Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Daily stress, problematic social media use, and executive functions: A daily diary approach, Wee Qin NG
Examining a regulatory flexibility framework of psychological distress: Integrating distress tolerance, emotion differentiation, and emotion regulation flexibility, Germaine Yue Qi TNG
Executive function and feedback in regulatory monitoring: Towards an understanding of flexible and adaptive emotion regulation, Gilaine Rui NG
Unpacking the behavioral, cognitive, sleep, and stress associations with smartphone checking, Yi Jing CHUA
Is this behavior impressive or repulsive? The influence of our ecology on our social evaluations, Kai Lin Lynn TAN
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Multiracial identity integration: Components, antecedents, and consequences, Sheila Xi Rui WEE
No interest in being cynical: Conflicting versus corresponding interests track variability in the link between personal control and cynicism, Bryan Kwok Cheng CHOY
The fear of being idle: What it is and how it relates to goal pursuits, Verity Yu Qing LUA
The (simp)le truth about excessive & obsessive romantic behaviors in men, Daniel HO
What might David do in the face of Goliath? The effects of height on status-signaling behaviours in males, Nicole Ruiying CHEN
Awe and relationship quality, Gloria Junyan LAI
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Socioeconomic status and pro-environmentalism: The role of time perspective, TOK QIAN HUI TRICIA
Battling self-esteem issues during SNS use: A multilevel latent variable path analysis approach, Shi Ann Shuna KHOO
Regulating behavioral spillovers: Regulatory focus moderates the link between perceived goal progress and engagement in subsequent behaviors, Tengjiao HUANG
The influence of parental psychological control on offspring anxiety symptomatology: A cognitive model, Yu Ping WONG
The role of age and time horizon in affect–meaning relations, Jun Sheng KEH
Effects of positive reappraisal and self-distancing on meaning-making in negative experiences, Yong Hao Clement LAU
Dual pathways to burnout and engagement: The role of personal goal facilitation through work, self-discrepancy and emotions, Bek Wuay TANG
Sorry, locals only: An experimental investigation of the affective, behavioural, and cognitive consequences of national identity denial, Nadyanna Binte Mohamed MAJEED
Taking health-risks as a short-term mating strategy, Alvin Jun Jie WONG
The effects of counterfactual thinking on everyday meaning, Wynn TAN
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Understanding but unhelpful: Do grateful people value responsiveness or perceived benefit when receiving help?, Elizabeth LIM
To switch or not to switch: Individual differences in executive function and emotion regulation flexibility, Wei Xing TOH
Two roads diverged: An alternative perspective on the EASI model, Nadhilla Velda MELIA
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
With a little help from my (undesirable) friends: The influence of sex ratio on preferences for the relative mate value of friends, Bryan Kwok Cheng CHOY
Is it only the thought that counts; or do gift cost, social approval, and relationship satisfaction matter too?, Farah Binte Abdul MALIK
Boosting creative ideation through improving self-regulation, Sean Teck Hao LEE
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Individual differences in executive function and reappraisal: A latent-variable analysis, Wei Xing TOH
Social media and creativity: The moderating role of executive functions, Joanne Qin Ying TAN
Perceptions of upward social mobility: The role of culture, social class and meritocratic beliefs, Bek Wuay TANG
Making it work as a working mother: The role of paradox mindset in positive appraisal of working motherhood tensions, Tengjiao HUANG
I want to be busy: Instrumental regulation of busyness among conscientious individuals, Brandon KOH
Reappraisal and savoring as mediators of the effect of informal mindfulness practice on well-being, Yan Qiang TAN
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Counting members in my league: Mate value moderates economic effects of local operational sex ratio, Zilin YAN
Daily satisfaction as a joint function of positive and negative affect: Moderating effects of cognitive habits, Indra Alam Syah AZIZ
The interpersonal effect of guilt expressions on cooperation: The role of social perceptions, Nadhilla Velda MELIA
A dual-process team mood framework of team creativity, Sean Teck Hao LEE
Coping with stereotype threat: Multiple identities and the role of gender-professional identity integration (G-PII), Amy Jia Ying LIM
The role of bilingual interactional contexts in predicting interindividual variability in executive functions: A latent variable analysis, Andree HARTANTO
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Adaptive mating memory: Attractiveness and contextual effect on the remembering and misremembering of potential mates’ faces, Peter Kay Chai TAY
What influence gratitude? The effects of type of benefactor, sense of entitlement and downward counterfactual thought, Chou Chuen YU
How and when do attributions affect relationship satisfaction? Judgments of partner suitability and implicit theories of relationships, Justus Rui Hao WEE
A proposal and examination of a novel life history and sociometer model of self-esteem, Jin Chuan YONG
The relationship between anxiety, mind wandering and task-switching: A diffusion model analysis, Andree HARTANTO
When pursuing multiple goals, people prioritize the minimally acceptable level over the aspiration level, Huey Woon LEE
A time for creativity: How future-oriented schemas facilitate creativity, Brandon Yuan Rui KOH
Team-efficacy dispersion pattern and team creativity, Michal FRANC
Role of reward structure in creativity and idea fixation, Jia Hao GOH
Benefits and burdens: The role of trait gratitude in positive and negative exchanges in friendships, Ze Ling NAI
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Does activating the need to belong alter things important for happiness and what makes life complete?, Justus Rui Hao WEE
Perceptions, stereotypes and cognitive resources of female businesspersons: A social identity approach, Amy J. Y. LIM
Bioecological Exchange Theory: Trading Resources for Childcare in Mate Selection, Katherine A. VALENTINE
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The (Un) Desirability of Happiness: Pathogen Threats Predict Differences in the Value of Happiness, Sharon Li Hua KOH
East Asian Low Marriage and Birth Rates: The Role of Social Status Affordance in Marriage and Childbearing Behavior, Jose C. YONG
Directed Forgetting of Happy and Angry Faces: The Effects of Facial Emotion and Sex on Recognition Memory for Facial Identity, Kay Chai TAY
Facial Features and the Effectiveness of Apology, Michal FRANC
The Motivation to Comply with Internal or External Moral Expectations: Is Just One Motivation Enough?, Huey Woon LEE