Patricia Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8030-8141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Asking Better Questions
Many effective psychological interventions change maladaptive interpretations of oneself or of one’s context by offering more adaptive narratives, which are associated with desirable responses and outcomes. Psychologically wise interventions from the social-psychological tradition have used this approach to great effect in improving important outcomes across a variety of life domains—including, but not limited to, academic performance, physical a…
“Hit or Miss”
PURPOSE: Veteran use of Veteran Health Administration (VHA)-purchased community care (CC) for mental health has accelerated at a faster pace compared to both primary care and emergency services. Few studies have conducted an in-depth exploration of rural Veteran experience using community mental health. This paper focuses on the voices of rural Veterans, with the aim of exploring advantages and disadvantages for Veterans receiving mental health s…
Parental autonomy support predicts adolescents’ strategic mindset, which relates to self-regulation and academic achievement in Chile
A strategic mindset, an orientation toward self-prompting strategy use amidst challenges, predicts effective learning strategy use, metacognition, and academic achievement. However, prior research has been constrained to western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) adult samples and does not address what parenting practices might be associated with nurturing this mindset. Our research advances the implications of a strategic mi…
A strategic mindset enhances children’s generation of effective strategies and delay of gratification across tasks
Overcoming challenges to achieve success involves being able to spontaneously come up with effective strategies to address different task demands. Research has linked individual differences in such strategy generation and use to optimal development over time and greater success across many areas of life. Yet, there is surprisingly little experimental evidence that tests how we might help young children to spontaneously generate and apply effectiv…
Standard-Based Entitlement
The decision to disclose employee compensation has implications for workplace ethics, motivation, and performance. Pay transparency reduces pay disparity, fostering fairness, and ethical equity. Conversely, pay secrecy can maintain disparity but may drive increased effort. This study proposes a theoretical framework—standard-based entitlement—that explains the non-linear effects of pay disclosure. Our theory predicts that people’s compensation re…
Metamotivational knowledge of construal level predicts academic performance
The globalizability of temporal discounting
Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather the absence of sufficient resources for immediate needs. It is also not clear whether these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We tested temporal discounting an…
Changing Students’ Beliefs About Learning Can Unveil Their Potential
Too often, students fall short of their potential. Although structural and cognitive factors can contribute to this underperformance, how students subjectively construe themselves and their educational contexts can also play significant roles. Social-psychological interventions can increase student motivation, resilience, and achievement by altering these construals. To provide general recommendations for their implementation, we focus on interve…
Beliefs About Self-Compassion
Self-compassion—treating oneself with care and understanding during difficult times—promotes adaptive coping and self-improvement. Nonetheless, many people are not self-compassionate. We examined a key barrier people face to treating themselves self-compassionately: their negative beliefs about self-compassion (i.e., that it leads to complacency, indulgence, or irresponsibility). Across three studies, the more people held these negative beliefs, …
The Importance of Video Visits in the Time of Covid‐19
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed nearly every aspect of life recently, including mental health (MH) care. As a society, we have embraced connecting with friends and family over video to maintain our social connections. Video-to-Home (VTH) telehealth, conducting therapy over video platforms, has been demonstrated as clinically equivalent to in-person care.1 Before the pandemic, VTH was not uniformly offered. But it was gaining ground as a tool to…
Should you pursue your passion as a career? Cultural differences in the emphasis on passion in career decisions
Are there cultural differences in the extent to which people believe they should follow their passion when pursuing a career? Three experiments demonstrated that people from the United States, which is a more independent culture, evaluate pursuing a passion as a career more favorably than those from Singapore, a less independent culture. When evaluating others who decided to pursue a passion (vs. a non‐passion) as a career, Americans were more li…
The Status Signals Paradox
Making friends is critical to well-being. We also live in a society where the display of status is ubiquitous and billions of dollars are spent on high-status consumer goods. In the present analysis, we introduce the Status Signals Paradox: When making new friends, people tend to think that displaying high-status markers of themselves (e.g., a BMW, a Tag Heuer watch) will make them more attractive to others than neutral markers (e.g., a Honda, a …
Mobilization without Movement
Drawing on a qualitative analysis of two recent labor disputes in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, this article asks: Why has a broad-based labor movement failed to emerge in contemporary China? Both pro-labor legislation and the existence of movement-oriented labor NGOs appear to provide opportunities and resources for workers to engage in organized action to expand workers' rights. Two political mechanisms, however, help explain why a strong labor movem…
Challenges of health measurement in studies of health disparities
Challenges of health measurement in studies of health disparities
Mobilization without Movement
Drawing on a qualitative analysis of two recent labor disputes in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, this article asks: Why has a broad-based labor movement failed to emerge in contemporary China? Both pro-labor legislation and the existence of movement-oriented labor NGOs appear to provide opportunities and resources for workers to engage in organized action to expand workers' rights. Two political mechanisms, however, help explain why a strong labor movem…
Should you pursue your passion as a career? Cultural differences in the emphasis on passion in career decisions
