In press
Chen, M., Xu, Z., Zhai, J., Bao, X., Zhang, Q., Gu, H., Shen, Q., Cheng, L., Chen, X., Wang, K., Deng, X., Ji, F., Liou, C., Li, J., Dong, Q., Chen, C. (in press). Evidence of IQ-modulated association between ZNF804A gene polymorphism and cognitive function in schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Zhang, H., Chen, C., & Zhou, X. (in press). Neural correlates of numbers and mathematical terms. NeuroImage.
Lu, C., Chen, C., Peng, D., You, W., Zhang, X., Ding, G., Deng, X., Yan, Q., & Howell, P. (in press). Neural anomaly and reorganization in speakers who stutter: a short-term intervention study. Neurology.
Lam, B. T., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (in press). The important roles of non-parental adults in Vietnamese-American adolescents’ cultural and socioemotional development. Journal of Social Work and Mental Health.
Wei, W., Lu, H., Zhao, H., Chen, C., Dong, Q., & Zhou, X. (in press). Gender differences in children’s arithmetic performance are accounted for by gender differences in language abilities. Psychological Science.
Shane, J., Heckhausen, J., Lessard, J., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (in press). Career-related goal pursuit among post-high school youth: relations between personal control beliefs and control strivings. Motivation and Emotion.
Zhang, H., Chang, K., Zhang, F., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (in press). Mental health problems and coping styles of urban and rural high school students in China. Journal of Community Psychology.
Zhu, B., Chen, Chuansheng, Loftus, E., He, Q., Chen, Chunhui, Lei, X., Lin, C., & Dong, Q. (in press). Brief exposure to misinformation can lead to long-term false memory propensity. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Lei, X., Chen, Chuansheng, He, Q., Moyzis, R., Xue, G., Chen, Chunhui, Cao, Z., Li, Jin, Li, H., Zhu, B., Zhang, M., Li, Jun, & Dong. Q. (in press). Haplotype polymorphism in the alpha-2b-adrenergic receptor gene influences response inhibition in a large Chinese sample. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Zhai, J., Cheng, L., Zhang, Q., Shen, Q., Chen, M., Chen, X., Wang, K., Deng, X., Xu, Z., Ji, F., Liu, C., Li, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (in press). S100B gene polymorphisms predict prefrontal spatial function in both schizophrenia patients and healthy individuals. Schizophrenia Research.
Davis, E. L., Greenberger, E., Charles, S. T., & Chen, C. (in press). Emotion experience and regulation in China and the United States: How do culture and gender shape emotion responding? International Journal of Psychology
Chang, K., Xia, Y., Zhang, H., & Chen, C. (in press). Testing the effectiveness of the Knowledge and Behavior (K&B) Therapy in patients of hemiplegic stroke. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Mei, L., Lu, Z., & Dong. Q. (in press). The cognitive neuroscience of learning to read. In Lou, Y. & Lu, Z. (Eds.). Cognitive Neuroscience.
Germo, G., Farruggia, S., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (in press). Adolescents in foster care and their attachment-security to significant others: a one-year longitudinal study. In Columbus, F. (Ed.), Advances in psychology research. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Lessard, J., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (in press). Self-entitlement. In Levesque, R. J. R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Youth Development.
2011
Chen, Chunhui, Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., Dong, Q., He, Q., Zhu, B., Li, Jin, Li, Jun, & Lessard, J. (2011). Sex modulates the associations between the COMT gene and personality traits. Neuropsychopharmacology. 36, 1593–1598.
Wan, Q., Chen, C., Wu, C., & Qian, X. (2011). Repetition benefit in mental rotation is independent of stimulus repetition. Memory and Cognition. Doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0061-0.
Zhang, Y., Haddad, E., Torres, B., & Chen, C. (2011). The reciprocal relationships among parents’ expectations, adolescents’ expectations, and adolescents’ achievement: A two-wave longitudinal analysis of the NELS data. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 40, 479–489. DOI 10.1007/s10964-010-9568-8
Zhang, M., Jiang, T., Mei, L., Yang, H., Chen, C., Xue, G., & Dong, Q. (2011). It’s a word: Early electrophysiological response to the character likeness of pictographs. Psychophysiology, 48, 950–959. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01153.x.
