Research output per year
Research output per year
Jose received his PhD from Singapore Management University in 2017, before taking on postdoctoral and lecturer positions at Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, Singapore University of Social Sciences, and Nanyang Technological University. His research broadly utilizes evolutionary or functionalist perspectives to understand a wide range of psychosocial phenomena, including mating, individual differences, culture, motivation, wellbeing, and organizational behavior. Jose is also interested in the therapeutic and meaning-making utility of art and music, and when he isn’t buried deep in his research pursuits, Jose can be found pursuing his loves for electronic music, whiskey, football, and travel. Jose joined Northumbria University as Assistant Professor in 2022.
See more at https://www.joseyong.com/.
Recent highlights:
Jose is interested in psychosocial "desiderata", or the desired things that underlie a happy, healthy, and good life, and how we may work with rather than against our human nature to achieve them. To that end, he uses evolutionary/adaptationist/ecological/functionalist approaches to broadly examine:
Jose is also interested in questions that border on the philosophical, such as the fundamental nature of humans, what the "purpose" of life (or anything) might be (if there is even such a thing), what reality is and how it is perceived (e.g., simulacra effects), the affordances and limits of external reality as extensions of the mind and phenotypes, and questions at the intersection of consciousness and physics (i.e., the hard problem/the explanatory gap).
Currently, Jose is focused on investigating:
Psychology, PhD
2015 → 2017
Award Date: 18 Aug 2017
Psychology, MSc
2012 → 2015
Award Date: 26 Jan 2015
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review