Are there cultural differences in the extent to which people believe they should follow their passion when pursuing a career? Three experiments demonstrated that people from the United States, which is a more independent culture, evaluate pursuing a passion as a career more favorably than those from Singapore, a less independent culture. When evaluating others who decided to pursue a passion (vs. a non‐passion) as a career, Americans were more li…
The globalizability of temporal discounting
Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather the absence of sufficient resources for immediate needs. It is also not clear whether these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We tested temporal discounting an…
Challenges of health measurement in studies of health disparities
Mobilization without Movement
Drawing on a qualitative analysis of two recent labor disputes in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, this article asks: Why has a broad-based labor movement failed to emerge in contemporary China? Both pro-labor legislation and the existence of movement-oriented labor NGOs appear to provide opportunities and resources for workers to engage in organized action to expand workers' rights. Two political mechanisms, however, help explain why a strong labor movem…
The Status Signals Paradox
Making friends is critical to well-being. We also live in a society where the display of status is ubiquitous and billions of dollars are spent on high-status consumer goods. In the present analysis, we introduce the Status Signals Paradox: When making new friends, people tend to think that displaying high-status markers of themselves (e.g., a BMW, a Tag Heuer watch) will make them more attractive to others than neutral markers (e.g., a Honda, a …
Changing Students’ Beliefs About Learning Can Unveil Their Potential
Too often, students fall short of their potential. Although structural and cognitive factors can contribute to this underperformance, how students subjectively construe themselves and their educational contexts can also play significant roles. Social-psychological interventions can increase student motivation, resilience, and achievement by altering these construals. To provide general recommendations for their implementation, we focus on interve…
Beliefs About Self-Compassion
Self-compassion—treating oneself with care and understanding during difficult times—promotes adaptive coping and self-improvement. Nonetheless, many people are not self-compassionate. We examined a key barrier people face to treating themselves self-compassionately: their negative beliefs about self-compassion (i.e., that it leads to complacency, indulgence, or irresponsibility). Across three studies, the more people held these negative beliefs, …
The Importance of Video Visits in the Time of Covid‐19
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed nearly every aspect of life recently, including mental health (MH) care. As a society, we have embraced connecting with friends and family over video to maintain our social connections. Video-to-Home (VTH) telehealth, conducting therapy over video platforms, has been demonstrated as clinically equivalent to in-person care.1 Before the pandemic, VTH was not uniformly offered. But it was gaining ground as a tool to…
Should you pursue your passion as a career? Cultural differences in the emphasis on passion in career decisions
Are there cultural differences in the extent to which people believe they should follow their passion when pursuing a career? Three experiments demonstrated that people from the United States, which is a more independent culture, evaluate pursuing a passion as a career more favorably than those from Singapore, a less independent culture. When evaluating others who decided to pursue a passion (vs. a non‐passion) as a career, Americans were more li…
The globalizability of temporal discounting
Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather the absence of sufficient resources for immediate needs. It is also not clear whether these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We tested temporal discounting an…
Standard-Based Entitlement
The decision to disclose employee compensation has implications for workplace ethics, motivation, and performance. Pay transparency reduces pay disparity, fostering fairness, and ethical equity. Conversely, pay secrecy can maintain disparity but may drive increased effort. This study proposes a theoretical framework—standard-based entitlement—that explains the non-linear effects of pay disclosure. Our theory predicts that people’s compensation re…
Metamotivational knowledge of construal level predicts academic performance
Asking Better Questions
Many effective psychological interventions change maladaptive interpretations of oneself or of one’s context by offering more adaptive narratives, which are associated with desirable responses and outcomes. Psychologically wise interventions from the social-psychological tradition have used this approach to great effect in improving important outcomes across a variety of life domains—including, but not limited to, academic performance, physical a…
“Hit or Miss”
PURPOSE: Veteran use of Veteran Health Administration (VHA)-purchased community care (CC) for mental health has accelerated at a faster pace compared to both primary care and emergency services. Few studies have conducted an in-depth exploration of rural Veteran experience using community mental health. This paper focuses on the voices of rural Veterans, with the aim of exploring advantages and disadvantages for Veterans receiving mental health s…
Parental autonomy support predicts adolescents’ strategic mindset, which relates to self-regulation and academic achievement in Chile
A strategic mindset, an orientation toward self-prompting strategy use amidst challenges, predicts effective learning strategy use, metacognition, and academic achievement. However, prior research has been constrained to western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) adult samples and does not address what parenting practices might be associated with nurturing this mindset. Our research advances the implications of a strategic mi…
A strategic mindset enhances children’s generation of effective strategies and delay of gratification across tasks
Overcoming challenges to achieve success involves being able to spontaneously come up with effective strategies to address different task demands. Research has linked individual differences in such strategy generation and use to optimal development over time and greater success across many areas of life. Yet, there is surprisingly little experimental evidence that tests how we might help young children to spontaneously generate and apply effectiv…
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (2 works)