Hepeng Jia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hepeng Jia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hepeng |
| FAMILY NAME | Jia |
| SIGNATURE | JIA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Soochow University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8681-394X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring factors predicting scientists' intentions to participate in crisis communication during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background During science and health-related emergencies, scientists' public communication plays a pivotal role in encouraging protective behaviors, combating misinformation, and reducing public anxiety. Despite this importance, limited research has explored scientists' intentions to engage in emergency communication and the factors that influence such engagement. Method This study uses the early COVID-19 outbreak in China (February 2020) as a ca…
Are supernatural beliefs and scientific attitudes in conflict over individual health behaviours? An empirical study on cancer-prevention behaviours among middle-aged and senior Chinese
The 'conflict thesis' between scientific and supernatural beliefs has attracted considerable intellectual interest. However, empirical studies examining its impact on health behaviours are scarce. To address this gap, drawing on the Health Locus of Control (HLOC) theory, we developed an integrated dual-pathway cognitive model to explore how these conflicting attitudes compete and how they influence health behaviours differently. In an online surv…
When knowledge fades but loyalty persists
Introduction Media exposure shapes health behaviors directly and via cognitive and affective/attitudinal mediators. However, how different types of mediating route’s function and how evolving environments affect these mediators remains understudied. Methods Drawing on three national survey waves fielded at distinct stages of China’s COVID-19 response (April 2021 vaccine rollout; April 2022 zero-COVID debate; January 2023 post-lockdown), this stud…
How supernatural and scientific beliefs influence individual cancer prevention behaviors
Introduction: The global increase in the incidence of early-onset cancer underscores the urgent need to understand the behavioral determinants of prevention effectiveness. This study aimed to examine the fundamental roles of supernatural and scientific beliefs in shaping health-related cognitions and their potentially conflicting influences on cancer prevention behaviors. Methods: = 938) of young Chinese adults. Results: The results indicated tha…
Perfect scientists and immoral non-scientists
Zero-Covid or Coexistence? It is a Question
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals an obvious ideological influence on people's health decisions worldwide. However, little research has examined such an effect on China's public attitude to health issues. This article tries to fill the gap by examining how conventional factors linked to health behaviours – e.g. perceived threats, scientific knowledge, and trust in science—and ideological beliefs jointly influence the Chinese public's attitude to the …
I Wear a Mask for My Country
Various conspiracy theories have accompanied COVID-19 since its initial outbreak. Based on a nationwide survey in China, this study probes the health consequences of beliefs in different COVID-19 conspiracy theories in China. The research found that believing the coronavirus has a foreign natural origin was associated with increased rather than decreased intention to adopt protective behaviors. Nonetheless, believing that the source of the pandem…
When scientific literacy meets nationalism
This study investigated public beliefs in coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) conspiracy theories in China. It also examined the dynamic mechanisms underlying these beliefs. On the basis of a national sample (N = 1,000), three types of COVID-19 conspiracy theories were identified. Type I relates to the pandemic's foreign origin. Type II is defined as "China as culprit" conspiracy theories, and Type III refers to the virus as being primarily a Western cre…
More engagement but less participation
This essay critically traces the development of public engagement with science in China in the past decade and relevant scholarly studies. While confirming the country’s tremendous progress in the field achieved either by official efforts or by social media empowerment, it argues that science communication advances have not realized the public engagement with science ideal of enabling the public to participate in constructive dialogue for policym…
Lower Carbon, Stronger Nation
Although numerous studies have examined the Chinese public's attitudes towards climate change, few have shed light on how sociopolitical factors related to the policy and the state have shaped such attitudes. This constituted our research goal. Against the background of China's Dual Carbon Goals, a national survey ( n = 1469) was conducted to investigate the relationships between climate attitudes and climate benefit perception, institutional tru…
Personal Narrative under Nationalism
Scholars are divided over whether narrative/storytelling occupies a central position in health-related behaviour or in the health-related issues discussed on social media platforms. This study explored Chinese COVID-19 vaccination expressions on Douyin, China's biggest short-video sharing social media platform, and found that narration is still the most important tool employed by Chinese users when talking about COVID-19 vaccinations on Douyin, e…
Science in Movements
This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms and the nuclear power debate. The examination combines social movement theories, communication studies, and science and technology studies. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book provides an insight into the interw…
