Jan 2018 Research Highlight | Social support from parents and friends for Chinese adolescents in Singapore
A study by Dr. Cheung Hoi Shan and Dr. Sim Tick Ngee examines the interplay between domains, sources and types… read more
Jan 2018 Research Highlight | Attention and the sense of agency
A review by Dr. Nicholas Hon explores the relationship between the sense of agency and attention. It is clear… read more
Jan 2018 Research Highlight | Phenomenology and presentation of anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
A review by Dr. Iliana Magiati draws on growing empirical literature to consider how anxiety presents in Autism Spectrum Disorder… read more
Sept 2017 Research Highlight | Is it perceived or actual choice that changes our preference?
Recent research by Dr. Yu Rongjun shows that changes in our preferences are not only induced by our actual choices,… read more
Sept 2017 Research Highlight | Young children discover how to deceive in 10 days
A microgenetic study by Dr. Ding Xiao Pan reveals that preschoolers spontaneously discover deception and systematically use it to win… read more
Sept 2017 Research Highlight | Understanding response patterns in dyadic conflict
Research by Dr. Al Au sheds light on the dynamics of dyadic conflict through an integrative approach combining self-construal and… read more
Jan 2017 Research Highlight | Neural mechanisms of the transformation from objective value to subjective utility
Research by Yoanna Kurnianingsih and Dr. O’Dhaniel Mullette-Gillman identifies the dorsal anterior midcingulate cortex as the neural locus of the… read more
Jan 2017 Research Highlight | When pain brings gain: Feigning injury to maintain a favourable scoreline in soccer
Research by Dr. Stuart Derbyshire on soccer players’ behaviour and admissions suggests a deliberate strategy of feigning injury for gain…. read more
Jan 2017 Research Highlight | Semantic richness effects in spoken word recognition
A megastudy by Dr. Winston Goh, Dr. Melvin Yap, and NUS Psychology graduates examines the relative contributions of semantic properties… read more
Nov 2016 Research Highlight | Media multitasking predicts video-recorded lecture learning performance through mind wandering tendencies
Research by Dr. Stephen Lim and NUS Psychology graduates reveals that media multitasking is associated with poorer video-recorded lecture learning… read more