Xijing Wang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3582492 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Xijing Wang |
| NOMBRES | Xijing |
| APELLIDO | Wang |
| FIRMA | WANG X |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3923-6064 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Culture matters for teachers’ emotion regulation and its relations to their well-being
Teachers’ emotion regulation may serve either as a personal resource that enhances their well-being or as a personal demand that impairs it. A meta-analytic review is necessary and timely to explore the relationships between teachers’ emotion regulation and their well-being across multiple samples. Emotion regulation is culture-specific and context-sensitive. However, few educational studies have provided robust empirical examinations of the role…
Dynamic, anticipatory, and long-term future-oriented coping
Performing like a Learning Machine
Little attention has been given to self-objectification, which refers to viewing oneself as an instrument or object rather than a full human, in an educational context. To address this gap, the current research aims to test self-objectification among students, and we hypothesized that a performance goal orientation would result in self-objectification (H1), which would further predict reduced authenticity (H2). Six studies (N = 1,716) confirmed o…
I Do Not Want to Be a Mere Vessel for Reproduction
Recent decades have witnessed significant scholarly interest in understanding people's reproductive decisions and behaviors. The present research focused on reproductive intentions—a critical predictor of reproductive behavior—among young, unmarried, childless women in China. We primarily examined whether this group of women's reproductive intentions could be shaped by their perceptions of reproduction-based objectification toward pregnant women,…
Love Through a Distorted Lens
While various kinds of relationships other than romantic ones exist between men and women in modern society, some individuals tend to simply interpret ambiguous female-male interactions as romantic in nature, which is referred to as romantic interpretation bias (RIB). In this research, we examined the effect of self-objectification on RIB among heterosexual women. Our findings from four studies ( N = 861), including both cross-sectional surveys (…
Being Grateful Makes Me a Human
Being present with oneself
The broader and non-sexual form of self-objectification—perceiving oneself as a tool for others’ goals (self-instrumentality) and denying one’s humanness (self-denial of humanness)—can occur in various contexts and among everyone. Despite its negative consequences, few studies have systematically examined ways to reduce this form of non-sexual self-objectification. The current research aimed to investigate whether mindfulness, either as a chronic…
Living Unequal, Living Unhealthy
Health-promoting behaviors, such as regular physical activity and healthy eating, are crucial for physical and mental health. The current research investigates whether subjective economic inequality undermines individuals’ engagement in health-promoting behaviors and examines the mediating role of future orientation. Across five studies using archival data, longitudinal surveys, and fully-controlled experiments, we find consistent evidence for th…
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students
Social mobility refers to individuals’ movement through a social hierarchy. We examine the effect of perceived low social mobility on passive procrastination among a specific group—students. Across five studies ( N = 1,042) using a mixed-method approach, including a three-wave longitudinal survey (Study 1), a cross-sectional survey (Study 2), and three fully controlled experiments (Studies 3A, 3B, and 4), we consistently found that students perce…
The Lost Self in Time
Being objectified—that is, perceived and treated by others as an instrument rather than a full human being—is a subtle yet widespread form of interpersonal maltreatment. We hypothesized that experiencing objectification would undermine individuals' sense of self‐continuity, the perceived connection between one's past and present self. Across seven studies ( N = 1481) using a mixed‐methods approach and diverse samples from the United States, the U…
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating
It is generally believed that people prefer societies with economic equality. No studies thus far have systematically examined sex differences in this preference specifically concerning mating—an important life stage. Building upon theoretical frameworks of mating strategies (i.e., hypergyny), we hypothesized that men, in comparison to women, are less inclined to prefer and reside in a highly unequal society when it comes to mating. This could be…
She is seeking attention
We Need Tough Brothers and Sisters in a Tight World
Cultural tightness is characterized by strong norms and harsh punishments for deviant behaviors. We hypothesized that followers in tight (vs. loose) cultures would more strongly prefer muscular leaders. This hypothesis was confirmed across seven studies ( N = 1,615) employing samples from the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. Using actual political leaders, we demonstrated that the tighter the state’s culture was, the more muscular th…
Cultural Tightness is Linked to Higher Self-Objectification in Women (But Not Men)
Love me, because I rely on you
