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Rui Zhu

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ID194307
NAMERui Zhu
GIVEN NAMESRui
FAMILY NAMEZhu
SIGNATUREZHU R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0002-8910-9445
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS65
TOTAL CITATIONS148
AUTHOR COUNT65
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • Quantifying the recreational value of urban parks using smartphone mobility data

    Open Access•Guo Zipeng, Yang Song et al.•ARTICLE•Computational Urban Science•2026

    Urban parks provide substantial environmental, social, and health benefits, yet their recreational economic value often remains unquantified due to limitations in traditional data collection methods. Although previous studies have estimated park recreational value, they rarely capture how this value varies across neighborhoods and seasons because fine-grained, time-sensitive data are typically unavailable. This study addresses this gap by applyin…

  • Straw Retention and Manure Application Increase the Yield of Rice in Rotation With Rapeseed and Wheat by Improving Soil Fertility

    Open Access•Rongyan Bu, Wenlong Cheng et al.•ARTICLE•Land Degradation and Development•2026

    Crop rotation alters soil properties, influencing nutrient availability and plant growth. However, the influence of preceding crops on rice yield is not fully understood, particularly regarding their interaction with fertilization. Here, a seven‐year field experiment was conducted to ascertain the fertilization effects on rice yield under rice–rapeseed (RR) and rice–wheat (RW) rotation. Treatments were established using no fertilizer (control), c…

  • The Effects of Metacognition on Senders’ Feedback Effect in Computer-Mediated Communication

    Open Access•Duy Pham, Duy Tyler Pham et al.•ARTICLE•Communication Studies•2026

    This work explores the role of metacognition (Schwarz, 2011) and may be used to explain some of the effects predicted by Walther’s Hyperpersonal Model of computer-mediated communication (CMC; 1996). In an original experiment, participants (N = 290) were randomly selected to either favorably or unfavorably evaluate a target or not evaluate the target at all. Further, participants were assigned to a distractor task vs. no distractor task condition …

  • Unpacking asthma risks: A multi-level spatial analysis of social determinants of health in the U.S

    Open Access•Ming Yan, Cong Fu et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Geography•2026

  • How well do street view images predict crime rates in London? A comparison with social and macro-level environmental features

    Open Access•Sitong Guo, Richard Harris et al.•ARTICLE•Computers Environment and Urban…•2026•References: 42

    In research on the causes of crime, geographic context is considered important in relation to how neighbourhood features influence crime. These features include the social and physical environmental features. Historically, measuring the impact of the physical environment – especially its micro-level characteristics – on crime has been challenging due to the lack of fine-grained quantitative data. Recent advances in computer imagery have enabled r…

  • Efficient Duplicate Comment Detection for Rulemaking Agencies With Unsupervised Deep Learning: A Cost-Effective and High-Accuracy Approach

    Open Access•Zhicheng Huang, Weixuan Dong et al.•ARTICLE•IEEE Transactions on Computational…•2025

    Government agencies tasked with soliciting comments from the American public in response to changes in rulemaking have long been interested in finding effective techniques to automatically process spam comments, including flagging and filtering duplicate comments. Duplicate submissions are problematic because they obscure genuine public input and may amplify fringe opinions nonrepresentative of the majority of the American public. Given that dupl…

  • Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data

    Open Access•Emily McKinley, Emily K McKinley et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Behavior and…•2025

    Despite widespread discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, little work has objectively measured how often people use this technology in the wild. The present article collected up to 90 days of web-browsing data from students (Study 1: N = 499) and those in the general public (Study 2: N = 455), quantifying how often people used AI and evaluating the psychological correlates of such use. Upon coding 4.1 million we…

  • Exploring the relationship between daytime and nighttime mobility and park visitation: A case study of Austin, TX

    Open Access•Rui Zhu, Yang Song et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning B Urban…•2025

    Urban green space disparities persist amid rapid urbanization, widening the supply-demand gap between parks and developed area. Population density is a critical determinant in estimating park visitors, defining suitable park locations, and allocating facilities for park accessibility. Conventionally, population density data were used as a foundational basis for urban green space planning decisions, often derived from sources like the US Census Bu…

  • Impacts of land surface temperature and ambient factors on near-surface air temperature estimation: A multisource evaluation using SHAP analysis

    Open Access•Songyang Li, Man Sing Wong et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Cities and Society•2025

