Rainy Dong
Postdoc at Stanford GSE studying early reading and literacy development.
Publications
In preparation
Gattas, S. U., Dong, Y., & Howard, S. J. (forthcoming). Affective Regulation in Mathematics Learning.
2026
Dong, Y., Moore, C., Ramadurai, J., & Bergelson, E. (2026). Measuring Early Word Exposure in Infants: A Brief Parent-Report Survey Captures Individual Language Input and Predicts Vocabulary Outcomes Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication.
Dong, Y., Mak, M. H., Hepach, R., & Nation, K. (2026). Emotional Words, Emotional Contexts: Investigating Emotional Valence in Children’s Writing and Word Learning. Infant and Child Development, 35(1).
2025
Dong, Y., & Nation, K. (2025). Charting the frequency and diversity of emotion words in children’s language: written language matters. First Language, 45(4), 457-475.
2024
Dong, Y., Mak, M. H., Hepach, R., & Nation, K. (2024). Learning New Words via Reading: The Influence of Emotional Narrative Context on Learning Novel Adjectives. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(10), 2167-2180.
Dong, Y., Hsiao, Y., Dawson, N., Banerji, N., & Nation, K. (2024). The Emotional Content of Children’s Writing: A Data-Driven Approach. Cognitive Science, 48(3), e13423.
Ibrahim, S., Ang, J. R. X., Petsolari, M., Michelson, R., Dong, Y., Theofanopoulou, N., … & Slovák, P. (2024). Understanding Online Parental Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in Early Childhood: The Design Challenges of Supporting Complex Parenting Questions. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), 1–36.