Publications

  1. Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Amanzai, H., Zhuang, Z., Wang, L., Yang, L., Kanan, L., & Chamas, Y. (2026). Aging in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Older Syrian Refugees in the Greater Toronto Area. Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 6(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/jal6010013
  2. Amanzai, H., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Zhuang, Z., Wang, B., Stafford, A., Wang, L., Yang, L. (2026). Depression in Older Adult Refugees: A Scoping Review. Journal of Ageing and Longevity. 6(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/jal6010032
  3. *Marshall, M. J., *Kandasamy, K., & Yang, L. (2026). Academic motivation of Canadian undergraduate students: Mental health, sociodemographic and COVID predictors. Psychiatry International, 7(4), 151. https://doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint7040151
  4. *Marshall, M. J., *Kandasamy, K., & Yang, L. (in press). Mental health status of Canadian undergraduates in the transition back to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health.
  5. *Lee, A.D.Y., Yang, L., & Vickers, K. (2026). The effects of social anxiety, Taijin Kyofusho, resilience, and social support on acculturative stress in Asian international students. Journal of College Student Mental Health, 40(3), 723-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/28367138.2025.2566916
  6. Yang, L., *Yu. L., *Su, Z., Wang, L. (2026). Psychological well-being of older Chinese immigrants in Canada towards the end of the pandemic: The importance of social support and resilience. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. 44(3), 109-117. doi:10.7870/cjcmh-2025-023
  7. Zhang, X., Liu, D., Hu, S., Xing, F., Wang, Y., Wang, Q., Yang, H., Liu, Y., Rastegar-Kashkooli, Y., Wang, F., Sun, Y., Zhang, J., Jiang, C., Chen, X., Yang, L., Xing, N., Wang, J., Wang, J. (accepted). Affective empathy across species: Insights from human and rodent studies on observational fear and empathic pain. General Psychiatry.
  1. *Bolton, K., & Yang, L. (2025). Risk Predictors and Cognitive Outcomes of the Psychosocial Functioning of North American Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Healthcare, 13(7), 792. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13070792
  2. *Gao, D., *Xu, A., & Yang, L. (2025). Virtual Care Perceptions and Experiences of Older Adults During COVID-19 in Canada: A Systematic Review. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 13(15), 1937. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13151937
  3. Guruge, S., Wang, L., Metersky, K., Al-Hamad, A. Zhuang, Z., Catallo, C., Amanzai, H., Yang, L., Yasin, Y. M. Illesinghe, V. (2025). Transnational health care practices among Afghan, Syrian, and
    Ukrainian refugee older adults in the Greater Toronto Area: A study protocol. Healthcare. 13, 2644. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13202644
  4. *Kandasamy, K., & Yang, L. (2025). Cognitive control under distraction: A facilitation effect for older adults. Psychology & Neuroscience.Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pne0000363
  5. Vo, A. T., Cao, Y., L., Urquhart, R., Yi, Y., & Wang, P. P. (2025). Developing a health system literacy measure for Chinese immigrants in Canada: Adapting the HLS19-NAV Scale. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 13(19), 2410.https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13192410
  6. Vo, A. T., Fang, L., L., Urquhart, R., Yi, Y., & Wang, P. P. (2025). Assessment of psychometric properties of instruments for measuring health system literacy: A systematic review study protocol using COSMIN guidelines. BMJ Open, 15: e102788. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2025-102788
  7. *Wong, B. I., *Lecompte, M., & Yang, L. (2025). Associative memory with value-directed learning in younger and older adults. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition, 32(6), 891–906. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2025.2539516
  8. *Xiang, A., *Lecompte, M., & Yang, L. (2025). The Effects of Video Presence on Associative and Source Memory Among Younger and Older Adults in a Virtual Social Simulation. Journal of applied gerontology: the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society, 44(3), 486–496. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648241282593
  9. Yang, L., *Ding, Y., *Wang, M., *Xie, J., Zhang, W., & Wang, P. P. (2025). An age and gender stratified interview on emotional experiences and coping of Chinese migrants in Canada amidst the pandemic. BMC Psychology,13(1), 735. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02993-6
  10. Yang, L., & *Foo, S. (2025). Memory selectivity of younger and older adults: The interactive effects of valence and subjective value. Canadian journal of experimental psychology. 79(4), 329–337. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000393
  11. Yang, M., Wang, L., Yang, L., Yu, J., Chen, D., Wang, M., Dong, H., & Yan, J. (2025). Spatial Mobility Change Among Older Chinese Immigrants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Physical, Social, and Virtual Environmental Factors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(3), 406. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22030406