Existing research has suggested a predominantly negative view of dependency-oriented help. In contrast, the current research aims to test the positive function of dependency-oriented help in intimate relationships where interpersonal dependency is valued. We hypothesized that dependency-oriented help-seeking could function in communicating liking and romantic interests and, therefore, can be instrumental in attracting mates. Our hypothesis was co…
Collective pronouns, collective health actions
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the role of group identification in shaping collective health behaviors. Using the novel Pronoun-Influenced Collective Health Model - an integrated framework combining elements from health and social psychology theories - we investigated the relationship between online first-person plural pronoun usage and adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures across the United States. Analyzing weekly Google Trends data …
Both Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Predict Men’s Infidelity
Infidelity has destructive effects on romantic relationships. Several idiographic characteristics or experiences in an intimate relationship have been linked to unfaithfulness. Yet, relatively little research has been paid to investigate how sexist beliefs might sabotage relationships by incurring infidelity. The present research examined the association between men's ambivalent sexism - hostile sexism and benevolent sexism - and men's infidelity…
The powerful self
While ample evidence supports an association between power and dominance, little is still known about how temporary experiences of power influence the way people come to see themselves and others. The present research investigates the effect of social power on self- and other-face recognition, and examines whether gender modulates the direction of this effect. Male and female participants were induced to feel either powerful or powerless and had …
Shining our humanity
Attributing humanness to oneself (i.e., self-humanity) can be malleable and can lead to various crucial outcomes. Researchers have not investigated whether and how awe as a self-related emotion affects people's perception of their own humanness. We proposed two competing hypotheses: awe impairs self-humanity via self-smallness, and awe promotes self-humanity via authentic-self pursuit. Across seven studies ( N = 1539), we found that awe is positi…
You are a useful person’
Economic inequality has been shown to increase the social distance between people. However, we proposed that people's affiliation with others in more unequal societies depends on whether the relationship is instrumental to self‐enhancement goals. The results from four experiments (total N = 823) supported our proposition. We found that economic inequality increased people's focus on the instrumental aspects of relationships (Experiment 1). In the…
Permitting immoral behaviour
When are we more likely to permit immoral behaviours? The current research examined a generalized compensation belief hypothesis that individuals, as observers, would morally tolerate and accept someone paying forward unfair treatment to an innocent person as a means to compensate for the perpetrator's previously experienced mistreatment. Across five experiments ( N = 1107) based on economic games (Studies 1–4) and diverse real‐life scenarios (St…
High Social Mobility Leads to Delayed Reproduction
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Deserve More Than All
The Association between Covid-19-Related Wellbeing with Materialism and Perceived Threat
The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on people's wellbeing. Here, we proposed that an individual characteristic might be associated with wellbeing; that is, materialism. Specifically, we conducted three studies (total N = 3219) to examine whether people with high levels of materialism would experience poorer wellbeing (i.e., anxiety and depression, in the current case). The results showed that materialism …
Threatened humanity in a tight world
Self-objectification can be considered as a specific kind of self-dehumanization that consists of a perception of oneself as more instrument-like than human-like and a decreased self-attribution of mental states. Self-objectification is commonly observed, and its contributing factors need to be better understood. In the present research, we examined whether cultural tightness, which entails strong social norms and punishments for deviant behavior…
Mind Perception of Robots Varies With Their Economic Versus Social Function
While robots were traditionally built to achieve economic efficiency and financial profits, their roles are likely to change in the future with the aim to provide social support and companionship. In this research, we examined whether the robot's proposed function (social vs. economic) impacts judgments of mind and moral treatment. Studies 1a and 1b demonstrated that robots with social function were perceived to possess greater ability for emotio…
Women’s Self-Objectification Under Competition When They Believe Sex Is Power
Being a tough person in a tight world
Dominance biases in the perception and memory for the faces of powerholders, with consequences for social inferences
Personal Relative Deprivation Increases Men's (but Not Women's) Hostile Sexism
Hostile sexism is a blatant and explicit form of sexism consisting of antagonistic attitudes toward women. We hypothesized that men's personal relative deprivation, a subjectively perceived disadvantage, would predict their hostile sexism toward women. In addition, we expected that, if this effect occurs, a sense of control would act as a mediator. Five studies ( N = 1352) confirmed these hypotheses. Study 1 showed that personal relative deprivat…
