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Negative Impacts, Causes, and Interventions of Gender Stereotypes on Men: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive/Proscriptive

Wang Zhen, Guan Jian, Guan Jian
2025-12-11 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202512.00069 Mixed Source

Gender stereotypes shape common beliefs about what the characteristics, attributes, and behaviors of men and women are (descriptive gender stereotypes), as well as what they should or should not be (prescriptive/proscriptive gender stereotypes). Not only women, but men can also suffer deeply from th…

Social Psychological Pathways to Alleviating the Economic Hardship of Low-Income Groups

Hu Xiaoyong, Guo Yongyu, Guo Yongyu
2025-11-26 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202511.00176 Mixed Source

This paper aims to integrate perspectives from psychology and behavioral economics to systematically construct a "cognitive reconstruction-behavioral nudge" theoretical framework for alleviating the economic hardships of low-income groups, while proposing specific strategies tailored to the Chinese …

Holding the Mean and Achieving Harmony: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Zhongyong Thinking and Mental Health

Yanqi Lyu, Wei Qingwang, Wei Qingwang
2025-11-26 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202511.00179 Mixed Source

Based on the Zhongyong practice thinking system and the dual-factor model of mental health, this study employs a three-level meta-analysis to explore the relationship between Zhongyong thinking and mental health, as well as its moderating factors. Literature published before April 30, 2025, was retr…

Psychological Representations and Inference Patterns of Facial Social Exclusion

Hou Chunna, Ma Yisheng, Wu Lin, Liu Zhijun, Hou Chunna, Wu Lin
2025-11-23 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202511.00145 Mixed Source

Based on trait attribution theory, this study employed the reverse-correlation image classification technique to investigate the content of mental representations and trait inference patterns of faces that trigger social exclusion. Using Chinese college students as participants, Study 1 utilized a t…

Large Language Models Amplify Empathic Gender Stereotypes: Impact on Professional and Career Recommendations

Dai Yiqing, Xinming Ma, Wu Zhen, Zhen Wu
2025-11-04 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202511.00051 Mixed Source

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in high-sensitivity scenarios such as education and career counseling, raising concerns about the potential risks of gender stereotypes. This study examines the performance and impact of LLMs regarding the stereotype that "females have strong emp…

Awe and Common In-group Identity: The Moderating Role of Perceived Resource Scarcity

Yang Yang, Jun Cao, Xiaolin Li, 俄怡然, Yuquan Tan, Jia Yixin, Yang Yang
2025-11-02 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202511.00023 Mixed Source

Common ingroup identity refers to the assignment of a superordinate identity to two originally independent groups, transforming the cognitive representation of group members from two subgroups into a single common ingroup. By extending the positive affect toward ingroup members to members of the for…

Reclassifying Singleness: A Dual-Perspective Exploration of Individual Motivation and Social Identity

Kong Fancong, Sun Xinlong, Jin Yuchang, Zhu Hongjin, 靳宇倡
2025-10-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202510.00035

Singlehood is becoming increasingly prevalent in modern society, yet academic research predominantly operates under homogeneity assumptions, neglecting variations within the single population regarding sources of motivation and identity recognition, thereby failing to uncover its psychological heter…

The Generation Mechanism, Situational Characteristics, and Positive Psychological Effects of Collective Effervescence

Duan Ying, Yin Keli, Yin Keli
2025-09-10 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202509.00070

The concept of collective effervescence originates from Durkheim's social theory and denotes an intense shared emotional experience triggered by collective gatherings. Contemporary psychological research posits that collective effervescence constitutes not merely an intense shared emotional experien…

The Moral Deficiency Effect of AI Decision-Making: Mechanisms and Coping Strategies

Hu Xiaoyong, Li Mufeng, Li Yue, Li Kai, Yu Feng
2025-09-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202509.00059

As artificial intelligence (AI) assumes an increasingly prominent role in major decision-making, the ethical issues it raises have garnered significant attention. This study systematically reveals the dual-path mechanism underlying the artificial intelligence moral deficiency effect and correspondin…

Why Are Maximizing Patients More Vigilant Toward Physicians? The Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement

Xu Zihao, Zhu Dongqing, YAN Xiaomin, Zhu Dongqing
2025-08-13 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202508.00215

Patients' prevalent vigilant mentality can easily trigger negative behaviors, posing a potential threat to the doctor-patient relationship. Based on a doctor-patient interaction perspective, this study investigates the impact of maximizing decision-making on patients' vigilant mentality and its unde…

