Eddie M W Tong

Dados Biográficos

ID200594
NOMEEddie M W Tong
PRENOMESEddie M W
SOBRENOMETong
ASSINATURATONG E M W
AFILIAÇÕESNational University of Singapore
ORCID0000-0002-8724-650X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES20
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2001
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Log off to Level Up

    Open AccessNekysha L Y Jalil, Yong Han Tan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology2026

    Concerns are growing that social media, with its constant notifications and attention-grabbing content, may distract individuals and hinder progress toward important goals. Despite its pervasive presence in our lives, the impact of social media on goal achievement has not been thoroughly studied. This within-subject experimental study aims to investigate the effects of social media hiatus (SMH), a short abstinence from social media usage, on goal…

  • Dispositional Religiosity Predicts Increased Incidence of Mixed Emotions

    Open AccessVincent Y S Oh, Andree Hartanto et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2026

    Across five studies (total N = 8,414), we examined whether religious individuals experienced more mixed emotions. Studies 1 and 2 examined associations between dispositional religiosity and mixed emotions, while Study 3 provided a pre-registered replication. Study 4 provided a pre-registered exploratory examination of three potential mediators of the relationship between dispositional religiosity and mixed emotions: trait dialecticism, cognitive …

  • How Intellectual Humility Enhances Affective Well‐Being

    Open AccessYsabel A Guevarra, K T A Sandeeshwara Kasturiratna et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2026

    OBJECTIVE: While intellectual humility has gained increasing prominence as a cognitive construct, its implications for affective well-being remain less understood. METHOD: = 3218) to examine how trait intellectual humility relates to daily positive and negative affect during uplifting and stressful events. We also tested potential mechanisms underlying the link between intellectual humility and affective well-being by examining whether intellectu…

  • Mixed evidence concerning the effects of the hopeful mindset among mother and child in low-income families in Singapore

    Eddie M W Tong, Jungup Lee et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2026

  • Gratitude and Self-Benefiting Obedience

    Open AccessEddie M W Tong, Gabriel R Lau et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2025

    There is robust evidence that gratitude encourages virtuous conduct. However, this research reveals that gratitude may also increase the likelihood of cheating for personal gain through a heightened tendency toward obedience. Across two studies, participants engaged in a performance-based task offering a monetary reward. Those induced to feel grateful toward the experimenter were more likely to obey a command to disregard their actual score and r…

  • “The many faces of sorrow”

    Open AccessMyron Tsikandilakis, Persefoni Bali et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

    Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea that there might in fact be different facets of sadness that can be distinguished psychologically and physiologically. In the current set of studies, we explored this hypothesis. In a first stage, part…

  • Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization

    Open AccessK T A Sandeeshwara Kasturiratna, Andree Hartanto et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024

    The increasing prevalence of cyberbullying victimization has become a commonplace issue globally. Although research has explored various predictors and consequences of cyberbullying victimization, most focus on a narrow range of variables or contexts, highlighting the need to comprehensively review and synthesize the wealth of empirical findings. We conducted a systematic review of meta-analyses on cyberbullying victimization, incorporating 56 me…

  • Trajectories of emotional disclosure with parents during the college transition among Asian first-year students

    Geckhong Yeo, Eddie M W TongARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    The college transition is a time of great emotional lability, and sharing emotional experiences with parents can be beneficial for first-year students. Guided by the social sharing of emotions framework and the cultural theory on self-construal, this study investigated the developmental course of freshmen's emotional disclosure with parents during the first semester and the mediating role of independence-orientation in two Asian contexts-Beijing …

  • Relationship between contentment and working memory capacity

    Open AccessKhai Qing Chua, Rachel Ng et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

  • Does volunteering improve the psychosocial well-being of volunteers

    Open AccessTai-Wen Chew, Corrine S-L Ong et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

  • Mixed emotional variants of gratitude

    Vincent Y S Oh, Eddie M W TongARTICLECognition & Emotion2023

    This research provides an exploratory investigation of whether gift/help-receiving contexts that elicit mixed emotional variants of gratitude can be distinguished from typical gratitude-eliciting situations in their associated appraisals, action tendencies, and psychosocial effects. We examined 473 participants (159 males, 312 females, 2 others; Mage = 31.07) using a one-way four-conditions between-subjects experiment. Participants were randomly …

  • Moral Expansiveness Around the World

    Open AccessKelly Kirkland, Charlie R Crimston et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2023

