Kuo-Chang, Huang's psychology land - 黃國彰心理學園地

Recently, I was invited to have an English Lecture about “Time & Financial Management” for international students. Although I am not that good at this issue, I tried my best to prepare my presentation, sharing my psychological viewpoints, expressing how hard I tried to balance my life for their references.
Unexpectedly, lots of international students giving me feedbacks and sharing their experiences. Moreover, lot’s of students giving suggestions and feedbacks to each other, and that makes the second half of the speech looks like a peer support group. Although the topic is very strict, the atmosphere is very harmony. In the end of my speech, there’s some international students who really face serious financial problems and I also refer them to the organizer. Hope all of them can acquire appropriate help…

Another lecture in Full English about “LOVE”～
Owing that the intimate relationship for international students are much different from those native students, I not only discuss some theories and tactics about intimate relationship in this lecture, but also provide an inventory about “Romantic Belief”. Although it’s an old scale that I found, it’s still interesting to scale ourselves. So…why not take some time to scale “How Romantic You Are”?

Anyone who is interested in psychology may heard about “the Triangular Theory of Love”, but there’s still some interesting findings that I would like to share with you:
1. The presence of intimacy and commitment predict stability and duration.
2. Intimacy continually rises in long term relationships.
3. Passionate love develops rapidly and intensely, then declines. Intimacy and commitment grow. If they don’t, the drop in passion likely signals the relationship’s end.
4. Passion drops more sharply for women.
5. Married have more commitment.
Excerpt from “Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love”.
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對心理學有興趣的朋友，可能都聽過”愛情三元論”，但仍然有ㄧ些有趣的發現想和大家分享：
1. 親密和承諾能讓愛情更穩定和持久。
2. 在長期的關係中，親密感會持續升溫。
3. 激情的愛來的快而強烈、並會逐漸消退，此時，若親密和承諾沒有逐漸發展，喔~喔~關係就危險啦！
4. 女人的熱情消退的比男人快。
5. 婚姻擁有較多的承諾。
摘錄自” 史坦柏格的愛情三元論”。

What is True Love? What is Fake Love?
No matter you agree with these viewpoints or not, it is still worth spending some time to exam our intimate relationships…!
Excerpt from “14 Differences between true love and fake love”.
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甚麼是真實的愛？甚麼是虛假的愛？
無論你/妳是否同意這些論點，都值得花些時間來檢視我們的親密關係！
摘錄自”14個真愛和虛假愛的差異”。

I was invited to have a lecture in full English, talking about cultural differences and adaptation while study abroad. I also brought some traditional Taiwanese food in the end of the class. Here are some reflections of the speech:
1.Muslim students are willing to live with Taiwanese students but feel sorry for making noise every morning. For they have to pray at 5 o'clock early in the morning, even though the Taiwanese students said they don't mind.
2.All the international students feel that the Stinky Tofu is quite delicious, but nobody is willing to try Century Eggs (preserved duck egg), which is one of my favorite foods.
Is there any cultural shock that happened to you while traveling or studying abroad ? Please share it below...