Tri Tam Le

• Master of Science
• Phenikaa University

Background The mental health of Chinese international student returnees is a critical concern impacting their well-being and successful reintegration into home society, especially in the post-COVID-19 era. This study examines how beliefs about changing living conditions, emigration intentions, and belief in fate influence depression levels among th...

In an era marked by unprecedented global mobility, China’s brain drains, and the subsequent challenges of reintegration in the post-COVID-19 era, the experience and emigration intentions of Chinese international student returnees emerge as a critical area of study. This paper examined how cultural identity clusters are associated with emigration in...

Extant literature suggests a positive correlation between social trust (also called generalized trust) and life satisfaction. However, the psychological pathways underlying this relationship can be complex. Using the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF), we examined the influence of social trust in a high-violence environment. Employing Bayesian ana...

Introduction Social media usage carries risks of negative impacts on one’s perception of physical attractiveness, especially among adolescents who are developing their self-image. These findings suggest that targeted interventions focusing on attention-seeking behaviors may be effective in addressing appearance-related anxieties among adolescents....

Plain language summary This research examined how gender and moral values affect young people’s views on extramarital affairs. The study used a survey on 493 college students from five countries about whether affairs could ever be justified. The study also probed how important they felt responsibility and fairness are to see if gender or morals pre...

Introduction In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reintegration of Chinese international student returnees intersects with China’s critical effort to combat a significant brain drain of highly skilled talents, highlighting an unprecedented psychological battleground. This convergence underscores the urgent need for nuanced research to nav...

Grieving the passing of loved ones is a great pain for every person, followed by intense emotional coping. In the modern digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) technology enables more and more immersive real-time interactions with simulations of deceased people based on available data about them. The strong emotional factor of grief can push peo...

Since the 1990s, forests have changed dramatically, transitioning from net forest loss to net forest increase in Vietnam. This study aims to advance the understanding of the factors driving forest transition at local scales. We employed GIS tools and a structural regression model to quantify the areas of rehabilitated forests and their determinants...

In the trust–health relationship, how trusting other people in society may promote good health is a topic often examined. However, the other direction of influence—how health may affect trust—has not been well explored. In order to investigate this possible effect, we employed the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics to go deeper into the...

Stakeholders’ support is essential for the effective and successful implementation of policies that prioritize enhancing and preserving ocean and coastal ecosystems. However, cross-national studies examining factors influencing stakeholders’ policy support are still lacking. The current study aimed to provide preliminary evidence on factors (e.g.,...

Food security is one of the major concerns in the Philippines. Although livestock and poultry production accounts for a significant proportion of the country’s agricultural output, smallholder households are still vulnerable to food insecurity. The current study aims to examine how livestock production and selling difficulties affect smallholder ho...

Food prices are a daily concern in many households’ decision-making, especially when people want to have healthier diets. Employing Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics on a dataset of 710 Indonesian citizens, we found that people from wealthier households are less likely to have concerns about food prices. However, the degree of health co...

Machine-based automation has long been a key factor in the modern era. However, lately, many people have been shocked by artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), that can perform tasks previously thought to be human-exclusive. With recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) technologies, AI can generate written...

Exploration can help students access a wider range of information and make connections among values within the natural and social world. This study investigated the relationship between students’ previous exploration of their surroundings and their acceptance of collectivist values in the context of China. A sample of 343 college students was analy...

Space tourism is an emerging field where few people have direct experience. However, considering the potential in the near future, it is beneficial to better understand how related information influences people’s attitudes about this new form of tourism. Employing information-processing-based Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics on a datas...

Stakeholders’ support is essential for the effective and successful implementation of policies that prioritize enhancing and preserving ocean and coastal ecosystems. However, cross-national studies examining factors influencing the stakeholders’ policy support are still lacking. The current study aimed to provide preliminary evidence on factors (e....

Emotions are fundamental elements driving humans’ decision-making and information processing. Fear is one of the most common emotions influencing investors’ behaviors in the stock market. Although many studies have been conducted to explore the impacts of fear on investors’ investment performance and trading behaviors, little is known about factors...