  12. Yasin, Y. M., Al-Hamad, A., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Wang, L., Yang, L., Zhuang, Z. C., Salma, J., MacKenzie-Ede, F., Charbonneau, K., & Ravichandran, A. (2025). Healthcare needs, barriers, and practices among refugee older adults: A scoping review. Aging International. 50(53). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-025-09631-x
  1. *Katsiris, A., *Kandasamy, K., Yang, L. (2024). Peritraumatic Distress among Chinese Canadians during the Early Lockdown Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sociodemographic and Pandemic-Related Predictors. COVID, 4, 391–408. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/covid4030026
  2. Metersky, K., Guruge, S., Wang, L., Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Catallo, C., Yang, L., Salma, J., Zhuang, Z. C., Chahine, M., Kirkwood, M., & Al-Anani, A. (2024). Transnational healthcare practices among migrants: A concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 0:1-27, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16693
  3. Vo, A. T., Yang, L., Urquhart, R., Yi, Y., & Wang, P. P. (2024). Delayed Access to Medical Care and Psychological Distress among Chinese Immigrants in Canada during the Pandemic. Healthcare, 12 (16), 1639. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12161639
  4. Yang, L., *Lee, A. D. Y., & Dong, L. (2024). Psychological Wellbeing and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Older Immigrants in Canada across the Early and Late Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 12(18), 1899. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12181899.
  5. Yang, L., *Scaringi, J., & *Li, L. (2024). Age differences in memory for names and occupations associated with faces: the effects of assigned and self-perceived social importance. Memory (Hove, England), 32(9), 1247–1257. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2399110
  6. Yang, L., Zhang, X., & Yu, J. (2024). Editorial: Age Differences in Trust and Fraud. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1455499. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1455499  
  7. Yasin, Y. M., Al-Hamad, A., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Wang, L.,Yang, L. Zhuang, Z., Salma, J., MacKenzie-Ede, F., Charbonneau, K., & Ravichandran, A. (2024). Healthcare practices among refugee older adults: A scoping review protocol. International Health Trends and Perspectives, 4(2), 310–316. https://doi.org/10.32920/ihtp.v4i2.2240
  8. Yasin, Y. M., Al-Hamad, A., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Wang, L., Yang, L., Zhuang, Z., & Salma, J. (2024). Healthcare practices among refugee older adults: A scoping review protocol. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/J8V4U
  9. *Yu, L. & Yang, L. (2024). Tracking the trajectory and predictors of peritraumatic distress among Chinese migrants in Canada across the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID, 4, 1642–1654. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid4100114
  1. Dong, L., *Katsiris, A.,*Lecompte, M., *Skrotzki, C., & Yang, L. (2023). A qualitative analysis of older adults’ cognitive appraisal in coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of social capital. COVID, 3, 1622–1638. https://doi.org/10.3390/ covid3100111
  2. Dong, L. & Yang, L. (2023). COVID-19 anxiety: The impact of older adults’ transmission of negative information and online social networks. Aging and Health Research. 3 (1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100119
  3. Kong, Y., Shaver, L. G., Shi, F., Yang, L., Zhang, W., Wei, X., Zhan, E., Effiong, A., Wang, P. P. (2023). Knowledge, psychological impacts, and protective behaviors during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic among Chinese immigrants with school-age children in Canada. BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-362857/v1
  4. *Yu, L. & Yang, L. (2023). Mental health risks persist over time? Psychological Distress of Chinee Residents in Canada across three years of the pandemic. Epidemiology (research abstract). University of Toronto Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.33137/utjph.v4i1.40616
  5. *Yu, L., Cao, Y., Wang, Y., Liu, T., MacDonald, A., Bian, F., Li, X., Wang, X., Zhang, Z., Wang, P. P., & Yang, L. (2023). Mental health conditions of Chinese international students and associated predictors amidst the pandemic. Journal of Migration and Health, 7, 100185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100185
  1. Bolourchian, M., Alizadeh, A., Yang, L., Wang, P., & Snow, D. F. (2022). The effects of perceived discrimination against Chinese immigrants in North America on peritraumatic distress during COVID-19: A structural equation modeling. Annals of Epidemiology (ACE Abstracts), 73, p 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.06.031
  2. Bolourchian, M., Yang, L., Wang, P. P., Alizadeh, A., & Snow, D. F. (2022). Attitudes towards Chinese residents in Canada during COVID-19. Annals of Epidemiology (ACE Abstracts), 73, p 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.06.032
  3. *Lecompte, M., Counsell, A., & Yang, L. (2022). Demographic and COVID experience predictors of COVID-19 risk perception among Chinese residents in Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph192114448.