Impairments in Vocal Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Prosody, Semantics, or Integration Difficulties? — A Three-Level Meta-Analytic Investigation

Chen Lijun, Jin Yuexin, Zeng Hanhan, Jiang Xiaoliu, Jiang Xiaoliu
2025-08-05 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202508.00006 Mixed Source

Daily social verbal communication contains both semantic and prosodic cues. Do children with autism spectrum disorder rely on prosody or semantics to judge a speaker's emotion in social interactions? Investigating this question facilitates understanding of the disorder's etiology and provides direct…

The Impact of Marriage on the Developmental Trajectory of Life Satisfaction in Early Adulthood: A Ten-Year Longitudinal Study Based on CFPS

Peng Wang, Yan Ping, Zhou Yaping, Xiang Yanhui, Xiang Yanhui
2025-08-02 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202508.00005 Mixed Source

Does marriage alter the developmental trajectory of individuals' life satisfaction? This is both a major issue concerning national harmony and stability, and an important question regarding individual quality of life. Based on hedonic adaptation theory and the buffer model, this study utilizes six-w…

The Positive Role of Multidimensional Psychological Time Perspective in Intergroup Helping Behavior: Feasibility, Difference, and Adaptability

Chen Lanshuang, Wang Zhen, Guan Jian, Guan Jian
2025-07-11 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202507.00150

Amidst increasingly prominent global intergroup conflicts, psychological time framework represents a novel pathway to facilitate intergroup helping behavior, capable of effectively mitigating social conflicts and promoting resource redistribution. Compared to conventional single time points, constru…

Predicting Fertility Intention Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis

Liang Ying, Zhao Hejun, Zhao Baoxu, Yue Yunfan, He Ning, He Ning
2025-06-26 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202506.00302 Mixed Source

Fertility intention is a key factor in predicting fertility behavior. Numerous studies have explored the role of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in predicting fertility intention, but the conclusions remain inconsistent. To examine the applicability of TPB in explaining fertility intention, thi…

Factors Influencing Health Motivated Reasoning and Its Underlying Mechanisms

Xin Liu, Lyu Xiaokang, Lyu Xiaokang
2025-06-20 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202506.00193 Mixed Source

Abstract Health motivated reasoning refers to the psychological process by which individuals selectively process health information to reinforce or maintain their own health beliefs and behaviors. Current research primarily involves the classification patterns of health motivation, the influencing f…

"Quantifying" Love: Relational Mobility Promotes a Computational Mindset in Mate Selection

Li Yawen, Cai Pan, Zuo Shijiang, Wang Fang, Dong Yu, Zhou Yang, Huang Niwen, Wang Fang
2025-06-11 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202506.00064

Contemporary society has witnessed an increasing tendency for individuals to "put a price tag" on themselves during mate selection. This study conceptualizes this phenomenon as a computational mindset in mate choice and proposes that in high relational mobility environments where interpersonal relat…

From Defense to Reconstruction: The Hostility-Meaning Dual-Path Model of How Observing Others' Adversity Influences Self-Negative Disclosure

Zhang, Xiaoying, Huang,Tian, Wang,Yuting, Hou,Zhijun
2025-06-08 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202506.00052 Original EN

Objective: This study explored the mechanism by which observing peers' adverse experiences influences distress disclosure of negative information through two progressive studies. Methods: Study 1 (N=218) constructed a moderated mediation model to analyze the relationships among stress, self-esteem, …

"What Do You See Disappearing": A Study of College Students' Nostalgia for High School

Li Jiawen, Ren Zhitong, Zhu Hanzheng, Xu Kexin, Li Jiawen
2024-02-28 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202402.00262

On social media, posts expressing a desire to "return to senior year of high school for a couple of days" are frequently observed. To investigate the nostalgic psychology toward high school among college student populations, this study employs a questionnaire survey methodology, innovatively integra…

Contributions and Limitations of the Subjective Class Research Approach

Yang Shenlong, Rao Tingting, Yu Feng, Yongyu Guo, Guo Yongyu
2022-05-12 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00029

In recent years, the field of social class psychology has exhibited a pronounced research orientation toward subjective social class, prominently manifested by an emphasis on the subjective class component within the concept of social class, with a tendency to focus on subjective class in theoretica…

What are the differences in moral psychology between Chinese and Western cultural contexts?

