Hello! I am Kit Jai. My research is regarding Judgment and Decision Making (JDM), especially in but not limited to health related contexts, Emotions, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, as well as Open Scholarship, Meta Science, and Scientific Reform. I am currently a PhD student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). I focus on the intersections between JDM, Mental Health, and Neurodiversity:

1) Mental health promotion (e.g. message framing, narrative vs research-based messages), matching based on diverse individual characteristics, cultural and contextual moderators, uptake decision, self-care, and engagements (e.g. in digital mental health contexts) [Feel free to contact me regarding my ideas and studies. It would be great to collaborate]

2) Choice architecture (e.g. number of choices presented) in digital mental health environments, neurodivergences (e.g. Autism), and potential mental health, affective, and individual difference moderators [Feel free to contact me regarding potential collaboration opportunities]

3) Perceived risks (e.g. of being stigmatized, of being discriminated, of being found out, career risks, educational risks), perceived benefits, preferences, disclosure/non-disclosure decisions of mental health challenges and neurodivergences, and help seeking decisions (e.g. online services versus face-to-face services, or both)

Above are some examples that I am interested in. I am open to other related ideas/suggestions/topics.

Publications/Manuscripts Accepted for Publication

Yeung, S. K., Leung, F. H. T., Lee, J. C. M., Cheung, G. M., Li, C. W., & Mak, W. W. S. (2025). Effects of Choice Set Sizes and Moderations of Anxiety and State Emotions on Mental Health Self-Care Uptake, Engagement, and User Experience: An Experimental Study. JMIR Human Factors. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/71165

Lam, A., & Yeung, S. K. (2025). Folk Conceptions of Free Will: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Psychological Research. Meta-Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2021.2829

Phan*, J. M., Middleton*, S. L., Azevedo*, F., Iley*, B. J., Grose-Hodge*, M., Tyler*, S., Kapp*, S. K., Grafton-Clarke*, D., Yeung*, S. K., Shaw*, J. J., Hartmann*, H., & FORRT. (2025). Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education. Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70035 [All Authors are Joint-First Authors, Order was decided based on Academic Wheel of Privilege, which we developed.]

Swaryandini, G., Graham, J., Griffith, S., Grilo, V., Ruzzante, F., Zhang, X., Yeung, S. K., Mangiarulo, M., Basarkod, G., Ng, C., Parker, P., Tangen, J., Saeri, A., Grundy, E., Slattery, P., & Noetel, M. (2025). Systematic review and meta-analysis of educational approaches to reduce cognitive biases among students. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02253-y

Van Mierlo, T., Fournier, R., Yeung, S. K., & Lahutina, S. (2025). Developing a Behavioral Phenotyping Layer for AI-Driven Predictive Analytics in a Digital Resiliency Course: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. https://doi.org/10.2196/73773

Zaneva, M., Coll-Martín, T., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Kalandadze, T., Kis, A., Koperska, A., … Yeung, S. K., … Zisk, A. H. (2024). An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity. ELife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.102467

Van den Akker, O., Bakker, M., van Assen, M. A. L. M., Pennington, C. R., Verweij, L., Elsherif, M. M., …, Yeung, S. K., … Wicherts, J. M. (2024). The effectiveness of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration strictness and preregistration-study consistency. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/h8xjw

Korbmacher, M., Azevedo, F., Pennington, C. R., Hartmann, H., Elsherif, M., … Yeung, S. K., … Evans, T. (2023). The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes. Nature Communications Psychology. https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/r6cvx/

Ziano*, I., Yeung*, S. K., Cheong*, S., Shi, J., & ^Feldman, G. (2023). “The Effort Heuristic” revisited:  Mixed results for replications of Kruger et al. (2004)’s Experiments 1 and 2. Collabra: Psychology.

Van den Akker, O., Peters, G.-J. Y., Bakker, C., Carlsson, R., Coles, N. A., Corker, K. S., Feldman, G., Moreau, D., Pfeiffer, N., Pickering, J., Rigelman, A., Topor, M., van Veggel, N., Yeung, S. K., Call, M., Mellor, D., & Nordström, T. (2023). Increasing the transparency of systematic reviews: Presenting a generalized registration form. Systematic Reviews, 12, 170. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02281-7 [Incorporated into Open Science Framework website as one of the pre-registration template options in 2023]

