Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong

Psychology PhD @UniofOxford, BSc @ucl, interested in children, emotion and language development

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

These findings indicate that written language requires children to comprehend and produce emotion words that are rare in everyday conversations, which may have implications for emotional development.

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

📣New preprint!! Do you know that book language contains a greater diversity of emotion words? Check out this preprint with @ReadOxford

https://t.co/M2kFWCNbRo

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

As the targeted age of books increased through mid-childhood and early adolescence, the frequency and diversity of emotion words increased further. This pattern was also seen in children’s own writing, with more unique and diverse emotion words being used by older children.

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

Feeling super inspired to hear so many interesting talks and posters at my intellectual home #CogSci2024. Thank you @cogsci_soc for such wonderful programs!

[Sean McCarron @SPMcCarron]

New preprint with @ReadOxford and @vmurphyox! We tested a semantic fluency task for author names (an "Author Fluency Task" or AFT) and found it out-performed an Author Recognition Test (ART) as predictor of L2 formulaic language. https://t.co/QP9EOXBcQf

[Asifa Majid @asifa_majid]

So this happened yesterday. Thrilled and honoured to be elected a fellow of @BritishAcademy_ Congratulations to all the other fellows, including the wonderful Eve Clark @Stanford and Catherine Snow @Harvard! @OxExpPsy @StHughsCollege

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

Had an amazing time at #sssr2024 in Copenhagen! Enjoyed the talks, discussions and reconnecting with friends. Big thanks to everyone who attended my talk as part of the symposium on Emotions and Reading chaired by @JaneOakhill28 and @ReadOxford

[Kate Nation @ReadOxford]

A sunny morning to share the findings of our @NuffieldFound project on children's book language

Work led by @NickyJDawson with @yalinghsiao & talented team @OxExpPsy @StJohnsOx @OxUniPress 📚📚📚

Links👇to public report & publications

https://t.co/7LIR2KQ4Wl

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

Analysis scripts available from the project’s osf page 👍

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

First publication of my DPhil with @ReadOxford @yalinghsiao @NickyJDawson @nb1010 out in @cogsci_soc ! 🎉🎉

Find out more below 👀
https://t.co/T5CgU6e2kJ

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

In this paper, we analysed the sentiment of a large corpus of stories written by children (7-13 y/o). We found decreasing positive sentiments in children’s stories as they get older, and girls write more positively than boys.

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

Data and analysis scripts are accessible on the project’s OSF page.

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

🔔 New preprint alert ‼️
In this pre-registered experiment with @matthewmakpsy, Robert Hepach & @ReadOxford, we investigated how emotional narrative context influences novel adjectives learning.

https://t.co/EAs3wtv5cw

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

We found that emotional contexts support learning better than neutral contexts, and that word valence can be inferred from the valence of the contexts.

[CogSci Society @cogsci_soc]

#CogSci2024 is hosting a one-time Mentoring Event free and open to all #CogSci Society members, whether they intend to attend the conference or not.

Visit https://t.co/zOvt4MyclQ and sign up to participate as a mentor, a mentee… or both!

[Kathy Rastle @Kathy_Rastle]

What words do children encounter when they read independently? Read our new @SageQJEP paper analysing the language in children's books (https://t.co/YduVDzFhwE); and for an accessible blog post (https://t.co/N3IozRNTyY). Congrats to lead author Maria Korochkina!

[Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong @dong_rainy]

Hi language researchers, I would like some advice on measures of English print exposure. Does anyone know of an up-to-date children’s author recognition test or title recognition test in the UK context?
Thank you!