  • Public Segmentation and the Impact of AI Use in E-Rulemaking

    Open Access•Loarre Andreu Pérez, Matthew L Jensen et al.•ARTICLE•Media and Communication•2025

    Digitization has profoundly changed how government interacts with its publics. The expanding use of AI promises even more advancement. However, the rollout of AI is not without risk. This work explores the use of AI in federal rulemaking, the process by which regulations are introduced and revised. The US federal government has created digital platforms that dramatically expand access for the public commenting on pending regulations. However, the…

  • Prevalence and duration of common symptoms in people with long Covid: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Open Access•Siyi Luo, Lana Yh Lai et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Global Health•2025

  • Predictors of depression among Chinese college students: A machine learning approach

    Open Access•Lin Luo, Junfeng Yuan et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2025

    This cross-sectional study identified factors associated with depression risk among Chinese college students, with psychological factors showing the strongest associations. Gender-specific patterns were observed, suggesting the importance of considering gender differences when developing mental health interventions. However, longitudinal studies are required to establish causal relationships and validate these findings through intervention trials

  • Geography for AI sustainability and sustainability for GeoAI

    Open Access•Meilin Shi, Krzysztof Janowicz et al.•ARTICLE•Cartography and Geographic…•2025

    Recent years have witnessed a boom in the development of multimodal large-scale generative AI models. These computationally intensive AI models, such as GPT-4, and their associated data centers have undergone increasing scrutiny in terms of their energy consumption and carbon emissions. As awareness of the energy costs and carbon footprints of AI models grows, attention has broadened to include other sustainability-related aspects such as their w…

  • Local Leaders' Informal Networks and Policy Tourism

    Open Access•Wenhui Yang, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Public Administration Review•2025•Cited by: 3•References: 45

    Most networking activities in the public administration literature focus on formal networks, yet less attention has been paid to the function of informal networks, which are critical mechanisms for transmitting information and knowledge. This study fills this gap by examining the impact of informal networks on policy tourism, an important channel for policy learning and intergovernmental collaboration. Using China as a case, we indicate that loca…

  • Heterogeneous effects of artificial light at night on sleep and mental health: 2SLS augmented geospatial data modeling and geo-correlation analysis

    Open Access•Ruo‐yu Dong, Yanqing Xu et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2025

  • Local Demand for AI Skills: A Multiscale Perspective in Great Britain

    Open Access•Genghao Zhang, Emmanouil Tranos et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2025•References: 34

  • Geospatial Knowledge Graphs

    Open Access•Rui Zhu•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of…•2024

    Geospatial knowledge graphs have emerged as a novel paradigm for representing and reasoning over geospatial information. In this framework, entities such as places, people, events, and observations are depicted as nodes, while their relationships are represented as edges. This graph‐based data format lays the foundation for creating a “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) environment, facilitating the management and analysis …

  • Peae-GNN: Phishing Detection on Ethereum via Augmentation Ego-Graph Based on Graph Neural Network

    Open Access•Hexiang Huang, Xuan Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•IEEE Transactions on Computational…•2024

    Recent years, the successful application of blockchain in cryptocurrency has attracted a lot of attention, but it has also led to a rapid growth of illegal and criminal activities. Phishing scams have become the most serious type of crime in Ethereum. Some existing methods for phishing scams detection have limitations, such as high complexity, poor scalability, and high latency. In this article, we propose a novel framework named phishing detecti…

  • News from Messenger? A Cross-National Comparative Study of News Media's Audience Engagement Strategies via Facebook Messenger Chatbots

    Xinzhi Zhang, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Journalism•2024

    As an emerging audience engagement channel for news organizations, news chatbots can interact with and attract audiences in a conversational manner. The present study applies the comparative digital journalism frameworks and examines how society-level factors—such as media systems and information communication technology’s development—explain chatbot implementation on social media platforms. We surveyed 365 news organizations across 38 countries …

  • Does Online Dating Make Relationships More Successful? Replication and Extension of a Previous Study

    Open Access•Junwen M Hu, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Behavior and…•2024

    A previous study has found a negative correlation between meeting one’s romantic partner in online dating (vs. offline) and marriage quality through a quota sample of the U.S. population. This current study replicates and extends this previous study by analyzing another sample of the U.S. population from the Pew Research Center ( N = 2,787). Largely consistent with the previous finding, we found that meeting one’s partner in online dating (vs. of…

