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Dr Ming

Ze Lim
Senior
Lecturer

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Summary

Dr Ming Ze Lim is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist at ISN Psychology. He is a Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA)-approved supervisor with more than 10 years of experience across private, school, and psychological assessment services. 

Ming holds a Master of Psychology (Clinical) from James Cook University, Australia where he completed his initial training to become a psychologist. He subsequently completed a Master of Arts (Research) in Cognitive Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he examined the effects of cognitive training on executive functions. He later completed a PhD in Psychology from the University of Sydney, Australia. 

Ming’s doctoral research examined the relationship between ability emotional intelligence and executive functioning, with a particular focus on working memory performance when under emotional distraction. His broader research interests include cognitive and affective processes, emotional regulation, executive functions and psychological wellbeing. 

At ISN Psychology, Ming contributes to clinical teaching, the unit coordination of advanced placement units, and the supervision of postgraduate psychology students. Within clinical education, he is particularly interested in ethics, case formulation, and psychological assessment. Ming also provides research supervision to fourth year / Honours psychology students. 

Research and Publications

  • Lim, M. D., & Birney, D. P. (under review). When Ability (Experiential and Strategic) Emotional Intelligence Facilitates or Impedes Visual Working Memory Updating. Manuscript under review at Journal of Intelligence.

  • Lim, M. D., & Birney, D. P. (2021). Experiential and Strategic Emotional Intelligence Are Implicated When Inhibiting Affective and Non-Affective Distractors: Findings from Three Emotional Flanker N-Back Tasks. Journal of Intelligence, 9(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence9010012

  • Lim, D. M., & Lau, M. C. (2021). Can we ‘brain-train’ ability emotional intelligence? A narrative review on the features and approaches used in ability EI training studies. Frontiers in Educational Psychology. 12, Article 569749. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.569749

  • Lim, D. M., & Patterson, M. D. (2015). Long-Term Memory and Working Memory can be Improved by Cognitive Training. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Pasadena, California.

  • Lim, D. M., & Dillon, D. (2014). Psychological flexibility and the mediating role of coping styles in health outcomes, well-being, and happiness. Electronic Poster session presented at the 28th Congress of Applied Psychology. Paris, France.

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