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    A Study of the Mechanism of the Congruence of Leader–Follower Power Distance Orientation on Employees’ Task Performance
    with Yan Bao, Jianqiao Liao, Yucheng Zhang, Chuanjun Deng, and Zhiwen Guo
    Frontiers 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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    Limited Aggregation is the view that when there are competing moral claims that demand our attention, we should sometimes satisfy the largest aggregate of claims, depending on the strength of the claims in question. In recent years, philosophers such as Patrick Tomlin and Alastair Norcross have argued that Limited Aggregation violates a number of rational choice principles such as Transitivity, Separability, and Contraction Consistency. Current versions of Limited Aggregation are what may be cal…Read more
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    Power and responsibility: How different sources of CEO power affect firms' corporate social responsibility practices
    with Xingping Jia, Beatrice Van der Heijden, and Wenqian Li
    Business 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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    The Organism View Defended
    The Monist 89 (3): 334-350. 2006.
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    Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (edited book)
    with Immaculada de Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, David Frank, William Kabasenche, Nicholas Agar, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, Allen Thompson, Stephen Jackson, Donald S. Maier, Nicole Hassoun, Benjamin Hale, Sune Holm, and Scott Simmons
    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
  •  12
    Editorial
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 20 (1-2): 1-2. 2023.
  •  10
    Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application Value
    with Lijun Shen, Hui Zhang, Yongguang Yang, and Yuming Wang
    American 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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    Security and Sharing of NIPT Data Are the Basis of Ethical Decision-Making Related to Non-Medical Traits
    with Wenke Yang, Zhenglong Guo, Weili Shi, Litao Qin, Xiaoliang Xia, and Bingtao Hao
    American 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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    Informal Status and Taking Charge: The Different Roles of OBSE, P-J Fit, and P-S Fit
    with Chuanjun Deng, Zhiqiang Liu, Yucheng Zhang, and Yan Bao
    Frontiers 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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    Introduction: Finding out the Right Way to Understand Virtue Ethics
    Frontiers of Philosophy in China 8 (1): 1-3. 2013.
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    Toward a Basic Mutual Understanding between Confucian and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
    Business 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
  •  7
    Editorial
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (1): 1-2. 2013.
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    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
  •  6
    A Configurational Analysis of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ Radical Innovations: The Perspective of Dynamic Capabilities
    with Shuangshuang Tang, Lumeng Wang, Weijing Chen, and Zhiwen Guo
    Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2022.
    Adopting a configurational perspective, this study explored the pathways for small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve high levels of radical innovation. On the basis of dynamic capabilities theory, six causal conditions for radical innovation were identified at both external and internal levels—that is, environmental turbulence and absorptive capacity. The results of a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 82 Chinese SMEs identified four solutions for high radical innovation. The si…Read more
  •  6
    Physical Self Matters: How the Dual Nature of Body Image Influences Smart Watch Purchase Intention
    with Teng Wang and Yongqiang Sun
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    To determine the role of physical self in body-involving consumption, we explore how body image influences purchasing intention toward hybrid products with body-involving features. In this study, we establish the dual nature of body image: specifically, body image influences intention to purchase via the perception of utilitarian value and symbolic value. Further, we find a competitive mediation in which positive body image negatively influences purchase intention, while PBI is positively relate…Read more
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    BackgroundAthletes 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
  •  5
    Power and responsibility: How different sources of CEO power affect firms' corporate social responsibility practices
    with Xingping Jia, Beatrice Van der Heijden, and Wenqian Li
    Business 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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    Innovative Strategies for Talent Cultivation in New Ventures Under Higher Education
    with Chunhui Zhao, Mengzhu Chen, Jing Yuan, and Ping Zhou
    Frontiers 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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    Based 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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    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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    After Prozac
    with Rebecca Roache
    In 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
  • A Study On Religious Belief And Near-death Experience-cases From Buddhist
    with Yong-shi You
    Study 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
  • Human rights as fundamental conditions for a good life
    In Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
  • 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