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Showing papers by "Chi-Yue Chiu published in 2016"


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TL;DR: The history of modern empirical social science as the foundation of management, organization, and strategy research and the criticism of social science research has reached the point that some critics refer to current publication norms as encouraging and enabling the publication of junk science as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: At the June 2016 meeting of the International Association for Chinese Management Research, MOR organized a symposium to discuss the mounting criticisms of empirical social science and subsequent changes, as part of ongoing discussions affecting journal reviewing policies. This article overviews the history of modern empirical social science as the foundation of management, organization, and strategy research and the criticism of social science research, which has reached the point that some critics refer to current publication norms as encouraging and enabling the publication of junk science. Most importantly, however, this article outlines MOR's strategy going forward and the new reviewing initiatives that MOR is implementing as of Volume 13 (2017).

44 citations


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TL;DR: In globalized societies, people often encounter symbols of diverse cultures in the same space at the same time and simultaneous exposure to diverse cultures draws people's attention to cultural differences and promotes catergorical perceptions of culture.
Abstract: In globalized societies, people often encounter symbols of diverse cultures in the same space at the same time. Simultaneous exposure to diverse cultures draws people's attention to cultural differences and promotes catergorical perceptions of culture. Local cultural identification and presence of cultural threat increase the likelihood of resisting inflow of foreign cultures (exclusionary reactions). When cultures are seen as intellectual resources, foreign cultural exposure affords intercultural learning and enhances individual creativity (integrative reactions). Psychological studies of globalization attest to the utility of treating cultures as evolving, interacting systems, rather than static, independent entities.

31 citations


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TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of cultural threat and openness to experience on creative performance of Chinese and American participants in a creative generation task, and found that those with lower levels of openness were more likely to perform less creatively when the foreign icon was deemed highly symbolic of the foreign culture.
Abstract: Past research has examined independently how openness to experience, as a personality trait, and the situational threat triggered by a foreign cultural encounter affect the emergence of creative benefits from a culture-mixing experience. The present research provides the first evidence for the interactive effect of openness to experience and cultural threat following culturally mixed encounters on creative performance. In Study 1, under heightened perceptions of cultural threat, exposing to the mixing of Chinese and American cultures (vs. a non-mixed situation) made close-minded Chinese participants to perform more poorly in a creative generation task. In Study 2, inducing cultural threat by having a foreign cultural icon spatially intrude a sacred space of the local culture caused Chinese participants with lower levels of openness to perform less creatively when the foreign icon was deemed highly symbolic of the foreign culture. These patterns of effects did not emerge among open-minded participants. The...

19 citations


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TL;DR: This article developed an integrative model of the factors that give rise to the overestimation of their abilities among the incompetent and underestimation of the competent by decomposing the specific conditions of the cognitive and motivational components underlying the self-assessment phenomenon from a statistical point of view.
Abstract: We attempt to develop an integrative model of the factors that give rise to the overestimation of their abilities among the incompetent and underestimation of the competent by decomposing the specific conditions of the cognitive and motivational components underlying the self-assessment phenomenon from a statistical point of view. Hong Kong (Study 1) and European American participants (Study 2) took an ability test and assessed their performance. By plotting estimated relative ability against actual ability and fitting a regression line, we found that a comparative bias (intercept), reflecting participants’ self-enhancement motivation, and a less-than-perfect estimation accuracy (slope), reflecting participants’ cognitive bias, jointly contributed to the ability estimation line wherein low-performance participants overestimate and high performance participants underestimate their performance. In testing and validating the model, the relationship between participants’ estimated relative ability and actual ...

18 citations



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TL;DR: The authors found that the local community reacted most negatively to culture mixing when both objects were perceived to be icons or symbols of their culture of origin (Experiments 1-3), and they also identified two conditions that can deactivate such responses.
Abstract: When and why do local communities display negative or exclusionary responses to mixing and blending of local and foreign cultural symbols in the same space or percept? Results from three experiments showed that the local community reacted most negatively to culture mixing when both objects were perceived to be icons or symbols of their culture of origin (Experiments 1-3). Experiment 3 further shows that concern about cultural contamination underlies exclusionary responses to culture mixing. We also identified two conditions that can deactivate such responses. First, even when the cultural symbols were presented simultaneously, keeping a distance between them assuages the concern over cultural contamination (Experiment 3) and reduces the perceivers’ negativity to culture mixing (Experiments 1-3). Second, not attributing cultural symbolism to either cultural object also makes exclusionary responses less likely (Experiments 1-3). These effects were observed among Americans (Experiments 1 and 2) and Chinese (...

