Dr Frankie Fong

Honorary Research Fellow

School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences

Overview

Frankie’s research interests lie broadly in early childhood social cognitive development, with a particular interest in children’s imitative behaviour and normative understanding across diverse contexts. He employs an experimental and cross-cultural approach to study factors that influence children’s social learning decisions of high-fidelity vs selective copying. Frankie is currently conducting and supervising research in Germany and Australia. Additionally, he has established, coordinated, and conducted developmental research with parents and children across Malaysian urban and Indigenous communities. Frankie is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher based in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipizig, Germany. He now holds an Honorary research appointment at the School of Psychology of the University of Queensland.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book Chapter

  • Fong, Frankie T. K., Erut, Alejandro and Legare, Cristine H. (2024). Schools as cultural reproduction devices. The Oxford handbook of cultural evolution. (pp. 1-18) edited by Jamshid J. Tehrani, Jeremy Kendal and Rachel Kendal. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.75

  • Nielsen, Mark, Fong, Frankie T. K. and Whiten, Andrew (2021). Social learning from media: the need for a culturally diachronic developmental psychology. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. (pp. 317-334) edited by Jeffrey J. Lockman. San Diego, CA, USA: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2021.04.001

Journal Article

Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Note for students: Dr Frankie Fong is not currently available to take on new students.

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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