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22Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2016.In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. Many people, including a number of philosophers, believe that results from neuroscience have the potential to settle seemingly intractable debates concerning the nature, practice, and reliability of moral judgments. This has led to a flurry of scientific and philosophical activities, res…Read more
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21The ethics of using genetic engineering for sex selectionJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (2): 116-118. 2005.It is quite likely that parents will soon be able to use genetic engineering to select the sex of their child by directly manipulating the sex of an embryo. Some might think that this method would be a more ethical method of sex selection than present technologies such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis because, unlike PGD, it does not need to create and destroy “wrong gendered” embryos. This paper argues that those who object to present technologies on the grounds that the embryo is a person …Read more
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21A Study of the Mechanism of the Congruence of Leader–Follower Power Distance Orientation on Employees’ Task PerformanceFrontiers in Psychology 10 441710. 2019.Based on implicit leadership theory, we examine the congruence effect of leader-follower power distance orientation on follower trust in a supervisor and work engagement, which in turn influences employees’ task performance. Results of Polynomial regressions on 526 dyads supported the congruence effect hypothesis. The results show that (1) the congruence of leader-follower power distance orientation leads to better performance; (2) under the condition of congruence, Subordinate task performance …Read more
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18Power and responsibility: How different sources of CEO power affect firms' corporate social responsibility practicesBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 31 (3): 682-701. 2022.Does greater CEO power come with more responsibility? Previous scholarly work in this field entails divergent results on this question. Based on the upper echelons theory and CEO power literature, this study aimed to explore the mechanisms underlying how different sources of CEO power, including structural, ownership, expert, and prestige power, affect firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and whether such relationships are moderated by firm visibility. Using a panel dataset com…Read more
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17Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems consists of thirteen chapters that address the ethical issues raised by technological intervention and design across a broad range of biological and ecological systems. Among the technologies addressed are geoengineering, human enhancement, sex selection, genetic modification, and synthetic biology
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16Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application ValueAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (4): 89-91. 2023.In the target article by Kolbe and de Melo-Martin (2023), the authors discussed several shortcomings of major instruments of moral distress, including the Moral Distress Scale (MDS) (Corley et al....
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14Do Experiences Studying Abroad Promote Dialectical Thinking? Empirical Evidence From Chinese International StudentsFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Our current work seeks to provide direct empirical evidence on whether Chinese international students’ experiences studying abroad promote dialectical thinking. We collected behavioral data from 258 Chinese international students studying in multiple regions. We found that there was a main effect among the four conditions. More specifically, when primed with studying abroad or typical day, participants were more likely to show tolerance for contradiction by deeming both sides of contradictory sc…Read more
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13Responsibility for “Doing What is Right”: Aristotle’s Approach and DifficultiesJournal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (4): 618-628. 2009.No Abstract
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13Toward a Basic Mutual Understanding between Confucian and Aristotelian Virtue EthicsBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 36 (3): 273-284. 2017.It is important for philosophers to find out positive approaches for increasing mutual understanding on those fundamental questions in both the Confucian and Aristotelian traditions of doing virtue ethics. The Aristotelian concept of the good and the Confucian concept of dao pose a question about the way human beings see the final principle of ethics. Staying within the realm of human life, Confucius develops two co-related perspectives of seeing the dao of human being. The first perspective see…Read more
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13Correction: Ethics of AI and Health Care: Towards a Substantive Human Rights FrameworkTopoi 42 (3): 903-903. 2023.
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13Informal Status and Taking Charge: The Different Roles of OBSE, P-J Fit, and P-S FitFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.Status in an organization is considered a significant antecedent to an employee's work-related behaviors. However, the relationship between knowledge workers' informal status and "taking charge" has been ignored in previous human resource management (HRM) research. Based on the self-consistency theory, this study examines the mechanisms underlying the influence of knowledge workers’ informal status on taking charge. Data were collected from 337 dyads of employees and their immediate supervisors …Read more
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12BackgroundAthletes will increase their state anxiety under stress situations, which will lead to the decline of sports performance. The improvement of anxiety by probiotics has been reported, but there is a lack of research in the athlete population. The purpose of the current study is to explore the effectiveness of probiotics in improving athletes’ state anxiety and sports performance under stress situations.MethodsWe conducted this single-arm study in Chongqing Institute of Sports Technology.…Read more
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11Security and Sharing of NIPT Data Are the Basis of Ethical Decision-Making Related to Non-Medical TraitsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (3): 29-31. 2023.Bowman-Smart et al. (2023) outlined the scenario that with the content expansion of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in the future, its application is not limited to the screening for aneuploidi...
