L M W Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 49989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L M W Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | L M W |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI L M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3687-4490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Is Societal Progress Muting the Expressivity of Negative Emotions? Evidence from Two Cross-national Studies
Contemporary theories of emotion emphasize the dual role of emotions as both personal experiences and communicative signals during social interactions. However, the impact of macro-level societal structures on emotional expression remains underexplored. This study investigates the expression-experience discrepancy for self-reported emotions across nations, focusing on how societal development relates to this discrepancy, which captures expressivi…
The intergenerational transmission of instrumental, relational, and intrinsic environmental values
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe
The link between economic inequality and individual well-being has been gaining increasing research attention. This study examines this relationship using data from 71 countries with diverse national incomes, addressing three key research gaps: (1) incorporating measures of both perceived and objective economic inequality, (2) extending analysis to multiple components of well-being beyond happiness, including meaning in life, harmony, and spiritu…
Attitudes toward outgroups in online intergroup contact during the initial phase: An examination of “TikTok Refugees” on Xiaohongshu (RED)
Despite empirical findings of the positive effect of online contact on outgroup attitudes, these studies mostly relied on Western samples and experimental designs. The current study used the “TikTok refugee” phenomenon on Xiaohongshu (RED), a widely used social media platform in China, to examine whether and how online intergroup contact shapes outgroup attitude in a naturalistic setting. We conducted sentiment analysis on the comments (n = 8268)…
Household Natural Resource Dependence Moderates the Association Between Nature Connectedness and Subjective Well-Being Among Tibetan Adolescents
It has been understudied whether and how sociocultural contexts moderate the relationship between nature connectedness and adolescents’ subjective well-being. This study addresses the gap by examining the moderating role of household natural resource dependence (HNRD). We conducted a survey in Tibet, China ( N = 8766) and found that the association between nature connectedness and subjective well-being was weaker among adolescents with high (than…
Temporal trends of environmental concern and potential influencing factors in the United States and China, 1945–2019
Past investigations into the temporal trends of environmental concern (EC) yielded varying results across different time spans and nations, highlighting the need for nation‐specific studies with extended time frames. Using data from Google Ngram Viewer, this pre‐registered study examined the temporal trends and influencing factors of EC as reflected in books published in the United States and China—the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters—…
Mastery goal orientations and pro-environmental behavior among secondary students across cultures: The mediating role of environmental knowledge
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism
People grapple with the reality that their individual actions are too insignificant to impact climate change—a phenomenon known as personal climate response inefficacy. The compensatory control theory articulates that people may turn to overarching social institutions or ideologies (e.g., conservatism) when they lack personal control. Inspired by this theory, the present research explored whether individuals experiencing personal climate response…
Confidence in Societal Institutions Extends Citizens’ Radius of Trust, Leading to Even Greater Life Satisfaction in Societies with Stronger Rule of Law
A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness
Although most people aspire to be happy, the extent to which people pursue or idealize experiencing high levels of happiness does differ according to sociocultural context. This study was designed to elucidate which societal and cultural indicators are the most conducive to fostering high levels of happiness idealization. To accomplish this goal, we measured levels of happiness idealization for 11,170 participants residing in 43 different countri…
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love
Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being
Love, culture, and well-being: How values moderate the link between relationship status and well-being across 57 countries
The Role of Cultural Heterogeneity in Strengthening the Link Between Family Relationships and Life Satisfaction in 50 Societies
We argue that the importance of family relationships for individual well-being varies across societies as a function of a society’s degree of cultural heterogeneity. To examine the role of family relationships, we analyzed the responses from 13,009 participants in 50 societies on their life satisfaction across societies varying in their levels of historical and contemporary cultural heterogeneity. Such heterogeneity creates differences in the fre…
When and how to share? The role of inspiration
