Positive Affect Facilitates Task Switching in the Dimension Change Card Sort Task: Implications for the Shifting Aspect of Executive Functions

Ministry of Education, Singapore under its Academic Research Funding Tier 1; Singapore Management Universit

Loneliness, sense of control, and risk of dementia in healthy older adults: A moderated mediation analysis

Ministry of Education, Singapore under its Academic Research Funding Tier

Are all interferences bad? Bilingual advantages in working memory are modulated by varying demands for controlled processing

Ministry of Education, Singapore under its Academic Research Funding Tier

Sympathy fuels creativity: The beneficial effects of sympathy on originality

Ministry of Education, Singapore under its Academic Research Funding Tier

The Effect of Negative CSR Information by Luxury Fashion Brands on Consumer Response

Contrary to positive corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities by luxury fashion brands in western countries, little attention has been paid by the same companies to Korean society (FSS, 2012). South Korea is poised to be the next luxury power house in Asia, even overtaking Japan (Luxe Brand Advisors, 2012). Are Korean consumers not as sensitive as western consumers about CSR by luxury fashion brands? To answer these questions, this study explores the effect of negative CSR information by luxury fashion companies on consumer responses

Effects of social media and smartphone use on body esteem in female adolescents: Testing a cognitive and affective model

Ministry of Education, Singapore under its Academic Research Funding Tier 1; Ministry of Society and Family, Singapore Fund Tier 1, SFRF2015U-

Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children

Studies often report that bilingual participants possess a smaller vocabulary in the language of testing than monolinguals, especially in research with children. However, each study is based on a small sample so it is difficult to determine whether the vocabulary difference is due to sampling error. We report the results of an analysis of 1,738 children between 3 and 10 years old and demonstrate a consistent difference in receptive vocabulary between the two groups. Two preliminary analyses suggest that this difference does not change with different language pairs and is largely confined to words relevant to a home context rather than a school context