivariate Procedures in Cross-Cultural Research. Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Chicago, Ill, 1975.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Application of semantic differential methodology to evaluation of intercultural training program. Paper delivered in a symposium on Evaluation of Intercultural Training Program. The third annual conference of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 1977.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. Evaluating intercultural training programs through multidimensional scaling approach. Invited Paper delivered in the third annual conference of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research. Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 1977.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. Measurement of meanings--Illustration of a research methodology and procedures. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, 1977.

Tzeng, O.C.S. 3M-POV: a new computer program in multidimensional scaling. Paper presented at the Psychometric Society Meeting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Exploration of the etiology of student vandalism. Invited paper presented at the Third Annual Henry Lester Smith Conference on Educational Research. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1978.

Tzeng, C.H. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Tolerance space, almost periodic functions and their relations in a multivariate catastrophic space. Presented at Fifth International Symposium on Multivariate analysis, University of Pittsburgh, June, 1978.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Application of a multivariate quantification procedure in a cross-cultural research. Invited paper delivered in the Fifth International Symposium on Multivariate Analysis, University of Pittsburgh, 1978.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Semantic differential technique: after 20 years. Invited paper delivered at the Colloquium of the Chinese Psychological Association, Taiwan, Taipei, July, 1978.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Toward an objective model of inter-group and inter-cultural research in personality. Invited paper at the Colloquium for National Taiwan Normal University, July, 1978.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. Comparative studies of conceptions through the 3M-POV model in multidimensional scaling. Invited paper delivered at the Second annual Conference on multidimensional scaling. Bloomington: Indiana University, April, 1979.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Application of three-mode factor analysis in social and behavioral sciences. Invited paper at the Third Annual Conference on Quantitative Psychology, Ohio: Cincinnati, October, 1980.

Neel, R. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Relationships between personality characteristics and leadership styles. Eastern Psychological Association, 1980.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Psychosemantics of love and self-esteem development. Invited paper delivered at National Taiwan Normal University, July, 1981.

Tzeng, O.C.S. A new measurement theory and procedure for college freshmen selections. National Construction Seminar of the republic of China, Taiwan, July, 1981.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. Intercultural awareness and interracial interactions. Invited paper delivered at the Third Annual International Conference and Workshop, Bradford, England, 1981.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Love and youth education in contemporary society. National Ching-Chi University, Taiwan, July, 1982.

Neel, R., Tzeng, O.C.S. & Baysal, C. Need achievement in a cross-cultural and cross-language study. Paper presented the 6th Psychometric Conference at West Lafayette, October 28, 1983.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Powers, K. Development of psychovector love scale and its cross-cultural comparisons, paper presented in a symposium at VII International Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1984.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Intercultural heterogeneities in work conceptions. Paper presented in a symposium at VII International Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Mexico, 1984.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Schilessmann, R. Measurement of love and its differentiability. Paper presented in Indiana Academy of Sciences, November 3, 1984.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Toward the development of love measurement between couples and its intergroup and intercultural comparisons. Invited Paper presented in the 7th Midwest Psychometric Conference, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, November 9, 1984.

Powers, D. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Cross-measurement and cross-statistics comparisons on studies of person perceptions: Measurement fantasy vs. statistical ghost. Invited Paper presented at the 7th Midwest Psychometric Conference. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, November 9, 1984.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Moore, D. & Crump, J.F. Legal aspects on child abuse and neglect problems. Workshops presented at three regions in Indiana, 1985.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Moore, D. Theoretical issues and principles about child abuse. Workshop presented at three regions in Indiana, 1985.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Moore, D. Methods, strategies and techniques for identification, intervention, treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect. Workshops presented at three regions in Indiana, 1985.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Moore, D. & Ware, R. Application, case discussion and evaluation of child abuse and neglect problems. Workshops presented at three regions in Indiana, 1986.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Moore, D. & Jacobsen J.J. Facts and Myths of child abuse and neglect in institutions and families. Workshops at Richmond, Terre Haute and West Lafayette, 1986.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Psychosemantic Model of human aggression and its application. Invited paper presented in a colloquium at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 1986.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Ware, R. Can personality types predict occupational preferences? An exploration of unipolar ratings of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Paper presented at the Midwest Psychological Association meeting, Summer, 1987.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Nuclear war and Sino-American relations from international perspective at the First International Symposium on China, November, 1987.

