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Sonia Pan

Sonia Pan

Postdoctoral Associate
Psychology & Neuroscience
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A tale of self-transcendence: awe fosters optimism

Journal Article Journal of Positive Psychology · January 1, 2024 Optimism, a positive mindset towards the future, serves various adaptive functions. While its significance has been acknowledged in the literature, the role of self-transcendence in fostering optimism remains underexplored. The present research contributes ... Full text Cite

Are we braver in cyberspace? Social media anonymity enhances moral courage

Journal Article Computers in Human Behavior · November 1, 2023 The literature has established accumulated evidence on the negative consequences of social media anonymity on behaviors online (e.g., cyber-aggression). Yet the potential benefits of social media anonymity have been largely overlooked, especially when it c ... Full text Cite

Awe fosters global self-continuity: The mediating effect of global processing and narrative.

Journal Article Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · September 2023 Awe is a self-relevant emotion, but whether and how awe impacts global self-continuity (GSC), a sense of connectedness among past, present, and future selves, has never been investigated. In six studies (N = 1,384), we examined the relationship betw ... Full text Cite

Remembering online and offline: the effects of retrieval contexts, cues, and intervals on autobiographical memory.

Journal Article Memory (Hove, England) · April 2022 The current study examined the impact of social media as a retrieval context (in contrast to private recall) on the retention of autobiographical memory. At session 1, participants (N = 177) generated recent life events in response to cue words and ... Full text Cite