List of Publications

Cao Yi; Wang, Yijiang; Hou, Yubo; Ji, Li-Jun(2026).Beyond Laughter: How Culture Shapes the Meaning and Preference of Humor. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251405520

Ge, Xiaoyu; Zhang, Xiaomeng; Li, Qianyi; Zhang, Zhao; Hou, Yubo(2025). Maximizers Abandon More Before Decisions, Regret More After Decisions, and Re-Maximize More for Second-Time Decisions: Real-World Analysis of Online Consumer Behaviors.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251385756

Yi Cao, Yubo Hou & li-jun Ji（2025）Cultural tightness reduces humor production: Evidence from Multiple Countries. American Psychologist Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001607

Zheng, W., Yu, H., & Hou, Y. (2025). Narcissism Unveiled: Exploring the Dynamics of emotion and everyday creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Arts, and Creativity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000772

Dong, Z., Yang, T., Jia, X., Cao, Y., & Hou, Y. (2025). Poverty makes me overwork: The influence of subjective socioeconomic status on involution behavior. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, Vol,19:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/18344909251387772

Yi Cao, Jiahao Cao; Yubo Hou & li-jun Ji（2025）. How Humorous is AI? Exploring ChatGPTs Role in Humor Generation and Human-AI Interaction. Computers in Human Behavior Reports，20(2025)100807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100807

Dong, Z., Han, B., Yang, T., Chen, S., Cao, Y., & Hou, Y. (2025). Humor Production Promotes Creativity: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Fear of Authority. Behavioral Sciences, 15(8), 1003. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/bs15081003

Ge, X. & Hou, Y. (2025). Social influence during public crises: Weekly dynamics and adaptive patterns of conformity to the collective following the COVID-19 outbreak. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  122 (25) e2500008122 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2500008122

Cao, Y., Li, H., Jiang, T., Dang, J., Hou, Y(2025). Laughing off cyber spoofing: the role of self-deprecating humor in enhancing celebrities’ interpersonal likeability. BMC Psychol 13, 501 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02841-7

Gui, Y,. & Hou,Y(2025). Examining Older Adults’ Filial Expectation and Evaluation of Adult Children. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3138/jcfs-045-202

Sun, Z., Chen, S., Wang, K., Yuan, M., & Hou, Y*. (2025). Fighting Aging with Creation: The Sense of Feeling Old Enhances Young Consumers' Desire for Experiential Creation Consumption. International Journal of Consumer Studies. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.70016

Yang, T., Zheng, X., Dong, Z., Zheng, Y., & Hou, Y. (2025). Bridging the gap through common features: The semantic structure of creative metaphors. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000737

Shi, L., Hou, Y., Su, R. et al. Self-enhancing humor: an antidote for perfectionists’ stress coping. Curr Psychol 44, 818–836 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-07196-7

Wang, Q., Suo, T., Mei, L., Guan, L., Hou, Y., & Dai, Y. (2025). Do future actions matter more than past deeds? Temporal moral attribution in U.S. and Chinese school-age children. Developmental Psychology, 61(2), 228–240. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001825

Liu,Y.; Hou,Y., & Hong,Y(2025). The profiles, predictors, and intergroup outcomes of cultural attachment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Vol,51(3) :374-393 https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231190753.

 Sun, Z., Yuan, M., Zhang, J., Kou, S., & Hou, Y. (2025). The Role of Awe on Booking Intention in Short-Term Rentals. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Vol. 49(2) 298–308. https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480231179996

Yuan, J., Cao, Y., Feng, M., & Hou, Y. (2024). The effect of short-form video usage on self-expansion. Psychology of Popular Media. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000572

Yang, T., Chen, Y., Wu, G., & Hou, Y. (2024). Free but controlled mind creates through reference: The role of shifting and idea referencing in individuals with different working memory and mind wandering profiles. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000708

Ge, X., Li, X., & Hou, Y. (2024). Confucian ideal personality traits (Junzi personality) and leadership effectiveness: Why leaders with traditional traits can achieve career success in modern China. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(5), 741–763. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2764

Li,H., Yang,L., Wang,T., Xiao,R., Song,L., Xie,W., Wang, Z.,Wu, Y., Su,R., Ma,H., Hou,Y.(2024), Structured diary introspection training: A kind of critical thinking training method can enhance the Pro-C creativity of interior designers,Thinking Skills and Creativity,52, 101530,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101530.

