Kai Qin Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 765895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Qin Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai Qin |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN K Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7369-9380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evaluating the impact of Outward Bound Singapore on youth resilience: The roles of helicopter parenting and basic psychological needs
Resilience is critical in youth development, yet research on resilience-building programs lacks clarity on long-term outcomes and family factors. This study examined the effectiveness of the Outward Bound Singapore (OBS) program in fostering state resilience among youths and explored how trait resilience relates to helicopter parenting (HP) and psychological needs fulfilment. An online survey of 116 Singaporean students (Mage = 18.84, SDage = 1.9…
Linguistic Features of Suicide Bereavement: A Data Mining Approach
Suicide bereavement is a uniquely challenging form of loss, yet little is known about how it is expressed in language and how it reflects the meaning-making process. Here, we leveraged naturalistic online language to capture grief expressions beyond traditional help-seeking populations, applying a validated computational text-analysis method (LIWC-22) to 713 posts from the r/SuicideBereavement subreddit and comparing them to 1149 bereavement post…
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…
Experimental evidence of instagram influencers’ impact on well-being
Social class, schadenfreude, and children’s prosocial behavior in moral contexts
Previous research has shown mixed results regarding the relationship between social class and children's prosocial behavior. The current study aims to further our understanding of these findings by exploring the relationship between social class and children's prosocial behavior in a moral context. Study 1 ( N = 833) found that when a target child pursued a morally negative goal and subsequently experienced misfortune, children from higher social…
Face masks inhibit facial cues for approachability and trustworthiness: An eyetracking study
Wearing face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic has undeniable benefits from our health perspective. However, the interpersonal costs on social interactions may have been underappreciated. Because masks obscure critical facial regions signaling approach/avoidance intent and social trust, this implies that facial inference of approachability and trustworthiness may be severely discounted. Here, in our eyetracking experiment, we show that people ju…
Self-transcendence through self-inhibition: God primes reduce self-accessibility
This article reports 7 studies showing that God primes inhibit self-concept accessibility. Study 1A provided the first supportive evidence using undergraduate samples. Study 1B replicated the findings using working adult participants. Study 2A to 2C showed that the inhibitory effect of the God concept on implicit self-concepts was not due to concepts related to love, power, hope, religion, devil, and father. Study 3 found the same inhibitory effe…
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…
Disgust as a mechanism for decision making under risk: Illuminating sex differences and individual risk-taking correlates of disgust propensity
The emotion disgust motivates costly behavioral strategies that mitigate against potentially larger costs associated with pathogens, sexual behavior, and moral transgressions. Because disgust thereby regulates exposure to harm, it is by definition a mechanism for calibrating decision making under risk. Understanding this illuminates two features of the demographic distribution of this emotion. First, this approach predicts and explains sex differ…
Are Decisions Made by Group Representatives More Risk Averse? The Effect of Sense of Responsibility
We tested the hypothesis that a sense of responsibility drives group representatives' decisions to be more risk averse compared with decisions made by individuals. The hypothesis was supported when the monetary considerations (i.e., payoff inequality and the magnitude effect) were controlled for in the potential gain domain as well as in the potential loss domain. Evidence showed that this is because the group representatives were concerned about…
Disgust and fear lower olfactory threshold
Odors provide information regarding the chemical properties of potential environment hazards. Some of this information may be disgust-related (e.g., organic decay), whereas other information may be fear-related (e.g., smoke). Many studies have focused on how disgust and fear, as prototypical avoidant emotions, facilitate the detection of possible threats, but these studies have typically confined to the visual modality. Here, we examine how disgu…
Sweet love: The effects of sweet taste experience on romantic perceptions
