PUBLICATIONS

Our publications are organized into three sections: (1) Emotion, (2) Cultural identity, and (3) Culture, ethnicity, and mental health.

Emotion

Chentsova-Dutton, Y.E., Tsai, J.L. (2010). Self-focused attention and emotional reactivity: The role of culture. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 507-519. pdf Kwon, Y., Scheibe, S., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Tsai, J.L., Carstensen, L.L. (2009). Replicating the positivity effect in picture memory in Koreans: Evidence for cross-cultural generalizability. Psychology and Aging, 24 , 748–754. pdf Tsai, J.L. (2007). Ideal affect: Cultural causes and behavioral consequences. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 242-259. pdf Tsai, J.L., Miao, F.F., Seppala, E., Yeung, D., & Fung, H.H. (2007). Influence and adjustment goals: Sources of cultural differences in ideal affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 1102-1117. pdf Roberts, N., Tsai, J.L., & Coan, J. (2007). Emotion elicitation using dyadic interaction tasks. Chapter in J. Allen & J. Coan (Eds.). Handbook of Emotion Elicitation (pp.106-123). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf Tsai, J.L., Miao, F., & Seppala, E. (2007). Good feelings in Christianity and Buddhism: Religious differences in ideal affect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 409-421. pdf Wong, Y. & Tsai, J.L.(2007). Cultural models of shame and guilt. Chapter in J. Tracy, R. Robins & J. Tangney (Eds.). Handbook of Self-Conscious Emotions, (pp.210-223) . New York, NY: Guilford Press. pdf Chentsova-Dutton, Y. & Tsai, J.L. (2007). Gender differences in emotional response among European Americans and Hmong Americans. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 162-181. pdf Tsai, J.L., Louie, J., Chen, E.E., & Uchida, Y. (2007). Learning what feelings to desire: Socialization of ideal affect through children's storybooks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 17-30. pdf Tsai, J.L., Knutson, B., & Fung, H.H. (2006). Cultural variation in affect valuation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 288-307. pdf Tsai, J.L., Levenson, R.W., & McCoy, K. (2006). Cultural and temperamental variation in emotional response. Emotion, 6, 484-497. pdf Roisman, G.I., Tsai, J.L., & Chiang, K.S. (2004). The emotional integration of childhood experience: Physiological, facial expressive, and self-reported emotional response during the Adult Attachment Interview. Developmental Psychology, 40, 776-789. pdf Tsai, J.L., Simenova, D., & Watanabe, J. (2004). Somatic and social: Chinese Americans talk about emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1226-1238. pdf Tsai, J.L., Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2003). Variation among European Americans in emotional facial expression. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34, 650-657. pdf Tsai, J.L., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Friere-Bebeau, L.H., & Przymus, D. (2002). Emotional expression and physiology in European Americans and Hmong Americans. Emotion, 2, 380-397. pdf Tsai, J.L., Levenson, R.W., & Carstensen, L.L. (2000). Autonomic, expressive, and subjective responses to emotional films in older and younger Chinese American and European American adults. Psychology and Aging, 15, 684-693. pdf Tsai, J.L. (1999). Culture. In D. Levinson, J. Ponzetti, & P. Jorgensen (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Human Emotion (pp.159-166). New York, NY: Macmillan Press. pdf Pasupathi, M., Carstensen, L.L., Turk-Charles, S., & Tsai, J.L. (1998). Emotion and aging. In H. Friedman (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Mental Health (pp. 91-101). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Gross, J.J., Carstensen, L.L., Pasupathi, M., Tsai, J.L., Gottestam, K., & Hsu, A.Y.C. (1997). Emotion and aging: Changes in experience, expression, and control. Psychology and Aging, 12, 590-599. pdf Tsai, J.L. & Levenson, R.W. (1997). Cultural influences on emotional responding: Chinese American and European American dating couples during interpersonal conflict. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 28, 600-625. pdf Tsai, J.L. & Carstensen, L.L. (1996). Clinical intervention with ethnic minority elders. In L.L. Carstensen, B.A. Edelstein, & L. Dornbrand (Eds.) The Practical Handbook of Clinical Gerontology (pp. 76-106). Bevely Hills, CA: SAGE Publishers. Pasupathi, M., Carstensen, L.L., & Tsai, J.L. (1994). Ageism in interpersonal settings. In B. Lott & D. Maluso (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Interpersonal Discrimination (pp. 160-182). Guilford Press: New York.

