Mind, Self and Emotion
Duman, Ç., & Wang, Q. (2026). Memory and future thinking for self-conscious emotions: The role of self-esteem and culture. Memory & Cognition, 54(4), 1130–1147. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01800-2
Wang, Q., Mert, N., & Tian, Y. (2024). Remembering the good and bad and the self and others in a culturally modulated self-memory system. Memory, 32(6), 790–802. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2372373
Wang, Q. (2021). Cultural pathways and outcomes of autobiographical memory development. Child Development Perspectives, 15(3), 196–202. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12423
Wang, Q. (2021). The cultural foundation of human memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 72, 151–179. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-070920-023638
Wang, Q. (2018). Studying cognitive development in cultural context: A multi-level analysis approach. Developmental Review, 50, 54-64. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2018.03.002 PDF
Wang, Q., & Song, Q. (2018). He says, she says: Mothers and children remembering the same events. Child Development, 89(6), 2215-2229. doi:10.1111/cdev.12927 PDF
Wang, Q., Song, Q., & Koh, J. B. K. (2017). Culture, memory, and narrative self-making. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 37, 199-223. doi: 10.1177/0276236617733827 PDF
Wang, Q. (2013). Gender and emotion in everyday event memory. Memory, 21, 503-511. doi:10.1080/09658211.2012.743568 PDF
Kulkofsky, S., Wang, Q., & Hou, Y. (2010). Why I remember that: The influence of contextual factors on beliefs about everyday memory. Memory & Cognition, 38, 461-473. PDF
Wang, Q., Shao, Y., & Li, Y. J. (2010). “My way or Mom’s way?” The bilingual and bicultural self in Hong Kong Chinese children and adolescents. Child Development, 81, 2, 555-567. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01415.x PDF
Wang, Q. (2009). Are Asians forgetful? Perception, retention, and recall in episodic remembering. Cognition, 111(1), 123-131. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.01.004 PDF
Wang, Q. (2008). Emotion knowledge and autobiographical memory across the preschool years: A cross-cultural longitudinal investigation. Cognition, 108, 117-135. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.02.002 PDF
Wang, Q. (2008). Being American, being Asian: The bicultural self and autobiographical memory in Asian Americans. Cognition, 107, 743-751. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.08.005 PDF
Wang, Q. (2006). Relations of maternal style and child self-concept to autobiographical memories in Chinese, Chinese immigrant, and European American 3-year-olds. Child Development, 77, 6, 1794-1809. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00974.x PDF
Wang, Q. (2006). Culture and the development of self-knowledge. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 4, 182-187. PDF
Wang, Q. & Ross, M. (2005). What we remember and what we tell: The effects of culture and self-priming on memory representations and narratives. Memory, 13, 6, 594-606. doi:10.1080/09658210444000223 PDF
Wang, Q. (2004). The emergence of cultural self-constructs: Autobiographical memory and self-description in European American and Chinese children. Developmental Psychology, 40, 1, 3-15. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.40.1.3 PDF
Childhood Amnesia
Slonecker, E. M., Kamliot, D. Z., Klemfuss, J. Z., & Wang, Q. (2025). Remember when? The retrieval of early childhood memories in Black and White American young adults. Memory, 33(6), 631–643. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2503418
Peterson, C., Wang, Q., Hallett, D., Bartlett, S., Ma, A. Y. F., MacKay, M. M., Pretty, E. J., Viscarra, L., & Wang, E. Y. (2024). Dating early memories: When did events really happen? Cognitive Development, 71, 101489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101489
Peterson, C., Wang, Q., Lillington, N. B., & Hallett, D. (2022). Strategies for dating earliest memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(5), 1095–1105. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3993
Bauer, P. J., Baker-Ward, L., Krøjgaard, P., Peterson, C., & Wang, Q. (2019). Evidence against depiction as fiction: A comment on “Fictional First Memories.” Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/0956797619834510 PDF
Wang, Q., Peterson, C., Khuu, A., Reid, C. P., Maxwell, K. L., & Vincent, J. M. (2019). Looking at the past through a telescope: Adults postdated their earliest childhood memories. Memory, 27(1), 19-27. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1414268 PDF
Wang, Q., & Peterson, C. (2014). Your earliest memory may be earlier than you think: Prospective studies of children’s dating of earliest childhood memories. Developmental Psychology, 50, 6, 1680-6. doi: 10.1037/a0036001. PDF