Passport to a Mighty Nation
Vaccination against COVID-19 is essential against the pandemic. There are broad discussions on adopting certificates for vaccination and the immunity obtained after infection. Based on a national sample of over 2000 participants administered in April 2021, the current study examines the Chinese public's attitudes to the so-called COVID-19 vaccination passport and factors contributing to their viewpoints. Generally, the Chinese people had favorabl…
Encountered but Not Engaged
Thus far, few studies have examined how scientists choose different social media platforms, or how using multiple platforms of social media is related to public engagement with science. This article investigates the role of social media in China’s science communication and scientists’ selective use of them. We found that social media enabled Chinese scientists to avoid relying on legacy media and to develop more interdisciplinary collaborations. …
The Legitimacy of Exceptions Containing Exceptions in WTO Law
1. EC – Seal Products (WT/DS400 & WT/DS401) is a case that has attracted probably the greatest public attention in recent years for the animal-welfare side of its story and the involvement of people like the Inuit, who are most remote from international trade. Jurisprudentially, it is also an interesting case. Among other things, the Panel identified and explicitly discussed a long-avoided question for the first time: Are trade-restrictive regula…
Unbalanced progress
This article critically traces the development of science communication in China in the past 30 years. While confirming the tremendous progress Chinese science communicators have achieved in popularising science, it argues that the deficit model-based popularisation effort cannot meet the diversifying demands on science in Chinese society. Citing both recent science and technology controversies and active public participation in science pilot ini…
Entangled Relationship between Article 2.1 of the TBT Agreement and Certain Other WTO Provisions
Article 2.1 (only the part containing the national treatment obligation) of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) has been interpreted and applied for the first time in three recent TBT disputes since the establishment of the World Trade Organization. This article will illustrate that the interpretive approach adopted by the Appellate Body, however, created a complicated relationship between TBT Article 2.1 and other WTO provisions. …
Encountered but Not Engaged
Thus far, few studies have examined how scientists choose different social media platforms, or how using multiple platforms of social media is related to public engagement with science. This article investigates the role of social media in China’s science communication and scientists’ selective use of them. We found that social media enabled Chinese scientists to avoid relying on legacy media and to develop more interdisciplinary collaborations. …
Perfect scientists and immoral non-scientists
Zero-Covid or Coexistence? It is a Question
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals an obvious ideological influence on people's health decisions worldwide. However, little research has examined such an effect on China's public attitude to health issues. This article tries to fill the gap by examining how conventional factors linked to health behaviours – e.g. perceived threats, scientific knowledge, and trust in science—and ideological beliefs jointly influence the Chinese public's attitude to the …
Entangled Relationship between Article 2.1 of the TBT Agreement and Certain Other WTO Provisions
Article 2.1 (only the part containing the national treatment obligation) of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) has been interpreted and applied for the first time in three recent TBT disputes since the establishment of the World Trade Organization. This article will illustrate that the interpretive approach adopted by the Appellate Body, however, created a complicated relationship between TBT Article 2.1 and other WTO provisions. …
Unbalanced progress
This article critically traces the development of science communication in China in the past 30 years. While confirming the tremendous progress Chinese science communicators have achieved in popularising science, it argues that the deficit model-based popularisation effort cannot meet the diversifying demands on science in Chinese society. Citing both recent science and technology controversies and active public participation in science pilot ini…
The Legitimacy of Exceptions Containing Exceptions in WTO Law
1. EC – Seal Products (WT/DS400 & WT/DS401) is a case that has attracted probably the greatest public attention in recent years for the animal-welfare side of its story and the involvement of people like the Inuit, who are most remote from international trade. Jurisprudentially, it is also an interesting case. Among other things, the Panel identified and explicitly discussed a long-avoided question for the first time: Are trade-restrictive regula…
Encountered but Not Engaged
Thus far, few studies have examined how scientists choose different social media platforms, or how using multiple platforms of social media is related to public engagement with science. This article investigates the role of social media in China’s science communication and scientists’ selective use of them. We found that social media enabled Chinese scientists to avoid relying on legacy media and to develop more interdisciplinary collaborations. …
Science in Movements
This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms and the nuclear power debate. The examination combines social movement theories, communication studies, and science and technology studies. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book provides an insight into the interw…
Passport to a Mighty Nation