Hibbard, R.A., Spence, W.C., Tzeng, O.C.S. & Orr, D.P. Adolescents in dependent care: Child abuse, depression and self-esteem. Paper presented at the National Pediatric Association, 1988.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of Midwest Conference of Chinese American Scholars and Students Association, Iowa City, July 4-7, 1988. The title was "Cultural assimilation and adaptation in the U.S. among Chinese Americans".

Tzeng, O.C.S. Cross-cultural comparison between American and Chinese families. Invited address at the Annual Conference of Midwestern Association of Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology. Chicago, Illinois, June 1988.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Measurement of occupational interest for years 2,000. Invited address at the International Symposium on Measurement of Interest, sponsored by Stanford University, July 27-28, 1988.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Jacobsen, J.J., & Jackson, J. From a Critical Review of Theories to the Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Graduate Training Program on Child Abuse and Neglect. Paper presented at the International meeting on child abuse and neglect, Brazil, 1988.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Theories of child abuse and neglect: A Comprehensive Evaluation and Integration. Paper presented at the National Conference on multidisciplinary graduate training, Washington, D.C., November, 1988.

Three statewide workshops on child abuse and neglect for 92 Central, Southern and Northern Indiana counties, 1988-1989.

Keynote speaker on "child abuse and neglect from a communitywide, multidisciplinary strategy" at the annual meeting of the Howard County Task Force on prevention of child abuse and neglect. 1989.

Presentations of the Consortium of Child Abuse and Neglect Resources and Information Services activities at various meetings and occasions at the University and community levels at least five times.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Karlson, H.C. and Fortier, R. A multidisciplinary approach to comprehensive evaluation of multilevels of ecological characteristics for child abuse and neglect. Paper presented at The Eighth National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect at Salt Lake City, October 21-24, 1989.

Tzeng, O.C.S., and Karlson, H.C. Multidisciplinary graduate training program on child abuse and neglect. Presented in the workshop at the Eighth National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect at Salt Lake City, October 21-24, 1989.

Tzeng, O.C.S., and Chen, J.M. Transcultural adaptation processes and characteristics of Chinese families in different geographic environments: A multilevel analysis of family issues. Presented at the Fifth National and the First International Conference on the Transcultural Family. Columbus, Ohio, November 6, 1989.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Measurement fantasy and statistical ghost induced by Pearson product moment correlation, busted or not? Colloquium presented at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Psychology Department, October, 1989.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1990) Transcultural adaptation of Chinese Families in the Western Society. Keynote address at Midwest Chinese Scholar Association's Annual meeting. Detroit, Michigan, September 5, 1990.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1990). Presentation of child abuse and neglect statistics and programs at Child Abuse and Neglect Council of Marion County.

Chan, D. Gelfand, M. Triandis, H.C. & Tzeng, O.C.S. (1993) Tightness-looseness revisited: a systematic examination. Paper presented at The Society of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1993). Profile characteristics of child sex abuse offenders and judicial intervention consequences. Paper presented at Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis. November, 1993.

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1994). Impact of adolescent mental health history on adult criminology and child sexual offenses. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Conference, Brown County Inn, Nashville, Indiana. July 21 - 22, 1994.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Psychology and law in prevention of child abuse and neglect. Presented at Indiana University School of Law (Seminar on child abuse and neglect, Fall, 1995).

Welch, J. & Tzeng, O.C.S. On meanings of reliability and validity indices. Paper presented at Indiana University School of Nursing. 1996.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Constitutional restriction of obscene materials. Presented at Marion County Community Task Force on Video Materials and Access. Indianapolis, Indiana. Feb. 28, 1996.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Psychological expert testimony for child abuse and neglect prosecution. Presented at Indiana University School of Law (Seminar on child abuse and neglect, Fall, 1996).

Tzeng, O.C.S. Psychology and law in child abuse and neglect: a multidisciplinary perspective. Presented at Indiana University School of Law (Seminar on child abuse and neglect, Fall, 1997).

Tzeng, O.C.S. Expert witness of psychologists in criminal prosecution of child abuse and neglect offenses. Presented at Indiana University School of Law (Seminar on child abuse and neglect, Fall, 1997).

