Chew Wei Ong
- Infant Health and Development
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Ocular Surface and Contact Lens
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
Nanyang Technological University
2013-2022
Semmelweis University
2021
Eötvös Loránd University
2021
Aarhus University
2020
Tilburg University
2020
Contexts of face perception are diverse. They range from the social environment to body postures, expresser's gaze direction tone voice. In extending research on contexts perception, we investigated people's tears a face. The act shedding is often perceived as an expression sad feelings aroused by experiencing loss, disappointment, or helplessness. Alternatively, may also represent excessive intensity any emotion, such extreme fear during unexpected encounter with giant bear and happiness...
Research studies have shown that educational programmes such as camps and field trips can develop affective social relationships through personal exposure to outdoor experiences among students. This study will illustrate the outcome of a emotional learning camp organized for 93 Secondary Two students (mean age 14.1) in Singapore. Both quantitative qualitative methods were carried out during assess students' competencies (SECs) their self-awareness, awareness, self-management relationship...
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as social glue by evoking support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project examined the tears-social intentions effect possible...
Visible tears have been shown to enhance the perception of sadness. Whether sadness from visible can occur automatically, which is essential for rapid identification emotional cues in real-life social interactions, still unclear. We employed reaction-time-based Implicit Association Test (IAT) assess implicit association and two studies. Study 1 (N = 58) used sadness/non-sadness or negative/positive affect words as attribute pairs images tearless tearful neutral expressions targeted concepts....
Emotional tears tend to increase perceived sadness in facial expressions. However, it is unclear whether would still be seen as an indicator of when a tearful face observed emotional context (e.g., touching moment during wedding ceremony). We examine the influence on enhancement effect three studies. In Study 1, participants evaluated or tearless expressions presented without body postures, with emotionally neutral congruent postures (i.e., indicating same emotion face). The results show...