J C Yong
Biographic Data
| ID | 54659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J C Yong |
| GIVEN NAMES | J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Yong |
| SIGNATURE | YONG J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Singapore Management University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6413-2016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intergroup Competition, Group Members’ Narcissism, and Competitive Perceptions as Determinants of Group Creativity
Mixed findings on the effects of intergroup competition on group creativity indicate the need for more sophisticated models that can accommodate individual differences in how people respond to competitive cues and contribute to group performance. This study examined group members’ narcissism, competitive perceptions, and discussion-facilitating behaviors as antecedents for the group creative process. A sample of 92 three-person groups ( N = 276 p…
Income and Sex Moderate the Association Between Population Density and Reproduction: A Multilevel Analysis of Life History Strategies Across 23 Nations
While previous studies guided by evolutionary life history theory have revealed several important socioecological moderators of the influence of population density (PD) on reproduction, absent is an understanding of how individual-level factors such as personal resources and sex differences might interact and play a role. Using data from a large sample of clients ( N = 4,432,440) of an online dating company spanning 317 states nested within 23 co…
Urban-Themed Mobile Phone Wallpapers Reduce Connectedness with Nature Compared with Nature-Themed Wallpapers: Evidence from Two-Field Studies
Mobile phone wallpapers, despite their seemingly small presence, may have significant psychological consequences due to the pervasive and recurrent exposure experienced by millions of people during their phone usage. We conducted two-field experiments, each spanning a duration of 2 weeks (Study 1: n = 81; Study 2: n = 166), to evaluate the influence of phone wallpaper image on individuals’ implicit connectedness with nature. Results consistently …
CEOs’ online personality and their company’s business strategy: Openness to Experience Predicts Diversifying Merger and Acquisition Decisions
As a personality trait, openness to experience plays a central role in driving behaviors associated with exploration and innovation. Despite decades of extensive research, the expression of openness to experience in business strategy remains understudied. The current study addresses this gap by revealing that the openness in experience perceived from American and Chinese CEOs’ social media predicted their firm’s initiation of diversifying M&As, e…
Interactive Effects of Intrasexual Competitiveness, Same-Sex Competition, and Physical Attractiveness on Temporal Discounting
Human–Animal Interaction and Human Prosociality: A Meta-Analytic Review of Experimental and Correlational Studies
Pet ownership and interactions with animals confer various physiological and psychological benefits to humans. Although interactions with animals are commonplace, there is no consensus in the literature on the actual impact of animal exposure on prosociality. Hence, this meta-analysis investigated 20 eligible studies (n = 4,116, k = 48) and provided an extensive examination into the different potential moderators of the relationship between human…
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. . . especially if I’m less intelligent: How sunlight and intelligence affect happiness in modern society
The savanna theory of happiness proposes that, due to evolutionary constraints on the human brain, situations and circumstances that would have increased our ancestors' happiness may still increase our happiness today, and those that would have decreased their happiness then may still decrease ours today. It further proposes that, because general intelligence evolved to solve evolutionarily novel problems, this tendency may be stronger among less…
When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness
INTRODUCTION: The savanna theory of happiness posits that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation that affect happiness but also its ancestral consequences, and that the effect of ancestral consequences on happiness is stronger among less intelligent individuals. But what about situations that did not exist in the ancestral environment and thus have no ancestral consequences? Global pandemic is one such situation that has no …
Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile‐based experimental paradigm
OBJECTIVE: Although the mate preference priority model (MPPM) has advanced our understanding of mate preferences, tests of the MPPM have relied on methods using text labels and thus lack ecological validity. We address this gap by testing the MPPM using J. M. Townsend's profile-based experimental paradigm, which utilizes profiles comprising photos of pre-rated models to manipulate physical attractiveness as well as costumes and descriptions to ma…
Elucidating evolutionary principles with the traditional Mosuo: Adaptive benefits and origins of matriliny and “walking marriages”
The Mosuo, arguably the last surviving matrilineal society in China, offers interesting insights into kinship practices that support reproduction. In particular, the modes of courtship and reproduction of the traditional Mosuo revolve around a practice known as walking marriages, which involves no contract or obligations, where the men do not use social status or resources to court women, women do not expect commitment from men, and multiple sexu…