Gourdon-Kanhukamwe*, A., Kalandadze*, T., Yeung*, S. K., Azevedo, F., Iley, B., Phan, J. M., Ramji, A. V., Shaw, J. J., Zaneva, M., Dokovova, M., Hartmann, H., Kapp, S. K., Warrington, K. L., FORRT, & Elsherif, M. (2023). Opening up Understanding of Neurodiversity: A Call for Applying Participatory and Open Scholarship Practices. Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 8. https://explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpscog/1/8 [First three authors are joint first authors]

Pownall, M., Azevedo, F., König, L. M., Slack, H. R., Evans, T. R., Flack, Z., … Yeung, S. K., … FORRT. (2023). Teaching Open and Reproducible Scholarship: A Critical Review of the Evidence Base for Current Pedagogical Methods and their Outcomes. Royal Society Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221255

Topor, M., Pickering, J. S., Barbosa Mendes, A., Bishop, D. V. M., Büttner, F. C., Henderson, E. L., Kalandadze, T., Nitschke, F., Staaks, J., van den Akker, O., Yeung, S. K.,… Westwood, S. J. (2023). An integrative framework for planning and conducting Non-Interventional, Reproducible, and Open Systematic Reviews (NIRO-SR). Meta-Psychology. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2021.2840

Yeung, S. K., & Feldman, G. (2022). Revisiting the Temporal Pattern of Regret in Action Versus Inaction: Replication of Gilovich and Medvec (1994) With Extensions Examining Responsibility. Collabra: Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.37122 OSF

Yeung*, S. K., Yay*, T., & Feldman*^, G. (2022). Action and Inaction in Moral Judgments and Decisions: Meta-Analysis of Omission Bias Omission-Commission Asymmetries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(10), 1499-1515. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211042315 OSF

Chandrashekar*, S. P., Yeung*, S. K., Yau*, K., Cheung, C., Agarwal, T., Wong, C., Pillai, T.,
Thirlwell, T., Leung, W., Li, Y., Tse, C., Cheng, B., Chan, C., Feldman^, G. (2021). Agency and self-other asymmetries in perceived bias and shortcomings: Replications of the Bias Blind Spot and extensions linking to free will beliefs. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(6). https://sjdm.org/journal/20/201018/jdm201018.html

Brick*, C., Fillon*, A., Yeung*, S. K., Lyu*, H., Wang*, M., Ho*, J., Wong*, S., Feldman^, G. (2021). Self-interest is overestimated for others’ preferences: Two successful replications of Miller and Ratner (1998). Collabra: Psychology, 7 (1), 23443. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.23443 OSF

Ziano*, I., Xiao*, Q., Yeung*, S. K., Wong*, C., Cheung*, M., Lo*, J., Yan*, M., Narendra*, G., Kwan*, L., ‎Chow*, C., Man*, C., & Feldman^, G. (2021). Numbing or Sensitization? Replications and ‎Extensions of Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997)’s ‎“Insensitivity to the Value of Human ‎Life”‎. ‎Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 97, 104222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104222 OSF

*Joint first authors; ^Corresponding author

Many-Region/Lab/Author Collaborations

Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Clelland, H. T., Kovacs, M., Schulz-Kümpel, H., Holzmeister, F.,… Yeung, S. K., … & Nosek, B. A. (Accepted). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature.

Calderon, S., Mac Giolla, E., Ask, K., … Yeung, S. K., … Luke, T. J. (Accepted). Effects of psychological distance on mental abstraction: A registered report of four tests of construal level theory. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S. A., Capraro, V., Boggio, P., Ellemers, N., … Yeung, S. K., … Willer, R. (2023). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06840-9

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., … Yeung, S. K., … Moshontz, H. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1089-1110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x OSF

Tierney, W., Hardy, J., III., Ebersole, C., Leavitt, K., Viganola, D., Clemente, E., Gordon, M., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Hiring Decisions Forecasting Collaboration, & Uhlmann, E. (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.07.002 OSF [Member of forecasting collaboration, in which I forecasted the effect sizes of the studies and suggested edits/changes to the manuscript, fulfilling two roles in CRediT, so listed as an author in Appendix, see note].

Tierney, W., Hardy, J. H., III., Ebersole, C., Viganola, D., Clemente, E., Gordon, M., Hoogeveen, S., Haaf, J., Dreber, A.A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Chapman, H., Gantman, A., Vanaman, M., DeMarree, K., Igou, E., Wylie, J., Storbeck J., Andreychik, M.R., McPhetres, J., Vaughn, L.A., Culture and Work Forecasting Collaboration, & Uhlmann, E. L. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, 104060 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060 [Member of forecasting collaboration, in which I forecasted the effect sizes of the studies and suggested edits/changes to the manuscript, fulfilling two roles in CRediT, so listed as an author in Appendix, see note].

