[Edited Book]  VanderLaan, D. P. & Wong, W. I.* (2022). Gender and sexuality development: Contemporary theory and research. New York: Springer. [Link]

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Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.^, Li, G., & Ng, P. H. (2025). A long-term prospective cross-lagged study of gender-typed play and mental transformation in children. Child Development, 96, 812-829. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14211

 

Kwan, M. W.^, Shi, S. Y.^, & Wong, W. I*. (In press). Temporal variations in gender identity: An ecological momentary assessment of the influences of context. Australian Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049530.2025.2471056

 

Kwan, K. W.^, Simran, I., James, H. J., Shi, S. Y.^, Poon, B. H. P., Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., Peragine, D. E., Wong, W. I.*, & VanderLaan, D. P*. (2025). Children’s facial emotional expressions to gender-nonconforming hypothetical peers. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03113-6

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Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.^, Li, G., Liben, L, S., Leung, J. S-Y.^, & Chen, Z. (2025). Mixed-Gender Anxiety and Gender-Based Relationship Efficacy: A Cross-Lagged Study of Single-Sex (SS) Versus Coeducational (CE) Schooling Bridging High School Graduation. Journal of School Psychology,109, 101398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2024.101398

 

MacMullin, L. N., Wong, W. I., & VanderLaan, D.* (In press). Testing an empathy-based intervention to improve children’s gender-related attitudes. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis.

 

Wong, W. I.*, Shi, Y.^, van der Miesen, A. I. R., Ngan, C.^, Lei, H. L.^, & VanderLaan, D. P. (2024). Observations on gender variance in Chinese community children measured by the Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53, 2461-2471. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-02889-3

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Shi, S. Y.^, Li, G., Liben, L. S., Chen, Z., & Wong, W. I.* (2024). Gender cognitions before and after graduating from single-sex versus coeducational high schools: A longitudinal study using propensity score matching. Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000879 [Download PDF]

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van der Miesen, A., Shi, Y.^, Lei, H. L.^, Ngan, C.^, VanderLaan, D. P., & Wong, W. I.*. (2024). Gender Diversity in a Chinese Community Sample and Its Associations with Autism Traits. Autism Research, 17, 1407-1416. doi: 10.1002/aur.3075 [Download PDF]

 

Kwan, K. M. W.^, Shi, S. Y.^, MacMullin, L. N., Nabbijohn, A. N., Peragine, D. E., VanderLaan, D. P.*, & Wong, W. I.* (2024). “He did girls’ things!” Hong Kong and Canadian children’s reasoning about moral judgments of peers’ gendered behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 60(6), 1066–1081. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001698 [Download PDF]

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Qian, M., Wong, W. I., Nabbijohn, N., Wang, Y., MacMullin, L. N., James, H., Fu, G, Zuo, B., VanderLaan, D. P.  (2023). Children’s implicit gender-toy association development varies across cultures. Developmental Psychology, 59, 2289-2296. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001590 [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.*, van der Miesen, A., Shi, Y.^, Lei, H. L.^, Ngan, C.^, Leung, S. Y.^,  & VanderLaan, D. P. (2023). Gender variance and psychological wellbeing in Chinese community children. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance Online Publication [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.^, & Yeung, S. P.^ (2023). Girls are better students but boys will be more successful at work: Discordance between academic and career gender stereotypes in middle childhood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 1105-1121. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-022-02523-0 [Download PDF]

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Li, G., Sham, W. W. L., & · Wong, W. I.* (2022). Are romantic orientation and sexual orientation different? Comparisons using explicit and implicit measurements. Current Psychology. DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03380-9 [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.*, Tsui. W. B. ^, & Siu, T. S. (2021). Empathic accuracy of young boys and girls in ongoing parent-child interactions: Performance and (mis)perception. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 203,105042. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105042 [Download PDF]

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Qian, M. K., Wang, Y., Wong, W. I., Fu, G., Zuo, B., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2021). The effects of race, gender, and gender-typed behavior on children's friendship appraisals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50, 807-820. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-020-01825-5 [Download PDF]​​

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Wong, W. I.*, & VanderLaan, D. (2020). Early sex differences and similarities: Evidence across cultures? In F. M. Cheung & D. F. Halpern (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women (pp. 83-95). Cambridge University Press.​
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Kwan, M. W. ^, Shi, S. Y.^, Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., VanderLaan, D.*, & Wong, W. I.* (2020). Children’s appraisals of gender nonconformity: Developmental pattern and intervention. Child Development, 91, e780-e798. [Download PDF]

• SRCD Press release: New intervention may help ease young children's biases against gender-nonconforming peers

• CUHK Press release: CUHK study reveals simple intervention may change young children’s biased perception of peers breaking gender norms

• Child&Family Blog: Gender nonconforming children, particularly boys, are less popular with peers 

• HKET TOPICK: 中大研究揭兒童對性別非常規化朋輩存偏見 倡培育多元共融意義 

• On.cc: 4歲童已對非常規性別行為存偏見 學者倡及早教育 

• SCMP: Gender stereotyping can be reduced at a young age with proper intervention, study conducted on Hong Kong children finds

