Journal Articles

• ​Yong, J. C., & Kanazawa, S. (forthcoming). Able but unwilling: Intelligence is associated with earlier puberty and yet slower reproduction. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.
  
• Chan, S. H. M., Qiu, L., & Yong, J. C. (forthcoming). Urban-themed mobile phone wallpapers reduce connectedness with nature compared to nature-themed wallpapers: Evidence from two field studies. Ecopsychology.
• Lim, A. J. Y., Yong, J. C., & Tan, E. (forthcoming). Artificial intelligence, fundamental motives, and evolutionary mismatch. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.
• Yong, J. C., Lim, C. H., Jonason, P. K., & Thomas, A. G. (2025). Income and sex moderate the association between population density and reproduction: A multilevel analysis of life history strategies across 23 nations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 54, 289-305.
• Yong, J. C., Aziz, I. A. S., Xiao, H., & Li, N. P. (2025). Interactive effects of intrasexual competitiveness, same-sex competition, and physical attractiveness on temporal discounting. Personality and Individual Differences, 232, 112843.
• Liu, Y., Stivers, A., Murphy, R. O., Van Doesum, N. J., Joireman, J., […], Yong, J. C., & van Lange, P. A. M. (2024). Wherefore art thou competitors?: How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism and competition. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication.
• Hartanto, A., Sim, L., Lee, D., Majeed, N. M., & Yong, J. C. (2024). Cultural contexts differentially shape parents' loneliness and wellbeing during the empty nest period. Communications Psychology, 2, 105.
• ​Yong, J. C., Lim, A. J. Y., & Li, N. P. (2024). When social status gets in the way of reproduction in modern settings: An evolutionary mismatch perspective. Culture and Evolution, 20(1), 59-76.
• ​Chen, N. R. Y., Majeed, N. M., Lai, G. J., Koh, P. S., Kasturiratna, K. T. A. S., [...], Yong, J. C., & Hartanto, A. (2024). Human-animal interaction and human prosociality: A three-level meta-analytic review. Anthrozoös, 37(2), 269-288.
• van Leeuwen, F., Inbar, Y., Petersen, M. B., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., […], Yong, J. C., Žeželj, I., & Tybur, J. M. (2022). Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 629-651.
• ​Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2022). Elucidating evolutionary principles with the traditional Mosuo: Adaptive benefits and origins of matriliny and "walking marriages". Culture and Evolution, 19(1), 22-40.
• ​​Kanazawa, S., Li, N. P., & Yong, J. C. (2022). When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness. Journal of Personality, 90(6), 971-987.
• Yong, J. C., Tan, Y. W., Li, N. P., & Meltzer, A. L. (2022). Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile-based experimental paradigm. Journal of Personality, 90(6), 821-845.
• Kanazawa, S., Li, N. P., & Yong, J. C. (2022). Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy... especially if I’m less intelligent:  How sunlight and intelligence affect happiness in modern society. Cognition and Emotion, 36(4), 722-730.
• ​​Van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R. O., Aharanov-Majar, E., Athenstaedt, U., Au, W. T., Bai, L., […], Yong, J. C., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2022). Reply to Nielsen et al.: Social mindfulness associated with countries' environmental performance and individual environmental concern. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(9), e2122077119.
• Van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R. O., Aharanov-Majar, E., Athenstaedt, U., Au, W. T., Bai, L., […], Yong, J. C., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2022). Reply to Komatsu et al.: From local social mindfulness to global sustainability efforts? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,119(4), e2119303118.
• ​Lee, S. T. H., Choy, B. K. C., & Yong, J. C. (2022). A bubble of protection: Examining dispositional optimism as a psychological buffer of the deleterious association between negative work-family spillover and psychological health. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 31(1), 35-46.
• Yong, J. C., Li, N. P., & Kanazawa, S. (2021). Not so much rational but rationalizing: Humans evolved as coherence-seeking, fiction-making animals. American Psychologist, 76(5), 781-793.
• Yong, J. C., Jia, L., Ismail, I., & Lee, P. (2021). Conditional love: Threat and attitudinal perceptions of immigrants depend on their instrumentality to locals’ basic psychological needs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(12), 1686-1704.
• ​​Van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R. O., Aharanov-Majar, E., Athenstaedt, U., Au, W. T., Bai, L., […], Yong, J. C., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2021). Social mindfulness across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(35), e2023846118
• Hartanto, A., Lua, V. Y. Q., Quek, F. Y. Q., Yong, J. C., & Ng, M. H. S. (2021). A critical review on the moderating role of contextual factors in the associations between video gaming and wellbeing. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 4,100135.