  • Unraveling the effect of electricity price on electric vehicle charging behavior: A case study in Shenzhen, China

    Open Access•Haoxuan Kuang, Xinyu Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Cities and Society•2024

  • Research on health information avoidance behavior and influencing factors of cancer patients—an empirical analysis based on structural equation modeling

    Open Access•Ruxin Zhu, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    Sociodemographic factors influencing cancer patients' health information avoidance behaviors include per capita monthly household income, occupation, treatment modality, number of years of smart device use, and number of hours per week reading health information. Self-efficacy and negative emotions mediated the analytic model of health information avoidance behavior in cancer patients, respectively

  • Association of prognostic nutritional index with the presence and all-cause mortality of rheumatoid arthritis: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2018

    Open Access•Junjie Wang, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    In middle-aged and older adults, there is an inverse association between PNI and the presence and all-cause mortality of RA

  • Self-presentation of grey-haired influencers on TikTok: Active ageing in China

    Guo Li-jun, Jiaqi Xu et al.•ARTICLE•Continuum•2024•References: 8

    As the ageing of global societies continues to accelerate, China is actively responding to population ageing through its national strategy, and the rise of new media has provided more opportunities for the realization of this strategy. With the support of new media platforms such as TikTok, elderly people have started an active ageing trend on the Internet. This research conducts a qualitative content analysis of the videos of the top 10 'grey-ha…

  • The spatial relationship between long-term vacant housing and non-communicable diseases in U.S. shrinking and growing metropolitan areas

    Open Access•Rui Zhu, G Newman et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2024•References: 36

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  • Seeking Freedom through Variety

    Jonathan Levav, Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2009•Cited by: 31•References: 30

    This article examines the effect of spatial confinement on consumer choices. Building on reactance theory and the environmental psychology literature, we propose that spatially confined consumers react against an incursion to their personal space by making more varied and unique choices. We present four laboratory experiments and one field study to support our theorizing. Study 1 demonstrates that people in narrower aisles seek more variety than …

  • The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use

    Joan Meyers‐levy, Joan Meyers-Levy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2007•Cited by: 18•References: 25

    This article demonstrates that variations in ceiling height can prime concepts that, in turn, affect how consumers process information. We theorized that when reasonably salient, a high versus low ceiling can prime the concepts of freedom versus confinement, respectively. These concepts, in turn, can prompt consumers' use of predominately relational versus item-specific processing. Three studies found support for this theorizing. On a variety of …

  • Is Noise Always Bad? Exploring the Effects of Ambient Noise on Creative Cognition

    Ravi Mehta, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2012•Cited by: 16•References: 43

    This paper examines how ambient noise, an important environmental variable, can affect creativity. Results from five experiments demonstrate that a moderate (70 dB) versus low (50 dB) level of ambient noise enhances performance on creative tasks and increases the buying likelihood of innovative products. A high level of noise (85 dB), on the other hand, hurts creativity. Process measures reveal that a moderate (vs. low) level of noise increases p…

  • The Lonely Consumer: Loner or Conformer

    Jing Wang, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2012•Cited by: 15•References: 40

    Despite the popularity of social networks and technologies that intend to enhance social interaction, more Americans feel lonely now than before. This research examines how loneliness affects consumers’ responses to consensus-related social cues in marketing contexts. Results from three studies show that lonely consumers prefer minority-endorsed products, whereas nonlonely consumers prefer majority-endorsed products. However, this pattern occurs …

  • Exploring the Impact of Various Shaped Seating Arrangements on Persuasion

    Rui Zhu, Jennifer J Argo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2013•Cited by: 11•References: 36

    Despite the common belief that seating arrangements matter, little research has examined how the geometrical shape of a chair arrangement can affect persuasion. Across three studies, this research demonstrates that the shape of seating arrangements can prime two fundamental human needs that in turn influence persuasion. When seated in a circular-shaped layout, individuals evaluate persuasive material more favorably when it contains family-oriente…

  • Embracing green innovation via green supply chain learning: The moderating role of green technology turbulence

    Open Access•Wei Lisi, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Development•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 8