Vaccination against COVID-19 is essential against the pandemic. There are broad discussions on adopting certificates for vaccination and the immunity obtained after infection. Based on a national sample of over 2000 participants administered in April 2021, the current study examines the Chinese public's attitudes to the so-called COVID-19 vaccination passport and factors contributing to their viewpoints. Generally, the Chinese people had favorabl…
When scientific literacy meets nationalism
This study investigated public beliefs in coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) conspiracy theories in China. It also examined the dynamic mechanisms underlying these beliefs. On the basis of a national sample (N = 1,000), three types of COVID-19 conspiracy theories were identified. Type I relates to the pandemic's foreign origin. Type II is defined as "China as culprit" conspiracy theories, and Type III refers to the virus as being primarily a Western cre…
More engagement but less participation
This essay critically traces the development of public engagement with science in China in the past decade and relevant scholarly studies. While confirming the country’s tremendous progress in the field achieved either by official efforts or by social media empowerment, it argues that science communication advances have not realized the public engagement with science ideal of enabling the public to participate in constructive dialogue for policym…
Lower Carbon, Stronger Nation
Although numerous studies have examined the Chinese public's attitudes towards climate change, few have shed light on how sociopolitical factors related to the policy and the state have shaped such attitudes. This constituted our research goal. Against the background of China's Dual Carbon Goals, a national survey ( n = 1469) was conducted to investigate the relationships between climate attitudes and climate benefit perception, institutional tru…
Personal Narrative under Nationalism
Scholars are divided over whether narrative/storytelling occupies a central position in health-related behaviour or in the health-related issues discussed on social media platforms. This study explored Chinese COVID-19 vaccination expressions on Douyin, China's biggest short-video sharing social media platform, and found that narration is still the most important tool employed by Chinese users when talking about COVID-19 vaccinations on Douyin, e…
I Wear a Mask for My Country
Various conspiracy theories have accompanied COVID-19 since its initial outbreak. Based on a nationwide survey in China, this study probes the health consequences of beliefs in different COVID-19 conspiracy theories in China. The research found that believing the coronavirus has a foreign natural origin was associated with increased rather than decreased intention to adopt protective behaviors. Nonetheless, believing that the source of the pandem…
Zero-Covid or Coexistence? It is a Question
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals an obvious ideological influence on people's health decisions worldwide. However, little research has examined such an effect on China's public attitude to health issues. This article tries to fill the gap by examining how conventional factors linked to health behaviours – e.g. perceived threats, scientific knowledge, and trust in science—and ideological beliefs jointly influence the Chinese public's attitude to the …
When knowledge fades but loyalty persists
Introduction Media exposure shapes health behaviors directly and via cognitive and affective/attitudinal mediators. However, how different types of mediating route’s function and how evolving environments affect these mediators remains understudied. Methods Drawing on three national survey waves fielded at distinct stages of China’s COVID-19 response (April 2021 vaccine rollout; April 2022 zero-COVID debate; January 2023 post-lockdown), this stud…
How supernatural and scientific beliefs influence individual cancer prevention behaviors
Introduction: The global increase in the incidence of early-onset cancer underscores the urgent need to understand the behavioral determinants of prevention effectiveness. This study aimed to examine the fundamental roles of supernatural and scientific beliefs in shaping health-related cognitions and their potentially conflicting influences on cancer prevention behaviors. Methods: = 938) of young Chinese adults. Results: The results indicated tha…
Perfect scientists and immoral non-scientists
Exploring factors predicting scientists' intentions to participate in crisis communication during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background During science and health-related emergencies, scientists' public communication plays a pivotal role in encouraging protective behaviors, combating misinformation, and reducing public anxiety. Despite this importance, limited research has explored scientists' intentions to engage in emergency communication and the factors that influence such engagement. Method This study uses the early COVID-19 outbreak in China (February 2020) as a ca…
Are supernatural beliefs and scientific attitudes in conflict over individual health behaviours? An empirical study on cancer-prevention behaviours among middle-aged and senior Chinese
The 'conflict thesis' between scientific and supernatural beliefs has attracted considerable intellectual interest. However, empirical studies examining its impact on health behaviours are scarce. To address this gap, drawing on the Health Locus of Control (HLOC) theory, we developed an integrated dual-pathway cognitive model to explore how these conflicting attitudes compete and how they influence health behaviours differently. In an online surv…
Political science (12 works) · China (11 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (8 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Nationalism (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works)