 Zheng, Y.; Hou, Y.; Dong, Z. (2024), From Good Expectancy to Good Feelings: How Optimism Is Related to Subjective Wellbeing in Chinese Adults through the Pathway of Coping. Behav. Sci. 14, 165. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14030165

Sun, Z., Zhou, H., Yang, T., Wang, K. and Hou, Y. (2024), Unique consumption: the impact of busy mindset on preference for angular versus circular shapes. Journal of Product & Brand Management. 33 (3): 357–369,  https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBM-02-2023-4366

Dong, Z., Yang, T., Hou, Y., Cao, Y., & Feng, M. (2024). System-justifying belief alleviates online privacy concerns: The mediating role of relatedness satisfaction and general trust. Computers in Human Behavior. 154,108140 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108140

Yi Cao,Y., Liu,Y., Hou.Y^*., & Ji, L.-J^*.（2024). Essentializing Humor: Implications for Pursuing Humorous. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25,11 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00717-y

Yang, T., Zhang, Q., Sun, Z. , & Hou, Y. . (2024) Automatic assessment of divergent thinking in Chinese language with TransDis: A transformer-based language model approach. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 5798–5819 . https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02313-z

Wang, K.; Sun, Z.; Hou,Y,* ; Yuan, M,.(2023). Coping with Mortality Salience: The Role of Connection Thinking and Afterlife Beliefs in Chinese Context, Frontiers in Psychology-Personality and Social Psychology. 14,1190906 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1190906

 Liu, Z.; Yu, H.; Feng, M.;Hou, Y*.(2023) Thinking Styles and Creativity: The Mediating Role of Psychological Adjustment in College Students. Behav. Sci. 13, 875. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13100875

 Dong, Z; Wu, Z; Hou, Y*.(2023). Protect the environment for impressing others? Understanding whether, why, and when relational mobility shapes individual pro-environmental behaviors . Journal of Cleaner Production 427,139215 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139215

 Yu, Y.; Sun, Z.; Feng, C.; Xiao, X.; Hou, Y (2023). The Effect of Vice–Virtue Bundles on Consumers’ Purchase Intentions for Vice Packaged Foods: Evidence from Randomized Experiments. Foods 12，3270.  https://doi.org/ 10.3390/foods12173270

 Pan, X., Wang, Q ., & Hou,Y(2023). Are We Braver in Cyberspace? Social Media Anonymity Enhances Moral Courage，Computers in Human Behavior, 148,107880 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107880

 Lv, J.; Sun, Z.; Li, H.; Hou, Y(2023). The Role of Negative Perfectionism and the Relationship between Critical Thinking and the Halo Effect: Insights from Corporate Managers in Human Resources. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 533. https:// doi.org/10.3390/bs13070533

 Cao,Y, Zhou,K, Wang,Y, Hou,Y* ., & Miao,R (2023). The influence of leader humor on employee creativity: from the perspective of employee voice. Front. Psychol. 14，1162790. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1162790

 Meng, W.; Feng, M.; Yu, H.; Hou, Y*（2023）. The Impact of the Chinese Thinking Style of Relations on Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Coping Styles. Behav. Sci.. 2023, 13, 442. https://doi.org/10.3390/ bs13060442

Dong, Z., Hou, Y*., Cao, Y., & Wu, Z. (2023). Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective. Social Media + Society. 9(1):1-14 https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231155113

Huang, L.; Hou, Y^*.; Sun, Z.; Wang, Q（2023）. How Does COVID-19 Risk Perception Affect Sense of Control? The Roles of Death Anxiety and Confucian Coping. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health，20, 2299. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph20032299

Sun, Z.; Hou, Y^*.; Song, L.; Wang, K.; Yuan, M（2023）. The Buffering Effect of Awe on Negative Emotions in Self-Threatening Situations. Behav. Sci., 13, 44. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/bs13010044

Cao, Y., Liu, Y., Hou, Y^*., & Ji, L.-J^*. (2023). The effects of benevolent vs. corrective humor on interpersonal liking and behavioral compliance. Personality and Individual Differences. 200, 111907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111907

