Zhansheng Chen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3582612 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Zhansheng Chen |
| PRENOMES | Zhansheng |
| SOBRENOME | Chen |
| ASSINATURA | CHEN Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0873-3391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
When it is important to be more virtuous
Perceiving Low Social Mobility Induces Zero-Sum Beliefs About Social Hierarchies
Individuals may consider socioeconomic status (SES) change from an absolute or relative standpoint. Across five studies and supplementary analyses of secondary data, we found that individuals who perceive SES as being unlikely to change (i.e., low perceived social mobility) tend to consider SES change from a relative standpoint—i.e., one person’s gain in SES occurs at the expense of another’s loss in SES—reflecting that they harbor zero-sum belie…
When virtues are weaponized
Moral superiority has been suggested to exacerbate intergroup relations. However, empirical studies testing the negative intergroup outcomes arising from moral superiority are limited, and the underlying mechanisms remain to be explored. We aimed to fill this research gap by examining whether and how moral superiority increases outgroup dehumanization. Five studies ( N = 1158) were conducted to test our proposition that moral superiority increase…
Down the Digital Rabbit Hole
Objectification, being perceived and treated merely as an object with a denial of one’s humanness, has been linked to numerous adverse outcomes in daily life. Despite this, its influence on online behaviors, particularly problematic gaming, remains underexplored. The current research (total N = 1,000) extends the literature on objectification by investigating the effect of objectification on problematic gaming. Study 1, with a correlational desig…
Mixed-gender anxiety and gender-based relationship efficacy
Consequences of Ostracism and Potential Interventions to Mitigate Its Negative Outcomes
Ostracism, being ignored and excluded, thwarts the fundamental need to belong and has significant psychological and social consequences. Influenced by Kipling D. Williams's seminal work, our research on ostracism has primarily focused on its negative consequences and uncovered underlying mechanisms and moderators. First, we reviewed our findings around the three stages (i.e. reflexive, reflective, and resignation stages) outlined by Williams's te…
Gender cognitions before and after graduating from single-sex versus coeducational high schools
Permitting immoral behaviour
When are we more likely to permit immoral behaviours? The current research examined a generalized compensation belief hypothesis that individuals, as observers, would morally tolerate and accept someone paying forward unfair treatment to an innocent person as a means to compensate for the perpetrator's previously experienced mistreatment. Across five experiments ( N = 1107) based on economic games (Studies 1–4) and diverse real‐life scenarios (St…
High Social Mobility Leads to Delayed Reproduction
Shifts in patterns of help-seeking during the Covid-19 pandemic
Shifts in the younger generation's patterns of help-seeking may be an early warning signal to invest additional resources in facilitating help-seeking among the younger generation. Findings also serve as a reminder that public health restrictions may have inadvertent mental health implications that should be considered in future scenarios
Youth Bullying and Suicide
Bullying is closely associated with suicide. This study validates mixed evidence on whether young bullies, victims, bully-victims, and those uninvolved in bullying differ in suicidality, risk, protective factor profiles, and predictors of suicide. A total of 2004 Hong Kong adolescents and young adults completed the Hong Kong Online Survey on Youth Mental Health and Internet Usage in 2018. Bullies, victims, and bully victims, as opposed to the uni…
The Association between Covid-19-Related Wellbeing with Materialism and Perceived Threat
The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on people's wellbeing. Here, we proposed that an individual characteristic might be associated with wellbeing; that is, materialism. Specifically, we conducted three studies (total N = 3219) to examine whether people with high levels of materialism would experience poorer wellbeing (i.e., anxiety and depression, in the current case). The results showed that materialism …
Threatened humanity in a tight world
Self-objectification can be considered as a specific kind of self-dehumanization that consists of a perception of oneself as more instrument-like than human-like and a decreased self-attribution of mental states. Self-objectification is commonly observed, and its contributing factors need to be better understood. In the present research, we examined whether cultural tightness, which entails strong social norms and punishments for deviant behavior…
Double standards in the Covid‐19 pandemic
This research explored whether people hold double standards in a public crisis. We proposed that during the COVID‐19 pandemic, people required others to strictly follow self‐quarantine rules and other preventive behaviours, whereas they themselves would not, demonstrating double standards. Moreover, this effect would be moderated by the perceived threat from the pandemic. Using data collected in the United States and China, three studies ( N = 21…
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas
Women’s Self-Objectification Under Competition When They Believe Sex Is Power
Ostracism Disrupts Self-Continuity
We conducted six studies to test our hypotheses that ostracism disrupts self-continuity and that self-affirmation counters ostracism’s negative influence on self-continuity. Participants who experienced more ostracism in their daily lives (Study 1), imagined being ostracized (Studies 2 and 5), recalled a past ostracism experience (Studies 3 and 6), and were ostracized in a ball-tossing game (Study 4) reported lower levels of self-continuity than …
Women’s Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification
