• Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology – Intergroup relations
• Applied Psychology – Health interventions
• I/O Psychology – Mental health in the workplace

Selected Publications

• Amarasuriya, S., Salanga, M. G.C., Llorin, C., Henson-Morales, M. R., Jayawickreme, E., & Grossmann, I. (2024). Deconstructing Wisdom through a Cultural Lens: Folk Understandings of Wisdom and its Ontology in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Transcultural Psychiatry. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/13634615241233682
• Demou, E., Blake, C., Llorin, C.T., Salanga, M.G., Mateo, N.J., Lewis, R., & Mitchell, K.R. (2024)). Group-level workplace interventions to improve mental health in low control, high-demand office-based jobs: A scoping review. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxae012
• Salanga, M.G.C., Evangelista, Z.M., & Lido, C. (2024). How to conduct culturally sensitive and ethically sound research when studying sensitive topics in non-WEIRD contexts. SAGE Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529691252
• Aruta, J.J.B.R., Salanga, M.G.C., Pakingan, K.A. et al. Blessed are the Poor, They shall be More Persistent: Meaning in Life and Persistence among Adolescents from Low- and High-Income Regions in the Philippines. Psychological Studies (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-022-00644-z
• Simon, P. & Salanga, M.G.C. (2021). Validation of the five-item Learning Climate questionnaire as a measure of teacher autonomy support in the classroom. Psychology in the Schools
• Baumert, A., Maltese, S., Reis, D., MacLeod, C., Tan-Mansukhani, R., Galang, A. J. R., Salanga, M.G.C. & Schmitt, M. (2020). A cross-cultural study of justice sensitivity and its consequences for cooperation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, Vol. 11(7) 899-907. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619896895
• Datu, J.A.D., Labarda, C.E., & Salanga, M.G.C. (2020). Flourishing is associated with achievement goal orientations and academic delay of gratification in a collectivist context. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21, 1171-1182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00122-w
• Bernardo, A. B., & Salanga, M. G. C. (2019). Validating the protean and boundaryless career attitudes scales with Filipino young adults. Cogent Psychology, 6(1), 1671133. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2019.1671133
• Bernardo, A.B.I., Salanga, M.G.C., Tjipto, S., Hutapea, B., Yeung, S.S. (2019). Polyculturalism and attitudes towards the continuing presence of former colonizers in four postcolonial Asian societies. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1335. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01335
• Bernardo, A.B.I., Khan, A., & Salanga, M.G.C. (2018). Hope and satisfaction with life: Testing the mediating roles of self-esteem in three Asian cultures. Acción Psicológica. 15(2), 69-82. https://doi.org/10.5944/ap.15.2.23456.
• Datu, J.A.D. & Salanga, M.G.C. (2018). Cultural self-views influence meaning making: Self-construals as
  differential predictors of meaning in life among Filipino university students. Universitas Psychologica, 17, 5,
  1-9. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy17-5.csvi
• Datu, J.A.D., Valdez, J.P., Cabrera, I. K., & Salanga, M.G.C. (2017). Subjective happiness optimizes educational
  outcomes: Evidence from Filipino high school students. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 20, E60.
  https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2017.55
• Salanga, M. G. C., & Bernardo, A. B. (2017). Cognitive empathy in intercultural interactions: The roles of lay
  theories of multiculturalism and polyculturalism. Current Psychology, 38, 165–176.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-017-9599-3
• Bernardo, A. B. I., Salanga, M. G. C., Khan, A., & Yeung, S. S. (2016). Internal and external loci-of-hope predict use of individual and collaborative learning strategies: Evidence from university learners in four Asian cities. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 25, 367-376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40299-015-0249-y
• Bernardo, A.B.I., Salanga, M.G.C., Tjipto, S., Hutapea, B., Yeung, S.S., & Khan, A. (2016). Contrasting lay theories of polyculturalism and multiculturalism: Associations with essentialist beliefs of race in six Asian cultural groups. Cross-Cultural Research, 1-20, http://doi.org/10.1177/1069397116641895.