Haddad, E., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2011). The role of important non-parental adults (VIPs) in the lives of older adolescents: A comparison of three ethnic groups. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 40:310–319. DOI 10.1007/s10964-010-9543-4
Lessard, J., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., & Farruggia, S. (2011). Are youths’ feelings of entitlement always “bad”?: Evidence for a distinction between exploitive and non-exploitive dimensions of entitlement. Journal of Adolescence, 34, 521–529. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.05.014
Xue, G., Mei, L., Chen, C., Lu, Z., Poldrack, R. A., & Dong, Q. (2011). Spaced learning enhances subsequent recognition memory by reducing neural repetition suppression. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23. 1624–1633.
Li, Jin, Chen, Chuansheng, Chen, Chunhui, He, Q., Li, H., Li, Jun, Moyzis, R., Xue, G., & Dong. Q. (2011). Neurotensin receptor 1 gene (NTSR1) polymorphism is associated with working memory. Plos ONE, 6 (3) e17365 . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017365.t001.
Chen, Chunhui, Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., Dong, Q., He, Q., Li, H., Li, J., Lessard, J., & Stern, H. (in press, 2011). Genetic variations in the dopaminergic system and alcohol use: A multiple regression approach. Addiction Biology. doi:10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00348.x
Yu, X., Chen, C., Pu, S., Wu, C., Li, Y., Jiang, T., & Zhou, X. (in press, 2011). Dissociation of subtraction and multiplication in the right parietal cortex: Evidence from intraoperative cortical electrostimulation. Neuropsychologia. DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.015.
Zhang, Q., Shen, Q., Xu, Z., Chen, M., Cheng, L., Zhai, J., Gu, H., Bao, X., Chen, X., Wang, K., Deng, X., Ji, F., Liu, C., Li, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (in press, 2011). The effects of CACNA1C gene polymorphism on spatial working memory in both healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology.1-8.
Wei, W., Yuan, H., Chen, C., & Zhou, X. (in press, 2011). Cognitive correlates of performance in advanced mathematics. British Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8279.2011.02049.x
Zhou, F., Zhao, Q., Chen, C., & Zhou, X. (2011). Mental representations of arithmetic facts: evidence from eye movement recordings supports the preferred operand-order-specific representation hypothesis. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, DOI10.1080/17470218.2011.616213.
Zhu, B., Chen, C., Moyzis, R.K., Dong,Q., Chen, C., He, Q., Stern, H.S., Li, H., Li, Jin, Li, Jun, Lessard, J., & Lin, C. (2011). Genetic variations in the dopamine system and facial expression recognition in healthy Chinese college students. Neuropsychobiology.DOI: 10.1159/000329555
Chen, Chunhui, Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., Stern, H. He, Q., Li, H., Li, J., Zhu, B., & Dong, Q. (2011). Contributions of dopamine-related genes and environmental factors to highly sensitive personality: A multi-step neuronal system-level approach. PLoS ONE, 6(7), e21636.
Zhou, X., Booth, J. R., Lu, J., Zhao, H., Butterworth, B., Chen, C., Dong, Q. (2011). Age-independent and age-dependent neural substrate for single-digit multiplication and addition arithmetic problems. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36, 338-352. DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2010.549873
Zhai, J., Zhang, Q., Cheng, L., Chen, M., Wang, K., Liu, Y., Deng, X., Chen, X., Shen, Q., Xu, Z., Ji, F., Liu, C., Dong, Q., Chen, C., & Li, J. (2011). Risk variants in the S100B gene, associated with elevated S100B levels, are also associated with visuospatial disability of schizophrenia. Behavioural Brain Research, 217, 363-368.
2010
Dmitrieva, J., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Ogunseitan, O., & Ding, Y. (2010). Gender-specific expression of the DRD4 gene on adolescent delinquency, anger and thrill seeking. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq020
Chang, E., Heckhausen, J., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2010). Shared agency with parents for educational goals: ethnic differences and implications for college adjustment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.39, 1293-1304.
Chang, E. S., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Heckhausen, J., & Farruggia, S. (2010). Non-parental adults as social resources in the transition to adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 20, 1065-1082.
