Y. (YongQi) Cong MSc
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Social Psychology
Programme group: Developmental psychopathology
Area of expertise: emotion communication, non-verbal communication
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 127
Postal address
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Postbus 15776
1001 NG Amsterdam
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Profile
YongQi completed a Bsc in Psychology at the University of Groningen and a research masters in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. YongQi is interested in emotion communication in the cross-cultural and developmental context.
In her PhD research (funded by a NWO research talent grant), YongQi investigates the "in-group advantage" effect in non-verbal emotion communication across cultures. Specifically, she studies how people from differnt cultures express and percieve emotions differently, and why people are better at recognizing emotional facial expressions displayed by someone with the same culture compared to those from other cultures. YongQi examines how culture influences emotion communication using a range of research methods including eye-tracking and longitudinal designs, and works with diverse samples including immigrants/expats and culturally-mixed individuals.
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Publications
2025
- Cong, Y. Q., Sauter, D., Ruiz, J. V., & Fischer, A. (2025). Visual processing and emotion perception from ingroup and outgroup facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion, 40(1), 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2504556
- Cong, Y., Yurdum, L., Fischer, A. H., & Sauter, D. A. (2025). Emotions are perceived differently from posed and spontaneous facial expressions. Emotion, 25(6), 1605-1621. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001473
Cong, Y.-Q., Yurdum, L., Fischer, A., & Sauter, D. (2025). Testing the Ingroup Advantage in Emotion Perception from Dynamic Posed and Spontaneous Expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 49(4), 489–503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-025-00492-1 [details]- Doosje, E. J., Özdemir, F., Cong, Y., & Feddes, A. R. (2025). The role of perceived misrecognition in intergroup relations: Recommendations for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Peace and Conflict : Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000815
2024
- Kamiloğlu, R. G., Cong, Y., Sun, R., & Sauter, D. A. (2024). Emotions Across Cultures. In L. Al-Shawaf, & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions (pp. 983-996). (Oxford Library of Psychology). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9e3sn, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.56 [details]
- Sun, R., Liu, Y., Vitale, V., Engels, T., Fadhlia, T. N., Sharaf, S., Pauw, L., Cong, Y.-Q., Nikolic, M., Israelashvili, J., Kamiloğlu, R. G., Manokara, K., Cáceres Quezada, E., Sauter, D., & Emotional experience and wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Emotion) project (2024). Emotional Experiences and Psychological Well-Being in 51 Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Emotion, 24(2), 397-411. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001235, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001235 [details]
2022
- Cong, Y., Keltner, D., & Sauter, D. (2022). Cultural variability in appraisal patterns for nine positive emotions. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 6(1), 51-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-022-00098-9 [details]
2019
- Cong, Y.-Q., Junge, C., Aktar, E., Raijmakers, M., Franklin, A., & Sauter, D. (2019). Pre-verbal infants perceive emotional facial expressions categorically. Cognition & Emotion, 33(3), 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1455640 [details]
2015
- Morey, C., Cong, Y., Zheng, Y., Price, M., & Morey, R. D. (2015). The Color-Sharing Bonus: Roles of Perceptual Organization and Attentive Processes in Visual Working Memory. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 3(1), 18-29. https://doi.org/10.1037/arc0000014
2024
- Andriessen, I., Wittebrood, K., Doosje, B., Cong, Y.-Q., & Zandvliet, R. (2024). Ruimte voor iedereen? : Onderzoek naar ervaren discriminatie in het (semi)publieke domein. Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2024/07/25/ruimte-voor-iedereen-onderzoek-naar-ervaren-discriminatie-in-het-semi-publieke-domein [details]
- Feddes, A. R., Cong, Y.-Q., Doosje, B., Mann, L., van Schalk, A., Chan, J., Kinanthik, T., Jelia, H., & Andriessen, I. (2024). Onderzoek naar ervaren discriminatie en racisme bij mensen met een (Zuid-)Oost-Aziatische herkomst in Nederland. Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2024/03/18/bijlage-1-eindrapport-ervaren-discriminatie-nederlanders-met-een-zuid-oost-aziatische-herkomst [details]
Prize / grant
- Manokara, K., Cong, Y., Fischer, A. & Sauter, D. (2021). APS Student Grant Competition.
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Cong, Y.-Q., Yurdum, L., Fischer, A., & Sauter, D. (2025). Testing the Ingroup Advantage in Emotion Perception from Dynamic Posed and Spontaneous Expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 49(4), 489–503.