    With the increasingly serious environmental contamination and growingly stringent regulatory pressures, firms should embrace green innovation by learning from their supply chain partners. Although green supply chain learning has been suggested to be a crucial approach for enhancing innovative capability, whether and under what conditions it affects green innovation is still unclear. This study investigates the influence of two dimensions of green…

  • How source-level and message-level factors influence journalists’ social media visibility during a public health crisis

    Open Access•Xinzhi Zhang, Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journalism•2021•Cited by: 8•References: 21

    Social media has become a channel through which journalists distribute their work, reach audiences and gain visibility. Informed by the frameworks of journalistic branding, the heuristic-systematic model, and hypertextual elements, the present study examines the extent to which the source factor (journalists’ branding on social media profiles) and message factors (communication styles and hypertextual elements) influence visibility (i.e. the popu…

  • Environmental Disorder Leads to Self-Regulatory Failure

    Boyoun Chae, Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 57

    This article examines the influence of environmental orderliness on consumers' self-regulation. It is proposed that a disorganized environment threatens the individual's sense of personal control. Because experiencing this control threat depletes resources, individuals exposed to a disorganized (vs. organized) environment are more likely to exhibit self-regulatory failure in subsequent tasks. The results from four studies provide support for this…

  • Judging Product Effectiveness from Perceived Spatial Proximity

    Boyoun Chae, Xiuping Li et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 25

    10.1086/670393

  • Exploring the Cognitive Mechanism that Underlies Regulatory Focus Effects

    Rui Zhu, Joan Meyers‐levy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 12

    Much research has explained regulatory focus effects via the alternative psychological states (eagerness vs. vigilance) people experience when they adopt different regulatory foci. This article identifies for the first time the cognitive mechanism that underlies regulatory focus effects. We propose that promotion-focus individuals engage in relational elaboration, which entails identifying commonalities or abstract relationships among disparate i…

  • Fact or Fiction: An Investigation of Empathy Differences in Response to Emotional Melodramatic Entertainment

    Jennifer J Argo, Jennifer Argo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 34

    Three studies investigate the influence of empathy and the level of fictionality of short stories on consumers' evaluations of emotional melodramatic entertainment. We find that high empathizers' evaluations are more favorable when the story is low in fictionality (i.e., real) versus high. In contrast, low empathizers' evaluations do not differ, regardless of the level of fictionality, except when these individuals (i.e., males) are provided with…

  • Local Leaders' Informal Networks and Policy Tourism

    Open Access•Wenhui Yang, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Public Administration Review•2025•Cited by: 3•References: 45

    Most networking activities in the public administration literature focus on formal networks, yet less attention has been paid to the function of informal networks, which are critical mechanisms for transmitting information and knowledge. This study fills this gap by examining the impact of informal networks on policy tourism, an important channel for policy learning and intergovernmental collaboration. Using China as a case, we indicate that loca…

  • Coping with post-hurricane mental distress: The role of neighborhood green space

    Open Access•Dongying Li, G Newman et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 95

  • Social-Recognition versus Financial Incentives? Exploring the Effects of Creativity-Contingent External Rewards on Creative Performance

    Ravi Mehta, Darren W Dahl et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 76

    The present work examines the role of creativity-contingent monetary versus social-recognition rewards on creative performance and provides new insights into the underlying motivational processes through which these rewards affect consumer creativity. A series of five studies demonstrate that within the context of creativity contingency, monetary rewards induce a performance focus, while social-recognition rewards induce a normative focus. Such p…

  • When Does a Higher Construal Level Increase or Decrease Indulgence? Resolving the Myopia versus Hyperopia Puzzle

    Ravi Mehta, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 27

    Existing inquiry on self-control reveals an inconsistency. The mainstream research on myopic behavior suggests that consumers' use of a high versus low construal level should lead them to exhibit less indulgence. However, more recent work on hyperopia implies the opposite. This research attempts to resolve this discrepancy. In particular, it is proposed and demonstrated that the level at which a consumer construes information (i.e., abstract vs. …

  • Context Effects from Bodily Sensations: Examining Bodily Sensations Induced by Flooring and the Moderating Role of Product Viewing Distance

    Joan Meyers‐levy, Joan Meyers-Levy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2010•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    When consumers shop, the flooring underfoot can prompt bodily sensations—a sense of comfort from soft carpeting or fatigue from hard tile flooring. Like moods, such bodily sensations may foster context effects on the products shoppers observe. However, whereas moods prompt only assimilation effects, we demonstrate that consumers’ bodily sensations can produce either assimilation, contrast, or no context effects. Further, consumers’ viewing distan…