Parsons, S., Azevedo, F., Aczel, B., Elsherif, M., Miranda, J., Micheli, L., … Yeung, S. K., … Aczel. B. (2022). A Community-Sourced Glossary of Open Scholarship Terms. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 312-318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01269-4

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (22), e2111091119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119 [One of the full authors of Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration Team]

Dorison, C., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., … Yeung, S. K., … & Coles, N. A. (2022). In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3

Buchanan, E. M., Lewis, S., Paris, B., Forscher, P. S., Pavlacic, J. M., Beshears, J., … Yeung, S. K., … Primbs, M. (2023). PSACR: The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 Rapid-Response Dataset. Scientific Data. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7

Note: Authorship standards vary from subfields to subfields, regions to regions, communities to communities. Authorships of the above publications and below preprints (including many-region/lab collaborations) are based on CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy (https://casrai.org/credit/). In general, fulfilling at least 2 roles of CRediT is needed to be coauthors. Joint-first-authorships require a lot more contributions/work.

Stage 1 Registered Report In Principle Acceptance

Yeung, S. K., & Feldman, G. Action-Inaction Asymmetries in Emotions and Counterfactual Thoughts: Meta-Analysis of the Action Effect [Registered Report Stage 1]. [In-Principle Acceptance from Peer Community In Registered Reports] https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ACM24

Note: A Stage 1 Registered Report is a manuscript submitted to a journal or Peer Community In system before actual data collection. This means that the editor and peer reviewers review our introduction, methods and *planned/simulated* data analyses, and provide suggestions. *If* an editor accepts our Stage 1 Registered Report in principle, we will move on to actual data collection and subsequent work (actual results and discussion) and it is highly likely (>90% chance) that the manuscript will be accepted for publication at Stage 2. For more information, see https://www.cos.io/initiatives/registered-reports

Preprints/Submitted/Under Review/To Be Revised/Resubmitted

Hartmann, H., Azevedo, F., Röseler, L., Wallrich, L., Aldoh, A., Elsherif, M. M., Liu, M., O’Mahoney, R., Pavlovic, Z., Reason, R., Skvortsova, A., Agostini, V., Aitchinson, L., Al-Hoorie, A.H., Albayrak, N., Ammann, N., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B J., … Yeung, S. K., … Leech, G. (2025). Tracking and mainstreaming replications in the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/ad2w6_v1

Zhao*, H., Yeung*, S. K., & Mak, W. W. S. (2025). Narrative versus Research-based Messages in Encouraging Stress Management – Decision Style and Experiential Thinking Style as Moderators.

Yeung, S. K., Tong, A. C. Y., Zhao, H., & Mak, W. W. S. (2025). Using Ultra Abridged Individual Difference Scales for Personalization in Digital Mental Health to Improve Uptake, Engagement, and Experiences: A Three-Tiered Decision Framework for Scale Shortening. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14730.79041

Yeung, S. K., Mak, W. W. S., Cheung, G. M. H., Li, C. W., Yu, H. C., & Zheng, Y. (2025). A Systematic Review of Nudging in the Mental Health Contexts – Progress, Findings, and Ways Forward. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25096.33288

Yeung, S. K., Li, C. W., Cheung, G. M., Yu, S. H. C., Zheng, Y., Lee, C. M., Persson, E. Y. C., & Mak, W. W. S. (2025). Effects of Positive-Negative Message Framing on Health-Related Attitudes, Intentions, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analytic Review with particular focus on Health Behavioral Characteristics Moderators and Cultural-level Moderators. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10525.73445

Teng, X., Lau, K. W., Ng, T. K., Chan, K. P., Yeung, W., Yeung, S. K., & Feldman, G. (2025). People make inferences from policy decisions regarding default options: Replication and extension of McKenzie et al. (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/E5K4J

Kovacs, M., Jaquiery, M., Algermissen, J., Arriaga, P., Gau, R., Gokce, A., Grassi, M., Kouros, C., Yeung, S. K., & Aczel, B. (2022). Lab manuals for efficient and high quality science in a happy and safe work environment. https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/bzcxg/

*Evans, T., Yeung, S. K., Mui, K., Poon, K., Nam, G., Zhu, M., & Kwok, S. (2024). Revisiting the s-shaped model for the affective psychology of risk: Two replications and extensions of Rottenstreich and Hsee (2001)  [Registered Report Stage 1]. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32797.23526

*Joint first authors; ^Corresponding author

Ongoing Projects

Additionally, I am working on/planning to work on several projects on numbers of choices and messaging (e.g. gain-nonloss framing) in health-related contexts (e.g. mental health). I am also planning studies on social interactions and empathy between autistic individuals and non-autistic individuals as well as between autistic people (building on Milton, 2012 Double Empathy Theory). Feel free to contact me for more information.

