Publications by authors named "Mianlin Deng"
Beliefs about the Nature of Forgiveness and Avoidance of an Offender among Chinese College Students.
Behav Sci (Basel)
September 2023
Previous research on beliefs about the nature of forgiveness (unconditional and conditional) has focused on their effects on health and well-being. However, little is known about how they influence victims' responses to interpersonal offenses. Given that avoidance is a common response to offenses during early adulthood, this study investigated the relationships between beliefs in unconditional and conditional forgiveness and avoidance of an offender among Chinese college students, the mediating role of forgiveness, and the moderating role of whether or not the offender explains the offense.
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- In Chinese culture, mothers play a crucial role in shaping an individual's self-concept, often viewed as closely tied to one's identity.
- An experiment assessed how people's evaluations of their mothers change during upward and downward social comparisons by using brain imaging technology.
- Results indicated that while self-evaluations and mother's evaluations were consistent during upward comparisons, people expressed even more positive views of their mothers during downward comparisons, highlighting the mother’s heightened significance over the self in these situations.
Purpose: Previous studies on consumer decision strategies have focused on the process or outcomes of decision-making using different decision strategies. Relatively little is known about the factors (especially decision makers' characteristics) influencing the use of different decision strategies. This study examined the effects of power on consumer decision strategies and the underlying mechanisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDecision Reversibility and Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Counterfactual Thinking and Anticipated Regret.
Psychol Res Behav Manag
August 2022
Purpose: Extensive research has shown that reversible decisions yield lower post-decision satisfaction than irreversible decisions. However, to date, little is known about how decision reversibility affects post-decision satisfaction. Based on regret theory, this study aimed to examine the mediating role of counterfactual thinking and anticipated regret in the association between decision reversibility and satisfaction.
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- The study investigates how the spatial location of ordinal symbols (like days in time) affects the ordinal position effect, revealing mixed influences based on task context.
- In experiments, tasks varied by stimulus location, color, and order, showing that spatial effects were dominant in location and color tasks, while the ordinal position effect was strongest in order tasks.
- Findings suggest that spatial and ordinal effects can’t occur simultaneously and are influenced by the context of the task, indicating that ordinal symbols are processed through different reference frames depending on the situation.
Previous research has suggested that power undermines cooperation in social dilemmas. However, the story may not be so simple. Guided by recent findings that power heightens sensitivity to unfairness, we examined the moderating effect of distributive justice on the association between power and cooperation.
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