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In “Income Robustly Predicts Self-Regard Emotions” (Emotions, 2021), Associate Professor Eddie Tong (NUS Department of Psychology) and his co-researchers found that income was a directly proportionate indicator of greater positive self-regard emotions and lower negative self-regard emotions. The relationship between income and other-regard emotions (feelings we have for other people), however, was less strong and […]
Strategically located in the Southeast Asian region, Singapore is a leading hub for aviation-related activities. Singapore Changi Airport is seen as the best in the world and is continually undergoing developments, such as the recent unveiling of Jewel Changi Airport on the 7th of March, 2019. In light of Singapore’s goals, ‘Peopling Infrastructure: Aeromobilities, Automation […]
Here are some of the highlights from the book launch of Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea (Oxford UP, 2020) by Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS Department of History)!
In ‘A class apart? Meritocracy, social mixing and effects on national unity’, Grace Ho (Senior Political Correspondent, The Straits Times) reflects on Singapore’s efforts to manage meritocracy and strengthen national unity across social classes. She draws insights from a new book written by Associate Professors Vincent Chua and Tan Ern Ser (NUS Department of […]
Call For Applications: Student Researchers at SRN The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) is a unique academic resource covering the wide range of research on Singapore produced by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). It can be found at http://www.fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/ SRN assists the FASS Research Division with event organization and repository updating. SRN has […]
As part of the Book Box series, the Straits Times highlighted The Votive Pen, a newly published biography of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo (NUS Department of English Language and Literature), by acclaimed author Nilanjana Sengupta. Although Prof Thumboo says he was at first reluctant to have a biography written about himself, he feels that Sengupta’s […]
In the Straits Times article titled “Efforts taken to address nutritional gaps among children”, Minister of State for Education and Social and Family Development Sun Xueling commented on an NUS study led by Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Sociology and Centre for Family and Population Research) which found that poor nutritional habits in young children were […]
As part of the Ask NUS Economists series in The Straits Times, Professor Lorenz Goette and Mr Chen Zihua (NUS Department of Economics) write about the link between being resistant to installing digital contacting tracing (DCT) applications and being vaccinated, as well as possible factors that contribute to both. Through an experiment conducted on a […]
Contemporary Singapore serves as a centre for both inbound and outbound migration of Indians within Asia and beyond. In ‘Emergence of Singapore as a Pivot for Indian Diasporic and Transnational Networks’ (Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism, 2019) Dr Jayati Bhattacharya (NUS South Asian Studies Programme) examines the evolution of this hub of Indian diaspora […]
In “Looking to 2021: Prospects for the Singapore economy and jobs market”(NUS News), Dr Kelvin Seah (NUS Economics) discusses the downward trend of unemployment which has hit the global labour market, zooming in specifically on Singapore, and briefly outlines the factors determining whether this will persist. Pointing out that Singapore hit an all-time high of […]