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women. It is currently unknown whether this association is present across cultures, or specific to North America. Analyses of survey data from adult heterosexuals ( N = 11,200) from 31 countries showed a small relation between pathogen disgust sensitivity (an individual-difference measure of pathog…
Conditional Love: Threat and Attitudinal Perceptions of Immigrants Depend on Their Instrumentality to Locals’ Basic Psychological Needs
Although threat perceptions are commonly used to explain attitudes toward immigrants, the psychological factors underlying threat are surprisingly understudied. Drawing from goal pursuit and self-determination theory, we examined the perceived instrumentality of immigrants as an antecedent of locals’ threat and attitudinal perceptions. Through four studies ( N = 1,372) with different configurations of local population segments and target immigran…
Does Social Media Use Increase Depressive Symptoms? A Reverse Causation Perspective
According to the World Health Organization (1), 264 million individuals worldwide suffer from depression—a condition characterized by feelings of low self-worth, impaired concentration, and disturbed sleep, among various other maladaptive symptoms (2). Adolescents between 13 and 18 years of age are also vulnerable (3), with a 52% increase in the prevalence of depression among adolescents from 2005 to 2017 (4). Depression is tied to many serious p…
Self-Esteem Tracks Social Evaluation and Relational Value
Cognitive, social, emotional, and subjective health benefits of computer use in adults: A 9-year longitudinal study from the Midlife in the United States (Midus)
Confidence is sexy and it can be trained: Examining male social confidence in initial, opposite‐sex interactions
OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether men's social confidence in an initial, opposite-sex chatting context can be improved through a video tutorial and the extent to which being perceived as socially confident results in being seen as more romantically desirable and worthy of future contact. METHOD: Women chatted with men who had received or not received a tutorial on how to handle speed-dating chats (Study 1: N = 129; Study 2: N = 60) or with male …
Not so much rational but rationalizing: Humans evolved as coherence-seeking, fiction-making animals
The evidence for biased perceptions and judgments in humans coupled with evidence for ecological rationality in nonhuman animals suggest that the claim that humans are the rational animal may be overstated. We instead propose that discussions of human psychology may benefit from viewing ourselves not so much as rational animals but rather as the rationalizing animal. The current article provides evidence that rationalization is unique to humans a…
Culture moderates the link between perceived obligation and biological health risk: Evidence of culturally distinct pathways for positive health outcomes
Adaptive Benefits of Matriliny and “Walking Marriages” in Mosuo Culture
Social Media
Antimicrobial Hypothesis, The
Boredom as an Adaptation
Frugivory By-Product Hypothesis
Boredom as an Adaptation
Production of Eggs and Sperm
Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection
Although mate preference research has firmly established that men value physical attractiveness more than women do and women value social status more than men do, recent speed-dating studies have indicated mixed evidence (at best) for whether people's sex-differentiated mate preferences predict actual mate choices. According to an evolutionary, mate preference priority model (Li, Bailey, Kenrick, & Linsenmeier, 2002; Li & Kenrick, 2006; Li, Valen…
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women. It is currently unknown whether this association is present across cultures, or specific to North America. Analyses of survey data from adult heterosexuals ( N = 11,200) from 31 countries showed a small relation between pathogen disgust sensitivity (an individual-difference measure of pathog…
Not so much rational but rationalizing: Humans evolved as coherence-seeking, fiction-making animals
The evidence for biased perceptions and judgments in humans coupled with evidence for ecological rationality in nonhuman animals suggest that the claim that humans are the rational animal may be overstated. We instead propose that discussions of human psychology may benefit from viewing ourselves not so much as rational animals but rather as the rationalizing animal. The current article provides evidence that rationalization is unique to humans a…
Culture moderates the link between perceived obligation and biological health risk: Evidence of culturally distinct pathways for positive health outcomes
Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection
Although mate preference research has firmly established that men value physical attractiveness more than women do and women value social status more than men do, recent speed-dating studies have indicated mixed evidence (at best) for whether people's sex-differentiated mate preferences predict actual mate choices. According to an evolutionary, mate preference priority model (Li, Bailey, Kenrick, & Linsenmeier, 2002; Li & Kenrick, 2006; Li, Valen…
