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  1. The beaten path of school ostracism in adolescence: the roles of trust and emotional regulation in a multitude of consequences

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Kai-Tak Poon

  2. Being Grateful Makes Me a Human: the Enhancing Effect of Gratitude Expression on Self-Humanness Via Perceived Social Connection

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  3. The Slippery Slope of Perceived Objectification: The Effect of Ostracism on Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, March 2025, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  4. Psychosocial and behavioural consequences of ostracism across contexts

    Article • Nature Reviews Psychology, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  5. Gendered Cycles of Sexual Objectification: The Roles of Social Dominance Orientation and Perceived Social Mobility

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  6. Seeking a stable connection: Consequences of live stream social surrogacy following ostracism.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media, December 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai-Tak Poon

  7. The Time to Delve Deeper: Understanding the Consequences of Conspiracy Theories and Moving Forward

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Kai-Tak Poon

  8. The relationship of sexual objectification with internet addiction and its implications for mental health

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, June 2024, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  9. Watching for a snake in the grass: Objectification increases conspiracy beliefs

    Article • British Journal of Social Psychology, May 2024, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  10. A 1‐year longitudinal study on experiencing workplace cyberbullying, affective well‐being and work engagement of teachers: The mediating effect of cognitive reappraisal

    Article • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, April 2024, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  11. Love me, because I rely on you: Dependency-oriented help-seeking as a strategy for human mating.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, March 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai-Tak Poon

  12. Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior

    Article • Political Psychology, December 2023, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  13. Workplace Objectification Leads to Self-Harm: The Mediating Effect of Depressive Moods

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Kai-Tak Poon

  14. Insomnia is associated with conspiracy mentality, psychological distress, and psychological well-being

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2023, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  15. The Unmanliness of Ostracism: The Role of Masculine Gender Role Stress and Intimate Partner Violence in Men’s Mental Health

    Article • Sex Roles, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  16. Objectification decreases prosociality: the mediating role of relative deprivation

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2023, Frontiers

    Kai-Tak Poon

  17. Promoting preservice teachers’ psychological and pedagogical competencies for online learning and teaching: The T.E.A.C.H. program

    Article • Computers & Education, April 2023, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  18. The Effect of Sexual Objectification on Dishonesty

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  19. Green with envy: ostracism increases aggressive tendencies

    Article • Current Psychology, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  20. Pull yourself out of a dark place: Self-compassion moderates the relationships between ostracism, meaningful existence, and darkness judgment

    Article • Current Psychology, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  21. The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, October 2022, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  22. Being Virtuous Together: A One-Year Prospective Study on Organizational Virtuousness, Well-Being, and Organizational Commitment

    Article • Applied Research in Quality of Life, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  23. Low Self-Concept Clarity Inhibits Self-Control: The Mediating Effect of Global Self-Continuity

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Kai-Tak Poon

  24. Lay awake with a racing mind: The associations between sexual objectification, insomnia, and affective symptoms

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, February 2022, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  25. Stuck in companionless days, end up in sleepless nights: relationships between ostracism, rumination, insomnia, and subjective well-being

    Article • Current Psychology, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  26. Life lacks meaning without acceptance: Ostracism triggers suicidal thoughts.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, December 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai-Tak Poon

  27. Putting oneself in someone's shoes: The effect of observing ostracism on physical pain, social pain, negative emotion, and self-regulation

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, November 2020, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  28. Sexism and the Effectiveness of Femvertising in China: A Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective

    Article • Sex Roles, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  29. Perceiving a Lack of Social Justice: Lower Class Individuals Apply Higher Moral Standards to Others

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, April 2020, SAGE Publications

    Kai-Tak Poon

  30. Sexual objectification increases retaliatory aggression

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, March 2020, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  31. Control my appearance, control my social standing: Appearance control beliefs influence American women's (not men's) social mobility perception

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, March 2020, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  32. The effect of objectification on aggression

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, March 2020, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  33. Body surveillance predicts young Chinese women’s social anxiety: testing a mediation model

    Article • Journal of Gender Studies, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Kai-Tak Poon

  34. Getting Less Likes on Social Media: Mindfulness Ameliorates the Detrimental Effects of Feeling Left Out Online

    Article • Mindfulness, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  35. Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Following Ostracism

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Kai-Tak Poon

  36. Do You Reap What You Sow? The Effect of Cyberostracism on Moral Impurity

    Article • Basic and Applied Social Psychology, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Kai-Tak Poon

  37. Unpacking the mechanisms underlying the relation between ostracism and Internet addiction

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2018, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  38. Stuck on the Train of Ruminative Thoughts: The Effect of Aggressive Fantasy on Subjective Well-Being

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Kai-Tak Poon

  39. Body Surveillance Predicts Men’s and Women’s Perceived Loneliness: A Serial Mediation Model

    Article • Sex Roles, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  40. Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded

    Article • PLOS One, August 2018, PLOS

    Kai-Tak Poon

  41. Turning a blind eye to potential costs: Ostracism increases aggressive tendency.

    Article • Psychology of Violence, May 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai-Tak Poon

  42. Deficits in recognizing disgust facial expressions and Internet addiction: Perceived stress as a mediator

    Article • Psychiatry Research, August 2017, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  43. Feeling unrestricted by rules: Ostracism promotes aggressive responses

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, May 2017, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  44. Self-compassion decreases acceptance of own immoral behaviors

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, February 2017, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  45. When nature heals: Nature exposure moderates the relationship between ostracism and aggression

    Article • Journal of Environmental Psychology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  46. Money and relationships: When and why thinking about money leads people to approach others

    Article • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, November 2016, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  47. Does Social Protest Shake People’s Justice Beliefs? It Depends on the Level of Group Identification

    Article • Basic and Applied Social Psychology, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Kai-Tak Poon

  48. Materialism Predicts Young Chinese Women’s Self-Objectification and Body Surveillance

    Article • Sex Roles, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai-Tak Poon

  49. Situational cuing of materialism triggers self-objectification among women (but not men): The moderating role of self-concept clarity

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, July 2016, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  50. Assuring a sense of growth: A cognitive strategy to weaken the effect of cyber-ostracism on aggression

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, April 2016, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  51. How Does the Source of Rejection Perceive Innocent Victims?

    Article • The Journal of Social Psychology, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Kai-Tak Poon

  52. Desiring to connect to nature: The effect of ostracism on ecological behavior

    Article • Journal of Environmental Psychology, June 2015, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  53. Cold Thermal Temperature Threatens Belonging

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Kai-Tak Poon

  54. Sexual objectification pushes women away: The role of decreased likability

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, October 2014, Wiley

    Kai-Tak Poon

  55. When do socially accepted people feel ostracized? Physical pain triggers social pain

    Article • Social Influence, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Kai-Tak Poon

  56. When justice surrenders: The effect of just-world beliefs on aggression following ostracism

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  57. Rejecting another pains the self: The impact of perceived future rejection

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon

  58. Feeling Entitled to More

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, June 2013, SAGE Publications

    Kai-Tak Poon

  59. When destiny hurts: Implicit theories of relationships moderate aggressive responses to ostracism

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2012, Elsevier

    Kai-Tak Poon