Psychology research focuses primarily on male competition. This research, however, investigates women’s competition for love and the ideal partner in the mating market and reveals one psychological consequence for women, that is, beautification. This is demonstrated with ecologically valid, real-world archive and online search query data, a quasi-experiment, and a series of controlled experiments with random assignments. Intrasexual competition, …
A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect
There is an active debate regarding whether the ego depletion effect is real. A recent preregistered experiment with the Stroop task as the depleting task and the antisaccade task as the outcome task found a medium-level effect size. In the current research, we conducted a preregistered multilab replication of that experiment. Data from 12 labs across the globe ( N = 1,775) revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect, d = 0.10. After ex…
Perceiving a Lack of Social Justice
Four studies ( N = 1,151) examined whether people with lower subjective social classes would be more likely to apply higher moral standards to others than to themselves. With participants from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, we found that people of lower measured or manipulated subjective social classes accepted others’ hypothetical transgressions less than their own transgressions (Studies 1 and 4), and they claimed others shou…
Psychosomatic Symptoms and Neuroticism following Covid-19
The present study investigated the effect of interpersonal mistreatment on the perpetrators' mental health. We proposed that the threat of COVID-19 will increase people's mental health problems through their on-line aggression toward stigmatized groups accused of spreading the disease and that there might be potential gender differences in such effects. We tested our predictions among a sample of U.S. residents (Study 1) and a large sample of Chi…
Under the Threat of an Epidemic
This research focused on the psychological impact of an epidemic. We conducted a cross-sectional survey and two empirical experiments to examine how an epidemic would influence unethical behaviors and how the effect differs in people of different subjective socioeconomic statuses. These studies consistently demonstrated that subjective socioeconomic status moderates the relationship between an epidemic and unethical behaviors. Specifically, the p…
Religious residue
31,604) found that individuals who deidentified were still relatively likely to engage in prosocial behavior (e.g., volunteering) after leaving religion. This research has broad implications for understanding changing global trends in religious identification and their consequences for psychology and behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Following Ostracism
Four studies (total valid N = 643) examined whether ostracism increases people’s political conspiracy beliefs through heightened vulnerability and whether self-affirmation intervention counteracts the effect of ostracism on conspiracy beliefs. Compared with their nonostracized counterparts, ostracized participants were more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs related to different political issues (Studies 1–3). Moreover, heightened vulnerability…
Sexism and the Effectiveness of Femvertising in China
Religious residue
31,604) found that individuals who deidentified were still relatively likely to engage in prosocial behavior (e.g., volunteering) after leaving religion. This research has broad implications for understanding changing global trends in religious identification and their consequences for psychology and behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
When justice surrenders
The world in black and white
The effect of objectification on aggression
When destiny hurts
Sinful flesh
Social Exclusion and Consumer Switching Behavior
This study examines the effects of social exclusion on consumers’ brand and product switching behavior. Five studies were conducted, which revealed that consumers who perceive themselves as being chronically or temporarily excluded exhibit more switching behavior than their peers who do not feel socially excluded. This effect is mediated by a decreased sense of control after social exclusion. The effect disappears when the incumbent option posses…
Fundamental(ist) attribution error
Attribution theory has long enjoyed a prominent role in social psychological research, yet religious influences on attribution have not been well studied. We theorized and tested the hypothesis that Protestants would endorse internal attributions to a greater extent than would Catholics, because Protestantism focuses on the inward condition of the soul. In Study 1, Protestants made more internal, but not external, attributions than did Catholics.…
Impact of money on emotional expression
Does social support reduce distress caused by ostracism? It depends on the level of one's self-esteem
Women’s Self-Objectification Under Competition When They Believe Sex Is Power
Sexual objectification pushes women away
The present investigation examined the effect of sexual objectification on women's intention to affiliate with men. We predicted that women would perceive an objectifier as less likable following sexual objectification and thus would distance themselves from the perpetrator. Study 1 found that objectification led female participants to perceive their male partner as less likable and to be less willing to affiliate with the partner. Study 2 replic…
Sexism and the Effectiveness of Femvertising in China
Life lacks meaning without acceptance
2,254; 2 preregistered) examined whether ostracism would trigger suicidal thoughts and whether perceived meaning in life would account for this effect. The feeling of ostracism was induced via recalling a past experience (Studies 1a, 1c, 2c, and 3b), imagining a future experience (Studies 1d, 1e, and 2b), engaging in an online real-time interaction (Studies 1b and 2d), or receiving bogus personality feedback (Study 3a). Across all 11 studies, ost…