Xue, G., Dong, Q., Chen, C., Lu, Z., Mumford, J. A., & Poldrack, R. A. (2010). Greater neural pattern similarity across repetitions is associated with better memory. Science, 330, 97 – 101. Originally published in Science Express on 9 September 2010. DOI: 10.1126/science.1193125
Xue, G., Mei, L., Chen, C., Lu, Z., Poldrack, R. A., & Dong, Q. (2010). Facilitating memory for novel characters by reducing neural repetition suppression in the left fusiform cortex. PLoS ONE. 5(10): e13204. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013204
He, Q., Xue, G., Chen, C., Lu, Z., Dong, Q., Lei, X., Ding, N., Li, J., Li, H., Chen, C., Li, J., Moyzis, R. K., & Bechara, A. (2010). Serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-httlpr) influences decision making under ambiguity and risk in a large chinese sample. Neuropharmacology, 59, 518-526. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2010.07.008
Mei, L., Xue, G., Chen, C., Xue, F., Zhang, M., & Dong, Q. (2010). The “visual word form area” is involved in successful memory encoding of both words and faces. NeuroImage, 52, 371-378.
Zhu, B., Chen, C., Loftus, E. F., Lin, C., He, Q., Chen, C., Li, H., Xue, G., Lu, Z., & Dong, Q. (2010). Individual differences in false memory from misinformation: Cognitive factors. Memory, 18, 543-555.
Zhu, B., Chen, C., Loftus, E.F., Lin, C., He, Q., Chen, Chun-hui, Li, H., Moyzis, R. K., Lessard, J., & Dong, Q. (2010). Individual differences in false memory from misinformation: personality characteristics and their interactions with cognitive abilities. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 887-894.
Jiang, T., Qiao, S., Li, J., Cao, Z., Gao, X., Song, Y., Xue, G., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (2010). Effects of symbol type and numerical distance on the human event-related potential. Neuropsychologia, 48, 201-210.
Lu, C., Chen, C., Ning, N., Ding, G., Guo, T., Peng, D., Yang, Y., Li, K., & Lin, C. (2010). The neural substrates for atypical planning and execution of word production in stuttering. Experimental Neurology, 221, 146-156.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Lu, Z., & Dong, Q. (2010). Brain imaging techniques and their applications in decision-making research. Acta Psychologica Sinica 42, 120-137.
Lu, C., Peng, D., Chen, C., Ning, N., Ding, G., Li, K., Yang, Y., & Lin, C. (2010). Altered effective connectivity and anomalous anatomy in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of stuttering speakers. Cortex, 46, 49-67.
Lessard, J., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2010). Adolescents’ response to parental efforts to influence eating habits: When parental warmth matters. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39, 73-83.
Zhu, B., Chen, C., Loftus, E. F., Lin, C., & Dong, Q. (2010). Treat and trick: A new way to increase false memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 1199-1208.
2009
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Qiao, S., Chen, C., Chen, L., Lu, N., & Dong, Q. (2009). Event-related potentials for simple arithmetic in Arabic digits and Chinese number words: A study of the mental representation of arithmetic facts through notation and operation effects. Brain Research, 1302, 212-224.
Chen, C., Xue, G., Mei, L., Chen, Chunhui, & Dong, Q. (2009). Cultural neurolinguistics. In J. Chiao (Ed.), Progress in Brain Research, (Vol. 178): Cultural neuroscience: cultural influences on brain function, 159-171. The Netherlands: Elsevier.
Chung, W., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., & Heckhausen, J. (2009). A cross-ethnic study of adolescents’ depressed mood and the erosion of parental and peer warmth during the transition to young adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 19, 359-379.
2008
Dmitrieva, J. Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2008). Whither the “whiz kids” went: Asian American students’ transition to college. In G. Li and L. Wang (Eds.), Model minority myths revisited: An interdisciplinary approach to demystifying Asian American education experiences (pp. 233-251). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Xue, G., Zeng, F., & Chen, C. (2008). Language. In Han, J. et al. (eds.), Neuroscience (third edition, in Chinese) (pp. 939-964). Beijing, China: Peking University Medical Press.
Greenberger, E., Lessard, J., Chen, C., & Farruggia, S. P. (2008). Self-entitled college students: Contributions of personality, parenting, and motivation factors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 1193-1204.
Xue, G., Jiang, T., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2008). Language experience shapes early electrophysiological response to visual stimulus: The effects of writing systems, stimulus length, and presentation duration. NeuroImage, 39, 2025-2037.