Tzeng, O.C.S. The family in the United States, Taiwan, Mainland China. The Conference on Interdisciplinary Theory and Research on Intercultural Relations. (Article accepted for presentation in California, March, 1998.)

Tzeng, O.C.S. (1988) Presented two articles at the 40^th conference of American Association of Chinese Studies: (1) Comparative studies of family laws across the U.S.A, Taiwan and China: Administrative, judicial and Psychological convergence. (2) Chinese Women’s dilemmas in socializations in transitional society: Lesson from international societies. New York City, November, 1998,

Computer Programs and Manuals for Dissemination

Tzeng, O.C.S. & May, W.H. ROTHICLU -- A procedure for rotation of a Johnson hierarchical clustering structure. Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1980.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Schilessmann, R. Simplified operation manual for DEC20, Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1984.

Tzeng, O.C.S. PSYFOR -- operation manual of PSYchology FORtran Library (This includes more than 30 subroutines of matrix operations), 1978.

Tzeng, O.C.S. SPSS -- procedures for submitting a computer program at IUPUI. 1978.

Tzeng, O.C.S. 3M-POV: Computer program for three-mode multidimensional scaling with points-of-view solutions. Department of Psychology, IUPUI, 1980 (2nd Revision).

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Trung, N. Operation Manual of VAX System of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1988.

Technical Reports:

Tzeng, O.C.S. Differentiation of affective and denotative meaning systems in personality. Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972 (Mimeo).

Tzeng, O.C.S., Osgood, C.E., and May, W.H. Cross-cultural validity tests for componential analyses of conceptual domains of emotions. Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1973 (Mimeo).

Tzeng, O.C.S., Osgood, C.E., & May, W.H. A context-free culture/concept contingency analysis of attribution of affect in 23 human communities. Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973 (Mimeo).

Tzeng, O.C.S. Idealized cultural differences in time unit conceptions. Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973 (Mimeo).

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Dimit, M. Dynamics of generation gaps. Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974 (Mimeo).

Tzeng, O.C.S. Idealized cultural differences in conceptions of two social psychiatric domains. Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975 (Mimeo).

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Hogenraad, R. Implicit personality theories and their influence in person perceptions. Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975 (Mimeo).

Hogenraad, R. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Human conceptions of natural and man-made environments. Department of Psychology, Purdue University School of Science, 1976.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. Three-mode multidimensional scaling with points of view solutions. Office of Naval Research (Code, 452). Technical Report, 1977.

Cristiaanse, M. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Self-concept and body image: esteem, acceptance, and relationship. Center for Applied Research and Evaluation. Indianapolis, IN 1977.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Exploration of an item response model on psychological scale values of alternatives. Department of Psychology, Purdue University School of Science, 1978.

Tzeng, O.C.S. & Landis, D. Relationship between intercultural awareness and personality variables in interracial encounters. U.S. Army Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1979. Tech. Report, 422.

Landis, D. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Some effects of acculturative training: a field study. U.S. Army Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1979.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Landis, D., and Maxey, W.A. Assessment of an inmate education program. Marion County Community Corrections Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979.

Tzeng, O.C.S., Fortier, R.H., Landis, D. & Maxey, W.A. Issues in evaluation of a pretrial diversion program. Marion County Criminal Court - Pretrial Diversion Program, 1980.

Fortier, R.H. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Pretrial diversion: an alternative to prosecution of shoplifters--myth or fact? Marion County Criminal Court - Pretrial Diversion Program, 1980.

Tzeng, O.C.S. Exploration of the etiology of student vandalism. to Spencer Foundation, Indiana University, 1980.

Harvey, J. & Tzeng, O.C.S. Cross-method comparisons in implicit personality theory research. Center for Applied Social Psychological Research, Indianapolis, 1980 (also to NSF).

Bawman, E., Tzeng, O.C.S., & Landis, D. Exploration of the repertoire of personality descriptors. Center for Applied Social Psychological Research, Indianapolis, 1981 (also NSF).

Over 50 technical reports and progress notes were completed since 1982 for various projects. (e.g., Legal and psychological opinions on harms to children by various video materials; training on prevention and intervention of child abuse and neglect; international conflict resolutions)

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