Sharing what we know with others has an important role in facilitating people's social learning and communication across settings. To advance the understanding of when and how people share, the present study examined the role of inspiration, an emotion that contains strong motivational elements, on people's sharing tendencies in three studies. Study 1 showed a positive association between the inspiring level of a given message and its likelihood …
Relationships between parental involvement in homework and learning outcomes among elementary school students: The moderating role of societal collectivism–individualism
BACKGROUND: Parents are often involved in their child's homework with the goal of improving their child's academic achievement. However, mixed findings were observed for the role of parental involvement in homework in shaping students' learning outcomes. AIMS: The present study examined whether and how the effect of parental involvement in homework on students' performance in science and math varies across sociocultural contexts by considering th…
The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Well-Being via Brain Functional Connectivity
The casual effect of relational mobility on integration of social networks: An agent-based modeling approach
Holistic thinking and emotional variability across environments
Dampening effect of unethical experience on memory
Social Mobility and Motivational Payoff: Achievement Motivation Is More Important in Students’ Performance and Well-Being in Cultures With High Versus Low Social Mobility
Achievement motivation encompasses a well-establish distinction between the motive to avoid failure (e.g., fear of failure) and the orientation to improve competence (e.g., mastery goal). But how well do they generalize across cultures in understanding students’ performance and well-being? We argue that students’ achievement motivation is less pronounced in societies characterized by low (vs. high) social mobility, where people have fewer opportu…
The relationship of environmental concern with public and private pro‐environmental behaviours: A pre‐registered meta‐analysis
Previous meta‐analyses identified a gap between environmental concern and pro‐environmental behaviours. However, the failure to differentiate these behaviours and the influence of contextual factors may limit understanding of the gap. This pre‐registered meta‐analysis evaluated the magnitudes of the correlations of environmental concern, as measured by the New Environmental Paradigm of thinking, with public and private pro‐environmental behaviour…
The mindsets × societal norm effect across 78 cultures: Growth mindsets are linked to performance weakly and well-being negatively in societies with fixed-mindset norms
Background/AimsRecent research on mindsets has shifted from understanding its homogenous role on performance to understanding how classroom environments explain its heterogeneous effects (i.e., Mindsets × Context hypothesis). Does the macro context (e.g., societal level of student mindsets) also help explain its heterogeneous effects? And does this interaction effect also apply to understanding students' well-being? To address these questions, we…
Insomnia is associated with conspiracy mentality, psychological distress, and psychological well-being
Who moved with you? The companionship of significant others reduces movers’ motivation to make new friends
This research investigated how residential moves with versus without the companionship of significant others would affect people’s motivation to make new friends. Studies 1a and 1b showed that the companionship of significant others predicted fewer new friends among university students who moved within the same country (Study 1a) and to a different country (Study 1b), suggesting that the companionship of significant others was associated with a l…
The Association Between Generalized Trust and Physical and Psychological Health Across Societies
Value change: Analyzing national change in citizen secularism across four time periods in the World Values Survey
Convergence or divergence are two plausible but different views on how local cultures respond to the forces of globalization. In the present study, a newly formulated value dimension of secularism was used to investigate the direction of value change induced in members of national groups over the last two decades by the forward march of recent history. A culturally equivalent but single dimension of secularism was extracted from the items tapping…
The mindsets × societal norm effect across 78 cultures: Growth mindsets are linked to performance weakly and well-being negatively in societies with fixed-mindset norms
Background/AimsRecent research on mindsets has shifted from understanding its homogenous role on performance to understanding how classroom environments explain its heterogeneous effects (i.e., Mindsets × Context hypothesis). Does the macro context (e.g., societal level of student mindsets) also help explain its heterogeneous effects? And does this interaction effect also apply to understanding students' well-being? To address these questions, we…
Relational Mobility Increases Social (but Not Other) Risk Propensity
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgent focus on ecological features, especially various forms of mobility that afford social psychological processes. Extending this work, the current research examined whether relational mobility affects risk propensity. We conducted three studies using both correlational (Studies 1 and 3) and experimental (Study 2) methods. Results provide support for the hypothesis that perceptions of relational mobility…