You are a useful person’
Economic inequality has been shown to increase the social distance between people. However, we proposed that people's affiliation with others in more unequal societies depends on whether the relationship is instrumental to self‐enhancement goals. The results from four experiments (total N = 823) supported our proposition. We found that economic inequality increased people's focus on the instrumental aspects of relationships (Experiment 1). In the…
High Social Mobility Leads to Delayed Reproduction
Threatened humanity in a tight world
Self-objectification can be considered as a specific kind of self-dehumanization that consists of a perception of oneself as more instrument-like than human-like and a decreased self-attribution of mental states. Self-objectification is commonly observed, and its contributing factors need to be better understood. In the present research, we examined whether cultural tightness, which entails strong social norms and punishments for deviant behavior…
Cultural Tightness is Linked to Higher Self-Objectification in Women (But Not Men)
Both Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Predict Men’s Infidelity
Infidelity has destructive effects on romantic relationships. Several idiographic characteristics or experiences in an intimate relationship have been linked to unfaithfulness. Yet, relatively little research has been paid to investigate how sexist beliefs might sabotage relationships by incurring infidelity. The present research examined the association between men's ambivalent sexism - hostile sexism and benevolent sexism - and men's infidelity…
Permitting immoral behaviour
When are we more likely to permit immoral behaviours? The current research examined a generalized compensation belief hypothesis that individuals, as observers, would morally tolerate and accept someone paying forward unfair treatment to an innocent person as a means to compensate for the perpetrator's previously experienced mistreatment. Across five experiments ( N = 1107) based on economic games (Studies 1–4) and diverse real‐life scenarios (St…
The interpersonal effects of emotions in money versus candy games
The interpersonal effects of emotions in money versus candy games
Dominance biases in the perception and memory for the faces of powerholders, with consequences for social inferences
Mind Perception of Robots Varies With Their Economic Versus Social Function
While robots were traditionally built to achieve economic efficiency and financial profits, their roles are likely to change in the future with the aim to provide social support and companionship. In this research, we examined whether the robot's proposed function (social vs. economic) impacts judgments of mind and moral treatment. Studies 1a and 1b demonstrated that robots with social function were perceived to possess greater ability for emotio…
Women’s Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification
Psychology research focuses primarily on male competition. This research, however, investigates women’s competition for love and the ideal partner in the mating market and reveals one psychological consequence for women, that is, beautification. This is demonstrated with ecologically valid, real-world archive and online search query data, a quasi-experiment, and a series of controlled experiments with random assignments. Intrasexual competition, …
Psychosomatic Symptoms and Neuroticism following Covid-19
The present study investigated the effect of interpersonal mistreatment on the perpetrators' mental health. We proposed that the threat of COVID-19 will increase people's mental health problems through their on-line aggression toward stigmatized groups accused of spreading the disease and that there might be potential gender differences in such effects. We tested our predictions among a sample of U.S. residents (Study 1) and a large sample of Chi…
Being a tough person in a tight world
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Deserve More Than All
The Association between Covid-19-Related Wellbeing with Materialism and Perceived Threat
The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on people's wellbeing. Here, we proposed that an individual characteristic might be associated with wellbeing; that is, materialism. Specifically, we conducted three studies (total N = 3219) to examine whether people with high levels of materialism would experience poorer wellbeing (i.e., anxiety and depression, in the current case). The results showed that materialism …
Threatened humanity in a tight world
Self-objectification can be considered as a specific kind of self-dehumanization that consists of a perception of oneself as more instrument-like than human-like and a decreased self-attribution of mental states. Self-objectification is commonly observed, and its contributing factors need to be better understood. In the present research, we examined whether cultural tightness, which entails strong social norms and punishments for deviant behavior…
Personal Relative Deprivation Increases Men's (but Not Women's) Hostile Sexism
Hostile sexism is a blatant and explicit form of sexism consisting of antagonistic attitudes toward women. We hypothesized that men's personal relative deprivation, a subjectively perceived disadvantage, would predict their hostile sexism toward women. In addition, we expected that, if this effect occurs, a sense of control would act as a mediator. Five studies ( N = 1352) confirmed these hypotheses. Study 1 showed that personal relative deprivat…