The role of instrumental emotion regulation in the emotions–creativity link: How worries render individuals with high neuroticism more creative
Based on the instrumental account of emotion regulation (Tamir, 2005), the current research seeks to offer a novel perspective to the emotions-creativity debate by investigating the instrumental value of trait-consistent emotions in creativity. We hypothesize that emotions such as worry (vs. happy) are trait-consistent experiences for individuals higher on trait neuroticism and experiencing these emotions can facilitate performance in a creativit…
Sex Differences Versus Gender Symmetry
Violation of Short-Term Mating Preferences
Differential Parental Investment
Advertising
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
Significance Pathogens, and antipathogen behavioral strategies, affect myriad aspects of human behavior. Recent findings suggest that antipathogen strategies relate to political attitudes, with more ideologically conservative individuals reporting more disgust toward pathogen cues, and with higher parasite stress nations being, on average, more conservative. However, no research has yet adjudicated between two theoretical accounts proposed to exp…
Production of Eggs and Sperm
Obligatory Parental Investment
Sexual Conflict in Mating Strategies
Adaptive Benefits of Matriliny and “Walking Marriages” in Mosuo Culture
Social Media
Antimicrobial Hypothesis, The
Boredom as an Adaptation
Frugivory By-Product Hypothesis
Boredom as an Adaptation
Self-Esteem Tracks Social Evaluation and Relational Value
Cognitive, social, emotional, and subjective health benefits of computer use in adults: A 9-year longitudinal study from the Midlife in the United States (Midus)
Confidence is sexy and it can be trained: Examining male social confidence in initial, opposite‐sex interactions
OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether men's social confidence in an initial, opposite-sex chatting context can be improved through a video tutorial and the extent to which being perceived as socially confident results in being seen as more romantically desirable and worthy of future contact. METHOD: Women chatted with men who had received or not received a tutorial on how to handle speed-dating chats (Study 1: N = 129; Study 2: N = 60) or with male …
Not so much rational but rationalizing: Humans evolved as coherence-seeking, fiction-making animals
The evidence for biased perceptions and judgments in humans coupled with evidence for ecological rationality in nonhuman animals suggest that the claim that humans are the rational animal may be overstated. We instead propose that discussions of human psychology may benefit from viewing ourselves not so much as rational animals but rather as the rationalizing animal. The current article provides evidence that rationalization is unique to humans a…
Culture moderates the link between perceived obligation and biological health risk: Evidence of culturally distinct pathways for positive health outcomes
Conditional Love: Threat and Attitudinal Perceptions of Immigrants Depend on Their Instrumentality to Locals’ Basic Psychological Needs
Although threat perceptions are commonly used to explain attitudes toward immigrants, the psychological factors underlying threat are surprisingly understudied. Drawing from goal pursuit and self-determination theory, we examined the perceived instrumentality of immigrants as an antecedent of locals’ threat and attitudinal perceptions. Through four studies ( N = 1,372) with different configurations of local population segments and target immigran…
Does Social Media Use Increase Depressive Symptoms? A Reverse Causation Perspective
According to the World Health Organization (1), 264 million individuals worldwide suffer from depression—a condition characterized by feelings of low self-worth, impaired concentration, and disturbed sleep, among various other maladaptive symptoms (2). Adolescents between 13 and 18 years of age are also vulnerable (3), with a 52% increase in the prevalence of depression among adolescents from 2005 to 2017 (4). Depression is tied to many serious p…
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. . . especially if I’m less intelligent: How sunlight and intelligence affect happiness in modern society
The savanna theory of happiness proposes that, due to evolutionary constraints on the human brain, situations and circumstances that would have increased our ancestors' happiness may still increase our happiness today, and those that would have decreased their happiness then may still decrease ours today. It further proposes that, because general intelligence evolved to solve evolutionarily novel problems, this tendency may be stronger among less…
When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness
INTRODUCTION: The savanna theory of happiness posits that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation that affect happiness but also its ancestral consequences, and that the effect of ancestral consequences on happiness is stronger among less intelligent individuals. But what about situations that did not exist in the ancestral environment and thus have no ancestral consequences? Global pandemic is one such situation that has no …
Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (13 works) · Biology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Mating (6 works)