Consequences of Ostracism and Potential Interventions to Mitigate Its Negative Outcomes
Ostracism, being ignored and excluded, thwarts the fundamental need to belong and has significant psychological and social consequences. Influenced by Kipling D. Williams's seminal work, our research on ostracism has primarily focused on its negative consequences and uncovered underlying mechanisms and moderators. First, we reviewed our findings around the three stages (i.e. reflexive, reflective, and resignation stages) outlined by Williams's te…
Relative deprivation
In five studies, we tested whether ostracism triggers feelings of relative deprivation and whether relative deprivation accounts for the impact of ostracism on aggression. Relative to participants who recalled either inclusive or neutral experiences, participants who recalled ostracism experiences reported higher levels of relative deprivation (Study 1). Furthermore, the feeling of relative deprivation mediated the effect of ostracism on aggressi…
Self-concept clarity lays the foundation for self-continuity
on Sep 9 2019 (see record 2019-54516-001). In the article, the first phrase of the second sentence of Study 1 should appear as "This study begins to test H1". The third sentence of the Participants and design section of Study 5 should read as follows: We excluded seven participants for not completing the study, and 13 for not following instructions (on participant in the autobiographical memory condition wrote: "Future of the country," "Childrens…
Rejecting another pains the self
Imagined future social pain hurts more now than imagined future physical pain
Social pain has been shown to be more easily re‐lived than physical pain. This study further examined whether social pain could be more easily pre‐lived or pre‐experienced than physical pain. Participants were instructed to pre‐live a socially or physically painful event and report their feelings of pain. Consistent with our hypotheses, social pain is easily pre‐lived, but physical pain is not. In addition, individuals with more vivid mental imag…
High Social Mobility Leads to Delayed Reproduction
Threatened humanity in a tight world
Self-objectification can be considered as a specific kind of self-dehumanization that consists of a perception of oneself as more instrument-like than human-like and a decreased self-attribution of mental states. Self-objectification is commonly observed, and its contributing factors need to be better understood. In the present research, we examined whether cultural tightness, which entails strong social norms and punishments for deviant behavior…
Permitting immoral behaviour
When are we more likely to permit immoral behaviours? The current research examined a generalized compensation belief hypothesis that individuals, as observers, would morally tolerate and accept someone paying forward unfair treatment to an innocent person as a means to compensate for the perpetrator's previously experienced mistreatment. Across five experiments ( N = 1107) based on economic games (Studies 1–4) and diverse real‐life scenarios (St…
Shifts in patterns of help-seeking during the Covid-19 pandemic
Shifts in the younger generation's patterns of help-seeking may be an early warning signal to invest additional resources in facilitating help-seeking among the younger generation. Findings also serve as a reminder that public health restrictions may have inadvertent mental health implications that should be considered in future scenarios
Ostracism increases social susceptibility
Ostracism, the act of ignoring and excluding, is a universally applied tactic of social control. Individuals who detect ostracism often change their behaviors to be readmitted into the group, even if it means becoming excessively socially susceptible to influence. We tested whether ostracized individuals are more socially susceptible to a subsequent influence attempt. In this study, 65 undergraduates were randomly assigned to a 2 (Inclusion or Os…
The world in black and white
Imagined future social pain hurts more now than imagined future physical pain
Social pain has been shown to be more easily re‐lived than physical pain. This study further examined whether social pain could be more easily pre‐lived or pre‐experienced than physical pain. Participants were instructed to pre‐live a socially or physically painful event and report their feelings of pain. Consistent with our hypotheses, social pain is easily pre‐lived, but physical pain is not. In addition, individuals with more vivid mental imag…
Does social support reduce distress caused by ostracism? It depends on the level of one's self-esteem
When destiny hurts
Fundamental(ist) attribution error
Attribution theory has long enjoyed a prominent role in social psychological research, yet religious influences on attribution have not been well studied. We theorized and tested the hypothesis that Protestants would endorse internal attributions to a greater extent than would Catholics, because Protestantism focuses on the inward condition of the soul. In Study 1, Protestants made more internal, but not external, attributions than did Catholics.…
Rejecting another pains the self
Sinful flesh
When justice surrenders
Impact of money on emotional expression
Cold Thermal Temperature Threatens Belonging
Recent research suggests that thermal (cold vs. warm) experience influences people’s perception and construal of the social world. Extending this line of research, the present investigation examined whether cold thermal temperature would influence people’s psychological feelings of belonging. We found that drinking cold water threatened feelings of belonging (Study 1). An additional study replicated this effect and further showed that it was mode…
Sexual objectification pushes women away
The present investigation examined the effect of sexual objectification on women's intention to affiliate with men. We predicted that women would perceive an objectifier as less likable following sexual objectification and thus would distance themselves from the perpetrator. Study 1 found that objectification led female participants to perceive their male partner as less likable and to be less willing to affiliate with the partner. Study 2 replic…