Terms of endearment such as "sweetie," "honey," and "sugar" are commonly used in the context of describing romantic partners. This article explores how a relatively subtle manipulation, namely taste sensations, might influence romantic perceptions of a nonestablished relationship. Consistent with predictions, results from Studies 1 and 2 ( n = 280) showed that participants evaluated a hypothetical relationship, but not an existing relationship, m…
Taking a Leap of Faith: Reminders of God Lead to Greater Risk Taking
Recent psychological models of religion suggest that religious beliefs provide a form of psychological control. Independently, other research has found that an increase in psychological control can lead people to adopt riskier strategies. Hence, we hypothesized that activation of God concepts increases risk taking. In three studies, we found that God primes led to take greater risk taking as though participants were literally “taking a leap of fa…
What do love and jealousy taste like
Metaphorical expressions linking love and jealousy to sweet, sour, and bitter tastes are common in normal language use and suggest that these emotions may influence perceptual taste judgments. Hence, we investigated whether the phenomenological experiences of love and jealousy are embodied in the taste sensations of sweetness, sourness, and bitterness. Studies 1A and 1B validated that these metaphors are widely endorsed. In three subsequent studi…
Nudging you behind your back: The influence of implicit friendship concepts on risk taking
Research has shown that people tend to take more risks when in the presence of their friends than when they are alone. The current research examined whether mere and nonconscious activation of friendship concepts is sufficient to increase risk taking. In Experiment 1, participants who were subliminally primed with their friend's name showed higher risk-taking responses in a modified longshot paradigm. Experiments 2 and 3 conceptually replicated t…
Sweet love: The effects of sweet taste experience on romantic perceptions
Terms of endearment such as "sweetie," "honey," and "sugar" are commonly used in the context of describing romantic partners. This article explores how a relatively subtle manipulation, namely taste sensations, might influence romantic perceptions of a nonestablished relationship. Consistent with predictions, results from Studies 1 and 2 ( n = 280) showed that participants evaluated a hypothetical relationship, but not an existing relationship, m…
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…
Are Decisions Made by Group Representatives More Risk Averse? The Effect of Sense of Responsibility
We tested the hypothesis that a sense of responsibility drives group representatives' decisions to be more risk averse compared with decisions made by individuals. The hypothesis was supported when the monetary considerations (i.e., payoff inequality and the magnitude effect) were controlled for in the potential gain domain as well as in the potential loss domain. Evidence showed that this is because the group representatives were concerned about…
Nudging you behind your back: The influence of implicit friendship concepts on risk taking
Research has shown that people tend to take more risks when in the presence of their friends than when they are alone. The current research examined whether mere and nonconscious activation of friendship concepts is sufficient to increase risk taking. In Experiment 1, participants who were subliminally primed with their friend's name showed higher risk-taking responses in a modified longshot paradigm. Experiments 2 and 3 conceptually replicated t…
Nudging you behind your back: The influence of implicit friendship concepts on risk taking
Research has shown that people tend to take more risks when in the presence of their friends than when they are alone. The current research examined whether mere and nonconscious activation of friendship concepts is sufficient to increase risk taking. In Experiment 1, participants who were subliminally primed with their friend's name showed higher risk-taking responses in a modified longshot paradigm. Experiments 2 and 3 conceptually replicated t…
What do love and jealousy taste like
Metaphorical expressions linking love and jealousy to sweet, sour, and bitter tastes are common in normal language use and suggest that these emotions may influence perceptual taste judgments. Hence, we investigated whether the phenomenological experiences of love and jealousy are embodied in the taste sensations of sweetness, sourness, and bitterness. Studies 1A and 1B validated that these metaphors are widely endorsed. In three subsequent studi…
Taking a Leap of Faith: Reminders of God Lead to Greater Risk Taking
Recent psychological models of religion suggest that religious beliefs provide a form of psychological control. Independently, other research has found that an increase in psychological control can lead people to adopt riskier strategies. Hence, we hypothesized that activation of God concepts increases risk taking. In three studies, we found that God primes led to take greater risk taking as though participants were literally “taking a leap of fa…