  • Health Journalists’ Social Media Sourcing During the Early Outbreak of the Public Health Emergency

    Xinzhi Zhang, Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 32

    Although journalists' social media sourcing can empower non-elite sources and diversify public discussions, counterarguments maintain that social media sourcing relies on a small group of elites and reinforces social division. To contribute to that debate, we examined how health journalists from the mainstream news organizations in the U.S. used Twitter's @mention for sourcing during the first three months of the COVID-19 outbreak. Using a sample…

  • What If the Father Commits a Crime

    Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of the History of Ideas•2002•Cited by: 1

    Apparently, Socrates and Confucius respond similarly to the question if a son should turn in his father in the case of the father's misdemeanor. When Euthyphro, flaring his pride of his moral impartiality, tells Socrates that he is on his way to report his father because he has thrown one of the household slaves into a ditch and left him bound there until he was dead, Socrates says, "Good Heaven! Certainly, Euthyphro, most men would not know how …

  • Wu-Wei: Lao-zi , Zhuang-zi and the aesthetic judgement

    Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Asian Philosophy•2002

    The concept of wu-wei (nonaction) has undergone significant changes from Lao-zi to Zhuang-zi. This paper will argue that, while wu-wei in Lao-zi is a utilitarian principle, wu-wei of Zhuan-zi represents an aesthetic world-view. The aesthetic nature of the Daoist nonaction will be illustrated through Kant's concept of 'purposiveness without purpose

  • What If the Father Commits a Crime

    Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of the History of Ideas•2002•Cited by: 1

    Apparently, Socrates and Confucius respond similarly to the question if a son should turn in his father in the case of the father's misdemeanor. When Euthyphro, flaring his pride of his moral impartiality, tells Socrates that he is on his way to report his father because he has thrown one of the household slaves into a ditch and left him bound there until he was dead, Socrates says, "Good Heaven! Certainly, Euthyphro, most men would not know how …

  • Myth and Philosophy: From a Problem in Phaedo

    Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Academy…•2005

    This article investigates the relation between myth and philosophy in Greek philosophy in general and in Plato in particular. Although philosophical thinking and mythical thinking are in general mutually opposed, Greek reason is yet to be separated from its fantastic temperament. The mythic atmosphere of Phaedo is striking, given the well known hostility on the part of Plato against mythopoeic poets such as Homer. By putting the relation between …

  • Kairos: Between Cosmic Order and Human Agency a Comparative Study of Aurelius and Confucius

    Open Access•Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of Religious Ethics•2006

    In nontheistic moral traditions, there is a typical ethical conundrum concerning the relation between cosmic order and human agency. Within those traditions, it is generally recognized that the universe has its own order and history that are independent of human will. A moral discourse has to find space to accommodate human agency in the midst of the iron grid of cosmic law. Both Confucius and Aurelius use the concept of timeliness ( kairos ) to …

  • The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use

    Joan Meyers‐levy, Joan Meyers-Levy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2007•Cited by: 18•References: 25

    This article demonstrates that variations in ceiling height can prime concepts that, in turn, affect how consumers process information. We theorized that when reasonably salient, a high versus low ceiling can prime the concepts of freedom versus confinement, respectively. These concepts, in turn, can prompt consumers' use of predominately relational versus item-specific processing. Three studies found support for this theorizing. On a variety of …

  • Exploring the Cognitive Mechanism that Underlies Regulatory Focus Effects

    Rui Zhu, Joan Meyers‐levy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 12

    Much research has explained regulatory focus effects via the alternative psychological states (eagerness vs. vigilance) people experience when they adopt different regulatory foci. This article identifies for the first time the cognitive mechanism that underlies regulatory focus effects. We propose that promotion-focus individuals engage in relational elaboration, which entails identifying commonalities or abstract relationships among disparate i…

  • Fact or Fiction: An Investigation of Empathy Differences in Response to Emotional Melodramatic Entertainment

    Jennifer J Argo, Jennifer Argo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 34

    Three studies investigate the influence of empathy and the level of fictionality of short stories on consumers' evaluations of emotional melodramatic entertainment. We find that high empathizers' evaluations are more favorable when the story is low in fictionality (i.e., real) versus high. In contrast, low empathizers' evaluations do not differ, regardless of the level of fictionality, except when these individuals (i.e., males) are provided with…

