Publications

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2025

Oh, V. Y. S.*, Hartanto, A., Ho, R. M. H., & Tong, E. M. W. (2025) Dispositional religiosity predicts increased incidence of mixed emotions: Evidence across five studies spanning two countries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251337120

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2025). Torn between valences? Associations between mixed emotions and well-being in stressful and non-stressful situations in a large-scale ecological momentary assessment study. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001537

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2025). Money matters for future well-being: A latent growth analysis and meta-analytic integration of associations between income, financial satisfaction, and 22 well-being variables across three datasets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000552

2024

Hoy, E. Q. W.#, & Oh, V. Y. S.* (2024). The consequences of spousal infidelity for long-term chronic health: A two-wave longitudinal analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241276713

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2024). A comparison of domain-specific evaluations of life in predicting overall life evaluation and biological inflammation. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13218

Gerhart, J.-V., & Oh., V. Y. S. (2024). Mixed emotions. In: Gollnhofer, J. F., Hofstetter, R., & Tomczak, T. (Eds.), Elgar Encylopedia of Consumer Behaviour. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803926278.ch65

2023

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2023). Direct versus indirect measures of mixed emotions in predictive models: Comparing predictive validities, multicollinearity, and confounding factors. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1231845. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1231845

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2023) Mixed emotional variants of gratitude: Antecedent situations, cognitive appraisals, action tendencies, and psychosocial outcomes. Cognition and Emotion, 37(3), 572–585. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2205104

Chua, K. Q., Ng, R., Sung, C. L. Q., Hartanto, A., Oh, V. Y. S., & Tong, E. M. W. Relationship between contentment and working memory capacity: experimental and naturalistic evidence (2023). Current Psychology, 42(30), 26243–26258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03714-7

Chew, T. W., Ong, C. S. L., & Oh, V. Y. S., & Tong, E. M. W. (2023) Does volunteering improve the psychosocial well-being of volunteers? Current Psychology, 42(26), 22338–22350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03345-y

Oh, V. Y. S.*, Ismail, I., & Tong, E. M. W. (2023) Income moderates trajectories of personality change. European Journal of Personality, 37(2), 223–238. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070221078479

2022

Low, A., Oh, V. Y. S., Tong, E. M. W., Scarf, D., & Ruffman, T. (2022) Older adults have difficulty decoding emotions from the eyes, whereas easterners have difficulty decoding emotion from the mouth. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 7408. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11381-8

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2022) Specificity in the study of mixed emotions: A theoretical framework. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 26(4), 283–314. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683221083398

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2022). Torn between valences: Mixed emotions predict poorer psychological well-being and job burnout. Journal of Happiness Studies23(5), 2171–2200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00493-z

Tong, E. M. W., Reddish, P., Oh, V. Y. S., Ng, W., Sasaki, E., Chin, E. D. A., & Diener, E. (2022). Income robustly predicts self-regard emotions. Emotion, 22(7), 1670–1685. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000933

2021

Oh, V. Y. S.*, Yu, Z., & Tong, E. M. W. (2021). Objective income but not subjective social status predicts short-term and long-term cognitive outcomes: findings across two large datasets. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02844-y

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2021). Mixed emotions, but not positive or negative emotions, facilitate legitimate virus-prevention behaviors and eudaimonic outcomes in the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis. Affective Science2(3), 311–323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00045-x

Tong, E. M. W., & Oh, V. Y. S.* (2021). Gratitude and adaptive coping among Chinese Singaporeans during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.628937

2020

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2020). Sadness, but not anger or fear, mediates the long-term leisure-cognition link: An emotion-specific approach. Cognition and Emotion, 34(7), 1357–1369. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1743237

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2020). Negative emotion differentiation and long-term physical health—The moderating role of neuroticism. Health Psychology39(2), 127–136. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000809