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Kang Lee

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Kang Lee

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
30 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 21 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 14 research grants (9 SSHRC, 4 NSERC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 3 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2015.

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142

Publications

687

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Research

Conduct Disorder Dishonesty Lying Severe Conduct Problems

Latest papers

Not All Authors Are Equal: Moral Judgments of Plagiarism From AI and Human Sources.
Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026
Smiling, face covering, and rhythmic body rocking in children who cheat versus do not cheat.
Journal of experimental child psychology · 2025 · senior author
Bidirectional negative relation between young children's persistence and cheating.
Child development · 2025 · senior author

All 142 publications

Latest funding

Developmental trajectories of early academic cheating
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$52,554
Impact Award: Insight
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$88,333
Early Interventions to Support Trajectories for Healthy Life in India (EINSTEIN)
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$2,190,000

All 22 grants and awards

142 publications.

Not All Authors Are Equal: Moral Judgments of Plagiarism From AI and Human Sources.

Brake C, Lee K, Friedman O

Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science2026

DOI: 10.1162/opmi.a.336 PMID: 41948069

Smiling, face covering, and rhythmic body rocking in children who cheat versus do not cheat.

Dong LD, Batool K, Ann Cameron C, Lee K

Journal of experimental child psychology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106119 PMID: 39531991

Bidirectional negative relation between young children's persistence and cheating.

Zhao L, Peng J, Lee K

Child development2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14159 PMID: 39239839

Concise multi-class anxiety disorder risk assessment: A novel advanced machine learning approach.

Yang H, Sun YH, Lee K

Journal of anxiety disorders2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.103018 PMID: 40288106

Cheating in childhood: Exploring the link between parental reports of problem behaviors and dishonesty on simulated academic tests.

Wilson K, Batool K, Duan TY, Cameron CA, Lee K

Journal of experimental child psychology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105948 PMID: 38754332

Young children with higher verbal intelligence are less likely to cheat.

Zhao L, Sun W, Lee K

Journal of experimental child psychology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105933 PMID: 38657522

Academic cheating in early childhood: Role of age, gender, personality, and self-efficacy.

Yee S, Xu A, Batool K, Duan TY, Cameron CA, Lee K

Journal of experimental child psychology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105888 PMID: 38430869

Self-efficacy and cheating among young children.

Zhao L, Li Y, Ke S, Lee K

Journal of experimental child psychology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105843 PMID: 38271850

Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less.

Zhao L, Mao H, Harris PL, Lee K

Nature human behaviour2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01837-4 PMID: 38379064

Video plethysmography for contactless blood pressure and heart rate measurement in perioperative care.

Pham C, Poorzargar K, Panesar D, Lee K, Wong J, Parotto M, Chung F

Journal of clinical monitoring and computing2024

DOI: 10.1007/s10877-023-01074-6 PMID: 37715858

Developmental trajectories of early academic cheating

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lee, Kang

Keywords: children; academic integrity; academic cheating; development; moral education; honesty; dishonesty

$52,554

Impact Award: Insight

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Award

Principal investigators: Lee, Kang

Keywords: moral development; development of honesty and trust; cognitive development; social development; cross-cultural psychology; face processing; gaze processing

$88,333

Early Interventions to Support Trajectories for Healthy Life in India (EINSTEIN)

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Team Grant: Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) - India

Principal investigators: Matthews, Stephen G; Sellen, Daniel W; CHANDAK, GIRIRAJ R; Comelli, Elena M; Krishnaveni, Ghattu V; Kumaran, Kalyanaraman; Shah, Prakeshkumar; Suryanarayana, Kumar G; Wade, Mark

Keywords: Cardiometabolic Outcome; Child; Cohort Studies; Dohad; India; Intervention; Lifecourse; Mental Health Outcome; Preconception; Pregnancy

$2,190,000

Moral Development and Developmental Neuroscience

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Lee, Kang

Keywords: moral development honesty academic cheating developmental neuroscience fnirs transdermal optical imaging

$100,000

Moral Development and Developmental Neuroscience

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Lee, Kang

Keywords: moral development; honesty; academic cheating; developmental neuroscience; fnirs; transdermal optical imaging

$400,000

The Origin of Academic Cheating in Early School Years

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lee, Kang

Keywords: academic cheating; dishonesty; academic integrity; honesty; children; developmental trajectories; longitudinal design; cross sequential design

$299,775

Co-development of face and speech processing in infancy

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Lee, Kang

$330,000

Early INterventions to Support Trajectories for healthy lifE in INdia (EINSTEIN)

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Team Grant - Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) - India

Principal investigators: Matthews, Stephen G; Kumaran, Kalyanaraman; Lye, Stephen J; Shah, Prakeshkumar; Suryanarayana, Kumar G; Yajnik, Chittaranjan

Keywords: Cardiometabolic Outcome; Child; Cohort Studies; Dohad; India; Infant; Intervention; Mental Health Outcome; Preconception; Pregnancy

$2,493,350

Developmental Pathways to Health and Disease: Fetal Programming and Protection

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Matthews, Stephen G

Keywords: Blood-Brain-Barrier; Fetus; Glucocorticoids; Human Development; Maternal/Child Health; Neuroendocrinology; Perinatal; Pregnancy; Programming; Stress Physiology

$4,094,169

The Development of Lie-telling in Children with Conduct Disorder: Cross-cultural Comparisons

SupervisorCIHR2015Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

Principal investigators: Zanette, Sarah

Keywords: Children; Conduct; Cross-Culturally; Dishonesty; Disorder

$6,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Kang Lee

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Not All Authors Are Equal: Moral Judgments of Plagiarism From AI and Human Sources.

Smiling, face covering, and rhythmic body rocking in children who cheat versus do not cheat.

Bidirectional negative relation between young children's persistence and cheating.

Concise multi-class anxiety disorder risk assessment: A novel advanced machine learning approach.

Cheating in childhood: Exploring the link between parental reports of problem behaviors and dishonesty on simulated academic tests.

Young children with higher verbal intelligence are less likely to cheat.

Academic cheating in early childhood: Role of age, gender, personality, and self-efficacy.

Self-efficacy and cheating among young children.

Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less.

Video plethysmography for contactless blood pressure and heart rate measurement in perioperative care.

Developmental trajectories of early academic cheating

Impact Award: Insight

Early Interventions to Support Trajectories for Healthy Life in India (EINSTEIN)

Moral Development and Developmental Neuroscience

Moral Development and Developmental Neuroscience

The Origin of Academic Cheating in Early School Years

Co-development of face and speech processing in infancy

Early INterventions to Support Trajectories for healthy lifE in INdia (EINSTEIN)

Developmental Pathways to Health and Disease: Fetal Programming and Protection

The Development of Lie-telling in Children with Conduct Disorder: Cross-cultural Comparisons

Frequent collaborators

Gabriel (Naiqi) Xiao

Zhong-Ping Feng

Matteo Parotto

Frances Chung

Mahesh Nagappa

Melanie Noel

Hong-Shuo Sun

Patrick McGowan

Sheila Riazi

Tricia Williams

Prabhat Jha

Pablo Nepomnaschy

Lixia Yang

Stephanie Atkinson

Stephen Lye

Cindy-Lee Dennis

Jacquetta Trasler