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Overview

Helene H. Fung is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with substantial contributions to neuropsychology and physiological psychology, social psychology, health, sociology and political science, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work spans several key topics including aging and gerontology research, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, health disparities and outcomes, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, psychological and temporal perspectives research, migration, aging and tourism studies, and optimism, hope, and well-being.

Frequent publication venues for Helene H. Fung include:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • European Journal of Ageing
  • Psychology and Aging
  • The Gerontologist

Helene H. Fung's recent papers cover various aspects of aging, psychological factors, and well-being. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Obtaining Information From Different Sources Matters During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020) published in The Gerontologist
  • "Psychological factors substantially contribute to biological aging: evidence from the aging rate in Chinese older adults" (2022) published in Aging
  • "Is the Search for Meaning Related to the Presence of Meaning? Moderators of the Longitudinal Relationship" (2020) published in Journal of Happiness Studies
  • "Antecedents and Consequences of Endorsing Prescriptive Views of Active Aging and Altruistic Disengagement" (2022) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "TalkTive: A Conversational Agent Using Backchannels to Engage Older Adults in Neurocognitive Disorders Screening" (2022) published in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Klaus Rothermund
  • Thomas M. Hess
  • Li Chu
  • Maria Clara Pinheiro de Paula Couto
  • Shyhnan Liou

Best Publications

  • Socioemotional Selectivity Theory and the Regulation of Emotion in the Second Half of Life

    Laura L. Carstensen;Helene H. Fung;Susan T. Charles

  • Cultural variation in affect valuation.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Brian Knutson;Helene H. Fung

  • Measuring human perceptions of a large-scale urban region using machine learning

    Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Bolei Zhou;Liu Liu;Yu Liu

  • Influence of time on social preferences: implications for life-span development.

    Helene H. Fung;Laura L. Carstensen;Amy M. Lutz

  • Sending memorable messages to the old: age differences in preferences and memory for advertisements.

    Helene H. Fung;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Age-Related Patterns in Social Networks among European Americans and African Americans: Implications for Socioemotional Selectivity across the Life Span

    Helene H. Fung;Laura L. Carstensen;Frieder R. Lang

  • Influence and adjustment goals: sources of cultural differences in ideal affect.

    Jeanne L. Tsai;Felicity F. Miao;Emma Seppala;Helene H. Fung

  • The social context of emotional experience.

    Laura L. Carstensen;James J. Gross;Helene H. Fung

  • Prevalence of dementia in Chinese elderly in Hong Kong

    H.F.K. Chiu;L.C.W. Lam;I. Chi;T. Leung

  • Goals Change When Life's Fragility is Primed: Lessons Learned From Older Adults, the September 11 Attacks and Sars

    Helene H. Fung;Laura L. Carstensen

  • The Dynamic Goal Theory of Marital Satisfaction

    Tianyuan Li;Helene H. Fung

  • Age Differences in Social Preferences Among Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese: The Role of Perceived Time

    Helene H. Fung;Phillina Lai;Rita Ng

  • Motivational changes in response to blocked goals and foreshortened time: testing alternatives to socioemotional selectivity theory

    Helene H. Fung;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Aging in Culture

    Helene H Fung

  • Social support and life satisfaction among Hong Kong Chinese older adults: family first?

    Gladys T. Y. Yeung;Helene H. Fung

  • Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative: Implications for mixed affective experience in American and Chinese contexts

    Tamara Sims;Jeanne L. Tsai;Da Jiang;Yaheng Wang

  • Influences of coaches, parents, and peers on the motivational patterns of child and adolescent athletes.

    Derwin K Chan;Chris Lonsdale;Helene H Fung

  • Benefit-finding and effect on caregiver depression: A double-blind randomized controlled trial.

    Sheung-Tak Cheng;Emily P. M. Mak;Helene H. Fung;Timothy Kwok

  • Age Differences in Trust: An Investigation Across 38 Countries

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  • Maintaining Self-Rated Health Through Social Comparison in Old Age

    Sheung-Tak Cheng;Helene Fung;Alfred Chan

  • Age-related positivity enhancement is not universal: older Chinese look away from positive stimuli.

    Helene H Fung;Alice Y Lu;Deborah Goren;Derek M Isaacowitz

  • Information and communicative technology use enhances psychological well-being of older adults: the roles of age, social connectedness, and frailty status.

    Yang Fang;Anson K C Chau;Anna Wong;Helene H Fung

Frequent Co-Authors

Sheung-Tak Cheng
Sheung-Tak Cheng Education University of Hong Kong
Frieder R. Lang
Frieder R. Lang University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Derek M. Isaacowitz
Derek M. Isaacowitz Northeastern University
Jeanne L. Tsai
Jeanne L. Tsai Stanford University
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Klaus Rothermund
Klaus Rothermund Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Linda C. W. Lam
Linda C. W. Lam Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jean Woo
Jean Woo Chinese University of Hong Kong
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas
Mara Mather
Mara Mather University of Southern California

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