Dong, Q., Mei, L., Xue, G., Chen, C., Li, T., Xue, F., & Huang, S. (2008). Sex-dependent neurofunctional predictors of long-term maintenance of visual word learning. Neuroscience Letters, 430, 87-91.
Mei, L., Chen, C., Xue, G., He, Q., Li, T., Xue, F., Yang, Q., & Dong, Q. (2008). Neural predictors of auditory word learning. NeuroReport, 19, 215-219.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Chen, L., & Dong, Q. (2008). Holistic or compositional representation of two-digit numbers: Evidence from distance, magnitude, and SNARC effects in a number-matching task. Cognition, 106, 1525-1536.
Mei, L., Li, Y., Long, Y., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2008). The impact of material presentation mode on English verbal memory among Chinese children with and without formal music training. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 40, 883-888.
Mei, L., Li, Y., Huang, S., Xue, G., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2008). Age effect on a short-term training in discriminating a non-native phonemic contrast. Psychological Development and Education (China), (3), 89-93.
2007
Chen, C., Xue, G., Dong, Q., Jin, Z., Li, T., Xue, F., Zhao, L., & Guo, Y. (2007). Sex determines neurofunctional predictors of language learning proficiency. Neuropsychologia, 45, 741-747.
Zhou, X., Chen, Chunhui, Zhang, H., Chen, C., Zhou, R., & Dong, Q. (2007). The operand-order effect in single-digit multiplication: An ERP study of Chinese adults. Neuroscience Letters, 414, 41-44.
Wang, Y., Xue, G., Chen, C., Xue, F., & Dong, Q. (2007). Neural bases of asymmetric language switching in second-language learners: An ER-fMRI study. NeuroImage, 35, 862-870.
Zhou, X., Chen, Chuansheng., Zang, Y., Dong, Q., Chen, Chunhui, Qiao, S., & Gong, Q. (2007). Dissociated brain organization for single-digit addition and multiplication. NeuroImage, 35, 871-880.
Chen, Chunhui, Zhou, X., Chen, C., Dong, Q., Zang, Y., Qiao, S., Yang, T., & Gong, Q. (2007). The neural basis of processing anomalous information. NeuroReport, 18, 747-751.
Guo, X., Chen, C., Chen, K., Jin, Z., Peng, D., & Yao, L. (2007). Brain development in Chinese children and adolescents: A structural MRI study. NeuroReport, 18, 875-880.
Zhou, X., Chen, Y., Chen, C., Zhang, H., Jiang, T., & Dong, Q. (2007). Chinese kindergarteners’ automatic processing of numerical magnitude. Memory and Cognition, 35, 464-470.
Kasof, J., Chen, C., Himsel, A., & Greenberger, E. (2007). Values and creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 19, 105-122.
2006
Chen, C., Himsel, A., Kasof, J., Greenberger, E., & Dmitrieva, J. (2006). Boundless creativity: evidence for the domain-generality of individual differences in creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 40, 179-199.
Dong, Q., Tao, S., Li, B., Wang, W., & Chen, C. (2006). English classes without English teachers: the Pan Deng English Learning Program. Q. Jing, M. R. Rosenzweig, G. d’Ydewalle, H. Zhang, H. Chen, & K. Zhang (Eds.), Progress in Psychological Science around the World.Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues. Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology (pp. 51-70). Psychology Press.
Chang, E., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Dooley, D., & Heckhausen, J. (2006). What do they want in life? The life goals of a multi-ethnic, multi-generational sample of high school seniors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 321-332.
Farruggia, S., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., & Heckhausen, J. (2006). Perceived social environment and adolescent well-being and adjustment: Comparing a foster care sample with a matched sample. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 349-358.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Jin, Z., & Dong, Q. (2006). Cerebral asymmetry in the fusiform areas predicted the efficiency of learning a new writing system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 923-931.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Zhang, H., Xue, G., Dong, Q., Jin, Z., Zhang, L., Peng, C., Zhao, H., Gou, Y., Jiang, T., & Chen, Chunhui. (2006). Neural substrates for forward and backward recitation of numbers and the alphabet: A close examination of the role of intraparietal sulcus and persylvian areas. Brain Research, 1099, 109-120.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Zhang, H., Zhou, R., Zhao, H., Chen, Chunhui, Qiao, S., Jiang, T., Guo, Y., & Dong, Q. (2006). Event-related potentials of single-digit addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2500-2507.