As artificial intelligence (AI) integration becomes more prominent in society, the infosphere becomes increasingly complex. A better understanding of the human-AI relationship is crucial during these rapid technological and social changes. Emotions are complex responses of the human mind – a highly advanced information processing system. Thus, exam...

Individual knowledge can affect how people are concerned about their health, but collective cultural values and social norms can also affect such considerations. This study explored the influence of educational attainment and local custom-based food choices on health considerations in food consumption. Employing information-processing-based Bayesia...

Given the high fatality rate due to road traffic accidents in China, understanding the factors influencing aggressive driving behaviors among Chinese drivers is essential to alleviate the problem. The paper describes a dataset of 1039 Chinese drivers’ driving behaviors and the socio-cultural factors associated with the behaviors. The dataset was co...

Coastal protection is crucial to human development since the ocean has many values associated with the economy, ecosystem, and culture. However, most ocean-protecting efforts are currently ineffective due to the burdens of finance, lack of appropriate management, and international cooperation regimes. For aiding bottom-up initiatives for ocean prot...

Coastal protection is crucial to human development since the ocean has many values associated with the economy, ecosystem, and culture. However, most ocean-protecting efforts are currently ineffective due to the burdens of finance, lack of appropriate management, and international cooperation regimes. For aiding bottom-up initiatives for ocean prot...

Data plays an important role in analytical studies. Research using data accounts for a large and increasing proportion of the yearly number of scientific publications in the world. In the race for positions of power, data becomes increasingly voluminous, laborious, sophisticated, and therefore incredibly costly. In this situation, the need to save...

Students who are engaged in learning at an early age are more likely to develop a love of learning and continue to be engaged in learning throughout their academic careers. This paper describes a dataset of 8475 Chinese elementary school students (ages 10-12), which can be used to holistically examine factors contributing to learners’ engagement. T...

Given the high fatality rate due to road traffic accidents in China, understanding the factors influencing aggressive driving behaviors among Chinese drivers is essential to alleviate the problem. The paper describes a dataset of 1039 Chinese drivers’ driving behaviors and the socio-cultural factors associated with the behaviors. The dataset was co...

Since the digital environment is a part of human society and the global economy is transitioning from a knowledge-based to a creative economy, digital creativity has been a crucial factor for economic growth and personal success. The current study explores factors contributing to digital creativity cultivation among Vietnamese high-school students...

When looking at mass shooting incidents, suicidal shooters seem to carry an even more extreme sense of terror and brutality. The current study aimed to examine how mass shooters' suicidality and suicide behavioral threshold influence the severity of the mass shooting. We employed Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics on a dataset of 194 mas...

Humankind is facing many existential global problems that require international and transgenerational efforts to be solved. Preparing our next generation with sufficient knowledge and skills to deal with such problems is imperative. Fortunately, the digital environment provides foundational conditions for children’s and adolescents’ exploration and...

The expanding integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in various aspects of society makes the infosphere around us increasingly complex. Humanity already faces many obstacles trying to have a better understanding of our own minds, but now we have to continue finding ways to make sense of the minds of AI. The issue of AI’s capability to have ind...

Air pollution is a considerable environmental stressor for urban residents in developing countries. Perceived health risks of air pollution might induce migration intention among inhabitants. The current study employed the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) to investigate the rationale behind the domestic and international migration intentions amo...

I asked Google Bard to elaborate some points about the subjective sphere optimization process in the ecomindsponge framework.

Exploration can help students access a wider range of information and make connections among values within the natural and social world. This study investigated the relationship between students' previous exploration of their surroundings and their acceptance of collective value in the context of China. A sample of 343 college students was analyzed...

Woody biomass-based energy is expected to be an alternative to fossil fuels due to its quick replenishment and lower emissions of pollutants. However, landowners, environmental organizations, and environmentalists are worried about the detrimental impacts of wood pellet production on the environments, preventing the expansion of the biomass feedsto...

Despite the dependence of human existence on myriad ecosystem services and products, a high proportion of people feel disconnection from nature due to urbanization. This separation appears to have created an increase in the numbers of climate change and biodiversity loss denial-ists, thereby weakening global efforts to prevent environmental degrada...

