Academic & Teaching Staff
Dr Ho Ming Hon Robbie
Research Assistant Professor
Street Performance/Busking, Cross-Cultural Art Appreciation, Audience Experience
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Dr Ho Ming Hon Robbie
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Robbie Ho is a researcher on psychology of the arts, and he specializes in street performance or busking. From a psychological viewpoint, Dr. Ho focuses on the audience experience of street performance as well as the impact of street performance on the perception of public space. Dr. Ho has also extended his work to study static forms of street art such as graffiti. Furthermore, Dr. Ho is experienced in teaching psychological subjects including General Psychology, Social Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Lifespan Development, and Research Methods and Statistics.
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BSc (University of New South Wales, Australia)
MArt (University of New South Wales, Australia)
MPhil (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
PhD (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
CPsychol (British Psychological Society)
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Areas of Teaching
Personal Development
General Psychology
Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
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Research Interest
Street Performance/Busking
Cross-Cultural Art Appreciation
Cantopop
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Selected Outputs
- Szubielska, M., Ho, R., & Kopiś-Posiej, N. (2025). The cultural-match effect on art appreciation in adolescents. Empirical Studies of the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241308812
- Szubielska, M., Ho, R., Witeska-Młynarczyk, A., & Kopiś‑Posiej, N. (2024). Examining the gray cube effect on naïve viewers’ appreciation of street-based art in Hong Kong and Poland. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 4099. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53322-7
- Ho, R., & Szubielska, M. (2024). Field experiment on the effect of musical street performance/busking on public space perception as mediated by street audience experience. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 13147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62672-1
- Ho, R., Szubielska, M., & Kopiś-Posiej, N. (2023). Cultural-match effect on the appreciation of traditional and contemporary visual arts: Evidence from Poland and Hong Kong. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(4), 451-462. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000535
- Szubielska, M., & Ho, R. (2022). Greater art classification does not necessarily predict better liking: Evidence from graffiti and other visual arts. PsyCh Journal, 11(5), 656-659. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.473