Mert, N., Hou, Y., Wang, Q. (2023). What lies ahead of us? Collective future thinking in Turkish, Chinese, and Americans. Memory & Cognition.  51:773–790 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01321-2

Cao,Y., Hou,Y*., Dong, Z., & Ji L,J.(2023). The Impact of Culture and Social Distance on Humor Appreciation, Sharing, and Production. Social Psychological and Personality  Science. 14（2）：207-217  https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211065938

Ran, Y.; Hou, Y^*.; Dong, Z.; Wang, Q. (2022) Moral Observer-Licensing in Cyberspace. Behav. Sci., 12, 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/ bs12050148

Shi, L.; Li, H.; Huang, L.; Hou, Y^*.; Song, L. (2022). Does Cyberostracism Reduce Prosocial Behaviors? The Protective Role of Psychological Resilience. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19, 4388. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph19074388

Ge, X., & Hou, Y^*.（2022）. Patterns of achievement attribution of Chinese adults and their sociodemographic characteristics and psychological outcomes: A large-sample longitudinal study. Personality and Individual Differences. 184, 111230 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111230

Hou,Y^*., Pan, X., Cao, X., & Wang, Q.（2022）.Remembering Online and Offline: The Effects of Retrieval Contexts, Cues, and Intervals on Autobiographical Memory. Memory, 30(4):441-449  https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1953078

Hou, Y.; Gao, M.; Huang, L.; Wang, Q(2021). Air Pollution Reduces Interpersonal Trust: The Roles of Emotion and Emotional Susceptibility. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health , 18, 5631. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18115631

Li, H.,Wang,T., Cao, Y., Song, L., Hou, Y., & Wang,Y. (2021): Culture, Thinking Styles and Investment, Psychological Reports，125(3）：1528–1555，DOI: 10.1177/0033294121997778

Jiang,T., Chen, Z., Wang, S., & Hou, Y (2021): Ostracism Disrupts Self-Continuity, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin，Vol. 47(9) : 1390–1400 https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220974496

Ji, L.J., Khei, M., Yap, S., Wang, X., Zhang, Z., & Hou,Y.(2021). Cultural Differences in the Construal of Suffering and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Social Psychological and Personality Science , 12(6) 1039-1047, DOI: 10.1177/1948550620958807

Hou, Y., Xiong, D., Jiang, T., Song, L., & Wang, Q. (2019). Social media addiction: Its impact, mediation, and intervention. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 13(1), article 4. doi: 10.5817/CP2019-1-4

Jiang,T., Li ,H., & Hou,Y. (2019) Cultural Differences in Humor Perception, Usage, and Implications. Frontiers in Psychology. 10:123. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00123

Hou,Y., Jiang, F., & Wang, X.(2019): Marital commitment, communication and marital satisfaction: An analysis based on actor–partner interdependence model. International Journal of Psychology, 54(3),369-376. DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12473

Wang,Q., Hou,Y., Koh, J. B. K., Song,Q., & Yang,Y.（2018）Culturally Motivated Remembering: The Moderating Role of Culture for the Relation of Episodic Memory to Well-being, Clinical Psychological Science.Vol. 6(6) 860–871. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026187840 

Wang,Q., Hou,Y., & Gould,T.（2018）Dialecticism and the Future Self in Cultural Contexts: Relations to Well-Being. Chapter in The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition, edited by Julie Spencer-Rodgers & Kaiping Peng. Publisher: Oxford University Press 456-478

Hou, Y., Jiang,T., & Wang,Q.（2017）Socioeconomic Status and Online Shaming: The Mediating Role of Belief in a Just World，Computers in Human Behavior，Vol.76：19-25 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.07.003

Wang, Q., Lee, D., & Hou, Y. (2017) Externalising the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention, Memory, 25:6, 772-776, DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1221115

Jiang,T., Hou, Y., & Wang,Q.（2016）：Does micro-blogging make us “shallow”? Sharing information online interferes with information comprehension , Computers in Human Behavior, Vol.59：210-214, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.008

Hsieh, H.F., Zimmerman, M. A., Xue, Y., Bauermeister, J. A., Caldwell, C. H., Wang, Z., & Hou, Y.  (2016). Cumulative Risks and Promotive Factors for Chinese Adolescent Problem Behaviors. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 43：71-82 doi:: 10.1016/j.appdev.2016.01.003

