Population Well-Being Lab

Publications

* indicates shared first-authorship. 

Subjective Well-being Research

  • Chan, M.*, Cheung, F.*, Lau, C., & Ma, T.F. (in press). Global Trends in Cross-Cultural Endorsement of Social Mobility: Evidence from 167 Countries. American Psychologist.
  • Cheung, F., Kube, A., Tay, L., Diener, E., Jackson, J. J., Lucas, R. E., Ni, M. Y., & Leung, G.M. (2020). The Impact of the Syrian Conflict on Population Well-being. Nature Communications, 11, 3899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17369-0
  • Ni, M. Y., Yao, X. I., Cheung, F., Wu, J. T., Schooling, C. M., Pang, H., & Leung, G. M. (2020). Determinants of physical, mental and social well-being: a longitudinal environment-wide association study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(2), 380-389. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz238
  • Cheung, F. & Lucas, R.E. (2019). Income inequality and well-being: The role of social comparison. In Suls, J., Collins, R. L., Wheeler, L. (Eds.). Oxford Volume on Social Comparison, Behavior & Judgment (pp. 623-645). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190629113.001.0001
  • Baugh, G.A., Pfund, G.N., Hill, P.L., & Cheung, F. (2019). Fifty States of Purpose: Examining Sense of Purpose across the United States. Journal of Positive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1689417
  • Hill, P. L.,* Cheung, F.,* Kube, A., & Burrow, A. L. (2019). Life engagement is associated with higher GDP among societies. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 210-214.
  • Yao, X. I., Ni, M. Y., Cheung, F., Wu, J. T., Schooling, C. M., Leung, G. M., & Pang, H. (2019). Change in moderate alcohol consumption and quality of life: evidence from 2 population-based cohorts. CMAJ, 191(27), E753-E760.
  • Cheung, F. (2018). Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction Across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(5), 867-882.
  • Calvo, R. & Cheung, F. (2018). Does money buy immigrants happiness? Journal of Happiness Studies, 19(6), 1657-1672.
  • Cheung, F. (2016). Can income inequality be associated with positive outcomes? Hope mediates the positive inequality-happiness link in rural China. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(4), 320-330. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550615619762
  • Cheung, F. & Lucas, R.E. (2016). Income inequality is associated with stronger social comparison effects: The effect of relative Income on life satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(2), 332-341.
  • Cheung, F. & Lucas, R. E. (2015). When does money matter most? Examining the association between income and life satisfaction over the life Course. Psychology and Aging, 30(1), 120-135.
  • Cheung, F., & Lucas, R. E. (2014). Assessing the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures: results from three large samples. Quality of Life Research, 23(10), 2809-2818.
  • Lucas, R.E., Cheung, F., & Lawless, N.M. (2013). Investigating the happiness of U.S. regions. In P.J. Rentfrow (Ed.), Geographical Psychology: Exploring the Interaction of Environment and Behavior. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Methodological and Meta-Science Research

