Academic Profile : Faculty

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Dr Yang Yang
Education Research Scientist, OER Centre for Research in Child Development
Research Scientist, National Institute of Education - Office of Education Research
Journal Articles (Central)
Wang, J., Yang, Y., Macias, C., & Bonawitz E (2021). Children with more uncertainty in their intuitive theories seek domain-relevant information. Psychological Science, 32(7), 1147-1156.

Yang, Y., Wang, L., & Wang, Q. (2021). Take your word or tone for it? European American and Chinese children's attention to emotional cues in speech. Child Development, 92(3), 844-852.

Yang, Y. & LoBue, V. (2020). The Child Affective Facial Expression set short versions (CAFE-Ss): Development and validation of two subsets of children's emotional faces with variability. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 599245.

Yang, Y., Song, Q., Doan, S., & Wang, Q. (2020). Maternal reactions to c hildren's negative emotions: The relations to psychological adjustment, emotion knowledge, and coping in cultural contexts. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(3), 408-420.

Wang, Q. & Yang, Y. (2019). Culture and emotional development: introduction to the special issue. C ulture and Brain, 7(2), 95-98.

Rifkin-Graboi, A., Khng, K. H., Cheung, P., Tsotsi, S., Sun, H., Kwok, F., Yu, Y., Xie, H., Yang, Y., Chen, M., Ng, C. C., Hu, P.L., & Tan, N. C. (2019). Will the future BE POSITIVE? Early life experience as a signal to the developing brain pre school entry. L earning: Research and Practice, 5(2), 99-125.

Song, Q., Yang, Y., Doan, S., & Wang, Q. (2019). Savoring or dampening? Maternal reactions to children's positive emotions in cultural contexts.. Culture and Brain, 7(2), 172-189.

Wang, Q., Hou, Y., Koh, J. B. K., Song, Q., & Yang, Y. (201 8). Culturally motivated remembering: The moderating role of culture for the relation of episodic memory to well-being. Clinical Psychological Science, 6(6), 860-871.

Yang, Y. & Wang, Q. (2016). The relation of emotion knowledge to coping in European Americ an and Chinese immigrant children.. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(2), 452-463.

Liu, C. H., Yang, Y., Fang, S., Snidman, N., & Tronick, E. (2013). Maternal regulating behaviors through face-to-face play in first-and second-generation Chinese American and European American mothers of infants. Research in Human Development, 10(4), 289-307.

Book Chapters (Central)
Yang, Y. & Wang, Q. (2019). Culture in emotional development. In V. LoBue, K. Perez-Edgar, & K. Buss (Eds.), Handbook of Emotional Development(PP. 569-593). Cham: Springer.

Wang, Q., Koh, J. B. K., & Yang, Y. (2015). The cultural self in mind and action.. In T. B. Hansen, K. Jensen de L'pez, & B. Peter (Eds.), Self in culture in mind(PP. 257-270). Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.

 
Conference Papers (Central)


Conference Papers Without Proceedings

Yang Y., Koh,J.B.K., & Wang Q. (2021, April). Mother-Child Reminiscing: Relations to Children's Emotion Knowledge and Coping. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual, United States.

Yang, Y., Song, Q., Doan, S., & Wang, Q. (2019, June). Maternal Reactions to Children's Negative and Positive Emotions: The Relations to Child Socio-emotional Development in Cultural Contexts.. Paper presented at ISSBD Regional Workshop, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China).

Yang, Y., Koh, B.K., J., & Wang, Q. (2017, April). Discussion of internal states and behaviors in mother-child reminiscing: The longitudinal relations to children's emotion knowledge in European American and Chinese immigrant families. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Austin, United S tates.

Yang, Y., Koh, B.K., J., & Wang, Q. (2016, August). Maternal socialization of children's emotion knowledge in different cultural contexts. Paper presented at International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Yokohama, Japan.

Yang, Y., Koh, B.K., J., & Wang, Q. (2016, August). Mother-c hild discussion of internal states and behaviors: relations to children's emotion knowledge in European American and Chinese immigrant families. Paper presented at International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nagoya, Japan.

Yang, Y., & Wang, Q. (2015, March). Emotion knowledge and socio-emotional wellbeing across the early middle childhood: A cross-cultural longitudinal investigation. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Philadelphia, United States.

Liu, C. H., Yang, Y., Fang, S., Snidm an, N., & Tronick, E. (2013, April). Maternal vocalizations and affective displays among Chinese American and European American mothers of infants. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, Washington, United States.

Koh, J. B. K., Yan g, Y., & Wang, Q. (2013, April). Mother-child emotional reminiscing and children's socio-emotional well-being: A cross-cultural longitudinal study. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, Washington, United States.

 
Keynote Speeches & Editorship of Special Issues (Central)


Editorships of Special Issue of Journal

Wang, Q. & Yang, Y. (Ed.) (2019). Culture and Brain, Culture and Emotional Development, 7 (2).



Other Research Outputs/Projects (Central)












Workshops and Seminars

Yang, Y. (2021, March). Master your emotions: Promoting emotion understanding in early childhood.

Yang, Y (2019, November). Children's emotion understanding: Development, antecedents, and consequences.

Yang, Y. (2018, October). Children's Emotional Development in Cultural Contexts.