Jennifer Lau
Biographic Data
| ID | 4777393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Lau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau |
| SIGNATURE | LAU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3489-6215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
If it is hard to understand, is it hard to be hooked? A meta-analysis of processing fluency and transportation
This study examines the connection between processing fluency – how easily information is processed and understood, and transportation – how deeply someone becomes immersed in a narrative, unconsciously accepting its depicted reality. Additionally, it explores the potential moderating influences of medium and persuasion knowledge. By conducting a comprehensive meta-analysis that combines and analyzes data from 33 effect sizes, the study reveals a…
Does Prospective Mental Imagery Predict Symptoms of Negative Affect and Anhedonia in Young People
Adolescent depression is associated with unhelpful emotional mental imagery. Here, we investigated whether vividness of negative and positive prospective mental imagery predict negative affect and anhedonia in adolescents. 111 people from Israel completed measures of prospective mental imagery, negative affect, and anhedonia at two time-points approximately three months apart. Using three cross-lagged panel models, we showed once 'concurrent' (ac…
Cultivating Trust for Health Experts During Covid-19: A Fresh Look with Freedom of Speech
During times of a pandemic, the importance of having trust in health experts cannot be overstated. This comparative study with six societies (United Kingdom, United States, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mainland China) adopts a multilevel analysis in investigating the media cultivation effect of television, newspaper, and social media on trust in health experts during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also examines how freedom of speech influences th…
Polygamy and mental health among Saudi middle schoolers: The role of family cohesion and father involvement
Self-Transcendence: A Cross-Cultural Study With Democracy in the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and the steps governments took to combat it tormented societies across the globe. Accordingly, existential positive psychologists have emphasized the importance of self-transcendence in mitigating the distress and agony caused by prolonged and rigorous health measures. In this cross-cultural study, the correlation between self-transcendence, people’s confidence in government, and democracy was examined. Based on the findings…
‘I don't know where to seek for help, so I just kept my silence’: A qualitative study on psychological help-seeking among Filipino domestic workers in the United Kingdom
Microbial community response to drought depends on crop
Growing season drought can be devastating to crop yields. Soil microbial communities have the potential to buffer yield loss under drought through increasing plant drought tolerance and soil water retention. Microbial inoculation on agricultural fields has been shown to increase plant growth, but few studies have examined the impact of microbial inoculation on plant and soil microbial drought tolerance. We conducted a rainout shelter experiment a…
Country/Region Level Pandemic Severity Moderates the Relationships among Risk Experience, Perceived Life Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in Covid-19
Scholars and communications practitioners worldwide have sought novel resilience models amid heightened rates of psychological distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined perceived life satisfaction as a determinant of resilience. Additionally, we investigated the assumption that perceived pandemic severity at the country/region level moderates structural relationships within our risk-resilience model. Analyzing more than 34,000 valid s…
A Shot in the Arm for Vaccination Intention: The Media and the Health Belief Model in Three Chinese Societies
This large-sample study of three Chinese societies-Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong-demonstrates the importance of media exposure for people's vaccination intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. By employing two constructs (i.e., perceived susceptibility and severity) in the health belief model (HBM), the study identifies significant indirect effects of media exposure on individuals' vaccination intention in all three Chinese societies. Tha…
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‘I don't know where to seek for help, so I just kept my silence’: A qualitative study on psychological help-seeking among Filipino domestic workers in the United Kingdom
Microbial community response to drought depends on crop
Growing season drought can be devastating to crop yields. Soil microbial communities have the potential to buffer yield loss under drought through increasing plant drought tolerance and soil water retention. Microbial inoculation on agricultural fields has been shown to increase plant growth, but few studies have examined the impact of microbial inoculation on plant and soil microbial drought tolerance. We conducted a rainout shelter experiment a…
Country/Region Level Pandemic Severity Moderates the Relationships among Risk Experience, Perceived Life Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in Covid-19
Scholars and communications practitioners worldwide have sought novel resilience models amid heightened rates of psychological distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined perceived life satisfaction as a determinant of resilience. Additionally, we investigated the assumption that perceived pandemic severity at the country/region level moderates structural relationships within our risk-resilience model. Analyzing more than 34,000 valid s…
A Shot in the Arm for Vaccination Intention: The Media and the Health Belief Model in Three Chinese Societies
This large-sample study of three Chinese societies-Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong-demonstrates the importance of media exposure for people's vaccination intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. By employing two constructs (i.e., perceived susceptibility and severity) in the health belief model (HBM), the study identifies significant indirect effects of media exposure on individuals' vaccination intention in all three Chinese societies. Tha…
Cultivating Trust for Health Experts During Covid-19: A Fresh Look with Freedom of Speech
During times of a pandemic, the importance of having trust in health experts cannot be overstated. This comparative study with six societies (United Kingdom, United States, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mainland China) adopts a multilevel analysis in investigating the media cultivation effect of television, newspaper, and social media on trust in health experts during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also examines how freedom of speech influences th…
Polygamy and mental health among Saudi middle schoolers: The role of family cohesion and father involvement
Self-Transcendence: A Cross-Cultural Study With Democracy in the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and the steps governments took to combat it tormented societies across the globe. Accordingly, existential positive psychologists have emphasized the importance of self-transcendence in mitigating the distress and agony caused by prolonged and rigorous health measures. In this cross-cultural study, the correlation between self-transcendence, people’s confidence in government, and democracy was examined. Based on the findings…
Does Prospective Mental Imagery Predict Symptoms of Negative Affect and Anhedonia in Young People
Adolescent depression is associated with unhelpful emotional mental imagery. Here, we investigated whether vividness of negative and positive prospective mental imagery predict negative affect and anhedonia in adolescents. 111 people from Israel completed measures of prospective mental imagery, negative affect, and anhedonia at two time-points approximately three months apart. Using three cross-lagged panel models, we showed once 'concurrent' (ac…
If it is hard to understand, is it hard to be hooked? A meta-analysis of processing fluency and transportation
This study examines the connection between processing fluency – how easily information is processed and understood, and transportation – how deeply someone becomes immersed in a narrative, unconsciously accepting its depicted reality. Additionally, it explores the potential moderating influences of medium and persuasion knowledge. By conducting a comprehensive meta-analysis that combines and analyzes data from 33 effect sizes, the study reveals a…
Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Pandemic (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)