The Acculturation of Relational Mobility: An Investigation of Asian Canadians
In this article, we extended the socioecological approach in cross-cultural psychology to the acculturation context. We focused on relational mobility among Asian Canadians and how it is related to their acculturation experience. Previous research shows that relational mobility, which is a feature of one's social environment, is generally higher in North America than East Asia. In Study 1, we found that migration does not completely bridge the cr…
Does Individual Secularism Promote Life Satisfaction? The Moderating Role of Societal Development
Social Class, Social Capital and Residential Mobility in China
The relationship of environmental concern with public and private pro‐environmental behaviours: A pre‐registered meta‐analysis
Previous meta‐analyses identified a gap between environmental concern and pro‐environmental behaviours. However, the failure to differentiate these behaviours and the influence of contextual factors may limit understanding of the gap. This pre‐registered meta‐analysis evaluated the magnitudes of the correlations of environmental concern, as measured by the New Environmental Paradigm of thinking, with public and private pro‐environmental behaviour…
The Mediating Role of Self-Enhancement Value on the Relationship of Power Distance and Individualism with Pro-Environmental Attitudes: Evidence from Multilevel Mediation Analysis with 52 Societies
National culture shapes people’s pro-environmental tendencies, yet its underlying psychological mechanisms are less clear. This study examined the mediating role of self-enhancement value on the relationship between culture and pro-environmental attitude. Using data from the World Values Survey (Wave 6; 78,542 participants from 52 countries/regions), we conducted multilevel mediation analyses. At the country level, we found that self-enhancement …
Influence of emotional valence on perceived psychological distance depends on emotional intensity
Previous findings regarding the relationship between emotional valence and psychological distance were mixed. The current research examined whether emotional intensity moderates the influence of emotional valence on psychological distance. We manipulated intensity and valence by asking participants to describe a positive or negative event from either a high intensity or low intensity perspective. Studies 1 and 2 revealed that negative events were…
Culture and Decision Making: Influence of Analytic Versus Holistic Thinking Style on Resource Allocation in a Fort Game
People have to make different decisions every day, in which culture affects their strategies. This research examined the role of analytic versus holistic thinking style on resource allocation across cultures. We expected that, analytic thinking style, which refers to a linear view about the world where objects' properties remain stable and separate, would make people concentrate their resource allocation corresponding to the current demand, where…
Influence of Cultural Meaning System and Socioeconomic Change on Indecisiveness in Three Cultures
Psychologists have debated two external factors that influence human behaviors: current socioeconomic changes and historically shared cultural meaning systems. By conducting triangular comparisons among Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, and European Canadians, the current study examined whether these two factors differentially influence people's indecisiveness. We found that (a) Hong Kong Chinese participants' level of indecisiveness was highe…
A meta-analysis of temporal shifts in environmental concern between 1994 and 2017: An examination of the new environmental paradigm
Is Trusting Others Related to Better Health? An Investigation of Older Adults Across Six Non-Western Countries
Generalized trust reflects whether individuals extend their trust to others in general and is important to health and well-being. This study examined the predictive effect of generalized trust on health, happiness, life satisfaction, health behaviors, and illnesses among older adults residing in six non-Western countries. We utilized a recent multinational dataset collected by the World Health Organization that included measures of generalized tr…
The Role of Regulatory Focus in How Much We Care About Enemies: Cross-Cultural Comparison Between European Canadians and Hong Kong Chinese
Past cross-cultural research studies in regulatory focus have showed that East Asians in general tend to be prevention-focused, whereas Westerners tend to be promotion-focused. Three studies extend these findings by investigating the role of regulatory focus on people's experiences in enemyship-how people deal with their personal enemies. Study 1 demonstrated that Hong Kong Chinese, as one of representative prevention-focused East Asian groups, s…
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism
People grapple with the reality that their individual actions are too insignificant to impact climate change—a phenomenon known as personal climate response inefficacy. The compensatory control theory articulates that people may turn to overarching social institutions or ideologies (e.g., conservatism) when they lack personal control. Inspired by this theory, the present research explored whether individuals experiencing personal climate response…
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love
Insomnia is associated with conspiracy mentality, psychological distress, and psychological well-being
Cross-Cultural Study of Community Engagement in Second-Generation Immigrants
