
Qinyu XiaoUniversity of Vienna | UniWien · Department of Occupational, Economic, and Social Psychology
Qinyu Xiao
Master of Philosophy
3rd year PhD candidate in economic psychology and behavioural science
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According to the justified true belief (JTB) account of knowledge, people can truly know something only if they have a belief that is both justified and true (i.e., knowledge is JTB). This account was challenged by Gettier, who argued that JTB does not explain knowledge attributions in certain situations, later called “Gettier-type cases,” wherein...
Human beings have a fundamental need to connect with others. Epley, Akalis, et al. (2008) found that people with higher chronic loneliness had a stronger tendency to anthropomorphize nonhuman objects, presumably for fulfilling unmet needs for social connection. In this Registered Report, we conducted a replication of Epley, Akalis, et al. (2008): B...
Human beings have a fundamental need to connect with others. Epley, Akalis, et al. (2008) found that people higher in chronic loneliness had a stronger tendency to anthropomorphize non-human objects, presumably for fulfilling unmet needs for social connection. In this Registered report, we conducted a replication of Epley, Akalis, et al. (2008): ba...
The moral credential effect is the phenomenon where an initial behavior that presumably establishes one as moral “licenses” the person to subsequently engage in morally questionable behaviors. In line with this effect, Monin and Miller (2001, Study 2) found that participants who initially had an opportunity to hire a job candidate from disadvantage...
The moral credential effect is the phenomenon where an initial behavior that presumably establishes one as moral “licenses” the person to subsequently engage in morally questionable behaviors. In line with this effect, Monin and Miller (2001, Study 2) found that participants who initially had an opportunity to hire a job candidate from disadvantage...
This effect sizes and confidence intervals collaborative guide aims to provide students and early-career researchers with hands-on, step-by-step instructions for calculating effect sizes and confidence intervals for common statistical tests used in psychology, social sciences and behavioral sciences, particularly when original data are not availabl...
Open Science is becoming a mainstream scientific ideology in psychology and related fields. However, researchers, especially early-career researchers (ECRs) in developing countries, are facing significant hurdles in engaging in Open Science and moving it forward. In China, various societal and cultural factors discourage ECRs from participating in...
Gershon and Fridman (1) argue that when group members face a trade-off between net-negative options-either harming the in-group or benefiting the out-group-they rather choose to harm the in-group to avoid even minimal support for the out-group. Five experiments provide evidence for this claim: Participants from different groups (e.g., Democrats vs....
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures...
This Power Analyses Collaborative Guide aims to provide students and early-career researchers with hands-on, step-by-step instructions for conducting power analysis for common statistical tests used in psychology, social sciences and behavioral sciences. Many of the methods and procedures described in this guide are based on G*Power, R or R-based S...
The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in t...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...
Open Science is becoming a mainstream scientific ideology in psychology and related fields. However, researchers, especially early career researchers (ECRs) in developing countries, are facing significant hurdles in engaging in Open Science and moving it forward. In China, various societal and cultural factors discourage ECRs from participating in...
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Communicating in ways that motivate engagement in social distancing remains a critical global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study tested motivational qualities of messages about social distancing (those that promoted choice and agency vs. those that were forceful and shaming) in 25,718 people in 89 countries...
Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The ‘Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Teaching’ (FORRT) community presents a crowdsourced glossary of open scholarship terms to facilitate education and effective communication between experts and newcomers.
Is it better to save 4500 lives out of 11,000 or 4500 lives out of 250,000? Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997) showed that people prefer the former: to save lives if they are a higher proportion of the total, a phenomenon they termed “psychophysical numbing”. We attempted to replicate Studies 1 and 2 of Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997) (5 data collections,...
Is it better to save 4,500 lives out of 11,000 or 4,500 lives out of 250,000? Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997) showed that people prefer the former: to save lives if they are a higher proportion of the total, a phenomenon they termed “psychophysical numbing”. We attempted to replicate Studies 1 and 2 of Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997) (5 data collect...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...
The moral typecasting hypothesis proposes that the perception of moral agency (i.e., the capacity of doing good or evil) is inversely related to that of moral patiency (i.e., the capacity of being a target of good and evil). In this Registered Report Stage 1, we report our plan to conduct well-powered (total N = []) direct replications of four s...
Effectively motivating social distancing—keeping a physical distance from others —has become a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country preregistered experiment (n=25,718 in 89 countries) tested hypotheses derived from self-determination theory concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of differen...
How can we maximize what is learned from a replication study? In the creative destruction approach to replication, the original hypothesis is compared not only to the null hypothesis, but also to predictions derived from multiple alternative theoretical accounts of the phenomenon. To this end, new populations and measures are included in the design...
How can we maximize what is learned from a replication study? In the creative destruction approach to replication, the original hypothesis is compared not only to the null hypothesis, but also to predictions derived from multiple alternative theoretical accounts of the phenomenon. To this end, new populations and measures are included in the design...
How can we maximize what is learned from a replication study? In the creative destruction approach to replication, the original hypothesis is compared not only to the null hypothesis, but also to predictions derived from multiple alternative theoretical accounts of the phenomenon. To this end, new populations and measures are included in the design...
Status quo bias refers to people’s general preference to stick to, or continue with, a previously chosen option. In two pre-registered experiments with U.S. participants recruited on the Amazon Mechanical Turk (n1 = 311, n2 = 316), we attempted to replicate four decision scenarios (Question 1, 2, 4, and 6) from Samuelson and Zeckhauser (1988), t...
The decoy effect refers to the phenomenon whereby an inferior, unpreferable option reverses people’s preferences and increases the choice share of a targeted option. In two pre-registered experiments with an Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) sample (N after exclusion = 1,001), we attempted to replicate Experiment 1 from Ariely and Wallsten (1995) (...
The decoy effect refers to the phenomenon whereby an inferior, unpreferable option reverses people’s preferences and increases the choice share of a targeted option. In two pre-registered experiments with an Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) sample (n = 1053), we attempted to replicate Experiment 1 from Ariely and Wallsten (1995) (Study 1) as well...
Status quo bias refers to people’s general preference to stick to, or continue with, a previously chosen option. In two pre-registered experiments with U.S. participants recruited on the Amazon Mechanical Turk (n1 = 311, n2 = 316), we attempted to replicate four decision scenarios (Question 1, 2, 4, and 6) from Samuelson and Zeckhauser (1988), t...
Status quo bias refers to people’s general preference to stick to, or continue with, a previously chosen option. In two pre-registered American online Amazon Mechanical Turk data collections (N1 = 311, N2 = 316), we attempted to replicate four decision scenarios from Samuelson and Zeckhauser (1988), the classic article that provided first experimen...