• Saucier, G., Kenner, J. S., Iurino, K., Bou Malham, P., Chen, Z., Thalmayer, A. G., Kemmelmeier, M., Tov, W., Boutti, R., Metaferia, H., Çankaya, B., Mastor, K. A., Hsu, K.-Y., Wu, R., Maniruzzaman, M., Rugira, J., Tsaousis, I., Sosnyuk, O., Regmi Adhikary, J., Skrzypińska, K., Poungpet, B., Maltby, J., Salanga, M. G. C., Racca, A., Oshio, A., Italia, E., Kovaleva, A., Nakatsugawa, M., Morales-Vives, F., Ruiz, V. M., Braun Gutierrez, R. A., Sarkar, A., Deo, T., Sambu, L., Huisa Veria, E., Ferreira Dela Coleta, M., Kiama, S. G., Hongladoram, S., Derry, R., Zazueta Beltrán, H., Peng, T. K., Wilde, M., Ananda, A., Banerjee, S., Bayazit, M., Joo, S., Zhang, H., Orel, E., Bizumic, B., Shen-Miller, S., Watts, S., Pereira, M. E., Gore, E., Wilson, D., Pope, D., Gutema, B.,
  Henry, H., Dacanay, J. C., Dixon, J., Köbis, N., Luque, J., Hood, J., Chakravorty, D., Pal, A. M., Ong, L., Leung, A., & Altschul, C. (2015). Cross-cultural differences in a global ‘Survey of World Views’. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 53-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022114551791
• Bernardo, A.B.I., Ouano, J.A., & Salanga, M.G.C. (2009). What is an academic emotion? Insights from Filipino Bilingual Students’ emotion words associated with learning. Psychological Studies, 54, 28- 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-009-0004-7
• Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Reyes, J. A. S., Salanga, M. G. C., Miramontes, L. A., & Adams, N. B. (2008). Prediction and cross-situational consistency of daily behavior across cultures: Testing trait and cultural psychology perspectives. Journal of Research in Personality, 42(5), 1199-1215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2008.03.007
• Mateo, N. J., & Salanga, M. G. C. (2018). Life satisfaction predicts positive workplace outcomes among Filipino guidance counselors. Philippine Journal of Psychology, 51(1), 81-99.
• Salanga, M.G.C. & Yabut, H. (2017). Ang pangkaraniwang pagpapakahulugan at behavioral na manipestasyon ng pakikisama. DIWA E-journal, 5, 93-107.
• Mesurado, B., Salanga, M.G.C., & Mateo, N.J. (2016). Basic psychological needs and flourishing in Filipino university students. In R.B. King & A.B. Bernardo (Eds.), The Psychology of Asian Learners (459-469). Springer.
• Salanga, M.G.C. & Bernardo, A.B.I. (2016). Filipino students’ reasons for not being motivated in school: Insights into their implicit beliefs about motivation and learning. In. R.B. King and A.B. Bernardo (Eds), The Psychology of Asian Learners (85-98). Springer.
• Bernardo, A.B.I., Salanga, M.G.C., Aguas, K.M.C. (2008). Filipino adolescent students’ conceptions of learning goals. In O.S. Tan, D.M. McInerney, A.D. Liem, & A.G. Tan (Eds.), What the West can learn from the East: Asian perspectives on the psychology of learning and motivation (pp. 169-190). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
• Kho, R.M.T., Salanga, M.G.C., & Reyes, J.A.S. (2006). Filipino students’ and counselors’ beliefs on the etiology and treatment of depression. Philippine Journal of Counseling Psychology, 8, 32-46.
• Veloso, M.C.D., Salanga, M.G.C., & Reyes, J.A.S. (2005). Ethnicity and perfectionism: A comparison of Filipinos and Chinese-Filipinos. Philippine Journal of Counseling Psychology, 7, 156-164.
• Salanga, M.G.C. (2004). Perfectionism in Filipino university students. Philippine Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6, 47-66