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    Financial Self-Efficacy and Disposition Effect in Investors: The Mediating Role of Versatile Cognitive Style
    with Song Tang, Shimin Huang, Jia Zhu, Rui Huang, and Zilong Tang
    Frontiers in Psychology 9 350415. 2019.
    The disposition effect refers to the tendency of investors to sell winners too early and hold on to losers too long, which is one of the most documented and robust decision biases. However, few studies have looked beyond demographic and social factors on the disposition effect. The current study investigated the association between financial self-efficacy (one’s belief about their personal capability in ultimate financial goals achieving), versatile cognitive style (an individual’s capability in…Read more
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    Is Zhuangzi a Patient Relativist?: A Response to Yong Huang
    Philosophy East and West 72 (2): 453-472. 2022.
    In his recent papers, Professor Yong Huang has been attempting to interpret the ethics of Zhuangzi from the perspective of patient moral relativism. Generally speaking, there are two sorts of moral relativism that are discussed in the contemporary philosophical literature: agent relativism and appraiser relativism. The former means that the moral judgments of rightness and wrongness of an action depend on the agent’s moral standards, while the latter considers the appraiser’s standards as the on…Read more
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    A Rejoinder to Yong Huang
    Philosophy East and West 72 (2): 482-488. 2022.
    Let me begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to Professor Huang for his great work on the theory of patient moral relativism and to the editors of Philosophy East and West for giving me this opportunity not only to discuss my thoughts with Professor Huang but also to clarify and further develop my critique. In this reply, I shall focus on two things: first, I will briefly summarize and explain my ideas in my previous comment; second, I will tackle Huang’s response in detail and discuss some p…Read more
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    Financial Self-Efficacy and General Life Satisfaction: The Sequential Mediating Role of High Standards Tendency and Investment Satisfaction
    with Lei Quan, Yanwei Wu, Jia Zhu, Mingliang Deng, Song Tang, and Wei Zhang
    Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
    Important strides have been made toward understanding the relationship between self-efficacy and life satisfaction. However, existing studies have largely focused on work and academic domains, leaving self-efficacy in the finance domain less frequently investigated. The present study applied the self-efficacy construct to the finance domain, namely “financial self-efficacy”, and tested the sequential mediating roles of high standards tendency and investment satisfaction in the relationship betwe…Read more