• Hartanto, A., Quek, F. Y. Q., Tng, G., & Yong, J. C. (2021). Does social media use increase depressive symptoms? A reverse causation perspective. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 641934.
• Yong, J. C., & Choy, B. K. C. (2021). Noncompliance with safety guidelines as a free-riding strategy: An evolutionary game-theoretic approach to cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 646892.
• Yong, J. C., Park, G., & Spitzmuller, M. (2021). From the savannah to the corporate office: The evolution of teams. Small Group Research, 52(1), 33-67.
• Yong, J. C., Hartanto, A., & Tan, J. J. X. (2021). Subjective social status and inflammation: The role of culture and anger control. Health Psychology, 40(1), 62-70. 
• ​​​Li, N. P., Yong, J. C., Tsai, M.-H., Lai, M. H. C., Lim, A. J. Y., & Ackerman, J. M. (2020). Confidence is sexy and it can be trained: Examining male social confidence in initial, opposite-sex interactions. Journal of Personality, 88, 1235-1251.
• Li, N. P., Yong, J. C., & Van Vugt, M. (2020). Evolutionary psychology's next challenge: Solving modern problems using a mismatch perspective. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 14(4), 362-367.
• Lee, S. T. H., Hartanto, A., Yong, J. C., Koh, B., & Leung, A. K.-y. (2020). Examining the cross-cultural validity of the positive affect and negative affect schedule (PANAS) between an Asian (Singaporean) sample and a Western (American) sample. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23(1), 109-116.
• Hartanto, A., Yong, J. C., Toh, W. X., Lee, S. T. H., Tng, G., & Tov, W. (2020). Cognitive, social, emotional, and subjective health benefits of computer use in midlife adults: A 9-year longitudinal study from the midlife in the United States (MIDUS). Computers in Human Behavior, 104, 106179.
• Hartanto, A., Yong, J. C., Lee, S. T. H., Ng, W. Q., & Tong, E. M. W. (2020). Putting adversity into perspective: Purpose in life moderates the effect of childhood emotional abuse and neglect on adulthood depressive symptoms. Journal of Mental Health, 29(4), 473-482.
• Hartanto, A., Lau, I. Y.-M., & Yong, J. C. (2020). Culture moderates the link between perceived obligation and biological health risk: Evidence of culturally distinct pathways for positive health outcomes. Social Science and Medicine, 244, 112644.
• Hartanto, A., Yong, J. C., & Toh, W. X. (2019). Bidirectional associations between obesity and cognitive function in midlife adults: A longitudinal study. Nutrients, 11(10), 2343.
• Yong, J. C., Li, N. P., Jonason, P. K., & Tan, Y. W. (2019). East Asian low marriage and birth rates: The role of life history strategy, culture, and social status affordance. Personality and Individual Differences, 141, 127-132.
• Hartanto, A., Lee, S. T. H., & Yong, J. C. (2019). Dispositional gratitude moderates the association between socioeconomic status and interleukin-6. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 802.
• Hartanto, A., & Yong, J. C. (2018). Measurement matters: Higher waist-to-hip ratio but not body mass index is associated with deficits in executive functions and episodic memory. PeerJ, 6, e5624.
• Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M. T., Fusaroli, R., Clint, E., Amir, D., […], Yong, J. C., Yuditha, T., & Zhou, Y. (2018). The perception of spontaneous and volitional laughter across 21 societies. Psychological Science, 29(9), 1515-1525.
• Chan, K. Y. G., Tan, S. L., Hew, K. F. T., Koh, B. G., Lim, L. S., & Yong, J. C. (2017). Knowledge for games, games for knowledge: Designing a digital roll-and-move board game for a law of torts class. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 12(7), 1-20.
• Tybur, J. M., Inbar, Y., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., Barlow, F., […], & Yong, J. C. (2016). Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, 12408-12413.
• Cheung, I., Campbell, L., LeBel, E., Ackerman, R. A., Aykutoğlu, B., […], & Yong, J. C. (2016). Registered Replication Report: Study 1 from Finkel, Rusbult, Kumashiro, & Hannon (2002). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 750-764.
• Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M. T., Fusaroli, R., Clint, E., Aarøe, L., […], Yong, J. C., Yuditha, T., & Zhou, Y. (2016). Detecting affiliation in co-laughter across 24 societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(17), 4682-4687.
• Leung, A. K.-y., Liou, S., Qiu, L., Kwan, L. Y-Y., Chiu, C-y., & Yong, J. C. (2014). The role of instrumental emotional regulation in the emotions-creativity link: How worries render individuals with high neuroticism more creative. Emotion, 14(5), 846-856.
• Marcinkowska, U. M., Kozlov, M. V., Cai, H., Contreras-Garduño, J., Dixson, B. J., […], Yong, J. C., & Rantala, M. J. (2014). Cross cultural variation in men’s preferences for sexual dimorphism in women’s faces. Biology Letters, 10, 20130850.
• Li, N. P., Yong, J. C., Tov, W., Sng, O., Fletcher, G. J. O., Valentine, K. A., Fann, J., & Balliet, D. B. (2013). Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 757-776.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2012). Cash in hand, want better looking mate: Significant resource cues raise men’s mating standards. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 55-58.