11 citations


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TL;DR: The authors showed that integrative responses to culture mixing, in the context of Western brand names translated into Chinese, can influence consumer evaluations of the products. But they did not consider the effect of the product design.
Abstract: The present research demonstrates that integrative responses to culture mixing, in the context of Western brand names translated into Chinese, can influence consumer evaluations of the products. Sp...

8 citations


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23 Nov 2016-PLOS ONE
TL;DR: The findings suggest that socioecological context matters for understanding effective mechanisms of social control in social-ecological environments that vary in level of mobility.
Abstract: Previous research suggests that reputational concerns can incentivize cooperation and deter socially deviant behavior. The current research showed that social monitoring of information that has the potential to damage one’s reputation has differential effects on deviant behavior in social-ecological environments that vary in level of mobility. Study 1 showed that residentially stable cities that employed more journalists—who can be regarded as social monitoring agents in a community—tended to have lower rates of violent crime than residentially stable cities that employed fewer journalists; by contrast, in residentially mobile cities, violent crime rates did not vary as a function of the number of journalists employed. In Study 2, we found that individual differences in perceptions of relational mobility moderated the effects of social monitoring on cheating in a die-under-cup game. Specifically, social monitoring cues reduced the likelihood of cheating but only among participants who perceived their immediate social environment to be low in relational mobility. The same results were replicated in Study 3, an experiment in which participants’ perception of relational mobility was manipulated before completing an online maze game that allowed them to earn extra cash. In the low mobility condition, the percentage of participants who continued working on the mazes after reaching the time limit decreased as a function of social monitoring; however, this pattern was not observed in the high mobility condition. Together, our findings suggest that socioecological context matters for understanding effective mechanisms of social control.

7 citations



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TL;DR: Augier et al. as discussed by the authors focused on the reasons for the demise of Chinese leadership in science and technology since the middle of the Ming dynasty, and the historical and cultural obstacles to the development of frame-breaking innovations in modern China.
Abstract: China, which was once a world champion in invention, has failed to maintain its global leadership in innovation after the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Today, frame-breaking innovations are more likely to originate from European and North American countries than from China. In the perspective article (Augier, Guo, & Rowen, 2016), the authors attribute this phenomenon, which is often referred to as the Needham Puzzle, to three reasons: (1) the Chinese did not develop a scientific method like that in the West; (2) lack of educational diversity and structural inertia in China; and (3) lack of openness to the outside world. The authors also attribute the US's leadership in innovation to its culture of encouraging experimentation, tolerating failure and accepting deviance, and to its institutional support for decentralization of and competition in R&D and basic research. This commentary aims to enrich this insightful analysis. We focus on (1) the reasons for the demise of Chinese leadership in science and technology since the middle of the Ming dynasty, and (2) the historical and cultural obstacles to the development of frame-breaking innovations in modern China.

4 citations


01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The OER 21/12 WCK: Motivating the Academically Unmotivated: The Why's and How's brief as mentioned in this paper was based on the project OER 20/11 WCK.
Abstract: This brief was based on the project OER 21/12 WCK: Motivating the Academically Unmotivated: The Why’s and How’s.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a lay theory perspective for the study of moral emotions in contemporary Asia is proposed. But, it is pointed out that in every society, some people (lay descriptive theorists) view morality as the code of conduct put forward by society and accepted by most members of society.
Abstract: The seven articles included in this special issue address two major themes in the study of moral emotions in contemporary Asia. The first theme concerns the important role of moral emotions in moral choices and moral behaviours, and the second theme concerns the effects of culture on the connection between moral judgment and moral emotions. In this introduction, these common themes are introduced and a lay theory perspective to inspire future research is proposed. In particular, it is postulated that, in every society, some people (lay descriptive theorists) view morality as the code of conduct put forward by society and accepted by most members of society. Others (lay normative theorists) view morality as the universal guide that all rational individuals accept for governing the behaviour of all moral agents. In this introduction, it is further proposed that in Asia the lay descriptive theory is more prevalent, although the cultural changes that accompany modernization might have increased the acceptance of lay normative theory.