This research examined the role of cultural similarity in community engagement of second-generation immigrants (SGIs). While previous findings examined the rate of community engagement in SGIs, it is still unclear what may be associated with a higher community engagement in SGIs. Based on previous research on cultural similarities, we proposed that SGIs who are more culturally dissimilar to the host culture would have a higher host orientation an…
Value change: Analyzing national change in citizen secularism across four time periods in the World Values Survey
Convergence or divergence are two plausible but different views on how local cultures respond to the forces of globalization. In the present study, a newly formulated value dimension of secularism was used to investigate the direction of value change induced in members of national groups over the last two decades by the forward march of recent history. A culturally equivalent but single dimension of secularism was extracted from the items tapping…
Does Individual Secularism Promote Life Satisfaction? The Moderating Role of Societal Development
The Acculturation of Relational Mobility: An Investigation of Asian Canadians
In this article, we extended the socioecological approach in cross-cultural psychology to the acculturation context. We focused on relational mobility among Asian Canadians and how it is related to their acculturation experience. Previous research shows that relational mobility, which is a feature of one's social environment, is generally higher in North America than East Asia. In Study 1, we found that migration does not completely bridge the cr…
Relational Mobility Increases Social (but Not Other) Risk Propensity
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgent focus on ecological features, especially various forms of mobility that afford social psychological processes. Extending this work, the current research examined whether relational mobility affects risk propensity. We conducted three studies using both correlational (Studies 1 and 3) and experimental (Study 2) methods. Results provide support for the hypothesis that perceptions of relational mobility…
Influence of Cultural Meaning System and Socioeconomic Change on Indecisiveness in Three Cultures
Psychologists have debated two external factors that influence human behaviors: current socioeconomic changes and historically shared cultural meaning systems. By conducting triangular comparisons among Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, and European Canadians, the current study examined whether these two factors differentially influence people's indecisiveness. We found that (a) Hong Kong Chinese participants' level of indecisiveness was highe…
The Role of Regulatory Focus in How Much We Care About Enemies: Cross-Cultural Comparison Between European Canadians and Hong Kong Chinese
Past cross-cultural research studies in regulatory focus have showed that East Asians in general tend to be prevention-focused, whereas Westerners tend to be promotion-focused. Three studies extend these findings by investigating the role of regulatory focus on people's experiences in enemyship-how people deal with their personal enemies. Study 1 demonstrated that Hong Kong Chinese, as one of representative prevention-focused East Asian groups, s…
Is Trusting Others Related to Better Health? An Investigation of Older Adults Across Six Non-Western Countries
Generalized trust reflects whether individuals extend their trust to others in general and is important to health and well-being. This study examined the predictive effect of generalized trust on health, happiness, life satisfaction, health behaviors, and illnesses among older adults residing in six non-Western countries. We utilized a recent multinational dataset collected by the World Health Organization that included measures of generalized tr…
The Association Between Generalized Trust and Physical and Psychological Health Across Societies
Social Class, Social Capital and Residential Mobility in China
Influence of emotional valence on perceived psychological distance depends on emotional intensity
Previous findings regarding the relationship between emotional valence and psychological distance were mixed. The current research examined whether emotional intensity moderates the influence of emotional valence on psychological distance. We manipulated intensity and valence by asking participants to describe a positive or negative event from either a high intensity or low intensity perspective. Studies 1 and 2 revealed that negative events were…
Culture and Decision Making: Influence of Analytic Versus Holistic Thinking Style on Resource Allocation in a Fort Game
People have to make different decisions every day, in which culture affects their strategies. This research examined the role of analytic versus holistic thinking style on resource allocation across cultures. We expected that, analytic thinking style, which refers to a linear view about the world where objects' properties remain stable and separate, would make people concentrate their resource allocation corresponding to the current demand, where…
Low Residential Mobility and Novelty-Seeking Consumption
Cultural research using a socioecological perspective has shown that residential mobility fosters familiarity-seeking behavior. In particular, residentially mobile individuals tend to purchase from national chain stores, which offer the same products across different locations. Positing this process as a reaction to a rapidly changing high mobility environment, we investigated whether a low mobility environment-characterized by a more familiar, l…
