Miske. O. … Wang, K., … & Errington. T. M. (in press). Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioral sciences. Nature.
Aczel. B. … Wang, K., … & Nosek, B. A. (in press). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature.
Tierney, W., ... Wang, K., ... & Uhlmann, E. L. (conditionally accepted). Who respects an angry woman? A pre-registered re-examination of the relationships between gender, emotion expression, and status conferral. Psychological Science.
Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Lerner, J. S., & Gross J. J. (under review). Enhancing workplace well-being through reappraisal in a nationwide field experiment.
Buchanan, E. M., … Wang, K., … & Lewis, S.C. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behavior, 1-20.
Hall, B., … Wang, K., … & Buchanan, E. M. (2024). Registered replication report: A large multilab cross-cultural conceptual replication of Turri, Buckwalter, & Blouw (2015). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
Lippert, S., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Tierney, W., Cyrus-Lai, W., Uhlmann, E. L., Emotion Expression Collaboration†, & Pfeiffer, T. (2024). Can large language models help predict results from a complex behavioural science study?. Royal Society Open Science, 11(9), 240682. [†member of forecasting collaboration]
Wang, K., Rees, V. W., Dorison, C. A., Kawachi, I., & Lerner, J. S. (2024). The role of positive emotion in harmful health behavior: Implications for theory and public messaging campaigns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(28), e2320750121.
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Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., van Aert, R. C., Tiokhin, L., Lakens, D., ... & Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration†. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179, 104280. [†member of forecasting collaboration]
The Forecasting Collaborative†. (2023). Insights into accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour. [†member of forecasting collaboration]
Buchanan, E. M., ... Wang, K., ... & Primbs, M. (2023). PSACR: The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 Rapid-Response Dataset. Nature Scientific Data, 10(1), 87.
Wang, K., Bailey, E. R., & Jachimowicz, J. M. (2022). The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate employees attain better outcomes in part because of more preferential treatment by others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101, 104345.
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Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A. J., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., ... & Coles, N. A. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3(3), 577-602.
Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Miller, J. K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J. S., Gross, J. J., ... & Moshontz, H. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(8), 1089-1110..
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🏆 “Highly cited paper”: Top 1% based on field-specific and publication year thresholds (Web of Science).
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Dorison, C. A., Wang, K., Rees, V. W., Kawachi, I., Ericson, K. M., & Lerner, J. S. (2019). Sadness, but not all negative emotions, heightens addictive substance use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(2), 943-949.
🔉 Selected Media Coverage: Psychology Today, Harvard
Huang, Z., Wang, K., & Cai, H. (2018). Conducting psychological studies via open data. Psychology: Techniques and Application, 6(9): 549-569. (in Chinese)
Li, C., Liu, J., Zhang, S., Huo, Y., You, J., & Wang, K. (2016). Effects of dispositional and temporarily primed attachment security on response inhibition following ego-depletion among Chinese college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 368-375.