Liu, L., Peng, D., Ding, G., Jin, Z., Zhang, L., Li, K., & Chen, C. (2006) Dissociation in the neural bases of Chinese tone and vowel production. NeuroImage, 29, 515-523.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Dong, Q., Zhang, H., Chen, Chunhui, Qiao, S., Zhao, H., Jiang, T., & Guo, Y. (2006). Numerical distance effect in the N240 component in a number-matching task. NeuroReport, 17, 991-994.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Jin, Z., & Dong, Q. (2006). Language experience shapes fusiform activation: A training study. NeuroImage, 31, 1315-1326.
2001-2005
Xue, G., Dong Q., Jin, Z., Chen, K., Chen, C., & Reiman, E. M. (2005). Cerebral asymmetry in children when reading Chinese characters. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 206-214.
Chen, C., Kasof, J., Himsel, A., Dmitrieva, J., Dong, Q., & Xue, G. (2005). Effects of the explicit instruction to “be creative” across creativity tasks and culture. Journal of Creative Behavior, 39, 89-110.
Xue, G., Dong, Q., Jin, Z., & Chen, C. (2004). Mapping of verbal working memory in non-fluent Chinese-English bilinguals with functional MRI. NeuroImage, 22, 1-10.
Dmitrieva, J., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., & Gil-Rivas, V. (2004). Family relationships and adolescent psychosocial outcomes: Converging findings from Eastern and Western cultures. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 14, 425-447.
*This article was the most downloaded (#1) article of all JRA articles during the year 2005 (Source: http://www.s-r-a.org/topjradownloads.html).
Farruggia, S., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Dmitrieva, J., & Macek, P. (2004). Adolescent self-esteem in cross-cultural perspective: Testing measurement equivalence and a mediation model. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 719-733.
*This article was among the top ten (#7) most downloaded 2004-2005 articles in psychology from Sage Publications (Source: Sage, March, 2005), which publishes 43 psychology journals.
Gil-Rivas, V., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., & Montero y Lopez Lena, M. (2003). Individual and family correlates of depressive symptomatology among Mexican adolescents. Adolescence, 38, 93-109
Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Farruggia, S., Bush, K., & Dong, Q. (2003). The role of non-parental adults in adolescent development in China and the United States. Psychology in the Schools, 40, 35-50.
Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Dmitrieva, J., & Farruggia, S. P. (2003). Item-wording and the dimensionality of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: Do they matter? Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 1241-1254.
Beam, M. R., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2002). The nature of adolescents’ relationships with their “very important” nonparental adults. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 305-325.
Beam, M. R., Gil-Rivas, V., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2002). Adolescent problem behavior and depressed mood: Risk and protection within and across social contexts. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 31, 343-357.
Chen, C., & Farruggia, S. (2002). Culture and adolescent development. In W. J. Lonner, D. L., Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D. N. Sattler (Eds.), On-line readings in Psychology and Culture. Bellingham, WA: Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University. http://orpc.iaccp.org or http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture/Chen_Farruggia.htm.
Reprinted in Lovelock, H. (Ed.) (2009), SEE young people: Screening and Engaging Early. Melbourne: The Australian Psychology Society, ltd.
Young, B., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2002). Family, peer, and individual correlates of interethnic dating attitudes and behavior. In S. P. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in psychology research (Vol. 13) (pp. 93-107). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Chen, C., Kasof, J., Himsel, A., Greenberger, E., Dong, Q., & Xue, G. (2002). Creativity in drawings of geometric shapes: A cross-cultural examination with the Consensual Assessment Technique. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33, 171-187.
Xue, G., Dong, Q., Zhou, L. F., Zhang, H., & Chen, C. (2001). The relations between instrinsic and extrinsic motivation and creativity. Psychological Development and Education, 1, 6-11.(In Chinese).
Chen, C., Edwards, K., Young, B., & Greenberger, E., (2001). Close relationships between Asian and European American college students. The Journal of Social Psychology, 141, 85-100.
Dong, Qi, & Chen, C. (2001). The role of relationships with teachers in adolescent development among a national sample of Chinese urban adolescents. Chinese Journal of Applied Psychology, 7 (2), 3-10. (In English).