Extramarital affairs can be detrimental to family stability and individual happiness. Existing literature on the issue suggests that gender and moral qualities can be major influencing factors. Particularly, it is suggested that males are more likely to have affairs compared to females. In this study, we explore deeper possible gender differences t...

The water scarcity crisis is becoming more severe across the globe and recycled water has been suggested as a feasible solution to the crisis. However, expanding the use of potable and recycled public water has been hindered by public acceptance. Previous studies suggest threat perception and trust of provided information have positive linear relat...

The nationwide economic reform in 1986 transformed Vietnam from a centrally planned economy to a socialist-oriented market economy. Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial spirits within the populace are suggested to fuel the structural changes. Despite the importance of entrepreneurship in Vietnam’s economy, studies in Vietnam mainly pay attention to th...

Cheating is a major problem in society, especially in the educational system. From the viewpoint of subjective cost-benefit analysis, concerns about reputation damage as well as considerations of cultural values against unethical behavior can help increase the perceived costs of cheating. To explore deeper into the psychological processes in such a...

Cheating is widely considered a condemnable behavior in society and a big problem in the educational system. In this study, we employ the information-processing-based Bayesian Mindsponge Framework to explore deeper the subjective cost-benefit evaluation involving the perceived value of cheating. Conducting Bayesian analysis on 493 university studen...

The digital era brings various benefits to adolescents. However, operating on the digital environment without sufficient knowledge and skills will expose them to multiple types of risks, especially in the country with low digital safety education rate like Vietnam. The current study examines factors that can contribute to cultivating adolescents’ d...

Academic entrepreneurship is crucial in the development of human society. Considering the current landscape of academia and business, academic entrepreneurial attempts can be risky, especially for female scientists. Prior knowledge from business experience can be a valuable input in the information process of entrepreneurial intention. Using the in...

Patients with serious illnesses or injuries may decide to quit their medical treatment if they think paying the fees will put their families into destitution. Without treatment, it is likely that fatal outcomes will soon follow. We call this phenomenon “near-suicide”. This study attempted to explore this phenomenon by examining how the seriousness...

In the trust-health relationship, how trusting other people in society may promote good health is a topic often examined. However, the other direction of influence – how health may affect trust – has not been well explored. In order to investigate this possible effect, we employed Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics to go deeper into the...

El pensamiento es una herramienta que usamos con tanta naturalidad que casi siempre se da por sentada. Apenas la usamos para examinarnos a nosotros mismos, haciendo preguntas de "qué", "cómo" y "por qué" sobre la naturaleza y los mecanismos del pensamiento. Las preguntas de billones de dólares empiezan a surgir a nuestra mente: "¿De dónde viene la...

Despite the dependence of human existence on myriad ecosystem services and products, a proportion of people are separated from nature due to urbanization. This separation has given birth to the rise of climate and biodiversity denialists, confronting global efforts to prevent environmental degradation and heal the environment. The current study emp...

The expanding integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in various aspects of society makes the infosphere around us increasingly complex. Humanity already faces many obstacles trying to have a better understanding of our own minds, but now we have to find ways to make sense of the minds of AI. The issue of AI’s capability to have independent thi...

Working in academia is challenging, even more so for those with limited resources and opportunities. Researchers around the world do not have equal working conditions. The paper presents the structure, operation method, and conceptual framework of the SM3D Portal's community coaching method, which is built to help Early Career Researchers (ECRs) an...

As artificial intelligence (AI) integration becomes more prominent in society, the big-data-based infosphere becomes increasingly complex. A better understanding of the human-AI relationship is crucial during these rapid technological and social changes. Emotions are complex responses of the human mind – a highly advanced information processing sys...

•Academia needs to adapt to a more AI-integrated system, but we should be careful of new forms of resource-based inequality.•AI assistance is not a temporary trend, but a tendency of technological progress, which should be treated with cautious openness.•Considering the benefit of AI assistance to researchers, editors and publishers should gain mor...

People hold different perceptions about whether artificial intelligence (AI) can feel distressed. Such perceptions are based on their existing belief systems built upon acquired knowledge and experiences. As human-AI interactions continue to expand and intensify in our modern society, understanding what people think about AI can be beneficial. Appr...