  4. *Lee, A. D.Y., Wang, P. P., Zhang, W., & Yang, L. (2022). COVID-19 peritraumatic distress and loneliness in Chinese residents in North America: The role of contraction worry. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 7639. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph19137639
  5. Na, L., Yang, L., Mezo, P. G., & Liu, R. (2022). Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping. Social science & medicine, 305, 115031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115031
  6. Na, L. & Yang, L. (2022). Psychological and behavioral responses during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with mobility and/or self-care disabilities. Disability and Health Journal. 15(1): 101216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101216
  7. *Skrotzki, C., *Stone, C., *Kandasamy, K., & Yang, L. (2022). Event segmentation enhances older adults’ reactive cognitive control bias. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2022.2134548
  8. *Su, C., Yang, L., Dong, L., & Zhang, W. (2022). The psychological well-being of older Chinese immigrants in Canada amidst COVID-19: The role of loneliness, social support, and acculturation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 8612. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148612
  9. *Truong, L.; *Kandasamy, K.; Yang, L. (2022). Cognitive Control in Young and Older Adults: Does Mood Matter? Brain Sciences, 12 (1), https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci 12010050.
  10. Yang, L., *Kandasamy, K., Hasher, L. (2022). Inhibition and creativity in aging: Does distractibility enhance creativity? The Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 4: 353-375. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121020030705
  11. Yang, L., *Yu, L., *Kandasamy, K., *Wang, Y., Shi, F., Zhang, W., & Wang, P. P. (2022). Non-pathological psychological distress among Mainland Chinese in Canada and its sociodemographic risk factors amidst the pandemic. HealthCare, 10(11): 2326. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112326
  12. Yang, L., *Kandasamy, K., Na, L., Zhang, W., & Wang, P. P. (2022). Perceived and experienced anti-Chinese discrimination and its associated psychological impacts among Chinese Canadians during the Wave 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology, Health & Medicine. 29(1), 108–125. DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2022.2142947
  13. Yang, L. (2022). Maintained and delayed benefits of executive function training and low-intensity aerobic exercise over a 3.5-year period in older adults. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 14, 905886. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.905886
  14. Yang, L., *Greenbaum, D., *Cupid, J., & Reed, M. (2022). Health appeal appraisal and memory in older adults: the effects of goal and valence framing. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2022.2079601
  15. *Yu, L., Cao, Y., Wang, Y., Liu, T., MacDonald, A., Bian, F. Li, X., Wang, X., Zhang, Z., Wang, P. P., & Yang, L. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among international students. Annals of Epidemiology (ACE Abstracts), 75, p 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.06.023
  16. *Yu, L., *Lecompte, M., Zhang, W., Wang, P., & Yang, L. (2022). Sociodemographic and COVID-Related Predictors for Mental Health Condition of Mainland Chinese in Canada Amidst the Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1), 171; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010171
  1. Kong, Y., Shaver, L. Shi, F., Yang, L., Zhang W., Wei, X., Zhu, Y., Wang, Y., Wang, P. (2021). Attitudes of Chinese immigrants in Canada towards the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine for prevention and management of COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey during the early stages of the pandemic. BMJ open, 11(9), Article e051499. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051499.