Cross-Cultural Study of Community Engagement in Second-Generation Immigrants
This research examined the role of cultural similarity in community engagement of second-generation immigrants (SGIs). While previous findings examined the rate of community engagement in SGIs, it is still unclear what may be associated with a higher community engagement in SGIs. Based on previous research on cultural similarities, we proposed that SGIs who are more culturally dissimilar to the host culture would have a higher host orientation an…
Changing facebook profile pictures to dyadic photos: Positive association with romantic partners' relationship satisfaction via perceived partner commitment
Online/offline self‐disclosure to offline friends and relational outcomes in a diary study: The moderating role of self‐esteem and relational closeness
Previous work suggests that the experiences of online and offline self‐disclosure are heterogeneous among individuals. Yet little work has been done to identify the moderating role of individual characteristics and pre‐existing relationship characteristics on the diverse relational outcomes. The present study using a 7‐day diary design examined whether individuals' self‐esteem level and relational closeness would moderate the relationships betwee…
The Magnifying Effect of Marital Satisfaction on the Dyadic Effect of Disabilities on Life Satisfaction
(1) Background. Extending previous work, the present study examined whether marital satisfaction would magnify the dyadic effect of disabilities on life satisfaction among older married couples. (2) Methods. With responses collected from 11,694 participants (5847 couples; M age = 63.36 years, median: 62 years) in a large-scale survey study in China in 2015, the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) analyses were conducted to examine how mari…
Do People Become More or Less Materialistic during Disasters? The Mediating Roles of Mortality Salience and Gratitude
Studies have yielded inconclusive findings regarding the relationship between disaster experience and materialism. Whereas some have found a positive relationship, others have reported a negative relationship. To clarify the mechanisms underlying these mixed findings, we proposed and examined two mechanisms, namely mortality salience and gratitude. A total of 214 participants ( M age = 42.05 years, SD = 16.49 years) were randomly assigned into ei…
Who moved with you? The companionship of significant others reduces movers’ motivation to make new friends
This research investigated how residential moves with versus without the companionship of significant others would affect people’s motivation to make new friends. Studies 1a and 1b showed that the companionship of significant others predicted fewer new friends among university students who moved within the same country (Study 1a) and to a different country (Study 1b), suggesting that the companionship of significant others was associated with a l…
Multilevel Evidence for the Parent-Adolescent Dyadic Effect of Familiarity With Climate Change on Pro-Environmental Behaviors in 14 Societies: Moderating Effects of Societal Power Distance and Individ…
In the present study, we adopted a global view for exploring how parent–adolescent dyads influence one another’s pro-environmental behaviors across 14 societies. We evaluated whether their own and the other’s familiarity with climate change are linked with their pro-environmental behaviors between parents and adolescents. We also explored the moderating role of societal power distance and individualism on these dyadic effects. We tested hypothese…
Societal Emphasis on Religious Faith as a Cultural Context for Shaping the Social-Psychological Relationships Between Personal Religiosity and Well-Being
How does a society’s religious context affect the relationships between personal religiosity and well-being? To explore this question, we used two measures of personal religiosity, the absolute importance of religion, and the importance of religion relative to the importance of six life domains, viz., family, friends, work, politics, leisure, and religion. To test the generalizability of relationships between these two measures of personal religi…
The Mediating Role of Self-Enhancement Value on the Relationship of Power Distance and Individualism with Pro-Environmental Attitudes: Evidence from Multilevel Mediation Analysis with 52 Societies
National culture shapes people’s pro-environmental tendencies, yet its underlying psychological mechanisms are less clear. This study examined the mediating role of self-enhancement value on the relationship between culture and pro-environmental attitude. Using data from the World Values Survey (Wave 6; 78,542 participants from 52 countries/regions), we conducted multilevel mediation analyses. At the country level, we found that self-enhancement …
A meta-analysis of temporal shifts in environmental concern between 1994 and 2017: An examination of the new environmental paradigm
The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Well-Being via Brain Functional Connectivity
The casual effect of relational mobility on integration of social networks: An agent-based modeling approach
Holistic thinking and emotional variability across environments
Psychology (40 works) · Social Psychology (40 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (14 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works)