Areas of Focus
- Moral judgment and immoral behavior
- Social hierarchy and resource sharing
- Consumption signals
Work Experience
- 2018/12-Present - East China Normal University, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science - Professor
- 2008/12-2018/12 - East China Normal University, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science - Associate Professor
- 2004/07-2008/12 - East China Normal University, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science - Lecturer
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1999/09-2004/06 Ph.D.: Peking University, Department of Psychology
- 1995/09-1999/06 Bachelor's: Peking University, Department of Psychology
Publications
- Doing good is not equal to good people: The wealth‐based gap in prosocial motive attributions, Wang, Y.*, Zheng, H., Tang, W., Liu, B., & Zhang, Z., 2024
- Sharing luxury consumption on social media platforms: Motive inferences and downstream consequences, Wang, Y.*, Liu, L., Liu, B., & Dai, J., 2024
- Injustice promotes unethical behavior through moral disengagement, Wang, Y.*, Li, Y., Meng, H., & Kong, S., 2024
- Cognitive load increases self-serving cheating, Wang, Y.*, Kong, S., Liu, L., Qiu, S., Chen, Y., & Xu, S., 2024
- Effect of scarcity experience on unethical behavior: The mediating role of consideration of future consequences, Yang, Y., Liu, L., Mou, K., Kong, S., & Wang, Y*., 2023
- Need for uniqueness moderates the effectiveness of different types of scarcity appeals, Wang, Y.*, Kong, S., Li, M., Liu, L., 2022
- The effects of subjective socioeconomic status on conspicuous consumption, Wang, Y., Liu, B., Lin, S., Liu, L., Wu, Y., & Cui, L.*, 2022
- Interactive effects of power and donation target on charitable giving, Wang, Y.*, Feng H., Qiu, S., & Cui, L., 2021
- Exposure to nature counteracts aggression after depletion, Wang, Y.*, She, Y., Colarelli, S. M., Fang, Y., Meng, H., Chen, Q., Zhang, X., & Zhu, H., 2018
- Depletion, moral identity, and unethical behavior: Why people behave unethically after self-control exertion, Wang, Y.*, Wang, G., Chen, Q., & Li, L., 2017
- Learning to dislike chocolate: Conditioning negative attitudes toward chocolate and its effect on chocolate consumption, Wang, Y.*, Wang, G., Zhang, D., Wang, L., Cui, X., Zhu, J., & Fang, Y., 2017
- The effect of implicit preferences on food consumption: Moderating role of ego depletion and impulsivity, Wang, Y.*, Zhu, J., Hu, Y., Fang, Y., Wang, G., Cui, X., & Wang, L., 2016
- Eating on impulse: Implicit attitudes, self-regulatory resources, and trait self-control as determinants of food consumption, Wang, Y.*, Wang, L., Cui, X., Fang, Y., Chen, Q., Wang, Y., & Qiang, Y., 2015
- Suppression (but not reappraisal) impairs subsequent error detection: An ERP study of emotion regulation's resource-depleting effect, Wang, Y.*, Yang, L., Wang, Y., 2014
- 大学生幸福感提升的纵向研究:适合度和努力的调节作用, 王彦*, 李廷黎, 冯华润, 唐晓艳, 2013
- 面对过多选项的心理后果及其可能的机制, 王彦*, 苏彦捷, 2009
- 主观幸福感的干预研究述评, 王彦*, 王岩, 2008
- 5-8岁儿童心理理论各成分的发展及其关系, 王彦, 苏彦捷, 2008
- 儿童对观察者预期造成的模糊刺激解释多样性的理解, 王彦, 苏彦捷, 2008
- Neural correlates of the preserved inhibition of return in schizophrenia, Tang, Y., Li, Y., Zhuo, K., Wang, Y., Liao, L., Song, Z., et al., 2015
- Deficient inhibition of return in chronic but not first-episode patients with schizophrenia, Liu, D., Fan, X., Wang, Y., et al., 2010