Sweet love: The effects of sweet taste experience on romantic perceptions
Terms of endearment such as "sweetie," "honey," and "sugar" are commonly used in the context of describing romantic partners. This article explores how a relatively subtle manipulation, namely taste sensations, might influence romantic perceptions of a nonestablished relationship. Consistent with predictions, results from Studies 1 and 2 ( n = 280) showed that participants evaluated a hypothetical relationship, but not an existing relationship, m…
Disgust and fear lower olfactory threshold
Odors provide information regarding the chemical properties of potential environment hazards. Some of this information may be disgust-related (e.g., organic decay), whereas other information may be fear-related (e.g., smoke). Many studies have focused on how disgust and fear, as prototypical avoidant emotions, facilitate the detection of possible threats, but these studies have typically confined to the visual modality. Here, we examine how disgu…
Are Decisions Made by Group Representatives More Risk Averse? The Effect of Sense of Responsibility
We tested the hypothesis that a sense of responsibility drives group representatives' decisions to be more risk averse compared with decisions made by individuals. The hypothesis was supported when the monetary considerations (i.e., payoff inequality and the magnitude effect) were controlled for in the potential gain domain as well as in the potential loss domain. Evidence showed that this is because the group representatives were concerned about…
Disgust as a mechanism for decision making under risk: Illuminating sex differences and individual risk-taking correlates of disgust propensity
The emotion disgust motivates costly behavioral strategies that mitigate against potentially larger costs associated with pathogens, sexual behavior, and moral transgressions. Because disgust thereby regulates exposure to harm, it is by definition a mechanism for calibrating decision making under risk. Understanding this illuminates two features of the demographic distribution of this emotion. First, this approach predicts and explains sex differ…
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…
Self-transcendence through self-inhibition: God primes reduce self-accessibility
This article reports 7 studies showing that God primes inhibit self-concept accessibility. Study 1A provided the first supportive evidence using undergraduate samples. Study 1B replicated the findings using working adult participants. Study 2A to 2C showed that the inhibitory effect of the God concept on implicit self-concepts was not due to concepts related to love, power, hope, religion, devil, and father. Study 3 found the same inhibitory effe…
Face masks inhibit facial cues for approachability and trustworthiness: An eyetracking study
Wearing face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic has undeniable benefits from our health perspective. However, the interpersonal costs on social interactions may have been underappreciated. Because masks obscure critical facial regions signaling approach/avoidance intent and social trust, this implies that facial inference of approachability and trustworthiness may be severely discounted. Here, in our eyetracking experiment, we show that people ju…
Experimental evidence of instagram influencers’ impact on well-being
Social class, schadenfreude, and children’s prosocial behavior in moral contexts
Previous research has shown mixed results regarding the relationship between social class and children's prosocial behavior. The current study aims to further our understanding of these findings by exploring the relationship between social class and children's prosocial behavior in a moral context. Study 1 ( N = 833) found that when a target child pursued a morally negative goal and subsequently experienced misfortune, children from higher social…
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…
Evaluating the impact of Outward Bound Singapore on youth resilience: The roles of helicopter parenting and basic psychological needs
Resilience is critical in youth development, yet research on resilience-building programs lacks clarity on long-term outcomes and family factors. This study examined the effectiveness of the Outward Bound Singapore (OBS) program in fostering state resilience among youths and explored how trait resilience relates to helicopter parenting (HP) and psychological needs fulfilment. An online survey of 116 Singaporean students (Mage = 18.84, SDage = 1.9…
Linguistic Features of Suicide Bereavement: A Data Mining Approach
Suicide bereavement is a uniquely challenging form of loss, yet little is known about how it is expressed in language and how it reflects the meaning-making process. Here, we leveraged naturalistic online language to capture grief expressions beyond traditional help-seeking populations, applying a validated computational text-analysis method (LIWC-22) to 713 posts from the r/SuicideBereavement subreddit and comparing them to 1149 bereavement post…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works)