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9The Role of Opportunity to Learn on Student Mathematics Anxiety, Problem-Solving Performance, and Mathematics PerformanceFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.This study examined the effects of opportunity to learn or the content coverage in mathematics on student mathematics anxiety, problem-solving performance, and mathematics performance. The pathways examining the influences of OTL on student problem-solving performance and mathematics performance via mathematics anxiety were also tested. A sample of 1,676 students from Shanghai-China, and a sample of 1,511 students from the United States who participated in the Programme for International Student…Read more
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9Innovative Strategies for Talent Cultivation in New Ventures Under Higher EducationFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.This study aims to help enterprises enhance their innovation capabilities in the environment of knowledge economy globalization and stand out in the fierce industry competition. Firstly, data on existing higher education theories and innovation theories are analyzed. Secondly, two companies in the sample data are selected for detailed analysis. Finally, research conclusion and corresponding talent management strategies are presented. The results show that the cumulative contribution value of emp…Read more
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8Introduction: Finding out the Right Way to Understand Virtue EthicsFrontiers of Philosophy in China 8 (1): 1-3. 2013.
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8After ProzacIn Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane (eds.), Enhancing Human Capacities, Blackwell. 2011.Prozac's introduction in the late 1980s, caused a furor and focused debate on the acceptability of a drug that could do more than merely cure illness, pharmacological mood enhancement – that is, the use of drugs to improve mood beyond a level that is merely normal or healthy. As the possibilities and demand for mood enhancement increase, existing legislation will prove inadequate, designed as it is to regulate pharmaceuticals mainly for therapeutic use. This chapter explains why mood enhancement…Read more
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6When Does Status Turn Into Proactive Helping Behavior? The Moderating Role of Cooperative/Competitive Behavior IntentionFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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5Power and responsibility: How different sources of CEO power affect firms' corporate social responsibility practicesBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 31 (3): 682-701. 2022.Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 682-701, July 2022.
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2Based on the self-verification theory, this research proposed a multi-level model for exploring whether, how, and when differentiated leadership had curvilinear effects on relationship conflict within a team and further on team members’ counterproductive work behaviors toward individuals (CWBI). Drawing on a sample of 297 team members nested in 78 teams, we found that differentiated empowering leadership had no direct curvilinear effects on relationship conflict. However, the results showed that…Read more
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Human rights as fundamental conditions for a good lifeIn Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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Human engineering and climate changeIn Ronald L. Sandler & John Basl (eds.), Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems, Lexington Books. 2013.
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Eva Feder Kittay, Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (review)Philosophy in Review 20 261-263. 2000.
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Scanlon’s book aims to offer us a moral theory of right and wrong and of our obligations to one another. The theory is called contractualism and its central claim is that an act is right or wrong if and only if it could or could not be justified to others on grounds that they could not reasonably reject (p. 4). Scanlon recognizes that so stated, his contractualism might seem empty in the sense that one might think that the aim of offering grounds that others could not reasonably reject is an aim…Read more
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Aristotle’s Nous as Telos-related Teasoning: an ExplanationProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 2 (2): 195-200. 2018.It is important to re-investigate Aristotle’s concept of nous. This concept basically denotes some telos-related thinking/reasoning activity of the human intellect, which proceeds both upward and downward: upward to grasp a comprehension of the telos one has acquired, and downward to reach some ultimate end. It differs from the theoretical thinking/reasoning of science in its upward-proceeding inquiries in that it constitutes a comprehension of the very first principles; it differs from techniqu…Read more
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A Study On Religious Belief And Near-death Experience-cases From BuddhistStudy of Life and Death 1 (11): 177-216. 2011."Near-death experience", English for the Near-Death Experience, referred to as NDE, referring to occurred in the actual death or very close to them, our awareness away from the body clear off the experience. Near-death experience study abroad has been for many years, China is still off. The study, based on the United States Keynes • Lin cells of the theory, put forward by their experience of the ten elements of the future selected four local cases and take the depth qualitative research intervie…Read more