Open-Meta-Science Collaborative Tools, Templates, and Guides

Yeung*, S. K., Feldman*^, G., Fillon, A., Protzko, J., Elsherif, M., Xiao, Q., Pickering, J., & Moreau, D. (2021). Experimental Studies Meta-Analysis Registered Report Templates. https://osf.io/ytgrp/ [Ongoing]***

Fillon, A., Feldman, G., Xiao, Q., Elsherif, M., Yeung, S. K., Nanakdewa, K., Protzko, J., Brick, C., & Moreau, D. (2021). Correlational Studies Meta-Analysis Registered Report Templates. https://mgto.org/cor-ma-rr-template-main [Ongoing]***

Jane, M. B., Xiao, Q., Yeung, S. K., Dunleavy, D. J., Röseler, L., Elsherif, M., Cousineau, D., Johnson, B. T., & Feldman, G., (2022). Effect Size and Confidence Intervals Guide. http://mgto.org/effectsizeguide / https://matthewbjane.com/effect-sizes-and-confidence-intervals-guide/ [Ongoing, aiming for submission later this year/earlier next year]

Feldman, G., Xiao, Q., Yeung, S. K., Elsherif, M., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Power Analysis Collaborative Guide. https://mgto.org/poweranalysisguide [Ongoing]

Feldman, G., Xiao, Q., & Yeung, S. K. (2022). Pre-registered replications & extensions collaborative manual/guide. https://mgto.org/replicationguide [Ongoing]

Feldman, G., & Yeung, S. K. (2022). Registered Replication Report Assessment collaborative template. https://mgto.org/RRRassessment [Ongoing]

Feldman, G., & Yeung, S. K. (2022). Quantitative Manuscript Peer Review Collaborative Template. https://mgto.org/peerreviewtemplate [Ongoing]

Note: Some of the above are free and open collaborative guides/templates/tools/resources for research designs, methods and statistics with procedures using open and reproducible programs or methods (e.g. RMarkdown code, R Packages, Jamovi, G*Power, Registered Reports with Simulated Data Analyses), but not novel and not advanced work on statistical models. See https://mgto.org/resources/ (Gilad Feldman, my MPhil advisor website) for more details and full list of Open resources, in which I am involved in some of them. We may submit these to journals later after more pre-testing and proof-of-concept. You are welcome to join if you are interested.

  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
  • I have led three meta-analyses (e.g. see Yeung et al., 2022 Omission Bias Meta-Analysis), and I have been involved in several projects aiming to improve the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of meta-analyses and systematic reviews, with collaborators from different regions. We hope these projects can promote transparency, reproducibility, rigor, reduce errors and facilitate error-checking in meta-analyses.
  • Open Scholarship
  • For my projects, I ensure Openness, Reproducibility and Transparency of Data, Code and Materials. I have also been involved in projects on Pre-Registration/Registered Report Templates and Guides, Replications-Extensions, Open Collaborative Guides and Resources, etc. I have involved in Open Scholarship Education Projects with FORRT (Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training) and I have taught Open Science Principles, Practices, and Science Reforms in courses.
  • I also embrace often overlooked but very important Open Scholarship principles notably Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Higher Education and Academia.
  • I have also been involved in replications-extensions, both revisiting classic findings as well as extending to gain novel insights (e.g., predictors of effects, additional variables that were previously overlooked).
  • Reviews Experiences
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cognition and Emotion
  • Peer Community In Registered Reports
  • Philosophical Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
  • Social Cognition
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Collabra: Psychology
  • Developmental Science
  • BMC Psychology
  • Journal of Adolescence
  • International Journal of Developmental Disabilities
  • I enjoy doing peer reviews. I provide comprehensive and very constructive feedback with suggestions. Feel free to contact me.

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Note: Google Scholar and ResearchGate information (preprints, publications, authors, #manymanycoauthors) may be outdated, may be incomplete, and may be confusing. For clear, complete, and updated information, please see this site (wyjdm.com), with links.

Contact

Email: yskjdmmh@gmail.com 

(call me Kit Jai)