Dr. HO Yuen Wan

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), 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

Lin, H., Chang, Y., Chen, C., Ho, Y.W., Xi, W., Zhang, X., Fung, H.H., Ayalon L. (in press). Are older adults more optimistic? Evidence from China, Israel and the US. Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

Cheung, F.M., Ho, Y.W. (in press). Assessing personality from a cultural perspective. In D. Dozois & P. Graf (Eds.), ICAP Handbook of Applied Psychology. 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.

Cheung, F.M., Ho, Y.W. (2018). Culturally relevant personality assessment. In K. Shigemasu (Ed.), Diversity in Harmony - Insights from Psychology: Proceedings of the 31st International Congress of Psychology. (pp. 211-229). Wiley.

 

Teaching Subjects

Academic Year:  2022 - 2023:

1st Term:	PSY2001	Introduction to Business Psychology and Organizational Behaviour
	PSY2002	Research Methods for Psychology
	PSY2101	Introduction to Psychology
2nd Term:	PSY3205	Social Psychology
	PSY3208	Personality and Individual Differences