Assistant Professor (Research)

SHOU Yiyun

Affiliation

  • NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Joint)
  • Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (Joint)

Research Areas

  • Judgment and decision making
  • Risk and uncertainty attitudes
  • Cross-cultural measurement
  • Risk and health communication

Academic/Professional Qualifications

  • PhD in Psychology, Australian National University
  • BSc (Hons), Australian National University

Career History

  • Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University
  • ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Australian National University

Selected Publications

  • Shou, Y., Smithson, M., Gulliver A., Murray, K., Banfield M., Harris, R., McCallum, SM., Farrer LM., Calear AL., and Batterham PJ., (2022). Risk Tolerance and Changes in COVID-Related Health Behaviors: A Longitudinal Study. Health Psychology. doi:10.1037/hea0001197
  • Shou, Y., Olney, J. and Wang, M-C. (2022). Cross-Cultural Assessment and Comparisons of Risk Tolerance across Domains. Current Psychology, 1-13.
  • Shou, Y. and Olney, J. (2021). Measuring risk tolerance across domains: Scale development and validation. Journal of Personality Assessment. doi:10.1080/00223891.2021.1966019
  • Shou, Y. and Olney, J. (2020). Attitudes toward risk and uncertainty: The role of subjective knowledge and affect. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34(3), 3930-404
  • Shou, Y. and Smithson, M. (2019). cdfquantreg: An R package for CDF-quantile regression. Journal of Statistical Software, 88(1):1–30
  • Shou, Y., Sellbom, M., Xu, J., Chen, T., and Sui, A. (2017). Elaborating on the construct validity of triarchic psychopathy measure in Chinese clinical and nonclinical samples. Psychological Assessment, 29(9):1071

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