Peterson, C., Wang, Q., & Hou, Y. (2009). “When I was little”: Childhood recollections in Chinese and European Canadian grade school children. Child Development, 80, 2, 506–518. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01275.x PDF
Wang, Q. (2006). Earliest recollections of self and others in European American and Taiwanese young adults. Psychological Science, 17, 8, 708-714. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00432.x PDF
Wang, Q. (2003). Infantile amnesia reconsidered: A cross-cultural analysis. Memory, 11, 1, 65-80. doi: 10.1080/741938173 PDF
Wang, Q. (2001). Culture effects on adults' earliest childhood recollection and self-description: Implications for the relation between memory and the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 2, 220-233. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.81.2.220 PDF
Mental Time Travel
Koh, J. B. K., & Wang, Q. (2025). Looking to the past to see the future: Mother–child future talk following memory sharing in three cultural communities. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1528977. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1528977
Wang, Q., Suo, T., Mei, L., Guan, L., Hou, Y., & Dai, Y. (2025). Do future actions matter more than past deeds? Temporal moral attribution in U.S. and Chinese school-age children. Developmental Psychology, 61(2), 228–240. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001825
Wang, Q., Koh, J. B. K., Santacrose, D., Song, Q., Klemfuss, J. Z., & Doan, S. N. (2019). Child-centered memory conversations facilitate children’s episodic thinking. Cognitive Development, 52, 58-66. PDF
Jeon, H. J., Wang, Q., Burrow, A. L., & Ratner, K (2017). Perspectives of future health in self and others: The moderating role of culture. Journal of Health Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1359105317730897 PDF
Wang, Q., & Koh, J. B. K. (2015). How will things be the next time? Self in the construction of future events among school-aged children. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 131-138. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2015.06.013 PDF
Wang, Q., Gould, T., & Hou, Y. (2015). Is the future always brighter than the past? Anticipation of changes in the personal future after recall of past experiences. Memory, 23, 178-186. doi:10.1080/09658211.2013.877147 PDF
Wang, Q., Capous, D., Koh, J. B. K., & Hou, Y. (2014). Past and future episodic thinking in middle childhood. Journal of Cognition and Development, 15, 4, 625-643. doi:10.1080/15248372.2013.784977 PDF
Wang, Q., Hou, Y., Tang, H., & Wiprovnick, A. (2011). Traveling backward and forward in time: Culture and gender in the episodic specificity of past and future events. Memory, 19(1), 103-109. doi:10.1080/09658211.2010.537279 PDF
Shao, Y., Yao, X., Ceci, S.J., & Wang, Q. (2010). Does the self drive mental time travel? Memory, 18, 8, 855-862. PDF
Matters for Well-being
Wang, Q., & Suo, T. (2023). Social-distancing memories and well-being in the cultural context. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(6), 1290–1302. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4123
Koh, J. B. K., & Wang, Q. (2021). Mother–child reminiscing about emotionally negative events and children’s long-term mental health. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 632799. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.632799
Chen, Y., Cullen, E., Fivush, R., Wang, Q., & Reese, E. (2021). Mother, father, and I: A cross-cultural investigation of adolescents’ intergenerational narratives and well-being. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(1), 55–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.08.011
Yang, Y., Song, Q., Doan, S. N., & Wang, Q. (2020). Maternal reactions to children’s negative emotions: Relations to children's socio-emotional development among European American and Chinese immigrant children. Transcultural Psychiatry. doi:10.1177/1363461520905997 PDF
Wang, Q., Hou, Y., Koh, J. B. K., Song, Q., & Yang, Y. (2018). Culturally motivated remembering: The moderating role of culture for the relation of episodic memory to well-being. Clinical Psychological Science, 6(6), 860-871. doi:10.1177/2167702618784012 PDF
Doan, S. N., & Wang, Q. (2018). Children’s emotion knowledge and internalizing problems: The moderating role of culture. Transcultural Psychiatry, 55(5), 689-709. PDF
Reese, E., Myftari, E., McAnally, H. M., Chen, Y., Neha, T., Wang, Q., Jack, F., & Robertson, S. (2017), Telling the tale and living well: Adolescent narrative identity, personality traits, and well-being across cultures. Child Development, 88, 2, 612-628. doi:10.1111/cdev.12618 PDF