1996-2000
Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Tally, S., & Dong, Q. (2000). Family, peer, and individual correlates of depressive symptomatology among U.S. and Chinese adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 209-219.
Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Beam, M. R., Whang, S.-M., & Dong, Q. (2000). The perceived social contexts of adolescent misconduct: A comparative study of youths in three cultures. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 10,365-388. Reprinted in Arnett, J.J. (2002), Readings on adolescence and emerging adulthood (pp. 273-282). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Swanson, J., Oosterlaan, J., Murias, M., Schuck, S., Flodman, P., Spence, A., Wasdell, M., Ding, Y., Chi, H-C., Smith, M., Mann, M., Carlson, C., Kennedy, M. J., Sergeant, J., Leung, P., Zhang, Y-P., Sadeh, A., Chen, C., Whalen, C. K., Babb, K. A., Moyzis, R., & Posner, M. (2000). ADHD children with a 7-repeat allele of the DRD4 gene have extreme behavior but normal performance on critical neuropsychological tests of attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 97, 4754-4759.
Chen, C., Burton, M. L., Greenberger, E., & Dmitrieva, J. (1999). Population migration and the variation of dopamine D4 (DRD4) allele frequencies around the globe. Evolution and Human Behavior, 20, 309-324.
*This study’s finding was featured in the U.S. News & World Report (August 19, 2002), “The gene that wouldn’t sit still: Classroom fidget are epic migration may share a common genetic root.”
Schwab-Stone, M., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Silver, D., Lichtman, J., & Voyce, C. (1999). No safe haven II: The effects of violence exposure on urban youth. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 356-367.
Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Lester, J., Dong, Q. & Guo, M. (1998). A cross-cultural study of family and peer correlates of adolescent misconduct. Developmental Psychology, 34, 770-781.
Greenberger, E., Chen, C., &, Beam, M. (1998). The role of “very important” non-parental adults in adolescent development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 27, 321-343.
McLaughlin, C. S., Chen, C., Greenberger, E. & Biermeier, C. (1997). Family, peer, and individual correlates of sexual behavior among Caucasian and Asian American late adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 7, 33-53.
Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (1996). Perceived family relationships and depressive mood in early and late adolescence: A comparison of European and Asian Americans. Developmental Psychology, 32, 707-716.
Reprinted in N. Zane & B. Kim (eds.), (2004). Asian American studies: A reader. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.
Chen, C., Lee, S., & Stevenson, H. W. (1996). Long-term prediction of academic achievement of American, Chinese, and Japanese adolescents. Journal of Educational Psychology, 88, 750-759.
Chen, C., Lee, S., & Stevenson, H. W. (1996). Academic achievement and motivation of Chinese students: A cross-national perspective. In S. Lau (Ed.), Growing up the Chinese way: Chinese child and adolescent development (pp. 69-91). Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
1991-1995
Chen, C., & Stevenson, H. W. (1995). Motivation and mathematics achievement: A comparative study of Asian American, Caucasian American, and East Asian high school students. Child Development, 66, 1215-1234.
Chen, C., Lee, S., & Stevenson, H. W. (1995). Response style and cross-cultural comparisons of rating scales among East Asian and North American students. Psychological Science, 6, 170-175.
One of the most cited articles published in Psychological Science as of November 1, 2010. (#37).http://pss.sagepub.com/reports/most-cited
Chen, C., Stevenson, H. W., Hayward, C., & Burgess, S. (1995). Culture and academic achievement: Ethnic and cross-national differences. In M. Maehr & P. Pintrich (Eds.), Culture, motivation, and achievement: Advances in motivation and achievement, Vol. 9 (pp. 119-151). Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press.
Lee, S. Y., Uttal, D. H., & Chen, C. (1995). Writing systems and acquisition of reading in American, Chinese, and Japanese first-graders. In I. Taylor & D. Olson (Eds.), Scripts and literacy: Reading and learning to read alphabets, syllabaries, and characters (pp. 247-263). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Stevenson, H. W., Lee, S. Y., Chen, C., Kato, K., & Londo, W. (1994). Education of gifted and talented students in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. In P. O. Ross (Ed.), National excellence: A case for developing America’s talent: An anthology of readings (pp. 27-60). Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the U. S. Department of Education, Washington, D. C.