Wang, Q., Gould, T., & Hou, Y. (2015). Is the future always brighter than the past? Anticipation of changes in the personal future after recall of past experiences. Memory, 23, 178-186. doi:10.1080/09658211.2013.877147

Wang, Q., Koh, J. B. K., Song, Qi., Hou, Y.(2015)：Knowledge of Memory Functions in Euro-American and Asian Adults and Children: The Relation to Autobiographical Memory. Memory, Vol. 23（1）25-38：DOI:10.1080/09658211.2014.930495

Hsieh, H.F., Zimmerman, M. A., Xue, Y., Bauermeister, J. A., Caldwell, C. H., Wang, Z., & Hou, Y. (2014): Stress, Active Coping and Problem Behaviors among Chinese Adolescents, Journal of Orthopsychiatry Vol. 84(4):364–376

Qi Wang, Diana Capous, Jessie Bee Kim Koh & Yubo Hou(2014): Past and Future Episodic Thinking in Middle Childhood, Journal of Cognition and Development, 15(4):625–643 DOI:10.1080/15248372.2013.784977

Paul E. Jose；Kerstin Kramar；Yubo Hou（2014）：Does Brooding Rumination Moderate the Stress to Depression Relationship Similarly for Chinese and New Zealand Adolescents? Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology，Vol. 4, No. 1，114-127.

Jiang, F., Lu, S., Hou, Y., & Yue, X.（2013）. Dialectical Thinking and Health Behaviors: The Effects of Theory of Planned Behavior. International Journal of Psychology, Vol 48(3)206-214, DOI:10.1080/00207594.2012.656130

Qi Wang, Martin A, Conway, Sarah Kulkosky, Yubo Hou, Katrin Mueller-Johnson, Cagla Aydin and Helen L,Williams(2012) The “Egocentic” Americans? Long-Term Memory for Public Events in Five Countries. In Trends in Cognitive Sciences 183-190, Editor: Miao-Kun Sun, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Yubo Hou, Ge Gao, Fei Wang, Tingrui Li and Zhilan Yu. Organizational Commitment and Employee Creativity: the Moderating and mediating effect of Thinking Styles”Annals of Economics and Finance，2011,12(2):411-431

Sarah Kulkofsky ,Qi Wang , Martin A. Conway ,Yubo Hou , Cagla Aydin, Katrin Mueller-Johns, and Helen Williams: Cultural variation in the correlates of flashbulb memories:An investigation in five countries. Memory, 2011,19(3),233-240.

Qi Wang , Yubo Hou, Huizhen Tang ,and Alicia Wiprovnick: Travelling bacwards and forwards in time:Culture and Gender in Episodic specificity of past and future events. Memory,2011,19(1)103-109

Qi Wang, Carole Peterson, Yubo Hou: Children Dating Childhood Memories, Memory , 2010,18(7):754-762 

Sarah Kulkofsky, Qi Wang, Yubo Hou: Why I Remember That: The Influence of Contextual Factors on Beliefs about Everyday Memory, Memory & Cognition 2010,38(4)461-473

Rebecca Myerson, Yubo Hou, Huizhen Tang, Shui Li, Hui Lin, and Zhuxuan Ye：Home and Away: Chinese Migrant Workers between Two Worlds，Sociological Review , 2010,58(1):26-44

Carole Peterson, Qi Wang, Yubo Hou: “When I Was Little”: Childhood Recollections in Chinese and European Canadian Grade-School Children. Child Development 2009,80(2):506-518

Zorana Ivcevic ,David B. Pillemer,Qi Wang,Yubo Hou Huizhen Tang ,Tamara Mohoric, Vladimir Taksic: When We Feel Good and Bad About Ourselves: Self-Esteem Memories Across Cultures, Memory, 2008,16(7),703-711

Rodgers,J.,Peng, K.P. Wang, L., & Hou, Y.B: Dialectical Self-Esteem and East-West Differences in Psychological Well-being, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004,30:1416-1432

Qi Wang , Martin A. Conway, Yu-bo Hou: Infantile Amnesia: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Cognitive Science 2004,1,123-135.

Hou,Yubo.,Zhu, Y., & Peng, K.P: Thinking Styles and Disease Cognitions Among Chinese. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies 2003,4(2):161-180.