Social Exclusion and Consumer Switching Behavior
This study examines the effects of social exclusion on consumers’ brand and product switching behavior. Five studies were conducted, which revealed that consumers who perceive themselves as being chronically or temporarily excluded exhibit more switching behavior than their peers who do not feel socially excluded. This effect is mediated by a decreased sense of control after social exclusion. The effect disappears when the incumbent option posses…
Air Pollution Predicts Harsh Moral Judgment
The present research recruited participants from China, which is suffering from serious air pollution, and examined whether air pollution would be associated with moral judgment and immoral behavioral intention. Study 1 ( n = 145) used the objective Air Quality Index to indicate the level of air pollution and found that it predicted harsh judgment on others' moral violations but did not predict judgment on others' non-moral negative behaviors or …
The effect of objectification on aggression
Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Following Ostracism
Four studies (total valid N = 643) examined whether ostracism increases people’s political conspiracy beliefs through heightened vulnerability and whether self-affirmation intervention counteracts the effect of ostracism on conspiracy beliefs. Compared with their nonostracized counterparts, ostracized participants were more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs related to different political issues (Studies 1–3). Moreover, heightened vulnerability…
Sexism and the Effectiveness of Femvertising in China
Relative deprivation
In five studies, we tested whether ostracism triggers feelings of relative deprivation and whether relative deprivation accounts for the impact of ostracism on aggression. Relative to participants who recalled either inclusive or neutral experiences, participants who recalled ostracism experiences reported higher levels of relative deprivation (Study 1). Furthermore, the feeling of relative deprivation mediated the effect of ostracism on aggressi…
Self-concept clarity lays the foundation for self-continuity
on Sep 9 2019 (see record 2019-54516-001). In the article, the first phrase of the second sentence of Study 1 should appear as "This study begins to test H1". The third sentence of the Participants and design section of Study 5 should read as follows: We excluded seven participants for not completing the study, and 13 for not following instructions (on participant in the autobiographical memory condition wrote: "Future of the country," "Childrens…
Life lacks meaning without acceptance
2,254; 2 preregistered) examined whether ostracism would trigger suicidal thoughts and whether perceived meaning in life would account for this effect. The feeling of ostracism was induced via recalling a past experience (Studies 1a, 1c, 2c, and 3b), imagining a future experience (Studies 1d, 1e, and 2b), engaging in an online real-time interaction (Studies 1b and 2d), or receiving bogus personality feedback (Study 3a). Across all 11 studies, ost…
Ostracism Disrupts Self-Continuity
We conducted six studies to test our hypotheses that ostracism disrupts self-continuity and that self-affirmation counters ostracism’s negative influence on self-continuity. Participants who experienced more ostracism in their daily lives (Study 1), imagined being ostracized (Studies 2 and 5), recalled a past ostracism experience (Studies 3 and 6), and were ostracized in a ball-tossing game (Study 4) reported lower levels of self-continuity than …
Women’s Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification
Psychology research focuses primarily on male competition. This research, however, investigates women’s competition for love and the ideal partner in the mating market and reveals one psychological consequence for women, that is, beautification. This is demonstrated with ecologically valid, real-world archive and online search query data, a quasi-experiment, and a series of controlled experiments with random assignments. Intrasexual competition, …
A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect
There is an active debate regarding whether the ego depletion effect is real. A recent preregistered experiment with the Stroop task as the depleting task and the antisaccade task as the outcome task found a medium-level effect size. In the current research, we conducted a preregistered multilab replication of that experiment. Data from 12 labs across the globe ( N = 1,775) revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect, d = 0.10. After ex…
Perceiving a Lack of Social Justice
Four studies ( N = 1,151) examined whether people with lower subjective social classes would be more likely to apply higher moral standards to others than to themselves. With participants from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, we found that people of lower measured or manipulated subjective social classes accepted others’ hypothetical transgressions less than their own transgressions (Studies 1 and 4), and they claimed others shou…
Psychosomatic Symptoms and Neuroticism following Covid-19
The present study investigated the effect of interpersonal mistreatment on the perpetrators' mental health. We proposed that the threat of COVID-19 will increase people's mental health problems through their on-line aggression toward stigmatized groups accused of spreading the disease and that there might be potential gender differences in such effects. We tested our predictions among a sample of U.S. residents (Study 1) and a large sample of Chi…
Psychology (38 obras) · Social Psychology (33 obras) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (19 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (16 obras) · Developmental psychology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (9 obras) · Ostracism (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras)