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Overview

Michelle Yik is affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their primary research field is psychology, with a focus on social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, sociology, political science, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research covers several main topics, including cultural differences and values, personality traits and psychology, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, employment and welfare studies, cognitive abilities and testing, and emotional intelligence and performance.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Perceptions of Aging Across 26 Cultures and Their Culture-Level Associates" (2021), published in Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade)
  • "On the Relationship Between Valence and Arousal in Samples Across the Globe" (2022), published in Emotion
  • "The Emotional Anatomy of the Wuhan Lockdown: Sentiment Analysis Using Weibo Data" (2022), published in JMIR Formative Research
  • "Mapping the Everyday Concept of Disgust in Five Cultures" (2024), published in Current Psychology
  • "Unraveling Chinese Talk About Emotion" (2023), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Computational Social Science
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Personality Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade)

Frequent coauthors of Michelle Yik are:

  • Felicity H. C. Kwok
  • Nicolson Yat-Fan Siu
  • Denis Bratko
  • Jamin Halberstadt
  • Goran Knežević

Best Publications

  • A 12-point circumplex structure of core affect.

    Michelle Yik;James A. Russell;James H. Steiger

  • National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures

    A. Terracciano;A. M. Abdel-Khalek;N. Ádám;L. Adamovová

  • Structure of Self-Reported Current Affect: Integration and Beyond

    Michelle S. M. Yik;James A. Russell;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Self-Report Measures of Intelligence: Are They Useful as Proxy IQ Tests?

    Delroy L. Paulhus;Daria C. Lysy;Michelle S. M. Yik

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates.

    Corinna E. Löckenhoff;Filip de Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. Mccrae

  • Interpreting personality profiles across cultures: bilingual, acculturation, and peer rating studies of Chinese undergraduates.

    Robert R. McCrae;Michelle S. M. Yik;Paul D. Trapnell;Michael H. Bond

  • Emotion among the Chinese.

    James A. Russell;Michelle S. M. Yik

  • Understanding the emotional aspects of escalation of commitment: the role of negative affect.

    Kin Fai Ellick Wong;Michelle Yik;Jessica Y. Y. Kwong

  • Universal Aspects of Chinese Personality Structure

    Robert R. McCrae;Paul T. Costa Jr.;Michelle S. M. Yik

  • Exploring the dimensions of Chinese person perception with indigenous and imported constructs: Creating a culturally balanced scale.

    Michelle Siu Mui Yik;Michael Harris Bond

  • The emergence of sex differences in personality traits in early adolescence: A cross-sectional, cross-cultural study.

    Marleen De Bolle;Filip De Fruyt;Robert R McCrae;Corinna E Löckenhoff

  • Do Chinese Self-Enhance or Self-Efface? It's a Matter of Domain

    Michelle S.M. Yik;Michael H. Bond;Delroy L. Paulhus

  • Structure of Self-Reported Current Affect : Integration and Beyond

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  • Predicting the Big Two of Affect from the Big Five of Personality

    Michelle S.M. Yik;James A. Russell

  • Stereotypes of age differences in personality traits: universal and accurate?

    Wayne Chan;Robert R. McCrae;Filip De Fruyt;Lee Jussim

  • On the Psychometric Principles of Affect

    James M. Carroll;Michelle S. M. Yik;James A. Russell;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Gender Stereotypes of Personality Universal and Accurate

    Corinna E. Löckenhoff;Wayne Chan;Robert R. McCrae;Filip De Fruyt

  • Responses to formal performance appraisal feedback: the role of negative affectivity.

    Simon S K Lam;Michelle S M Yik;John Schaubroeck

  • A circumplex model of affect and its relation to personality : a five-language study

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  • The relation between valence and arousal in subjective experience varies with personality and culture.

    Peter Kuppens;Francis Tuerlinckx;Michelle Yik;Peter Koval;Peter Koval

  • Interpretation of Faces: A Cross-cultural Study of a Prediction from Fridlund's Theory

    Michelle S. M. Yik;James A. Russell

  • Understanding the Emotional Aspects of Escalation of Commitment: The Role of Negative Affect

    Ellick Wong;Michelle Oi-yee Yik;Jessica Y. Y. Kwong

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates

    Corinna Lockenhoff;Filip De Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. McCrae

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Antonio Terracciano
Antonio Terracciano Florida State University
Jüri Allik
Jüri Allik University of Tartu
Anu Realo
Anu Realo University of Warwick
Paul T. Costa
Paul T. Costa Duke University
Jane Shakespeare-Finch
Jane Shakespeare-Finch Queensland University of Technology
Lee Jussim
Lee Jussim Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Corinna E. Löckenhoff
Corinna E. Löckenhoff Cornell University
Filip De Fruyt
Filip De Fruyt Ghent University
Jarret T. Crawford
Jarret T. Crawford College of New Jersey

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