  2. Na, L. Yang, L., Yu, L., *Bolton, K., Zhang, W., & Wang, P. (2021). The Appraisal and Endorsement of Individual and Public Preventive Measures to Combat COVID-19 and the Associated Psychological predictors among Chinese Living in Canada. Open Journal of Public Health. 14(1): 592-599. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874944502114010592
  3. Wang, L., Yu, J., Chen, D., & Yang, L. (2021). Relationships among COVID-19 Prevention Practices, Risk Perception and Individual Characteristics: A Temporal Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 10901. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010901
  4. *Wong, B. I., *Lecompte, M., & Yang, L. (2021) The age-related associative deficit simulated by relational divided attention: encoding strategy and recollection, Memory, 29:3, 406-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1898645
  5. Yang, L., *Truong, L., & *Li, L. (2021). Survival processing effect in memory under semantic divided attention. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology,75(3), 299–306. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000210
  1. *Gallant, S. N., *Carvalho, M., *Hansi, J., & Yang, L. (2020). The effect of emotional distraction on hyper-binding in young and older adults. Cognition & emotion, 34(4), 839–847. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1668750
  2. Kong, Y., Shaver, L., Shi, F., Yang, L., Zhang, W., Wei, X., Wang, Y., & Wang, P. (2020). Belief and Usage of Traditional Chinese Medicine as Preventative Measure against COVID-19 Infection During the Pandemic among Chinese Immigrants in Canada. Annuals of Epidemiology (ACE Abstracts), 52, p 105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.08.027
  3. *Wilkinson, A., & Yang, L. (2020). Long-term maintenance of multiple task inhibition practice and transfer effects in older adults: A 3.5-year follow-up. Psychology and Aging, 35(5), 765–772. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000430
  4. Yang, L., * Gallant, S. N., *Wilkins, L. K., & Dyson, B. (2020). Cognitive and psychosocial outcomes of self-guided executive function training and low-intensity aerobic exercise in healthy older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 12: 576744. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.576744
  5. Yang, L., *Yu, L., Zhang, W., Wei, X., Shi, F., & Wang, P. (2020). The perceived psychological distress towards COVID-19 and its demographic predictors. Annuals of Epidemiology (ACE Abstracts), 52, p 107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.08.034
  6. Zhang, W., Chai, L., Fan, J., Wang, P., Wei, X. & Yang, L. (2020). COVID-19, racial discrimination, and psychological distress. Annuals of Epidemiology (ACE Abstracts), 52, p 106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.08.032
  1. *Gallant, S. N., Spaniol, J., & Yang, L. (2019). Age differences in cue utilization during prospective and retrospective memory monitoring.Psychology and Aging, 34(4), 545-557. doi:10.1037/pag0000352
  1. *Mallya, S., Reed, M., & Yang, L. (2018). A theoretical framework for using humor to reduce the effects of chronic stress on cognitive function in older adults: An integration of findings and methods from diverse areas of psychology. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 32, 49-71. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2017-0068.
  2. *Gallant, S. N., Pun, C., & Yang, L. (2018). Age differences in the neural correlates underlying control of emotional memory: An event-related potential study. Brain Research, 1697, 83-92. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.06.019
  3. Girard, T., *Wilkins, L., *Lyons, K., Yang, L., & Christensen, B. (2018). Traditional Test Administration and Proactive Interference Undermine Visual-Spatial Working Memory Performance in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 23(4): 242-253. doi: 10.1080/13546805.2018.1479248.
  4. Yang, L., Li, J., *Wilkinson, A., Spaniol, J., & Hasher, L. (2018). East-West cultural differences in encoding objects in imagined social contexts. Plos One. 13(11): Article e0207515. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207515
  1. *Gallant, S., Dyson, B. J., Yang, L. (2017). Local context effects during emotional item directed forgetting in younger and older adults. Memory, 25 (8),1129-1138. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1274036.
  2. *Judges, R. A., *Gallant, S. N., Yang, L., & Lee, K. (April 13, 2017). The role of cognition, personality, and trust in fraud victimization in older adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 588. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00588
  3. *Wong, B., Yin, S., Yang, L. Li, J., Spaniol, J. (2017). Cultural differences in memory for objects and backgrounds in pictures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(3), 407-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/002202211774876
  1. *Tallon, K., Koerner, N., & Yang, L. (2016). Working memory in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Effects of verbal and image-based worry and relation to cognitive and emotional processes. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(1), 72-94. doi: 10.5127/jep.045714
  2. *Wilkinson, A.J., & Yang, L. (2016b). Long-term maintenance of inhibition training effects in older adults: 1- and 3-year follow-up. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 71 (4), 622-629. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbu179.
  3. *Wilkinson, A. J., & Yang, L. (2016a). Inhibition plasticity in older adults: Practice and transfer effects using a multiple task approach. Neural Plasticity, Volume 2016, Article ID 9696402, 12 pages. doi: 10.1155/2016/9696402

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