​Book Chapters and Entries

• Choy, B. K. C., & Yong, J. C. (2022). Free rider problem during the Covid-19 pandemic. In D. C. Poff & A. C. Michalos (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2021). Social-personality perspectives on parenting. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology and parenting (pp. 66-96). Oxford University Press.
• Indra Alam Syah, A., & Yong, J. C. (2020). Self-esteem tracks social evaluation and relational value. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, J. C., & Yeo, A. M. (2019). Adaptive benefits of matriliny and “walking marriages” in Mosuo culture. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, C. F., & Yong, J. C. (2019). Frugivory by-product hypothesis. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, C. F., & Yong, J. C. (2019). The antimicrobial hypothesis. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Lim, A. J. Y., & Yong, J. C. (2019). Social media. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Indra Alam Syah, A., & Yong, J. C. (2019). Boredom as an adaptation. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2018). The adaptive functions of jealousy. In H. C. Lench (Ed.). The function of emotions: When and why emotions help us (pp. 121-140). Springer.
• Tay, A. J., Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2018). Production of eggs and sperm. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Kheng, C. K., Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2018). Obligatory parental investment. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Li, N. P., & Yong, J. C. (2018). Sexual conflict in mating strategies. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, J. C., Li, N. P., Valentine, K. A., & Smith, A. R. (2017). Female virtual intrasexual competition and its consequences: An evolutionary mismatch perspective. In M. L. Fisher (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of women and competition (pp. 657-680). Oxford University Press.
• Valentine, K. A., Li, N. P., & Yong, J. C. (2017). Competitive motherhood: Helping offspring have higher reproductive success. In M. L. Fisher (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of women and competition (pp. 479-504). Oxford University Press.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2016). Advertising. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2016). Violation of short-term mating preferences. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2016). Differential parental investment. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2016). Sex differences versus gender symmetry. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer.
• Li, N. P., Smith, A., Yong, J. C., & Brown, T. A. (2014). Intrasexual competition and other theories of eating restriction. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human sexual psychology and behavior (pp. 323-346). Springer.

Books

• Benoliel, M., Mukherjee, G., & Yong, J. C. (2020). Negotiate, persuade, and create great deals. World Scientific.​

​​Conference Presentations

• Yong, J. C. (2025, January). Wellbeing in modern society: An evolutionary mismatch perspective. Presented at the Psychological Science and Well-Being Conference, James Cook University, Singapore, SG.
• Yong, J. C., Lim, A. J. Y., & Li, N. P. (2023, June). When social status gets in the way of reproduction in modern settings: An evolutionary mismatch perspective. Presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Palm Springs, CA.
• Li, N. P., Yong, J. C., Tsai, M.-H., Lai, M. H. C., Lim, A. J. Y., & Ackerman, J. M. (2023, June). Confidence is sexy and trainable: Examining an important but neglected mate preference. Presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Palm Springs, CA.
• Yong, J. C., & Park, G. (2017, January). The implications of team efficacy and team structure on team creativity. Presented at the Academy of Management 2017 annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• ​Li, N. P., Valentine, K. A., & Yong, J. C. (2016, June). Are mate preferences valid? Presented in the Current Developments in Human Mating Research symposium at the 28th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Vancouver, BC.
• Sulikowski, V., Yong, J. C., Shamma’a, M., & Chase, B. (2015, September). The five trends reshaping the DNA of work in Asia. Presented at the Worktech Asia 2015 conference, Singapore, SG.

