SELECTED PUBLICATIONS                                                 

Wang, Y., Lei, T., Xie, W., & Su, Y. (in press). The neural processing of misfortunes and fortunes of prosocial and antisocial targets in children. Developmental Science.

Wang, Y., Zhou, W., Zhu, J., & Su, Y. (2024). Schadenfreude or empathy? Children's emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 245, 105974. [accessible here]

Wang, Y., Harris, P. L., Pei, M., & Su, Y. (2022). Do bad people deserve empathy? Selective empathy based on targets’ moral characteristics. Affective Science. [accessible here]

Wang, Y., Shang, S., Xie, W., Hong, S., Liu, Z., & Su, Y. (2022). The relation between aggression and theory of mind in children: A meta-analysis. Developmental Science, e13310. [accessible here]

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (2022). Genetic contributions to East Asian morality. In R. Nichols (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook on morality, emotion, and cognition in China (pp. 80-100). Routledge. [accessible here]

Wang, Y., Hong, S., Pei, M., Wang, X., & Su, Y. (2021). Emotion matters in early polite lies: Preschoolers’ polite lie-telling in relation to cognitive and emotion-related abilities. Social Development, 1–17. [accessible here]

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (2020). Evolution or degeneration: The cultural generality and variation of children’s over-imitation. Psychological Development and Education [in Chinese], 36(5), 624-632. [accessible here]

 

PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW                                              

Wang, Y. *, Colomer, M.*, Hwang, H. G.*, Tan, E., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (under review). Language exposure predicts infants’ neural processing of others’ actions based on language group.

Xie, W.*, Wang, Y.*, Sacks, D. D., Nelson, C. A., & Bosquet Enlow, M. (under review). Neural correlates of child temperament profiles: The role of brain network connectivity in psychopathology risk.

 

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION (*equal contribution)           

Wang, Y. *, Colomer, M.*, Hwang, H. G.*, Groves, C., Filippi, C., & Woodward, A. (in preparation). Infants’ social responses and attention to strangers based on language groups.

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (in preparation). You deserve it! The development of selective empathy based on targets’ moral characteristics.

Wang, Y.*, Wang, X.*, & Su, Y. (in preparation). Who owns the snacks? The influence of ownership on third-party interventions to unequal distribution in children and adolescents.

 

SELECTED CONFERENCE ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Wang, Y. *, Colomer, M. *, Hwang, H., G. *, Groves, C., Filippi, C., & Woodward, A. (2025, May). New online method to assess infants' social responses. In Hwang, H., G., Wang, Y. (Chairs), New methods to investigate early emerging social understanding in infancy and early childhood. Symposium Talk at the Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Wang, Y.*, Xie, W.*, ... Nelson, C. A., & Bosquet Enlow, M. (2023, October). Temperament and psychopathology: The “community” to which you belong matters. In K. Deater-Deckard, S. Morales (Chairs), Adversity, vulnerability, psychopathology, and temperament. Symposium Talk at the 24th Occasional Temperament Conference, Orford, Quebec, Canada.

Wang, Y., Şen, H., Hamlin, J., K., Yuen, F., Lucca, K., & the ManyBabies Consortium (2022, October). ManyBabies4: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study of infants’ social evaluation. Talk presented at the 2022 Big Team Science Conference. [accessible here]

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (2022, July). Chinese morality, human morality: Perspectives from genetics, history, and ecocultural change. Talk presented at the 26th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Wang, Y., Hong S., Pei, M., & Su, Y. (2021, July). The relation between children’s theory of mind and aggression: A meta-analysis. Talk presented at the International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (2021, March). Morally selective empathy: Children show less empathy toward antisocial puppets than prosocial puppets. Talk presented at the Virtual Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development.

 

SELECTED CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS (*equal contribution)      

Wang, Y. *, Colomer, M.*, Hwang, H. G.*, Tan, E., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (2025, May). Language exposure influences infants’ neural processing of others’ actions based on language group. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Wang, Y. *, Colomer, M.*, Hwang, H. G.*, Groves, C., Waite, A., Takemoto, S., Filippi, C., & Woodward, A. (2024, July). Assessing social responses of infants to strangers in an online task: Insights from human coding and Facereader analysis. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland.

Wang, Y.*, Şen, H.*, Hamlin, J., K., Yuen, F., Lucca, K, & the ManyBabies Consortium (2023, January). Individual differences in infants’ social evaluations across cultures: A spin-off project of ManyBabies4. Poster to be presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Wang, Y., Zhu, J., & Su, Y. (2022, February). Do bad people deserve empathy? Children’s and adults’ empathic responses and helping tendency toward antisocial and neutral characters. Poster presented at the Pre-conference (the Origins of Social Minds) of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (2021, April). Children’s understanding of the relation between reminder and emotion across countries: A cross-cultural meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Max Planck Spring School for the Study of Culture and Mind.

Wang, Y., Hong, S., Pei, M., & Su, Y. (2021, March). Emotion matters in early polite lies: Preschoolers’ polite lie-telling in relation to cognitive and emotion-related abilities. Poster presented at the Virtual Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development.

Wang, Y., & Su, Y. (2019, March). Affective empathy moderates the relation between theory of mind and preschoolers’ social behavior. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.