Hu Xiaomeng, Yu Feng, Kaiping Peng, Hu Xiaomeng
2022-04-12 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00092

Since its inception, modern Western ethics and moral psychology have experienced a century of development, characterized by abundant literature, remarkable achievements, and diverse schools of thought. By contrast, Chinese moral psychology, despite having accumulated certain theoretical inquiries an…

Temporal Changes in Time Management Disposition among Mainland Chinese University Students: 1999–2020

Chen Bizhong, Sun Xiaojun, Sun Xiaojun
2022-03-03 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00012

According to Social Ecological Systems Theory, the diachronic system and macrosystem may play a significant role in the development of individual time management disposition. However, indirect evidence suggests that the developmental trend of Chinese college students' time management disposition rem…

Work Withdrawal Behavior among Migrant Workers: A Multiple Embeddedness and Identity Pressure Perspective

Chen Jingqiu, Fan Qingyue, Huang Minyan, Chen Jingqiu
2022-02-19 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202202.00043

Work withdrawal behavior among 290 million migrant workers—intentional behaviors aimed at reducing work and organizational roles (work avoidance and reduced effort, tardiness and absenteeism, turnover, etc.)—has significant consequences. To address this, the present study employs Conservation of Res…

Public Compensatory Control in Public Emergencies

Rao Tingting, Zhu Xiaowen, Yang Shenlong, Bai Jie, Yang Shenlong
2022-02-16 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202202.00045

Compensatory control theory posits that when faced with a lack of perceived control, individuals exhibit a tendency to demand order—that is, they strive to seek order in the objective world and demonstrate preferences and needs for physical or abstract entities characterized by orderliness, certaint…

Algorithmic Discrimination Elicits Less Desire for Moral Punishment than Human Discrimination

Liying Xu, Yu Feng, Peng Kaiping, Yu Feng
2022-02-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202202.00013

Algorithmic discrimination is a frequent occurrence, and understanding people's reactions to it warrants attention. Six sequential experiments compared people's desire for moral punishment of algorithmic discrimination versus human discrimination across different discriminatory contexts, and explore…

How Social Inequality Affects System-Justifying Beliefs Among Low-Status Individuals

Zhang Yue, Ding Yi, Yang Shenlong, Xiaona Xie, Guo Yongyu, Guo Yongyu
2022-02-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202202.00010

Social inequality may either weaken or strengthen system-justifying beliefs among low-status individuals, with these two relationships being driven by self-interest motivation and system justification motivation, respectively. Furthermore, both relationships depend on low-status individuals' percept…

Standing up for close others: The relationship effect on moral courage across harm/care and fairness contexts

Michael Shengtao Wu, Gabriel Nudelman, Yongyuan Chen, Michael Shengtao Wu
2022-02-06 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202202.00009

Moral courage, standing up for others and intervening when a norm is violated, is viewed as a virtue in modern societies. However, it remains unclear how moral courage varies in interpersonal relationships and across moral contexts. Two studies were designed to test the effect of relationship type (…

Sharing the 'New' Together: Shared Consumption Promotes the Choice of Unfamiliar Products

Ran Yaxuan, Zhang Puyue, Chen Siyun, Xiang Diandian, Zhang Puyue
2022-01-28 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202201.00123

Shared consumption is a common consumption activity in which multiple consumers jointly participate and share expenses. Based on risk transfer theory, this study investigates the mechanism and boundary conditions through which consumption context (individual consumption vs. shared consumption) influ…

Poverty and Intertemporal Decision-Making: Psychological Transformation Mechanism from a Threat Perspective

Hu Xiaoyong, Du Tangyan, Yang Jing, Li Lanyu, Wang Tiantian, Hu Xiaoyong
2022-01-22 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202201.00068

After eliminating absolute poverty, China still faces the formidable challenge of relative poverty. Substantial evidence demonstrates that individuals in poverty frequently exhibit "myopic behaviors," such as underinvesting in education, accumulating higher levels of debt, and maintaining lower savi…

Screws in the Age of Intelligence: Robots and the Accentuation of Workplace Objectification

Xu Liying, Yu Feng, Peng Kaiping, Wang Xuehui, Yu Feng
2022-01-17 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202201.00055

With popular terms such as "tool person," "wage slave," and "corporate livestock" sweeping through the workplace, workplace objectification has become a topic that urgently requires exploration. As the use of artificial intelligence, especially robots, in the workplace continues to increase, robot-g…

Coping with Moral Self-Threat: A Moral Memory Bias Perspective

Wang Xiuxin, Shen Yifan, Wang Xiuxin
2022-01-14 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202201.00052

People sometimes engage in immoral behaviors, which may threaten their positive moral self-concept. To cope with such moral self-threat, individuals exhibit moral memory bias, characterized by impaired recall of immoral events or information that threaten the moral self. In recent years, researchers…