Jing Li

• Central China Normal University

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a strong sense of uncertainty worldwide, which may lead to short-sighted behaviors. This study aimed to examine the impact of uncertainty induced by COVID-19 on intertemporal choice, as well as its underlying mechanisms, by conducting four experiments. Study 1a verified the causal relationsh...

Background Whether the pandemic can be effectively prevented and controlled depends on the entire population’s adherence to recommendations and preventive behaviors. The present study aimed to investigate the social class differences and internal mechanisms of prevention behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We conducted an online cross-sect...

Although material parenting is a very common parenting style in China, it has received little attention from researchers, and thus far, only one study has demonstrated that early material parenting fosters materialism in adulthood. However, whether early material parenting promotes materialism in adolescents remains unknown. Therefore, this researc...

Previous research on the hedonic benefits of experiential purchasing did not take into consideration that college students are financially dependent on their parents. Grounded in self-determination theory, the current study investigates the hedonic return when college students spend money from different sources (sponsored by parents/earned by thems...

Background Several studies have demonstrated that materialistic people tend to engage in impulsive buying. However, how to help them reduce such irrational behavior, especially in online shopping context, is not known. This study aimed to explore whether mental simulation moderates the relationship between materialism and online impulsive buying....

Sense of entitlement can be defined as a pervasive sense that one deserves more and is entitled to more than others. Two studies examined the relationship between social class and sense of entitlement and how this relationship is moderated by system-justifying belief (SJB) in China. In Study 1, we conducted a survey among adults (N = 669) with resu...

Although some studies have demonstrated that individuals from lower socioeconomic groups have higher tendencies toward materialism, it is not known whether this association is causal, and the underlying psychological mechanisms are not clear. Therefore, we examined the causal relationship between social class, materialism, and the role of self-este...

Nothing is more important than one's life and death. Research on Terror management theory (TMT) has suggested that three strategies, namely, supporting cultural worldviews, seeking for self-esteem, and defense of interpersonal belonging, would be taken to buffer existential insecurity when made aware of people's own inevitable death. In western, so...