Her specific projects include the role of culture in shaping self-knowledge, self-evaluation, and the pursuit of uniqueness in identity; the role of important others in self-regulation; and the effect of threats to meaning systems on self-knowledge. Her recent publications include: “The dialectical self-concept II: Cross-role and within-role consistency, well-being, and self-certainty,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2011); “Understanding Western-East Asian differences and similarities in self-enhancement,” Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2010). Forthcoming publications include “Self-knowledge defenses to self-threats,” Journal of Research in Personality; “Language and the bicultural dialectical self,” (with M. O’Dowd, ’06), Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.