All Stories

  1. The compensation effect of competence frustration and its behavioral manifestations

    Article • PsyCh Journal, March 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Liang Meng

  2. Skeletons in the closet: How and when internal and external corporate social responsibility affect employees' internal whistleblowing behaviors

    Article • Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility, March 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Liang Meng

  3. Why do employees craft their jobs: a qualitative analysis of job crafting motives from actor and observer perspectives

    Article • Journal of Managerial Psychology, February 2024, Emerald

    Prof. Liang Meng

  4. No person is an island: how employees attribute and react to coworkers' approach crafting

    Article • Career Development International, January 2024, Emerald

    Prof. Liang Meng

  5. How family motivation affects Chinese hotel employees' extra-role behaviors: A serial mediation model from an instrumental perspective

    Article • International Journal of Hospitality Management, January 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  6. Antecedents and Occupational Attitudinal Consequences of Meaningful Work During the COVID-19: An Investigation of Chinese Nurses

    Article • SAGE Open, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Liang Meng

  7. Autonomy support and prosocial impact facilitate meaningful work: A daily diary study

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Liang Meng

  8. I am entitled to it! Social power and context modulate disadvantageous inequity aversion

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, November 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  9. How can employees break free from helplessness in critical work incidents?

    Article • International Journal of Stress Management, September 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Liang Meng

  10. Awe in the workplace promotes prosocial behavior

    Article • PsyCh Journal, September 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Liang Meng

  11. Understanding awe elicitors in the workplace: a qualitative inquiry

    Article • Journal of Managerial Psychology, August 2022, Emerald

    Prof. Liang Meng

  12. When the Counterpart Chooses the Opposite: The First Mover’s Anticipation and Evaluation of the Final Feedback in Gambles

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, July 2022, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  13. Prior autonomy frustration facilitates persistent behavior: The moderating role of autonomy causality orientation

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Liang Meng

  14. External corporate social responsibility promotes employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior: An attribution perspective

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

    Prof. Liang Meng

  15. Surviving bench stress: Meaningful work as a personal resource in the expanded job demands-resources model

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

    Prof. Liang Meng

  16. Work meaningfulness disclosure and persistent behavior: Level of action identification as a moderator

    Article • PsyCh Journal, November 2021, Wiley

    Prof. Liang Meng

  17. Desire for Success Awakens: Proof of Competence Restoration in a Non-competitive Environment

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, June 2021, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  18. To Reveal or Not to Reveal? Observation of Social Outcomes Facilitates Reward Processing

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2021, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  19. Getting a head start: turn-of-the-month submission effect for accepted papers in management journals

    Article • Scientometrics, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Liang Meng

  20. The Spillover Effect of Autonomy Frustration on Human Motivation and Its Electrophysiological Representation

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2020, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  21. Fluid compensation in response to disappearance of the meaning of work

    Article • PsyCh Journal, April 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Liang Meng

  22. Man’s Pursuit of Meaning: Unexpected Termination Bolsters One’s Autonomous Motivation in an Irrelevant Ensuing Activity

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, March 2020, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  23. Trapped in the woods: High performance goal orientation impedes competence restoration

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, November 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  24. Taking Others as a Mirror: Contingent Social Comparison Promotes Task Engagement

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 2018, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  25. Environmental-friendly Eco-labeling Matters: Evidences From an ERPs Study

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, October 2018, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  26. A Surprising Source of Self-Motivation: Prior Competence Frustration Strengthens One’s Motivation to Win in Another Competence-Supportive Activity

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2018, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  27. Hey, what is your choice? Uncertainty and inconsistency enhance subjective anticipation of upcoming information in a social context

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Liang Meng

  28. Feedback is the breakfast of champions

    Article • Neuroreport, January 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Liang Meng

  29. Being Eager to Prove Oneself: U-Shaped Relationship between Competence Frustration and Intrinsic Motivation in Another Activity

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2017, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  30. Who Deserves My Trust? Cue-Elicited Feedback Negativity Tracks Reputation Learning in Repeated Social Interactions

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, June 2017, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  31. Inverted U-Shaped Curvilinear Relationship between Challenge and One's Intrinsic Motivation: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, March 2017, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  32. Effort provides its own reward: endeavors reinforce subjective expectation and evaluation of task performance

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Liang Meng

  33. Close games versus blowouts: Optimal challenge reinforces one's intrinsic motivation to win

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  34. What do we expect from a beauty? Facial attractiveness of the opposite sex gives rise to discrepancies in males' anticipation and demand

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, September 2016, Wiley

    Prof. Liang Meng

  35. Deliberate or unintended: Intentions modulate empathic responses to others’ economic payoffs in social interactions

    Article • Social Neuroscience, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Qiang Shen, Prof. Liang Meng

  36. Ingroup favoritism or the black sheep effect: Perceived intentions modulate subjective responses to aggressive interactions

    Article • Neuroscience Research, July 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  37. How do social-based cues influence consumers’ online purchase decisions? An event-related potential study

    Article • Electronic Commerce Research, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Liang Meng

  38. Live as we choose: The role of autonomy support in facilitating intrinsic motivation

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, December 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  39. You did not mean it: Perceived good intentions alleviate sense of unfairness

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, June 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  40. The undermining effect of facial attractiveness on brain responses to fairness in the Ultimatum Game: an ERP study

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, March 2015, Frontiers

    Prof. Liang Meng

  41. You Have My Word: Reciprocity Expectation Modulates Feedback-Related Negativity in the Trust Game

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2015, PLOS

    Prof. Liang Meng

  42. I endeavor to make it: Effort increases valuation of subsequent monetary reward

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, March 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Liang Meng

  43. The dark side of monetary incentive

    Article • Neuroreport, February 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Liang Meng