Deming Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4236567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deming Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deming |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7325-9924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory
Construal-level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: Things perceived as less probable (likelihood) or further away from the here (spatial distance), now (temporal distance), or self (social distance) are thought about more abstractly. In this international multilab study, we tested four basic hypotheses derived from core assumptions of CLT and explore pote…
Give Me a Straight Answer: Response Ambiguity Diminishes Likability
Across nine experiments (eight preregistered) involving Western and Asian samples, we showed that people providing ambiguous (vs. specific) responses to questions in various social scenarios are seen as less likable. This is because, depending on the social context, response ambiguity may be interpreted as a way to conceal the truth and as a sign of social disinterest. Consequently, people reported lower inclination to befriend or date individual…
Social Class and Children’s Third-party Intervention Tendency and Forms
This study investigated how social class is related to children’s third-party intervention (TPI) tendency and forms (compensation vs. punishment). Children from different social class backgrounds watched short animated films depicting two cartoon characters making fair or unfair decisions in resource distribution scenarios. The results revealed that, compared to children from higher social classes, children from lower social classes were more lik…
Prototypes of the Ostracized
How do people imagine targets of ostracism? We conducted a multi‐method investigation using both open‐ended questions and quantitative experiments. Eleven preregistered studies (five main and six supplementary studies with participants from the United States, the United Kingdom and France) showed that people imagine ostracized individuals as socially, psychologically and physically different from the average person. This was shown to have signifi…
I wanna thank me: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence
Chinese Adolescents' Belief in a Just World: Social Class and Age Disparities
This cross-sectional study examined how Chinese adolescents' belief in a just world (BJW) varied across social class and age. A sample of 2,748 adolescents aged 10 to 18 years (47.2% female; 99.1% Han ethnicity) from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in China completed the Belief in a Just World Scale and the Socioeconomic Status Survey. Adolescents from higher social-class backgrounds were found to have higher general and personal BJW compared t…
Effects of restoration strategies on wetland: A case‐study of Xinqiang River National Wetland Park
Accurately understanding the characteristics of a wetland ecological restoration plant communities and their species diversity relationships is the key to improving wetland management and biodiversity protection. To see the effects of restoration strategies implemented in Xinqiang River National Wetland Park, China, we studied 4 models for ecological restoration, namely protection and conservation (PC), reasonable utilization (RU), restoration an…
Loudness Perceptions Influence Feelings of Interpersonal Closeness and Protect Against Detrimental Psychological Effects of Social Exclusion
We propose that perceptions of auditory loudness and interpersonal closeness are bidirectionally related. Across 12 experiments (total N = 2,219; 10 preregistered; with Singaporean, British, U.S. American, and Australian participants), we demonstrated that louder audio made people feel physically (Study 1a) and socially (Study 1b) closer to others, presumably because loudness activates interpersonal closeness-related concepts implicitly (Studies …
Close‐knit ties through thick and thin: Sharing social exclusion and acceptance enhances social bond
Three experiments investigated whether and why sharing experiences of social exclusion or social acceptance with others strengthens social bonds. Participants experienced either social exclusion or social acceptance alongside another co‐participant who either also experienced the same outcome, or experienced a different outcome, as them. Multilevel modeling results showed that participant dyads who shared the experience of social exclusion or soc…
Slow lies: Response delays promote perceptions of insincerity
7,565; 10 preregistered; 11 in the main article, three in the online supplemental materials; with U.S. American and British members of the public, and French students) show that response speed is an important cue on which people base their sincerity inferences. Specifically, people systematically judged slower (vs. faster) responses as less sincere for a range of scenarios from trivial daily conversations to high stakes situations such as police …
Ironic Effects of Thought Suppression: A Meta-Analysis
The ironic effect of thought suppression refers to the phenomenon in which individuals trying to rid their mind of a target thought ironically experience greater levels of occurrence and accessibility of the thought compared with individuals who deliberately concentrate on the thought (Wegner, 1994, doi:10.1037/0033-295X.101.1.34). Ironic effects occurring after thought suppression, also known as rebound effects, were consistently detected by pre…
Slow lies: Response delays promote perceptions of insincerity
7,565; 10 preregistered; 11 in the main article, three in the online supplemental materials; with U.S. American and British members of the public, and French students) show that response speed is an important cue on which people base their sincerity inferences. Specifically, people systematically judged slower (vs. faster) responses as less sincere for a range of scenarios from trivial daily conversations to high stakes situations such as police …