  • Atherton, O. E., Chung, J. M., Harris, K., Rohrer, J. M., Condon, D. M., Cheung, F., … Corker, K. S. (2021). Why Has Personality Psychology Played an Outsized Role in the Credibility Revolution?. Personality Science, 2, 1-21.
  • Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., Dreber, A…. Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), 451-479. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000220 (21th out of 58 authors)
  • Silberzahn, R., Uhlmann, E.L., Martin, D.P., Anselmi, P., Aust, F., Awtrey, E., … Nosek, B. A. (2018). Many analysts, one dataset: Making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 337-356.
  • Ni, M.Y., Hui, R.W.H., Li, T.K., Tam, A.H.M., Choy, L.L.Y., Ma, K.K.W., Cheung, F., Leung, G. (2018). Augmented reality games as a new class of physical activity interventions? The impact of Pokémon Go use and gaming intensity on physical activity. Games for Health, 8(1), 1-6.
  • Anderson, C. J., Bahník, Š., Barnett-Cowan, M., Bosco, F. A., Chandler, J., Chartier, C. R., Cheung, F., Christopherson, C. D., Cordes, A., Cremata, E. J., Della Penna, N., Estel, V., Fedor, A., Fitneva, S. A., Frank, M. C., Grange, J. A., Hartshorne, J. K., Hasselman, F., Henninger, F., Jonas, K. J., Lai, C. K., Levitan, C. A., Miller, J. K., Moore, K. S., Meixner, J. M., Munafò, M. R., Neijenhuijs, K. I., Nilsonne, G., Nosek, B. A., Plessow, F., Prenoveau, J. M., Ricker, A. A., Schmidt, K., Spies, J. R., Stieger, S., Strohminger, N., Sullivan, G. B., van Aert, R. C. M., van Assen, M. A. L. M., van der Hulst, M., Vanpaemel, W., Vianello, M., Voracek, M., & Zuni, K. (2016). Response to a comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science”. Science, 351(6277), 1037. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad9163
  • Johnson, D.J., Wortman J., Cheung, F., Hein M., Lucas, R.E, Donnellan, M.B., Ebersole, C.R., Narr, R.D. (2016). The effects of disgust on moral judgments: A search of moderators. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(7), 640-647.
  • Schweinsberg, M., Madan, N., Vianello, M., Sommer, S. A., Jordan, J., Tierney, W., Awtrey, E., Zhu, L., Diermeier, D., Heinze, J., Srinivasan, M., Tannenbaum, D., Bivolaru, E., Dana, J., Davis-Stober, C. P., Du Plessis, C. Gronau, Q. F., Hafenbrack, A. C., Liao, E. Y., Ly, A., Marsman, M., Murase, T., Qureshi, I., Schaerer, M., Thornley, N., Tworek, C. M., Wagenmakers, E-J., Wong, L., Anderson, T., Bauman, C. W., Bedwell, W. L., Brescoll, V., Canavan, A., Chandler, J. J., Cheries, E., Cheryan, S., Cheung, F., Cimpian, A., Clark, M., Cordon, D., Cushman, F., Ditto, P. H., Donahue, T., Frick, S. E., Gamez-Djokic, M., Hofstein Grady, R., Graham, J., Gu, J., Hahn, A., Hanson, B. E., Hartwich, N. J., Hein, K., Inbar, Y., Jiang, L., Kellogg, T., Kennedy, D. M., Legate, N., Luoma, T. P., Maibeucher, H., Meindl, P., Miles, J., Mislin, A., Molden, D. C., Motyl, M., Newman, G., Ngo, H. H., Packham, H., Ramsay, P. S., Ray, J. L., Sackett, A. M., Sellier, A-L., Sokolova, T., Sowden, W., Storage, D., Sun, X., Van Bavel, J. J., Washburn, A. N., Wei, C., Wetter, E., Wilson, C., Darroux, S-C., & Uhlmann, E. L. (2016). The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory’s research pipeline. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 66, 55-67.
  • Tierney, W., Schweinsberg, M., Jordan, J., Kennedy, D. M., Qureshi, I., Sommer, S.A., … Uhlmann, E. L. (2016). Data from a pre-publication independent replication initiative: The pipeline project. Scientific Data, 3, 160082. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.82
  • Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716
  • Johnson, D.J., Cheung, F., & Donnellan, M.B. (2014). Hunting for artifacts: The perils of dismissing inconsistent replication results. Social Psychology, 45(4), 318-320.
  • Johnson, D.J., Cheung, F., & Donnellan, M.B. (2014). Does cleanliness influence moral judgments? A direct replication of Schnall, Benton, and Harvey (2008). Social Psychology, 45(3), 209-215.

Pedagogical Research

  • Chan, D.K.W., Lo, K.C.H., Cheung, F., & Ntoumanis, N. (2019). Social influences of teachers, classmates, and parents on children’s commitment to physical education and language education. International Archives of Public Health and Community Medicine. https://doi.org/10.23937/2643-4512/1710028
  • Cheung, E.Y.W., Law, M.Y.Y., & Cheung, F. (2019). The role of virtual environment for radiotherapy training (VERT) in medical dosimetry education. Journal of Cancer Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-019-01622-2