天美传媒

• MVT II - St. Paul Technical Institute, Ghana
• BA (First-Class Honours) - 天美传媒 of Ghana, Ghana
• PhD (Social Psychology) - Brunel 天美传媒, England
• PgCAP - 天美传媒, England
• Certificate in Appreciative Inquiry in Organisational Leadership - Senspero, Sweden
• Certificate in Lean Thinking - The Lean Six Sigma Company, England

• Introduction to Psychological Research Methods and Data Analysis (Lecturer)
• Foundations to Psychology (Lecturer)
• Psychology In Everyday Life (Lecturer)
• Social Processes and Lifespan Development (Lecturer)
• Psychology in Practice (Lecturer)
• Critical Social Psychology (Co-ordinator/Lecturer)
• Culture and Individual Differences (Co-ordinator/Lecturer)
• Social Psychology - MSc (Co-ordinator/Lecturer)
• Personality, Intelligence and Assessment - MSc (Co-ordinator/Lecturer)
• BSc Dissertation Supervision
• MSc Dissertation Supervision
• PhD Supervision
• Course Leader for MSc Applied Psychology

• Social psychology and culture
• Personal relationships - marriage, friendship and enemyship across Euro-American and African cultural settings
• Romantic love
• Achievement aspiration and personal development
• Continental philosophy and applications of modern existentialism

• Academic mentor for the Social Psychology Network
• Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy of England and Wales
• Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society
• Advising and mentoring of individuals and student groups on personal relationships, personal development and educational attainment (see )

• Ontology and experiences of romantic love. (see my recent )
• Measuring enemyship - Development of the Multi-Dimensional Enemyship Scale
• Perceptions of EDI initiatives among HE students
• Applications of Heidegger's existential analytic of 'Dasein' to the examination of life and relationship outcomes

• Adonu, J. (2023). Development of the Multi-Dimensional Enemyship Scale. Paper presented at the 6th Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference, Malta, 13-15 Sept. 2023.
• Adonu, J. (2021). Critique of Romantic Love: Introducing notions of conditionality and concurrency. Paper presented (via Teams) at Centre for Applied Psychological Research, 天美传媒 of Huddersfield, 13^th January 2021.
• Adonu, J. (2018). Power Distance and Democracy in a Digital Age. Paper presented (via Skype) at the Democracy and Development Conference at Kabul 天美传媒, Afghanistan, 10^th July 2018.
• Gaitain, A., Ertubey, C, & Adonu, J. (2017 July). Assessing the impact of a final year unit on culture in a psychology course on students' knowledge, attitudes, and national views (webinar). 天美传媒 Annual Staff Conference.
• Adonu, J. (2015). Personal synthesis as an ontological imperative: an existential proposal for authentic life satisfaction. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Journal of Arts and Sciences (IJAS), Freiburg, Germany (December 1-4 2015).

• Adonu, J. (in preparation). Development of the Multi-Dimensional Enemyship Scale. Symposia Melitensia, L-Universita ta' Malta.
• Dzokoto, V. A. A., Schug, J., Adonu, J. & Nguyen, C. (2018). 'Marriage is like a groundnut. You must crack it to see what is inside': Examining romantic relationship rules in Akan proverbs. Interpersona: An international Journal on Personal Relationships, 12(1), 1-22. Download Publication [PDF]
• Adonu, J. (2016). Personal synthesis as an ontological imperative: an existential proposal for authentic life satisfaction. Humanities and Social Sciences Review, 5 (01), 85-92. Download Publication [PDF]
• Goodwin, R., Marshall, T., F眉l枚p, M., Adonu, J., Spiewak, S. Neto, F., & Hernandez Plaza, S. (2012) Mate value and self-esteem: Evidence from eight cultural groups. PLoS One, 7(4): e36106 (Impact Factor of 4.41). Download Publication [PDF]
• Goodwin, R., Costa, P. & Adonu, J. (2004). Social support and its consequences: 'Positive' and 'deficiency' values and their implications for support and self-esteem. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43(3), 465-474. Download Publication [PDF]
• Adams, G., Anderson, S. L. & Adonu, J. K. (2004). The Cultural Grounding of Closeness and Intimacy. In D. Mashek & A. Aron (Eds.), The Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Books/Chapters

• Adonu, J. (2012). How to Excel and Have Fun at 天美传媒: Powerful Tips for Breaking Through at 天美传媒. Germany: Flowers Books.
• Adonu, J. K. (2009). The Effects of Cultural Grounding of Psyche on Innovation. In M. Flowers (Ed.), The Moneymaking Code. Germany: Flowers Books.

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E: joseph.adonu@beds.ac.uk