Yang, Y. & Wang, Q. (2016). The relation of emotion knowledge to coping in European American and Chinese immigrant children. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 452–463. doi: 10.1007/s10826-015-0224-5 PDF
Song, Q., & Wang, Q. (2014). Harmed or not harmed? Culture in interpersonal transgression memory and self-acceptance. International Journal of Applied Psychology, 4, 5, 188-195. doi: 10.5923/j.ijap.20140405.03. PDF
Song, Q., & Wang, Q. (2013). Mother-child reminiscing about peer experiences and children’s peer-related self-views and social competence. Social Development, 22, 280-299. PDF
Chen, Y., McAnally, H. M., Wang, Q., & Reese, E. (2012). The coherence of critical event narratives and adolescents' psychological functioning. Memory, 20, 667-681. doi:10.1080/09658211.2012.693934 PDF
Doan, S. N., & Wang, Q. (2010). Maternal discussions of mental states and behaviors: Relations to emotion situation knowledge in European American and immigrant Chinese children. Child Development, 81, 5, 1490-1503. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01487.x PDF
Lu, H., Su, Y., & Wang, Q. (2008). Talking about others facilitates theory of mind in Chinese preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 44, 6, 1726-1736. doi:10.1037/a0013074 PDF
The Extended Mind Online
Bilgin, E., & Wang, Q. (2025). Are influencers more influential? Social endorsement and memory on social media. Memory, 33(6), 712–728. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2513604
Camia, C., & Wang, Q. (2025). Memory sharing on social media in the Arabic context. Memory, 33(6), 697–711. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2512760
Bilgin, E., & Wang, Q. (2024). The mnemonic effect of central and peripheral misinformation on social media. Memory, 32(3), 369–382. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2323935
Bilgin, E., & Wang, Q. (2023). Remembering and forgetting information about the COVID-19 vaccine on Twitter. Memory, 31(2), 247–258. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2144892
Wang, Q. (2022). The triangular self in the social media era. Memory, Mind & Media, 1, e4. https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2021.6
Hou, Y., Xiong, D., Jiang, T., Song, L., & Wang, Q. (2019). Social media addiction: Its impact, mediation, and intervention. Cyberpsychology, 13(1), 4. doi:10.5817/CP2019-1-4 PDF
Stone, C. B., & Wang, Q. (2018). From conversations to digital communication: The mnemonic consequences of consuming and sharing information via social media. Topics in Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/tops.12369 PDF
Hou, Y., Jiang, T-L, & Wang, Q. (2017). Socioeconomic status and online shaming: The mediating role of belief in a just world. Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 19-25. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.07.003 PDF
Wang, Q., Lee, D., & Hou, Y. (2017). Externalizing the autobiographical self: Sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention. Memory, 25, 6, 772-776. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1221115. PDF
Jiang, T-L, Hou, Y., & Wang, Q. (2016). Does micro-blogging make us "shallow"? Sharing information online interferes with information comprehension. Computers in Human Behavior, 59, 210-214. PDF
Wang, Q., Blenis, R. C, Ng, M., & Gonzalez, P. (2015, May). Going public: The impact of social media on autobiographical memory. Poster session presented at the 27th APS Annual Convention, New York, NY. PDF
Collective Cognition
Wang, Q., Mert, N., Cao, Y., & Hou, Y. (2026). Chinese anticipate their country’s future to be as bright as their personal future. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1704285. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1704285
Duman, Ç., & Wang, Q. (2026). Gender in personal and collective event memories from the COVID‐19 pandemic. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 40(4), e70248. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70248
Wang, Q., & Mert, N. (2025). Collective future thinking at a time of geopolitical tension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(5), 393–396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.02.004
Mert, N., & Wang, Q. (2025). Why do Americans foresee a grim future for their country? The influences of country well-being, national identity, and news coverage. Cognition, 256, 106052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106052
Mert, N., Hou, Y., & Wang, Q. (2023). What lies ahead of us? Collective future thinking in Turkish, Chinese, and American adults. Memory & Cognition, 51(3), 773–790. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01321-2
Wang, Q. (2008). On the cultural constitution of collective memory. Memory, 16(3), 305–317. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210701801467
