(Papers are available upon request)
*Student mentee
Tan, J. J. X., *Tan, G. T. H., & *Wee, F. A. (2025). The link between intergenerational social
mobility of cohorts and individual self-rated health: A multi-country analysis. Social Indicators Research. Advance online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03691-x
Tan, J. J. X., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2025). Socioeconomic status shapes dyadic
interactions: Examining behavioral and physiologic responses. Psychological Science. Advance online: https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251350970
Tan, J. J. X., & *Tai, A. Y. E. (2025). Perception of socioeconomic status: A meta-analysis of
manipulations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241305506
Tan, C. H., & Tan, J. J. X. (2024). Associations of cardiac function and arterial stiffness with white
matter hyperintensities. International Journal of Cardiology, 407, 132037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2024.132037
Tan, J. J. X., Tan, C. H., & Kraus, M. W. (2024). Subjective socioeconomic status moderates how
resting heart rate variability predicts pain response. Affective Science, 5(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00234-w
Tan, C. H., & Tan, J. J. X. (2023). Low neighborhood deprivation buffers against hippocampal
neurodegeneration, white matter hyperintensities, and poorer cognition. GeroScience, 45, 2027-2036. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-023-00780-y
*Tang, B. W., & Tan, J. J. X., & Tov, W. (2023). Managing burnout and well-being. Managing
People across the Asia-Pacific: An organizational psychology approach. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802202250.00018
*Tang, B. W, & Tan, J. J. X. (2022). Perceived social class and life satisfaction: The role of class
consistency and status identity uncertainty. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 25(1), 60-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12488
(Among top 10 most downloaded articles in the journal in 2022)
Ku, C. W., Leow, S. H., Ong, L. S., Erwin, C., Ong, I., Ng., X. W., Tan, J. J. X., Yap, F., Chan, J., &
Loy, S. L. (2022). Developing a lifestyle intervention program for overweight or obese preconception, pregnant and postpartum women using qualitative methods. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06564-2
Ku, C. W., Loo, R. S. X., Lim, C. J. E., Tan, J. J. X., Ho, J. E. W., Han, W. M., Ng, X. W., Chan, J. K.
Y., Yap, F., Loy, S. L. (2021). Development and validation of a lifestyle behavior tool in overweight and obese women through qualitative and quantitative approaches. Nutrients, 13, 4553. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13124553
*Majeed, N., Tan, J. J. X., Tov, W., & Hartanto, A. (2021). Dispositional optimism as a buffer
against emotional reactivity to daily stressors: A daily diary approach. Journal of Research in Personality, 93, 104105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104105
*Majeed, N., Hartanto, A., & Tan, J. J. X. (2021). Dyslexia & creativity: A meta-analysis. Dyslexia,
27, 187-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1677
(Top downloaded article in the journal in 2021)
Tan, J. J. X., Karan, A., & Albarracin, D. (2021). Internal and social sources shape judgments
about the mental and physical nature of an experience. Psychology of consciousness: Theory, research, and practice, 11(3), 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000282
Tan, J. J. X., Kraus, M. W., Carpenter, N. C., & Adler, N. E. (2020). The association between
objective and subjective socioeconomic standing and subjective well-being: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 46(11), 970-10120. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/bul0000258
Yong, J. C., Hartanto, A., & Tan, J. J. X. (2020). Subjective social status and inflammation: The
role of culture and anger control. Health Psychology, 40(1), 62-70. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001029
Tan, J. J. X., Kraus, M. W., Impett, E. A., & Keltner, D. (2019). Partner commitment in close
relationships mitigates social class differences in subjective well-being. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(1), 16-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619837006
Tan, J. J. X., & Kraus, M. W. (2018). Judgments of interpersonal warmth predict class-based
differences in political candidate support. Social Cognition, 36, 106-133. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2018.36.1.106
Tan, C. H., Hyman, B. T., Tan, J. J. X., Hess, C. P., … Desikan, R. S. (2017). Polygenic hazard scores
in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Annals of Neurology, 82(3), 484-488. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.25029
Adler, N. E. & Tan, J. J. X. (2017). Tackling the health gap: The role of psychosocial processes.
International Journal of Epidemiology, 46, 1329-1331. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx167
Kraus, M. W., Park, J., & Tan, J. J. X. (2017). Signs of social class: The experience of economic
inequality in everyday life. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 422-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616673192
Tan, J. J. X., & Kraus, M. W. (2015). Lay theories about social class buffer lower-class individuals
against poor self-rated health and negative affect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 446-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215569705
Kraus, M. W., & Tan, J. J. X. (2015). Americans overestimate social class mobility. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.01.005
(Among top 5 most downloaded articles in the journal)
Kraus, M. W., Tan, J. J. X., & Tannenbaum, M. B. (2013). Locating the social ladder across cultures
and identities. Psychological Inquiry, 24, 131-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2013.799989 (Commentary)
Kraus, M. W., Tan, J. J. X., & Tannenbaum, M. B. (2013). The social ladder: A rank-based
perspective on social class. Psychological Inquiry, 24, 81-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2013.778803 (Target Article)
Cohen, D., Kim, E., Tan, J. J. X., & Winkelmes, M. (2013). A note-restructuring intervention
increases students’ exam scores. College Teaching, 61, 95-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2013.793168
Yang, Y., See, Y. H. M., Ortony, A., & Tan, J. J. X. (2010). Subjective effectiveness in agent-to-
human negotiation: A frame x personality account. In P. McBurney, S. Parsons, I. Rahwan, & N. Maudet (Eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6057, 134-149, Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12805-9_8