Modern society faces major environmental problems, but there are many difficulties in studying the nature–human relationship from an integral psychosocial perspective. We propose the ecomindsponge conceptual framework, based on the mindsponge theory of information processing. We present a systematic method to examine the nature–human relationship w...

Bribing doctors for preferential treatment is rampant in the healthcare system of developing countries like Vietnam. Although bribery raises the out-of-pocket expenditures of patients, it is so common to be deemed an “envelope culture.” Given the little understanding of the underlying mechanism of the culture, this study employed the mindsponge the...

Wolves on the Pleasant Island of Alaska switched to feeding on sea otters after the deer population decreased.

Acculturative stress can be a big problem for international students. Among the adaptation difficulties they may face, adjusting to new foods in a new environment is crucial to their well-being. Existing studies related to dietary acculturation point to gender differences, mostly on objective health impacts. Using the information processing approac...

A little experiment with NLP to see how AI uses a word with two opposite meanings.

To further check the ability of AI to identify precise and detailed scientific information, the paper continues experimenting with how accurate AI recognizes scientific terms, their origins,meanings, and usages, and whether the accuracy increases over time.

I conducted a simple experiment of requesting NLP AI to argue against common sense.

Research suggests that emotions can influence how a person processes language information.

To check the ability of AI to identify precise and detailed scientific information, I experiment with how accurate AI recognizes scientific terms, their origins, meanings, and usages, and whether the accuracy increases over time.

Procedure, raw materials, and detailed notes about the process of making the article with AI support.

I present some discussions on the human-AI relationship.

Working in academia is challenging, even more so for those with limited resources and opportunities. Researchers around the world do not have equal working conditions. The paper presents the structure, operation method, and conceptual framework of the SM3D Portal’s community coaching method, which is built to help Early Career Researchers (ECRs) an...

The current manuscript sets out the initiation of a book project about “Cultural Additivity Theory” by laying out the basic distinction of “cultural additivity” with relevant concepts, such as cultural hybridity, syncretism, and creolization.

We think it is the right time to develop the “cultural additivity” concept into something more comprehensive and practical: Cultural Additivity Theory. The theory is expected to provide reasoning for conflicting thinking and behaviors in environmental protection, or how the cultural additivity level of humans’ collective structures (organization, s...

「マインドスポンジ理論」の書評 (Review of "Mindsponge Theory", Japanese version)

Extant literature suggests a positive correlation between social trust (also called generalized trust) and life satisfaction. However, the psychological pathways underlying this relationship can be complex. Using the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF), we examined the influence of social trust in a high-violence environment. Employing Bayesian ana...

The water scarcity crisis is getting more severe across the globe. Recycled water has been suggested as a feasible solution to the crisis. However, the expanding use of potable recycled water public has been hindered by public acceptance. Previous studies suggest threat perception and trust towards provided information have positive linear relation...

思考是我们惯用的一种工具，以至于我们总认为思考是理所当然的, 却很少用这个工具来审视自己，问一些类似"是什么"、"为什么"和“怎么样”等有关思考的本质和机制的问题，比如"智力从何而来？"，"意识究竟是什么？"，或者 "我为什么要问问题？" 现在《大脑海绵理论》一书邀请读者探索这些看似陌生的问题，并进入自己大脑中更深的概念领域去寻找答案。没错，一把刀自己并不能自己去砍瓜切菜，但是这并不妨碍我们通过大量实证去考究这把刀如何和周边世界互动。而这本书就通过类似的方式引发读者对自然的好奇，并带入科学方法论的介绍，让读者尝试探索并了解人类的力量之源：思考。

Products made from animal fur and skin have been a major part of human civilization. However, in modern society, the unsustainable consumption of these products – often considered luxury goods – has many negative environmental impacts. This study explores how people’s perceptions of biodiversity affect their attitudes and behaviors toward consumpti...

This is a review of the book "Mindsponge Theory" (Vuong, 2023).

I discuss some points about altruistic values and the cost-benefit evaluation in the near-suicide phenomenon.

In more than two years of the global health crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, ethical issues regarding health data have been emerging quickly to the central focus of the global scientific community. Many papers have been retracted because of data problems, including those from prestigious journals. For example, two papers in The Lancet and the New E...