• hk01: 中大研究：4歲童對「娘娘腔」行為存偏見 倡及早培育多元意義 

• Sky Post: 歧視「娘娘腔」「與異性結伴」 4歲小童已有性別偏見 

• Ming Pao: 研究：男生愛洋娃娃女生短髮難交友 4歲童有「非常規性別」偏見

• AM730: 幼童歧視不跟從性別規範朋輩 中大專家︰早介入可減偏見

• HKEJ: 研究揭4歲童已具性別定型觀念

• HKET: 對「娘娘腔」朋輩 或4歲已存偏見 

• Sing Tao Daily: 研究：幼童對非常規性別行為存偏見 

• News@UofToronto: New interventions could help children accept gender-diverse peers, U of T study finds 

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MacMullin, L. N., Nabbijohn, A. N., Kwan, K. M. W.^, Santarossa, A., Peragine, D. E., James, H. J., Wong, W. I.*, VanderLaan, D. P.* (2020). Testing an Intergroup Relations Intervention Strategy to Improve Children’s Appraisals of Gender-Nonconforming Peers. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 29, 167-181. doi: 10.3138/cjhs.2020-0001 [Download PDF]

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Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., Kwan, K. M. W.^, Santarossa, A., Peragine, D. E., Wong, W. I.*, & VanderLaan, D. P.* (2020). Children's bias in appraisals of gender-variant peers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 196, 104865. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104865 [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I., van der Miesen, A., & Li, T. G. F., MacMullin, L. N., & VanderLaan, D*. (2019). Childhood Social Gender Transition and Psychological Well-Being: A Comparison to Cisgender Gender-Variant Children. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology (APA), 7, 241-253. [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.*, & Yeung, S. P.^ (2019). Early gender differences in spatial and social skills and their relations to play and parental socialization in children from Hong Kong. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1589-1602. [Download PDF]

• Selected as one of the latest high-impact publications in Humanities & Social Sciences by Chinese researchers across Springer Nature

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Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.*, & Chen, Z. S. (2018). Students from single-sex schools are more gender-salient and more anxious in mixed-sex situations: Results from high school and college samples. Plos ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208707 [Download PDF]

• Times Higher Education: Students from single-sex schools ‘anxious’ in mixed universities 

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Wong, W. I.* (2018) GENDER-TYPED PLAY AND ITS STATE-OF-THE-ART SCIENCE Gender Typing Of Children's Toys: How Early Play Experiences Impact Development. Edited by Erica S. Weisgram and Lisa M. Dinella. Washington, DC: APA books, 2018. 341 pp. $ 74.95 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-1-4338-2886-7​. Sex Roles. [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.* (2018). Sex Differences. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. US: Sage Publications, Inc. DOI: 10.4135/9781506307633.n729 [Download PDF]

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Li, G., & Wong, W. I.* (2018). Single-Sex Schooling: Friendships, Dating, and Sexual Orientation. Archives of Sexual 

Behavior, 47, 1025-1039. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-018-1187-6 [Download PDF]

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​Yeung, S. P.^, & Wong, W. I.* (2018). Gender labels on gender-neutral colors: Do they affect children's color preferences and play performance? Sex Roles. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0875-3 [Download PDF]

• Daily Mail: Our color-coded world: Photographer documents gender stereotypes throughout children's lives as studies show how easily kids'perception of these labels can be manipulated 

• Motherly: Research confirms gendered toys help create inequality 

• Mindbodygreen: Can we influence our kids' color preferences? Maybe — and here's why it might be worth trying

• PsychCentral: Preschoolers easily manipulated on gender issues 

• The Swaddle: Pink and blue toys and the gendering of play

• The Student Newspaper: The danger of gendering children’s toys 

• Asian Scientist: Gender labels affect color preference in children

• Bustle: A new study on “gender colored” toys shows the lasting effects of teaching pink is for girls, blue is for boys 

• The New Indian Express: Stop limiting kids choices to only blue and pink to curb gender differences, says study 

• Springer: Pretty in pink and boisterous in blue? 

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Wong, W. I.* (2017). Digit Ratio. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford T (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8 [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.* (2017). The space-math link in preschool boys and girls: Importance of mental transformation, targeting accuracy, and spatial anxiety. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35, 249-266. DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12161 [Download PDF]

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Li, R. Y. H.^, & Wong, W. I.* (2016). Gender-typed toy play and social abilities in boys and girls: Are they related? Sex Roles, 74, 399-410. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-016-0580-7 [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2016). Interpreting digit ratio (2D:4D)-behavior correlations: 2D:4D sex difference, stability, and behavioral correlates and their replicability in young children. Hormones & Behavior, 78, 86-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.10.022 [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2015b). Preferences for pink and blue: The development of color preferences as a distinct gender-typed behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1243-1254. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-015-0489-1  [Download PDF]

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Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2015a). Effects of gender color-coding on toddlers’ gender-typical toy play. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1233-1242. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-014-0400-5 [Download PDF]

• BBC Radio 4: Fighting the Power of Pink​​ 

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Wong, W. I.*, Pasterski, V., Hindmarsh, P. C., Geffner, M. E., & Hines, M. (2013). Are there parental socialization effects on the sex-typed behavior of individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 381-391. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-012-9997-4 [Download PDF]

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