Dr. HO Yuen Wan

Senior Lecturer

Office:  WYL124, Dorothy Y L Wong Building
              Department of Psychology
              Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

TEL:      (852) 2616 7845

FAX:     (852) 2616 5997

e-Mail:  [email protected]

Yuen Wan obtained her Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After graduation, she was a post-doctoral research fellow in Personality Assessment Laboratory at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Lifespan Emotional Development Laboratory at Northeastern University. Yuen Wan’s research broadly focuses on emotion, mindfulness, well-being, and personality assessment. Yuen Wan holds the certification of Hogan Personality Assessment, the Facial Action Coding System (FACS),  Zentangle Teacher (CZT), Life Design Studio Training for University Educators, and the Level One training of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher Education at the Mindfulness Center at Brown School of Public Health.

Research

• Emotion
• Mindfulness
• Well-being
• Personality assessment

Publications

DiGirolamo, M., McCall, E., Uysal, Ho, Y. W., Lind, M., & Isaacowitz, D. (2023). Attention to Emotional Stimuli Across Adulthood and Older Age: A Novel Application of Eye-tracking Within the Home. The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1439-1453. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001343

Lin, H., Chang, Y., Chen, C., Ho, Y.W., Xi, W., Zhang, X., Fung, H.H., Ayalon L. (2022). Are older adults more optimistic? Evidence from China, Israel and the US. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77, e83-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab046

Cheung, F. M., & Ho, Y. W. (2021). Assessing personality from a cultural perspective. In P. Graf & D. J. Dozois (Eds.), Handbook on the state of the art in applied psychology (pp. 342-355). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Bencharit, Z L., Ho, Y.W., Fung, H.H., Yeung, D., Stephens, N., Roero-Canyas, R., Tsai, J.L. (2019). Should job applications be excited?  The role of culture and ideal affect in employment settings. Emotion, 19, 377-401. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000444

Cheung, F. M., & Ho, Y. W. (2018). Culturally relevant personality assessment. In K. Shigemasu, S. Kuwano, T. Sato, & T. Matsuzawa (Eds.), Diversity in harmony: Insights from psychology (pp. 211–229). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
 

Teaching Subjects

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