    What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found …

  • A longitudinal investigation of religious prosociality

    Paul Reddish, Eddie M W TongARTICLEPsychology of Religion and…2023

  • Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance

    Open AccessMatthew J Hornsey, Pearson et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…2023Citada por: 9Referências: 50

    While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less is known about the country‐level factors that shape people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories. In the current article we discuss the possibility that willingness to believe conspiracy theories might be shaped by the perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at the national level. To test this notion, we surveyed …

  • A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping

    Open AccessPorntida Tanjitpiyanond, Jolanda Jetten et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…2023Referências: 31

    There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth‐based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived highe…

  • “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”

    Open AccessMyron Tsikandilakis, Man Qing Leong et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2022

  • Self-transcendence through self-inhibition

    Patrick K F Lin, Jonathan E Ramsay et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Religion and…2022

    This article reports 7 studies showing that God primes inhibit self-concept accessibility. Study 1A provided the first supportive evidence using undergraduate samples. Study 1B replicated the findings using working adult participants. Study 2A to 2C showed that the inhibitory effect of the God concept on implicit self-concepts was not due to concepts related to love, power, hope, religion, devil, and father. Study 3 found the same inhibitory effe…

  • Objective Income But Not Subjective Social Status Predicts Short-Term and Long-Term Cognitive Outcomes

    Open AccessVincent Y S Oh, Zhaoliang Yu et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2022Citada por: 2Referências: 74

  • Gratitude and Adaptive Coping Among Chinese Singaporeans During the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessEddie M W Tong, Vincent Y S OhARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    We report results of a cross-sectional survey conducted during March-April 2020 which marked the start and escalation of the COVID-19 crisis in Singapore. Our purpose was to examine whether reported feelings of gratitude among Chinese Singaporeans ( N = 371; 124 males, 247 females; M age = 22.54, SD age = 3.63, age range: 18-53 years) could be linked to adaptive responses to the pandemic. The results revealed that gratitude was associated with st…

  • Income robustly predicts self-regard emotions

    Eddie M W Tong, Paul Reddish et al.ARTICLEEmotion2021

    There is robust evidence that higher income makes people evaluate their lives more favorably, but there is no consistent evidence on whether it makes people feel better. Analyzing data from five large surveys spanning 162 countries, we predicted and found the most comprehensive evidence to date that income reliably predicted greater positive self-regard emotions (e.g., pride) and lower negative self-regard emotions (e.g., anxiety). In contrast, i…

  • Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups

    Open AccessMartin Lang, Dimitris Xygalatas et al.ARTICLEGroup Processes & Intergroup…2021Citada por: 4Referências: 10

    Evolutionary models and empirical evidence suggest that outgroup threat is one of the strongest factors inducing group cohesion; however, little is known about the process of forming such cohesive groups. We investigated how outgroup threat galvanizes individuals to affiliate with others to form engaged units that are willing to act on behalf of their in-group. A total of 864 participants from six countries were randomly assigned to an outgroup t…

  • Sadness, but not anger or fear, mediates the long-term leisure-cognition link

    Open AccessVincent Y S Oh, Eddie M W TongARTICLECognition & Emotion2020

    Past research has provided some evidence of positive relationships between leisure and cognitive functioning, but questions remain regarding their mechanisms. We argue that specific negative emotions may provide promising theoretical mechanisms for the leisure-cognition link. Guided by theories of leisure and emotion-specificity, we used a large-sample, longitudinal dataset of adult participants (N = 3536; 1940 females; Mage = 56.16) to examine t…

  • Gratitude facilitates obedience

    Eddie M W Tong, Ching-Xing Ng et al.ARTICLEEmotion2020

    We report four studies that tested the hypothesis that gratitude increases obedience. Four experimental studies ( N = 623) found that participants who were induced to feel gratitude obeyed to a greater extent a command to grind worms in a grinder than those feeling neutral. These novel findings demonstrate that gratitude can encourage obeying instructions to exact physical harm, violating moral principles of care. Grateful participants obeyed bot…

  • When the camera eats first

    Open AccessJoceline Y Y Yong, Eddie M W Tong et al.ARTICLEAppetite2020Referências: 25

  • Teleological explanation and positive emotion serially mediate the effect of religion on well‐being

    Open AccessJonathan E Ramsay, Eddie M W Tong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2019

    OBJECTIVE: Previous research has demonstrated a robust relationship between religion and well-being, and it has been proposed that positive emotions are important mediators of this effect. Yet the mechanism via which religion promotes positive emotions has not been widely studied. We sought to examine whether teleological explanations of daily events and resulting positive emotions serially mediated the effects of religion on well-being. METHOD: …