We discuss the information processing mechanism involving lies and violence using the subjective sphere of influence.

Modern society is facing major environmental problems, but there are many difficulties in studying deeper the human-nature relationship from an integral psychosocial perspective. We propose the ecomindsponge theory, based on the mindsponge mechanism of information processing, to provide a more dynamic framework to be used flexibly and practically i...

The research used a hybrid approach to examine the mental distress among Chinese international students caused by cognitive dissonance due to double stigmatization during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research used the mindsponge mechanism to examine the information processes of their psychological distress and coping strategies in the wake of double...

We discuss the issues of effectiveness and efficiency in scientific activities, in light of the recent data fraud at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Patients with serious illnesses or injuries may decide to quit their medical treatment if they think paying the fees will put their families into destitution. Without treatment, it is likely that fatal outcomes will soon follow. We call this phenomenon “near-suicide”. Research on suicide-related psychology often faces huge difficulties in collectin...

Acculturative stress can be a big problem for international students. Among the adaptation difficulties they may face, adjusting to new foods in a new environment is crucial to their wellbeing. Existing studies related to dietary acculturation point at gender differences, mostly on objective health impacts. Using the information processing approach...

Extant literature suggests a positive correlation between social trust (also called generalized trust) and life satisfaction. However, the psychological pathways underlying this relationship can be complex. Using the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF), we examined the influence of social trust in a high-violence environment. Employing Bayesian ana...

Acculturative stress can be a big problem for international students. Among the adaptation difficulties they may face, adjusting to new foods in a new environment is crucial to their wellbeing. Existing studies related to dietary acculturation point at gender differences, mostly on objective health impacts. Using the information processing approach...

The COVID-19 crisis was remarkable because no global recession model could predict or provide early notice of when the coronavirus pandemic would happen and damage the global economy. Resilience to financial shocks is crucial for households as future crises like COVID-19 are inevitable. Therefore, the current study aims to examine the effects of fi...

Creativity is a crucial aspect of entrepreneurship. However, research on the information-processing mechanism of creativity in relation to entrepreneurship is still very limited. To explore factors contributing to creativity performance among entrepreneurs in terms of information processing, we applied the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework. We used the...

I argue some points about AI-assisted euthanasia and the notion of having control over one's own life/death decision.

Extant literature suggests a positive correlation between social trust (also called generalized trust) and life satisfaction. However, the psychological pathways underlying this relationship can be complex. Using the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF), we examined the influence of social trust in a high-violence environment. Employing Bayesian ana...

The water scarcity crisis is getting more severe across the globe. Recycled water has been suggested as a feasible solution to the crisis. However, the expanding use of potable recycled water public has been hindered by public acceptance. Previous studies suggest threat perception and trust towards provided information have positive linear relation...

Precognition is an anomaly in information transmission and interpretation. Extant literature suggests that paranormal beliefs and gender may have significant influences on this unknown information process. This study examines the effects of these two factors, including their interactions, on precognition performance by employing the Bayesian Mindsp...

Precognition (if existing) would suggest that it might be possible for the mind to take in knowledge relating to actual future occurrences under unidentified circumstances and via unidentified mechanisms.

Products made from animal fur and skin have been a major part of human civilization. However, in modern society, the unsustainable consumption of these products – often considered luxury goods – has many negative environmental impacts. This study explores how people’s perceptions of biodiversity affect their attitudes and behaviors toward consumpti...

The Covid-19 crisis was remarkable because no global recession model could predict or provide early notice of when the coronavirus pandemic would happen and damage the global economy. Resilience to financial shocks is crucial for households as future crises like Covid-19 are inevitable. Therefore, the current study aims to the effects of financial...

New technologies have enabled growing plant or algae biomass without natural photosynthesis.

During NDEs or psychedelic-induced alternative states of consciousness, the filtering system of the mind may be partially inactivated.

Rapid urbanization with poor city planning has resulted in severe air pollution in urban areas of low-and middle-income countries. Given the adverse impacts of air pollution, citizens may develop ideation of averting behaviors, including migration to another region. The current study explores the psychological mechanism and demographic predictors o...

My review of “The Kingfisher Story Collection” (Vuong, 2022) from a nihilistic perspective