Publications

Primary:

• Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Lerner, J. S., & Gross J. J. (in preparation). An emotion regulation intervention increases long-term well-being among education workers.

• Wang, K., Moore, M., & Lerner, J. S. (in preparation). Gratitude increases cheating that benefits others.

• Tierney, W., Cyrus-Lai, W., Hoogeveen, S., Haaf, J. M., Landy, J. F., Hardy III, J. H. ... Wang, K., ... & Uhlmann, E. L. (under review). Who respects an angry woman? A pre-registered re-examination of the relationships between gender, emotion expression, and status conferral.

• Wang, K., Rees, V. W., Dorison, C. A., Kawachi, I. 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.

🔉 Selected Media Coverage: Character and Context, Harvard, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Greater Good Science Center

• 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.

🔉 Selected Media Coverage: The Economist, WIRED

• 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, 1-22.

🔉 Selected Media Coverage: Character and Context, Vox, Harvard, Psychology Today

🏆 “Highly cited paper”: Top 1% based on field-specific and publication year thresholds (Web of Science). 

🏅 Top 1% for online attention among articles of similar age across all journals (article metrics).

• Dorison, C. A., Wang, K., Rees, V. W., Kawachi, I. 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

Others:

• Hall, B., Schmidt, K., Wagge, J., Lewis, S., Weissgerber, S., Kiunke, F., … 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.

• 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.

• 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.