Stevenson, H. W., Lee, S., & Chen, C. (1994). Education of gifted and talented students in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 17, 104-130.
Crystal, D. S., Chen, C., Fuligni, A. J., Stevenson, H. W., Hsu, C.-C., Ko, H.- J., Kitamura, S., & Kimura, S. (1994). Psychological maladjustment and academic achievement: A cross-cultural study of Japanese, Chinese, and American high school students. Child Development, 65, 738-753.
Stevenson, H. W., Chen, C., & Lee, S. (1993). Mathematics achievement of Chinese, Japanese, and American children: Ten years later. Science, 259, 53-58.
* This study was voted by doctoral-level members of SRCD as one of the “20 studies that shook up child psychology” (Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Development, vol. 46, no. 1, 2003). It was ranked as #13. Other top-20 studies include those by Bandura, Baillageon, Bowbly, Inhelder and Piaget, Gilligan, Kohlberg, Scarr, Skinner, and others.
Chen, C., Lee, S., & Stevenson, H. W. (1993). Students’ achievement and mathematics instruction: Chinese and Japanese classrooms. In G. Bell (Ed.), Asian perspectives on mathematics education (pp. 21-35). Lismore, New South Wales, Australia: The Northern Rivers Mathematical Association.
Stevenson, H. W., Chen, C., & Lee, S. (1993). Motivation and achievement of gifted children in East Asia and the United States. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 16, 223-250.
Stevenson, H. W., & Chen, C. (1992). Literacy acquisition in Peru, Asia, and the United States. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 520, 174-185.
Stevenson, H. W., Chen, C., & Lee, S. Y. (1992). Chinese families. In J. L. Roopnarine & B. Carter (Eds.), Parent-child socialization in diverse cultures (pp. 17-33). In I. E. Sigel (series Ed.), Annual advances in applied developmental psychology(Vol. 5), Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Stevenson, H. W., Chen, C., Lee, S. Y., & Fuligni, A. J. (1991). Schooling, culture, and cognitive development. In L. Okagaki & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), Directors of development: Influences on the development of children’s thinking (pp. 243-268). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Before 1991
Stevenson, H. W., Lee, S. Y., Chen, C., Stigler, J. W., Hsu, C. C., & Kitamura, S. (1990). Contexts of achievement: A study of American, Chinese, and Japanese children. Monographs for the Society for Research in Child Development, 55 (Serial No. 221).
Stevenson, H. W., Chen, C., & Uttal, D. H. (1990). Beliefs and achievement: A study of black, white, and Hispanic elementary school children. Child Development, 61, 508-523.
Stevenson, H. W., Lee, S. Y., Chen, C., Lummis, M., Stigler, J., Fan, L., & Ge, F. (1990). Mathematics achievement of children in China and the United States. Child Development, 61, 1053-1066.
Stevenson, H. W., Chen, C., & Booth, J. (1990). Influences of schooling and urban-rural residence on gender differences in cognitive abilities and academic achievement. Sex Roles, 23, 535-551.
Stevenson, H. W., & Chen, C. (1989). Schooling and achievement: A study of Peruvian children. International Journal of Educational Research, 13 (8), 883-894.
Chen, C., & Stevenson, H. W. (1989). Homework: A cross-cultural examination. Child Development, 60, 551-561.
Chen, C., & Stevenson, H. W. (1988). Cross-linguistic differences in digit span of preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 46, 150-158.
Chen, C., & Uttal, D. H. (1988). Cultural values, parents’ beliefs, and children’s achievement in the United States and China. Human Development, 31, 351-358.
Other Writings
Chen, C. (1989). A study of Chinese and American children’s attitudes towards schooling. ERIC, ED305165.
Chen, C. (1991). American, Chinese, and Japanese students’ acceptance of their parents’ values about academic and social activities. ERIC, ED333980.
Chen, C. (June 16, 1996). Huasheng xueye chenji hao bu yinxiang xinli jiekang [Chinese students’ high level of academic achievement does not necessarily have adverse effects their psychological well-being]. Shijie ribao [World Journal], p. A5.
Chen, C. (March 2, 1997). Zhongguo ren bi waiguo ren congmin? [Are Chinese smarter than non-Chinese?]. Shijie ribao [World Journal], p. A6.