  • Blue or Red? Exploring the Effect of Color on Cognitive Task Performances

    Open Access•Ravi Mehta, Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Science•2009

    Existing research reports inconsistent findings with regard to the effect of color on cognitive task performances. Some research suggests that blue or green leads to better performances than red; other studies record the opposite. Current work reconciles this discrepancy. We demonstrate that red (versus blue) color induces primarily an avoidance (versus approach) motivation (study 1, n = 69) and that red enhances performance on a detail-oriented …

  • Seeking Freedom through Variety

    Jonathan Levav, Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2009•Cited by: 31•References: 30

    This article examines the effect of spatial confinement on consumer choices. Building on reactance theory and the environmental psychology literature, we propose that spatially confined consumers react against an incursion to their personal space by making more varied and unique choices. We present four laboratory experiments and one field study to support our theorizing. Study 1 demonstrates that people in narrower aisles seek more variety than …

  • Context Effects from Bodily Sensations: Examining Bodily Sensations Induced by Flooring and the Moderating Role of Product Viewing Distance

    Joan Meyers‐levy, Joan Meyers-Levy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2010•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    When consumers shop, the flooring underfoot can prompt bodily sensations—a sense of comfort from soft carpeting or fatigue from hard tile flooring. Like moods, such bodily sensations may foster context effects on the products shoppers observe. However, whereas moods prompt only assimilation effects, we demonstrate that consumers’ bodily sensations can produce either assimilation, contrast, or no context effects. Further, consumers’ viewing distan…

  • Is Noise Always Bad? Exploring the Effects of Ambient Noise on Creative Cognition

    Ravi Mehta, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2012•Cited by: 16•References: 43

    This paper examines how ambient noise, an important environmental variable, can affect creativity. Results from five experiments demonstrate that a moderate (70 dB) versus low (50 dB) level of ambient noise enhances performance on creative tasks and increases the buying likelihood of innovative products. A high level of noise (85 dB), on the other hand, hurts creativity. Process measures reveal that a moderate (vs. low) level of noise increases p…

  • The Lonely Consumer: Loner or Conformer

    Jing Wang, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2012•Cited by: 15•References: 40

    Despite the popularity of social networks and technologies that intend to enhance social interaction, more Americans feel lonely now than before. This research examines how loneliness affects consumers’ responses to consensus-related social cues in marketing contexts. Results from three studies show that lonely consumers prefer minority-endorsed products, whereas nonlonely consumers prefer majority-endorsed products. However, this pattern occurs …

  • Judging Product Effectiveness from Perceived Spatial Proximity

    Boyoun Chae, Xiuping Li et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 25

    10.1086/670393

  • Exploring the Impact of Various Shaped Seating Arrangements on Persuasion

    Rui Zhu, Jennifer J Argo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2013•Cited by: 11•References: 36

    Despite the common belief that seating arrangements matter, little research has examined how the geometrical shape of a chair arrangement can affect persuasion. Across three studies, this research demonstrates that the shape of seating arrangements can prime two fundamental human needs that in turn influence persuasion. When seated in a circular-shaped layout, individuals evaluate persuasive material more favorably when it contains family-oriente…

  • When Does a Higher Construal Level Increase or Decrease Indulgence? Resolving the Myopia versus Hyperopia Puzzle

    Ravi Mehta, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 27

    Existing inquiry on self-control reveals an inconsistency. The mainstream research on myopic behavior suggests that consumers' use of a high versus low construal level should lead them to exhibit less indulgence. However, more recent work on hyperopia implies the opposite. This research attempts to resolve this discrepancy. In particular, it is proposed and demonstrated that the level at which a consumer construes information (i.e., abstract vs. …

  • Environmental Disorder Leads to Self-Regulatory Failure

    Boyoun Chae, Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 57

    This article examines the influence of environmental orderliness on consumers' self-regulation. It is proposed that a disorganized environment threatens the individual's sense of personal control. Because experiencing this control threat depletes resources, individuals exposed to a disorganized (vs. organized) environment are more likely to exhibit self-regulatory failure in subsequent tasks. The results from four studies provide support for this…