Close‐knit ties through thick and thin: Sharing social exclusion and acceptance enhances social bond
Three experiments investigated whether and why sharing experiences of social exclusion or social acceptance with others strengthens social bonds. Participants experienced either social exclusion or social acceptance alongside another co‐participant who either also experienced the same outcome, or experienced a different outcome, as them. Multilevel modeling results showed that participant dyads who shared the experience of social exclusion or soc…
Ironic Effects of Thought Suppression: A Meta-Analysis
The ironic effect of thought suppression refers to the phenomenon in which individuals trying to rid their mind of a target thought ironically experience greater levels of occurrence and accessibility of the thought compared with individuals who deliberately concentrate on the thought (Wegner, 1994, doi:10.1037/0033-295X.101.1.34). Ironic effects occurring after thought suppression, also known as rebound effects, were consistently detected by pre…
Close‐knit ties through thick and thin: Sharing social exclusion and acceptance enhances social bond
Three experiments investigated whether and why sharing experiences of social exclusion or social acceptance with others strengthens social bonds. Participants experienced either social exclusion or social acceptance alongside another co‐participant who either also experienced the same outcome, or experienced a different outcome, as them. Multilevel modeling results showed that participant dyads who shared the experience of social exclusion or soc…
Slow lies: Response delays promote perceptions of insincerity
7,565; 10 preregistered; 11 in the main article, three in the online supplemental materials; with U.S. American and British members of the public, and French students) show that response speed is an important cue on which people base their sincerity inferences. Specifically, people systematically judged slower (vs. faster) responses as less sincere for a range of scenarios from trivial daily conversations to high stakes situations such as police …
Effects of restoration strategies on wetland: A case‐study of Xinqiang River National Wetland Park
Accurately understanding the characteristics of a wetland ecological restoration plant communities and their species diversity relationships is the key to improving wetland management and biodiversity protection. To see the effects of restoration strategies implemented in Xinqiang River National Wetland Park, China, we studied 4 models for ecological restoration, namely protection and conservation (PC), reasonable utilization (RU), restoration an…
Loudness Perceptions Influence Feelings of Interpersonal Closeness and Protect Against Detrimental Psychological Effects of Social Exclusion
We propose that perceptions of auditory loudness and interpersonal closeness are bidirectionally related. Across 12 experiments (total N = 2,219; 10 preregistered; with Singaporean, British, U.S. American, and Australian participants), we demonstrated that louder audio made people feel physically (Study 1a) and socially (Study 1b) closer to others, presumably because loudness activates interpersonal closeness-related concepts implicitly (Studies …
Give Me a Straight Answer: Response Ambiguity Diminishes Likability
Across nine experiments (eight preregistered) involving Western and Asian samples, we showed that people providing ambiguous (vs. specific) responses to questions in various social scenarios are seen as less likable. This is because, depending on the social context, response ambiguity may be interpreted as a way to conceal the truth and as a sign of social disinterest. Consequently, people reported lower inclination to befriend or date individual…
Social Class and Children’s Third-party Intervention Tendency and Forms
This study investigated how social class is related to children’s third-party intervention (TPI) tendency and forms (compensation vs. punishment). Children from different social class backgrounds watched short animated films depicting two cartoon characters making fair or unfair decisions in resource distribution scenarios. The results revealed that, compared to children from higher social classes, children from lower social classes were more lik…
Prototypes of the Ostracized
How do people imagine targets of ostracism? We conducted a multi‐method investigation using both open‐ended questions and quantitative experiments. Eleven preregistered studies (five main and six supplementary studies with participants from the United States, the United Kingdom and France) showed that people imagine ostracized individuals as socially, psychologically and physically different from the average person. This was shown to have signifi…
I wanna thank me: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence
Chinese Adolescents' Belief in a Just World: Social Class and Age Disparities
This cross-sectional study examined how Chinese adolescents' belief in a just world (BJW) varied across social class and age. A sample of 2,748 adolescents aged 10 to 18 years (47.2% female; 99.1% Han ethnicity) from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in China completed the Belief in a Just World Scale and the Socioeconomic Status Survey. Adolescents from higher social-class backgrounds were found to have higher general and personal BJW compared t…
Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory
Construal-level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: Things perceived as less probable (likelihood) or further away from the here (spatial distance), now (temporal distance), or self (social distance) are thought about more abstractly. In this international multilab study, we tested four basic hypotheses derived from core assumptions of CLT and explore pote…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Class (philosophy) (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Interpersonal communication (2 works)