• PSYC2300- Basic Learning Processes
• PSYC2650- Personality Psychology
• PSYC4905- Research Practicum
• PSYC4910/4920- Senior Thesis Research I/II
• PSYC5120- Psychological Testing and Measurement
• PSYC5190- Personality Psychology
• PSYC6000- Major Psychological Approaches

• PSYC2300 – Basic Learning  
• PSYC4905 – Research Practicum
• PSYC5120 – Psychological Testing and Measurement
• PSYC5190 – Personality Psychology

## Happiness and Meaning Across Adulthood

1. Wong, N. & Gong, X.* (2025, in press). Learning from older adults: An intergoal compatibility Account for successful happiness pursuit. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
2. Gong, X., Chang, X., Xia, Z., & Zeng, X. (2025). Pursuing happiness together or alone? Social and solitary happiness-pursuit activities differentially relate to older adults' emotional happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 26, 49.
3. Jiang, D., Tse, D., Gong, X., Tsang, V., Fung, H., Mann, A., Nakamura, J., & Tsai, J. (2024). Examining the ideal-actual affect relationship: The role of activity flow conduciveness, pleasantness, and familiarity across adulthood. Cognition and Emotion, 38, 1303-1317.
4. Gong, X. & Nikitin, J. (2021), “When I feel lonely, I’m not nice (and neither are you)”: The short- and long-term relation between loneliness and perceived social behaviour. Cognition and Emotion, 35(5), 1029-1038.
5. Gong, X. & Fung, H. H. (2020). Remembering positive or relevant information? Cultural relevance may moderate the age-related positivity effect in memory. Psychology and Aging, 35(2), 257-282.
6. Wong, N., Gong, X.*, & Fung, H. H. (2020). Does valuing happiness enhance subjective well-being? The age-differential mediation effect of interdependence. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21, 1-14.
7. Gong, X., Fung, H. H., Zeng, Q., & Tse, C. Y. (2020). Cultural relevance reduces the aging-related enhancement in neural processing of positively valenced information. The Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 75(10), 2075-2086.
8. Fung, H. H., Gong, X., Ngo, N., & Isaacowitz, D. (2019). Cultural differences in the age-related positivity effect: distinguishing between preference and effectiveness. Emotion, 19(8), 1414-1424.
9. Gong, X., Wong, N., & Wang, D. (2018). Are gender differences in emotion culturally universal? Comparison of emotional intensity between Chinese and German samples. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 49(6), 993-1005.

## Goal Transition Across Adulthood

10. Gong, X.* & Freund, A. M.* (2024). People do not always want more: Domain-specific satisfaction impacts goal orientation across adulthood. Motivation and Emotion, 48, 845-862.
11. Gong, X.* & Freund, A. M. (2022). Does goal orientation modulate satisfaction with cognitive performance in different age groups? The Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences. 77(6), 1063-1068.
12. Gong, X. & Freund, A. M. (2020). It is what you have, not what you lose: Effects of perceived gain and loss on goal orientation across adulthood. The Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 75(10), 2106-2111.
13. Gong, X., Seaman, K., Fung, H. H., Loeckenhoff, C., & Lang, F. (2019). Development and validation of Social Motivation Scale. The Gerontologist, 59(6), e664-e673.
14. Gong, X., Zhang, F., & Fung, H. H. (2019). Are older adults more willing to donate? The roles of donation form and social relationship. The Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 74(3), 440-448.

## Social and Cognitive Aging

15. Gong, X., Fung, N. L. K., Chu, L., & Fung, H. H. (2025). Framing effects on attention to advertisements and purchase intentions among younger and older adults. Cognition and Emotion. 39:1351-1361
16. Liu, X., Huai, Q., Gong, X., & Peng, H. (2025). Age-related differences in personality judgment accuracy and the moderating role of information quantity. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 57, 71-83
17. Xiong, J., Gong, X., Yang, Q., & Yin, S. (2024). Age-differential role of gaze reinstatement in recognition memory for negative visual stimuli. The Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 79(5), gbae047.
18. Hu, Y., Fung, H. H., & Gong, X. (2024). Age-differential effects of proactive control in dual tasking: The moderating effect of task difficulty. Journal of Adult Development.
19. Chu, L. #, Gong, X. #, Lay, J. #, Zhang, F., Fung, H., & Kwok, T. C. Y. (2023). The perks of doing housework: Longitudinal associations with mortality and underlying mechanisms. BMC Geriatrics, 23, 355.
20. Fung, N. L. K., Fung, H. H., Chu, L., & Gong, X. (2023). Facial trustworthiness influences age differences in visual attention toward credible versus non-credible messages. Innovation in Aging, 7(5), igad051.
21. Wong, N & Gong, X.* (2023). Subjective health and physical-activity engagement across adulthood: Distinguishing between within-person and between-person associations. Gerontology. 69(4), 495-505.
22. Yang, Q., Gong, X., & Yin, S. (2021). Time unpacking effect on intertemporal decision-making: Does the effect change with choice valence? Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 666329.
23. Li, T. #, Tan, Y. #, Gong, X. #, Yin, S., Qiu, F., Hu, X. (2018). Future time perspective impacts gain-related but not loss-related intertemporal choice. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 523.
24. Gong, X., Xiao, H., & Wang, D. (2016). Emotional valence of stimuli modulates false recognition: Using a modified version of the simplified conjoint recognition paradigm. Cognition, 156, 95-105.
25. Gong, X., & Wang, D. (2016). Applicability of the International Affective Picture System in Chinese older adults: A validation study. Psych Journal, 5(2), 117-124.
26. Xiao, H., Huang, Y., Gong, X., & Wang, D. (2015). Age alters the effect of emotional valence on false memory: Using the simplified conjoint recognition paradigm. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 47(1), 19-28.
27. Xiao, H., Gong, X., & Wang, D. (2014). Effects of emotional valence and time interval on the false memory for emotional pictures among older adults. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 46(7), 922-930.
28. Gong, X., Fu, Y., Wang, D., Franz, E., & Long, Z. (2014). Remoteness modulates the effects of emotional valence on the neural network of autobiographical memory in older females. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 79(1), 23-54. DOI:10.2190/ag.79.1.b

## AI, Language, and Cognitive Impairment Detection

29. Wang, Y.#, Gong, X.#, Wu, X., Wong, P., Fung, H., Mak, M., & Meng, H. (2024). Naturalistic Language-related Movie-Watching fMRI Task for Detecting Neurocognitive Decline and Disorder. 2024 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). Beijing, China, 2024, pp. 31-35.
DOI: 10.1109/ISCSLP63861.2024.10800350
30. Wang, Y. #, Gong, X. #, Wu, X., & Meng, H. (2024). Large language model-based fMRI encoding of language functions for subjects with neurocognitive disorder. Proceedings of Interspeech. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2407.10376
31. Meng, H., Mak, B., Mak, M., Fung, H., Gong, X., et al. (2023). Integrated and enhanced pipeline system to support spoken language analytics for screening neurocognitive disorders. Proceedings of Interspeech, 1713-1717. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2249
32. Gong, X.*, Wong, P. C. M., Fung, H. H., Mok, V. C. T., Kwok, T. C. Y., Woo, J., Wong, K. H., & Meng, H.* (2022). The Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Dialog Task (HK-GSDT): A quick screening test of neurocognitive disorders. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(20), 13302. DOI:10.3390/ijerph192013302
33. Gong, X., Shi, L., Wu. Y., Luo, Y., & Kwok, M. (2022). B-vitamin supplementation slows cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment patients with frontal lobe atrophy. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 89(4),1453-1461. DOI:10.3233/JAD-220685