List of projects (selected
projects in recent years)
The Effect and Mechanisms of Economic
Inequality on Prosocial Behavior and Its Transmission: Multi-Angle Research
Based on Social Interactions, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Development and Promotion of Children and
Adolescents’ Social Competence, the Ministry of Education (MOE) Project of Key
Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Science at Universities.
Prosocial Behavior Transmission and Prosocial
Mindset Promotion in Social Governance, the Research Institute of Wang
Yangming’s Philosophy of Mind & Current Social Mentality of Confucius
Academy.
Adolescents’ Orientations to Happiness:
Antecedents and Consequences, the Beijing Well-Being Foundation.
An Investigation of Beijing Middle School
Students’ Social Attitude, the Project of Beijing Municipal Commission of
Education.
The Transmission of Prosocial Behavior:
Boundary Conditions and Psychological Mechanisms, Fundamental Research Funds
for the Central Universities.
Promotion of Students’ Prosocial Behavior:
Theory and Methods, the Ministry of Education (MOE) Project of Key Research
Institutes of Humanities and Social Science at Universities.
List of publications (selected
papers in recent years)
Wu, J.*, Guo, Z., Gao, X., &
Kou, Y*. (2020). The relations between early-life stress and risk,
time, and prosocial preferences in adulthood: A meta-analytic review.Evolution
and Human Behavior, 41(6), 557–572.
Wu, J., Yuan, M., & Kou, Y*.
(2020). Disadvantaged early-life experience negatively predicts prosocial
behavior: The roles of Honesty-Humility and dispositional trust among Chinese
adolescents.Personality and Individual Differences. 152, 109608.
Li, W., Wu, J., & Kou, Y*.
(2020). System justification enhances life satisfaction of high-and low-status
people in China.Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11(5),
588–596.
Li, W., Yang, Y., Wu, J., & Kou, Y*.
(2020). Testing the status-legitimacy hypothesis in China: Objective and
subjective socioeconomic status divergently predict system justification.Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin. 46(7), 1044–1058.
Yang, Y., Guo, Z., Wu, J., & Kou, Y*.
(2020). Self-compassion relates to reduced unethical behavior through lower
moral disengagement.Mindfulness, 11(6), 1424–1432.
Fu, X., Padilla-Walker, L. M., Nielson, M.
G., Yuan, M., & Kou, Y*. (2020). The effect of target’s power on
prosocial behavior: A cross-cultural study.The Journal of Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2020.1845591
Wu, J.*, Balliet, D., Kou, Y.*, & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2019). Gossip in the dictator and ultimatum
games: Its immediate and downstream consequences for cooperation.Frontiers
in Psychology, 10, 651.
Yang, Y., Guo, Z., Kou, Y.*,
& Liu, B. (2019). Linking self-compassion and prosocial behavior in
adolescents: The mediating roles of relatedness and trust.Child Indicators
Research, 12(6), 2035–2049.
Yang, Y., Li, W., Sheldon, K. M., & Kou,
Y*. (2019). Chinese adolescents with higher social dominance
orientation are less prosocial and less happy: A value-environment fit
analysis.International Journal of Psychology, 54(3), 325–332.
Fu, X., Liu, X., Yang, Y., Zhang, M., &
Kou, Y*. (2018). The role of relative intrinsic aspirations in
Chinese adolescents’ prosocial behaviors.Youth & Society, 50(1), 75–92.
Wang, J., Wang, L., & Kou, Y*.
(2018). The different roles of relative ingroup prototypicality in the outgroup
attitudes of majority and minority groups.Group Processes & Intergroup
Relations, 21(2), 319–335.
Yang, Y., Zhao, H., Aidi, M., & Kou, Y*.
(2018). Three good deeds and three blessings: The kindness and gratitude interventions
on Chinese prisoners.Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 28(5), 433–441.
Yuan, M., Wu, J.*, & Kou, Y*.
(2018). Donors’ social class and their prosocial reputation: Perceived
authentic motivation as an underlying mechanism.Social Psychology. 49(4),
205–218.
Yang, Y., Li, P., Fu, X., & Kou, Y*.
(2017). Orientations to happiness and subjective well-being in Chinese
adolescents: The roles of prosocial behavior and internet addictive behavior.Journal
of Happiness Studies,18(6), 1747–1762.
Yang, Y., Li, P., & Kou, Y*.
(2017). Orientations to happiness and subjective well-being in Chinese adolescents.Child Indicators Research, 10(4), 881–897.
Zhang, L., Kou, Y.*, Zhao, Y.,
& Fu, X. (2016). Group boundary permeability moderates the effect of a
dependency meta-stereotype on help-seeking behavior.International Journal
of Psychology, 51(4), 243–251.
Yang, Y., Zhang, M., & Kou, Y*.
(2016). Self-compassion and life satisfaction: The mediating role of hope.Personality
and Individual Differences, 98, 91–95.
Bai, B. Y., Liu, X. X., & Kou, Y*.
(2016). Belief in a just world lowers bribery intention.Asian Journal of
Social Psychology, 19(1), 66–75.
Cai, W., Huang, X., Wu, S., & Kou, Y*.
(2015). Dishonest behavior is not affected by an image of watching eyes.Evolution
and Human Behavior, 36(2), 110–116.
Wang, J., Fu, X., Zhang, L., & Kou, Y*.
(2015). The impacts of moral evaluations and descriptive norms on children's
and adolescents’ tolerance of transgression.Journal of Pacific Rim
Psychology, 9(2), 86–96.
Fu, X., Kou, Y.*, & Yang, Y.
(2015). Materialistic values among Chinese adolescents: Effects of parental
rejection and self-esteem.Child & Youth Care Forum, 44(1), 43–57.
Bai, B. Y., Liu, X. X., & Kou, Y*.
(2014). Belief in a just world lowers perceived intention of corruption: The
mediating role of perceived punishment.PloS One, 9(5), e97075.
Xu, H., Kou, Y., & Zhong, N. (2012). The
effect of empathy on cooperation, forgiveness, and “Returning Good for Evil” in
the prisoner's dilemma.Public Personnel Management, 41(5), 105–115.
Jiang, J., Kou, Y., et al., (2011). Emotional
reactions to scandals: When does moral character make a difference?Asian
Journal of Social Psychology, 14(3), 207–1216.