  • Identity, legitimacy, and chaste widows

    Rui Zhu•ARTICLE•Asian Philosophy•2016

    I will sketch an evolutionary map of the four versions of Chineseness and explore the corresponding changes in the ideologies of the Chinese culture. A focal point is to diagram the shifting currents of moral realism vs. nihilism, cultural universalism vs. particularism and to explain how political legitimacy becomes entangled with personal identity and, as an example, how chaste widows can constitute a potent political rhetoric

  • Social-Recognition versus Financial Incentives? Exploring the Effects of Creativity-Contingent External Rewards on Creative Performance

    Ravi Mehta, Darren W Dahl et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 76

    The present work examines the role of creativity-contingent monetary versus social-recognition rewards on creative performance and provides new insights into the underlying motivational processes through which these rewards affect consumer creativity. A series of five studies demonstrate that within the context of creativity contingency, monetary rewards induce a performance focus, while social-recognition rewards induce a normative focus. Such p…

  • Predicting the Time Spent Playing Computer and Mobile Games among Medical Undergraduate Students Using Interpersonal Relations and Social Cognitive Theory: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Chongqing, China

    Open Access•Li Chen, Ruiyi Liu et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

    Background : Computer and mobile games are widely used among undergraduate students worldwide, especially in China. Our objective was to predict the time spent playing computer and mobile games based on interpersonal relations and social cognitive theory constructs (i.e., expectation, self-efficacy, and self-control). Methods : The cross-sectional survey was conducted in two medical universities using a sample of 1557 undergraduate students recru…

  • Trends in Alcohol Intake and the Association between Socio-Demographic Factors and Volume of Alcohol Intake amongst Adult Male Drinkers in China

    Open Access•Ruiyi Liu, Li Chen et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Background : The volume of alcohol intake and type of alcohol affect Chinese men's health. This study investigated changes of alcohol type between 2004 and 2011, explored the trend of change in alcohol type with age and determined the social demographic factors influencing the alcohol intake of Chinese men. Methods : Research data originated from the public database, China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). Three chi-square tests were used to de…

  • Spatiotemporal Prediction of Increasing Winter Perceived Temperature across a Sub-Tropical City for Sustainable Planning and Climate Change Mitigation

    Open Access•Hung Chak Ho, Sawaid Abbas et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Climate variability has been documented as being key to influencing human wellbeing across cities as it is linked to mortality and illness due to changes in the perceived weather cycle. Many studies have investigated the impact of summer temperature on human health and have proposed mitigation strategies for summer heat waves. However, sub-tropical cities are still experiencing winter temperature variations. Increasing winter perceived temperatur…

  • Development of the Adjusted Wind Chill Equivalent Temperature (Awcet) for cold mortality assessment across a subtropical city: Validation and comparison with a spatially-controlled time-stratified app…

    Open Access•Hung Chak Ho, Man Sing Wong et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2019

    AWCET is validated to be effective to access cold mortality in the context of subtropical cities. The use of AWCET may enhance the cold weather warning system in subtropical cities, as a supplementary tool to help demonstrating small administrative-level perceived temperature with volunteered geographic information

  • Embracing green innovation via green supply chain learning: The moderating role of green technology turbulence

    Open Access•Wei Lisi, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Development•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 8

    With the increasingly serious environmental contamination and growingly stringent regulatory pressures, firms should embrace green innovation by learning from their supply chain partners. Although green supply chain learning has been suggested to be a crucial approach for enhancing innovative capability, whether and under what conditions it affects green innovation is still unclear. This study investigates the influence of two dimensions of green…

  • Reactive Oxygen Species Secreted by Leukocytes in Semen Induce Self-Expression of Interleukin-6 and Affect Sperm Quality

    Open Access•Xiaoping Li, Mengxia Ni et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Men s Health•2020

    Reproductive tract inflammation is considered an important cause of male infertility. Increased leukocytes in semen can produce many reactive oxygen species (ROS), which affect sperm function. The aim of this study is to identify the main source of ROS in seminal plasma and to assess the effect of ROS on leukocytes. Semen samples ( n = 20) with leukocyte concentration >1 × 10 6 were collected from a male infertility clinic. This study mainly comp…

  • Understanding spatio-temporal heterogeneity of bike-sharing and scooter-sharing mobility

    Open Access•Ruxin Zhu, Rui Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•Computers Environment and Urban…•2020

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