Women’s Self-Objectification Under Competition When They Believe Sex Is Power
The powerful self
While ample evidence supports an association between power and dominance, little is still known about how temporary experiences of power influence the way people come to see themselves and others. The present research investigates the effect of social power on self- and other-face recognition, and examines whether gender modulates the direction of this effect. Male and female participants were induced to feel either powerful or powerless and had …
Shining our humanity
Attributing humanness to oneself (i.e., self-humanity) can be malleable and can lead to various crucial outcomes. Researchers have not investigated whether and how awe as a self-related emotion affects people's perception of their own humanness. We proposed two competing hypotheses: awe impairs self-humanity via self-smallness, and awe promotes self-humanity via authentic-self pursuit. Across seven studies ( N = 1539), we found that awe is positi…
You are a useful person’
Economic inequality has been shown to increase the social distance between people. However, we proposed that people's affiliation with others in more unequal societies depends on whether the relationship is instrumental to self‐enhancement goals. The results from four experiments (total N = 823) supported our proposition. We found that economic inequality increased people's focus on the instrumental aspects of relationships (Experiment 1). In the…
Permitting immoral behaviour
When are we more likely to permit immoral behaviours? The current research examined a generalized compensation belief hypothesis that individuals, as observers, would morally tolerate and accept someone paying forward unfair treatment to an innocent person as a means to compensate for the perpetrator's previously experienced mistreatment. Across five experiments ( N = 1107) based on economic games (Studies 1–4) and diverse real‐life scenarios (St…
High Social Mobility Leads to Delayed Reproduction
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating
It is generally believed that people prefer societies with economic equality. No studies thus far have systematically examined sex differences in this preference specifically concerning mating—an important life stage. Building upon theoretical frameworks of mating strategies (i.e., hypergyny), we hypothesized that men, in comparison to women, are less inclined to prefer and reside in a highly unequal society when it comes to mating. This could be…
She is seeking attention
We Need Tough Brothers and Sisters in a Tight World
Cultural tightness is characterized by strong norms and harsh punishments for deviant behaviors. We hypothesized that followers in tight (vs. loose) cultures would more strongly prefer muscular leaders. This hypothesis was confirmed across seven studies ( N = 1,615) employing samples from the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. Using actual political leaders, we demonstrated that the tighter the state’s culture was, the more muscular th…
Cultural Tightness is Linked to Higher Self-Objectification in Women (But Not Men)
Love me, because I rely on you
Existing research has suggested a predominantly negative view of dependency-oriented help. In contrast, the current research aims to test the positive function of dependency-oriented help in intimate relationships where interpersonal dependency is valued. We hypothesized that dependency-oriented help-seeking could function in communicating liking and romantic interests and, therefore, can be instrumental in attracting mates. Our hypothesis was co…
Collective pronouns, collective health actions
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the role of group identification in shaping collective health behaviors. Using the novel Pronoun-Influenced Collective Health Model - an integrated framework combining elements from health and social psychology theories - we investigated the relationship between online first-person plural pronoun usage and adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures across the United States. Analyzing weekly Google Trends data …
Both Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Predict Men’s Infidelity
Infidelity has destructive effects on romantic relationships. Several idiographic characteristics or experiences in an intimate relationship have been linked to unfaithfulness. Yet, relatively little research has been paid to investigate how sexist beliefs might sabotage relationships by incurring infidelity. The present research examined the association between men's ambivalent sexism - hostile sexism and benevolent sexism - and men's infidelity…
Being Grateful Makes Me a Human
Being present with oneself
The broader and non-sexual form of self-objectification—perceiving oneself as a tool for others’ goals (self-instrumentality) and denying one’s humanness (self-denial of humanness)—can occur in various contexts and among everyone. Despite its negative consequences, few studies have systematically examined ways to reduce this form of non-sexual self-objectification. The current research aimed to investigate whether mindfulness, either as a chronic…
Psychology (25 obras) · Social Psychology (22 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (11 obras) · Objectification (9 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 obras) · Perception (7 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 obras)