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Yiyun Shou

Yiyun Shou

Lead Scientist (Health and Lifestyle),

yiyun.shou@nus.edu.sg
Mental Health

Dr Yiyun Shou joined IPUR in 2022 as Lead Scientist in the domain of Health and Lifestyle. She also holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.  Before joining IPUR, Dr Shou was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australia National University and was a recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Her research concerns understanding human’s judgement and behaviors under risk and uncertainty; measurement of dispositions relating to risk-taking; understanding cross-cultural measurement issues; and development of statistical methods. Her current research focuses on attitudes toward risk and uncertainty in health and medical settings, and communication of health risks in the Asian context.

published papers

  1. Deng, J. et al. (2024) ‘Core features of callous–unemotional traits: A cross-cultural comparison of youth in four countries’, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry [Preprint]. doi:10.1007/s00787-023-02357-8.
  2. Batterham, P.J. et al. (2024) ‘Covid-19 infection associated with poorer mental health in a representative population sample’, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 177, p. 111588. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2023.111588.
  3. Shou, Y. et al. (2024) ‘Psychological mechanisms of the development of suicidal ideation: Longitudinal Cohort Study’, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 54(3), pp. 593–605. doi:10.1111/sltb.13060.
  4. Batterham, P.J. et al. (2024) ‘Testing a syndemics perspective on the effects of multiple adversities on depression and anxiety symptoms in a representative population sample’, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology [Preprint]. doi:10.1007/s00127-024-02638-w.
  5. Murray, K. et al. (2024) ‘Cognitive reappraisal moderates the protective effect of body satisfaction on Mental Health and wellbeing in adults: A prospective study during COVID-19 lockdown’, Journal of Affective Disorders, 351, pp. 268–277. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.253.
  6. Chia, A. et al. (2024) ‘Complexity of consumer acceptance to alternative protein foods in a multiethnic Asian population: A comparison of plant-based meat alternatives, cultured meat, and insect-based products’, Food Quality and Preference, 114, p. 105102. doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2024.105102.
  7. Sivanathan, D., Bizumic, B. and Shou, Y. (2024) ‘The unified narcissism scale-revised: Testing incremental validity and shortening the measure’, Journal of Personality Assessment, pp. 1–14. doi:10.1080/00223891.2024.2346768.
  8. Mende, M. et al. (2024) ‘People, peace, prosperity, and the planet: A journey toward sustainable development in consumer research’, Journal of Consumer Research, 51(1), pp. 91–103. doi:10.1093/jcr/ucad068.
  9. Shou, Y. et al. (2024) ‘Measuring risk tolerance among Japanese adults and cross-national comparison of its role in covid-19 attitudes’, European Journal of Psychological Assessment [Preprint]. doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000831.
  10. Shou, Y., Kuru, O., et al. (2024) ‘Mis- and disinformation’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science [Preprint]. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.521.
  11. Farrer, L.M. et al. (2023) ‘The factors associated with telehealth use and avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal survey’, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25. doi:10.2196/43798.
  12. Shou, Y. et al. (2023) ‘Understanding Australian government risk communication early in the COVID-19 pandemic: Sociodemographics, risk attitudes and media consumption’, Journal of Health Communication, 28(4), pp. 254–263. doi:10.1080/10810730.2023.2197403.
  13. Shou, Y. et al. (2023) Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset).
  14. Song, F. et al. (2023) ‘Moral judgments under uncertainty: Risk, ambiguity and commission bias’, Current Psychology, 43(11), pp. 9793–9804. doi:10.1007/s12144-023-05050-w.
  15. Tan, N. et al. (2023) ‘A bayesian model of the jumping-to-conclusions bias and its relationship to psychopathology’, Cognition and Emotion, 38(3), pp. 315–331. doi:10.1080/02699931.2023.2287091.
  16. Shou, Y. et al. (2022) ‘From west to east: Recent advances in psychometrics and psychological instruments in Asia’, Chen Frontiers Research Topics [Preprint]. doi:10.3389/978-2-88974-563-0.
  17. Batterham, P.J. et al. (2022) ‘Patterns and predictors of alcohol use during the early stages of the covid‐19 pandemic in Australia: Longitudinal Cohort Study’, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 46(7), pp. 1248–1257. doi:10.1111/acer.14858.
  18. Banfield, M. et al. (2022) ‘Awareness and perceived helpfulness of mental health peer workers in a representative sample of the Australian Public’, Psychiatry Research Communications, 2(2), p. 100042. doi:10.1016/j.psycom.2022.100042.
  19. Shou, Y., Olney, J. and Wang, M.-C. (2022) ‘Cross-cultural assessment and comparisons of risk tolerance across domains’, Current Psychology, 42(18), pp. 15368–15380. doi:10.1007/s12144-022-02843-3.
  20. Shou, Y., Smithson, M., et al. (2022) ‘Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.’, Health Psychology, 41(8), pp. 507–518. doi:10.1037/hea0001197.
  21. Shou, Y., De Silva, H.S. and Olney, J. (2022) ‘Attitudes toward ambiguous situations resemble the domain-specificity of attitudes toward risk’, Personality and Individual Differences, 195, p. 111667. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2022.111667.

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