Conference Papers and Posters

• Yong, J. C., Tan, Y. W., Li, N. P., & Meltzer, A. (2023, June). Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile-based experimental paradigm. Poster presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Palm Springs, CA.
• Yong, J. C., Jia, L., Ismail, I.., & Lee, P. (2022). Attitudes toward immigrants depend on their perceived instrumentality to locals’ basic psychological needs. Poster presented at the 2022 annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
• Li, N. P., Yong, J. C., Tsai, M.-H., Lai, M. H. C., Lim, A. J. Y., & Ackerman, J. M. (2021). Confidence is sexy and trainable: Evidence from initial, opposite-sex encounters. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science virtual convention.
• ​Park, G., Hirst, G., Lim, B. C., & Yong, J. C. (2017). Implications of narcissistic personality on team creativity and viability: Does it do more harm than good? Poster presented at the Academy of Management 2017 annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Yong, J. C., & Park, G. (2016). Effects of team structure and team efficacy on information elaboration. Poster presented at the 31st annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Anaheim, CA.
• Yong, J. C., & Li, N. P. (2015). East Asian low marriage and birth rates: The role of social status affordance in long-term mating behavior. Poster presented at the 27th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Columbia, MO.
• Yong, J. C. (2015). Effects of word valence on number of synonyms are mediated by perceived disgust. Poster presented at the 27th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.
• Yong, J. C., & Park, G. (2014). The interactive effect of mood and social value orientation on cooperativeness. Poster presented at the 26th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
• Yong, J. C., & Tan, Y. (2014). You did not just say that: Having more synonyms may facilitate the avoidance of expressing negatively valenced words. Poster presented at the 26th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Natal, Brazil.
• Leung, A. K.-y., Liou, S., Qiu, L., Kwan, L. Y-Y., Chiu, C-y., & Yong, J. C. (2013). The role of instrumental emotion regulation in the emotions-creativity link: How worries render neurotic individuals more creative. Paper presented at the 9th Association of Computing Machinery Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Sydney, Australia.
• Yong, J. C., Chin, I. & Ng, B. (2012). The effects of birth order on social group formation. Poster presented at the 13th annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Yong, J. C. (2011). The effects of resource cues on self-perceived mate value and mating standards. Poster presented at the 23rd annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC, DC.

Invited Talks

• Yong, J. C. (2024, November). Evolutionary mismatch and modern problems: An ecological approach to psychosocial aspects of the unfolding polycrisis. Presented at Psychology Brown Bag at James Cook University, Singapore.
• Yong, J. C. (2024, April). Modern problems require ancestral solutions?: The competition and stress hypothesis of evolutionary mismatch. Presented at the Urban Futures Monthly Meetup at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
• Yong, J. C. (2023, March). Resource affordances, social status, and cultural variations in fertility and reproduction. Presented at the Undergraduate Conference 2023 at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
• Yong, J. C. (2019, November). When status interferes with mating: The incompatibility between social status and reproductive goals in modern contexts. Presented at the Research Division Lunchtime Seminar Series at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Yong, J. C. (2017, February). The evolutionary psychology of group dynamics. Presented at the Group Processes seminar at Singapore Management University, Singapore.
• Yong, J. C. (2016, November). The evolved negotiator. Presented at the Business Negotiation and Conflict Management seminar at Singapore Management University, Singapore.
• Yong, J. C. (2015, March). Social status: What it is, why it matters, and its effects on marriage and childbearing outcomes in developed East Asian countries. Presented at the Capstone seminar series at Singapore Management University, Singapore.

Technical Reports

• Boh, W. F., Uy, M. A., Fu, Y., Yong, J. C., & Liu, Q. (2021). Research study on training opportunity identification competence. Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University.
• Koh, B. G., & Yong, J. C. (2017). GameLead feedback Term 2 AY2016/2017. Centre for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University.
• ​Koh, B. G., & Yong, J. C. (2016). GameLead feedback Term 1 AY2016/2017. Centre for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University.
• Yong, J. C., Koh, B. G., & Tan, S. L. (2016). Institutes of higher learning 2016 comparison report on technology-enabled teaching and learning. Centre for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University.​