| 2026 | CHI | "AI-Induced Delusional Spirals': Understanding Lived Experiences During Maladaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions. | Yuewen Yang, Sonja K. Schoenwald, Jared Moore, Desmond C. Ong, Sunny Xun Liu, Jeffrey T. Hancock |
| 2025 | CogSci | Vicarious emotion predictions integrate information about relationship strength. | Kexin Jiang, Alexis Smith-Flores, Katherine Nora Liang, Desmond C. Ong, Lindsey J. Powell |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Modeling Subjectivity in Cognitive Appraisal with Language Models. | Yuxiang Zhou, Hainiu Xu, Desmond C. Ong, Maria Liakata, Petr Slovk, Yulan He |
| 2024 | ACII | Large Language Models Produce Responses Perceived to be Empathic. | Yoon Kyung Lee, Jina Suh, Hongli Zhan, Junyi Jessy Li, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2024 | CogSci | The Language of an Empathy-Inducing Narrative. | Emma Gueorguieva, Tatiana Lau, Eliana Hadjiandreou, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2024 | CogSci | GPT-ology, Computational Models, Silicon Sampling: How should we think about LLMs in Cognitive Science? | Desmond C. Ong |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Evaluating Subjective Cognitive Appraisals of Emotions from Large Language Models. | Hongli Zhan, Desmond C. Ong, Junyi Jessy Li |
| 2022 | ACII | Using Positive Matching Contrastive Loss with Facial Action Units to mitigate bias in Facial Expression Recognition. | Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2022 | CogSci | Reasoning about the antecedents of emotions: Bayesian causal inference over an intuitive theory of mind. | Sean Dae Houlihan, Desmond C. Ong, Maddie Cusimano, Rebecca Saxe |
| 2022 | CogSci | Modeling Causal Inference from Emotional Displays. | Dennis W. H. Teo, Zheng Yong Ang, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2021 | AAAI | Context-Guided BERT for Targeted Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. | Zhengxuan Wu, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2021 | ACII | An Ethical Framework for Guiding the Development of Affectively-Aware Artificial Intelligence. | Desmond C. Ong |
| 2021 | ACII | Using Knowledge-Embedded Attention to Augment Pre-trained Language Models for Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition. | Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2021 | CogSci | "If only Santa had one more present": Exploring the development of near-miss counterfactual reasoning. | Desmond C. Ong, Mika Asaba, Hui Yan Lim, Patricia Chen, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2021 | CogSci | Learning from Agentic Actions: Modelling Causal Inference from Intention. | Dennis W. H. Teo, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2021 | CogSci | Interdisciplinary Advances in Affective Cognition. | Yang Wu, Desmond C. Ong, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2021 | EMNLP | Not All Negatives are Equal: Label-Aware Contrastive Loss for Fine-grained Text Classification. | Varsha Suresh, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2020 | AAAI | Factorized Inference in Deep Markov Models for Incomplete Multimodal Time Series. | Zhi-Xuan Tan, Harold Soh, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2020 | CogSci | Improving Multi-Agent Cooperation using Theory of Mind. | Terence X. Lim, Sidney Tio, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2020 | CogSci | Intention Inference in a Dynamic Multi-Goal Environment. | Desmond C. Ong, Marie Therese Quieta, Basura Fernando |
| 2019 | ACII | Attending to Emotional Narratives. | Zhengxuan Wu, Xiyu Zhang, Zhi-Xuan Tan, Jamil Zaki, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2019 | CogSci | Bayesian Inference of Social Norms as Shared Constraints on Behavior. | Zhi-Xuan Tan, Desmond C. Ong |
| 2019 | HRI | Robot Capability and Intention in Trust-Based Decisions Across Tasks. | Yaqi Xie, Indu P. Bodala, Desmond C. Ong, David Hsu, Harold Soh |
| 2016 | CogSci | Young children and adults integrate past expectations and current outcomes to reason about others' emotions. | Desmond C. Ong, Mika Asaba, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2016 | CogSci | Emotions in lay explanations of behavior. | Desmond C. Ong, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2015 | CogSci | Near-misses sting even when they are uncontrollable. | Desmond C. Ong, Noah D. Goodman, Jamil Zaki |
| 2014 | CogSci | Understanding Affective Cognition: Frontiers in modeling reasoning about others' emotions. | Desmond C. Ong, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman |