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Faculty

Yue Song Associate Professor

Research Interests: 
  • The developmental trajectory of prosocial behavior from 2 to 8 years of age
  • How culture, parental values, goals and practice contribute to prosocial development
  • The role of co-parenting on the well-being of the families
  • How daycare education (quality) contribute to early prosocial development
Bio: 

Educational Background:

PhD, Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University (2014-2019)

MA, Social Psychology, Beijing Normal University (2007-2010)

BA, Applied Psychology, Honors college, Nanjing Normal University (2003-2007)

 

Lab members

2020: Fenglin Zang; Xiaodan Shan, Yun Huang, Yunqing Shi

 

Empirical articles 

Song Y, Broekhuizen M.L., Dubas J.S., (2020). Happy Little Benefactor: Prosocial Behaviors Promote Happiness in Young Children From Two Cultures. Frontiers in Psychology, 11,1398. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01398

Jiang, J., Song, Y., (equal contribution), Ke, Y., Wang, R., & Liu, H. (2016). Is disciplinary culture a moderator between materialism and subjective well-being? A three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17, 1391-1408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-015-9649-1

Wang, R., Liu, H., Jiang, J., & Song, Y. (2017). Will materialism lead to happiness? A longitudinal analysis of the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction. Personality and Individual Differences, 105, 312-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.10.014 

 

International conferences

Song. Y., Broekhuizen, M. L., & Dubas, J. S. (2019, March). Organizing, and chairing symposium, Variability in prosocial behaviors: Social and motivational sources across cultures, at the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, Md, USA.

Song. Y., Broekhuizen, M. L., & Dubas, J. S. (2019, March). Oral presentation: Prosocial behavior in young preschoolers: A cross-cultural study across The Netherlands, India, and China, at the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, Md, USA.

Song. Y., Broekhuizen, M. L., & Dubas, J. S. (2017, August). Oral presentation: Happy little benefactor: Prosocial behaviors promotes happiness in toddlers. Individual paper presented at the European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP) biennial conference (ECDP). Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Song. Y., Broekhuizen, M. L., & Dubas, J. S. (2017, April). Oral presentation: The Emergence of prosocial behavior: Does the number of resources matter? In Dubas, J. S. (Chair), The early development of prosocial behavior: Motivations and contextual influences. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development conference (SRCD). Austin, United States.

Song. Y., Broekhuizen, M. L., & Dubas, J. S. (2016, July). Poster presentation: A meta-analysis on age differences in helping behaviors from infancy to toddlerhood. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Vilnius, Lithuania

Song.Y., & Jiang, J. (2014). Poster presentation: Why do people pursue luxuries, a matter of popularity or quality? An examination of materialism, luxury consumption and public self-consciousness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Texas.