Cultural Identity

Cheryan, S. & Tsai, J.L. (2006). Ethnic Identity. Chapter in F. Leong, A. Inman, A. Ebreo, L. Yang, L. Kinoshita, & F. Fu (Eds.). Handbook of Asian American Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Tsai, J.L., & Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2002). Different models of cultural orientation in American- and overseas-born Asian Americans. In K. Kurasaki, S. Okazaki, & S. Sue (Eds.). Asian American Mental Health: Assessment Theories and Methods, (pp. 95-106). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. pdf Tsai, J.L., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Wong, Y. (2002). Why and how we should study ethnic identity, acculturation, and cultural orientation. In G. Hall & S. Okazaki (Eds.). Asian American Psychology: The science of lives in Context (pp. 41-65). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. pdf Tsai, J.L., Morstensen, H., Wong, Y., & Hess, D. (2002). What does "being American" mean?: Differences between Asian American and European American young adults. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 8, 257-273. pdf Tsai, J.L. (2001). Cultural orientation of Hmong young adults. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 3-4, 99-114. Tsai, J.L., Ying, Y., & Lee, P.A. (2000). The meaning of "being Chinese" and "being American": Variation among Chinese American young adults. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31, 302-322. pdf Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2000). Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults. Journal of Community Psychology, 28, 427-442. pdf

Culture, Ethnicity, and Mental Health

Chentsova-Dutton, Y.E., Tsai, J.L., & Gotlib, I. (2010). Further evidence for the cultural norm hypothesis: Positive emotion in depressed and control European American and Asian American women. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16,284-295. pdf Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Tsai, J. (2009). Culture and depression. In R.E. Ingram (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Depression. New York: Springer Publishing. Ying, Y.W., Lee, P.A. & Tsai, J.L. (2007). Attachment, sense of coherence, and mental health among Chinese American college students: Variation by migration status. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 31 , 531-544. pdf Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Chu, J., Tsai, J.L., Rottenberg, J., Gross, J.J. & Gotlib, I. (2007). Depression and emotional reactivity: Variation among Asian Americans of East Asian descent and European Americans. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116 , 776-785. pdf Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Tsai, J.L. (2007). Cultural factors influence the expression of psychopathology. Chapter in W. O'Donohue & S. Lilienfeld (Eds). The Great Ideas of Clinical Science: 18 Concepts That Every Mental Health Practitioners and Research Should Understand (pp.375-396) . New York, NY: Brunner-Taylor. Butcher, J.N., Mosch, S.C., Tsai, J.L., & Nezami, E. (2006). Cross-cultural applications of the MMPI-2. In J.N. Butcher (Ed.). MMPI-2: A Practitioner's Guide (pp. 505-537). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2006). The experience of college challenges: Variation among Chinese American students. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 4,79-97. Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2004). Inventory of college challenges for ethnic minority students: Psychometric properties of a new instrument in Chinese Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 10, 351-364. pdf Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2004). Psychometric properties of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families-Child Scale in Chinese Americans. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 35, 91-103. pdf Tsai, J.L., Pole, N., Levenson, R.W., & Muñoz, R.F. (2003). The effects of depression on the emotional responses of Spanish-speaking Latinas. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 9, 49-63. pdf King, S.K., Tsai, J.L., & Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2002). Psychophysiological Studies of Emotion and Psychopathology. In J.N. Butcher (Ed.). Clinical Personality Assessment (pp. 56-74). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf Tsai, J.L. & Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2002). Understanding depression across cultures. In I. Gotlib & C. Hammen (Eds.). Handbook of Depression (pp. 467-491). New York: Guilford Press. pdf Tsai, J.L., Przymus, D.E., & Best, J.L. (2002). Towards an understanding of Asian American interracial dating and marriage. In M. Yalom & L. Carstensen (Eds.). Inside the American Couple (pp. 189-210). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pdf Tsai, J.L., Butcher, J.N., Vitousek, K., & Munoz, R. (2001). Culture, ethnicity, and psychopathology. In H.E. Adams & P.B. Sutker (Eds.). The Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology (pp.105-127). New York: Plenum Press. Tsai, J.L., Ying, Y.W., & Lee, P.A. (2001). Cultural predictors of self-esteem: A study of Chinese American female and male young adults. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 7, 284-297. pdf Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., Tsai, J.L., Hung, Y., Lin, M., Wan, C.T. (2001). Asian American college students as model minorities: An examination of their overall competence. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 7, 59-74. pdf Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., Tsai, J.L., Lee, Y.J., & Tsang, M. (2001). Network composition, social integration, and sense of coherence in Chinese American young adults. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 3-4, 83-98. Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., Tsai, J.L., Lee, Y.J., & Tsang, M. (2001). Relationship of young adult Chinese Americans with their parents: Variation by migratory status and cultural orientation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71, 342-349. pdf Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., Tsai, J.L., Yeh, Y., & Huang, J. (2000). The conception of depression in Chinese American college students. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 6, 183-195. pdf

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