Jia Wei Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Experimental (Social Psychology)

Phone

901.678.2149

Email

jzhang11@memphis.edu

Fax

901.678.2579

Office

Psychology Building, Room 328

Office Hours

Contact for Hours

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Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley
• B.A., San Francisco State University

Research Interests

• Emotion (e.g., awe, gratitude)
• Emotion Regulation (e.g., self-compassion)
• Consumption
• Well-being
• Social Hiearchy
• Nature
• Prosocial Behavior
• Time Perception

Recent Publications

• Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., Razavi, P., Shaban-Azad, H., Chai, W. J., Ramis, T., Mello, Z., Anderson, C. L., & Keltner, D. K. (in press). Awe is Associated with Creative Personality, Convergent Creativity, and Everyday Creativity. Psychology of Aesthetic, Creativity, and the Arts. 
• Zhang, J. W., Kessler, E., & Braasch, J. (in press). Self-Compassion Mindset Can Predict Statistics Course Performance via Intelligence Mindset and Statistics Anxiety. Learning and Individual Difference. 
• Cordaro, D., Bradley, C., Zhang, J.W., Zhu, F., & Han, R. (2020). The Development of the Positive Emotion Assessment of Contentment Experience (PEACE) Scale. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-22. 
• Razavi, P., Shaban-Azad, H., Chai, W. J., Zhang, J. W., Nguyen, N. H., & Howell, R. T. (2020). Benefits Associated with Experiential and Material Purchases May Depend on Culture. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, 626-637. 
• Zhang, J. W., Chen, S., & Tomova, T. K.,* (2020). From me to you: Self-compassion predicts acceptance of own and others’ imperfections. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 228-242. 
• Zhang., J. W., (2020). Grateful People Are Happier Because They Have Fond Memories of their Past. Personality and Individual Difference, 152, 1-11. 
• Leonard, S., Zhang, J. W., & Howell, R., T. (2019). Spending well: How Time Perspectives Impact Consumer Values and Financial Decisions among Middle-Aged Adults. Research in Human Development, 16, 135-155. 
• Zhang, J. W., Chen, S., Tomova, T. K*., Bilgin, B*., Nutankumar, T., Chai, W. J., Ramis, T., Shaban-Azad, H., Razavi, P., Nutankumar, T., & Manukyan, A.* (2019). A compassionate self is a true self?: Self-compassion promotes subjective authenticity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1323-137. 
• Zhang, J. W., Chen, S., Tomova, T. K*., Bilgin, B*., Nutankumar, T., Shaban-Azad, H., Razavi, P., & Manukyan, A. (2019). A compassionate self is a true self?: Self-compassion promotes subjective authenticity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
• Yaden, D., Kaufman, S., Hyde, E., Chirico, A., Gaggioli, Zhang, J. W., & Keltner, D. (2019). The Development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A Multifactorial Measure for a Complex Emotion. Journal of Positive Psychology, 14, 474-488.
• Zhang, J. W. (2018). Asian Americans and Materialism: Exploring the Phenomenon and Its Why and When. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24, 334-345.
• Zhang, J. W., & Chen, S. (2017) Self-compassion promotes positive adjustment for people who attribute responsibility of a romantic breakup to themselves. Self and Identity, 16, 732-759.
• Zhang, J. W., & Chen, S. (2016) Self-Compassion Promotes Personal Improvement from Regret Experiences via Acceptance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 2, 244-258.
• Razavi, P., Zhang, J. W., Hekiert, D., Yoo, S. H., & Howell, R. T. (2016). Cross-cultural Similarities and Differences in the Experience of Awe. Emotion. 16, 1097-1101.
• Mello, Z. R., Zhang, J. W., Barber, S. J., Paloni, V. C., Howell, R. T., & Worrell, F. C. (2016). Psychometric properties of time attitude scores in young, middle, and older adult samples. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 57-61.
• Zhang, J W., Piff, P. K., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Keltner, D. (2014). An occasion for unselfing: Beautiful nature leads to prosociality. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 37, 61-72.
• Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., Caprariello, P. A., & Guevarra, D. (2014). Damned if they do, damned if they don’t: Material buyers are not happier from material or experiential consumption. Journal of Research in Personality, 50, 71-83.
• Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., & Howell, C. J. (2014). Living in wealthy neighborhood increases material desires and maladaptive consumption. Journal of Consumer Culture, 1-20.
• Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., & Iyer, R. (2014). Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and well-being. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 38, 55-63.
• Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., & Bowerman, T. (2013). Validating a brief measure of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. Time & Society, 22, 391-409.
• Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., & Stolarski, M. (2013). Comparing three methods to measure a balanced time perspective: The relationship between a balanced time perspective and subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 14, 169-184.
• Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., & Caprariello, P. A. (2013). Buying Life Experiences for the “Right” Reasons: A Validation of the Motivations for Experiential Buying Scale. Journal of Happiness Studies, 14, 817-842.
• Zhang, J. W., & Howell, R. T. (2011). Do time perspectives predict unique variances in life satisfaction beyond personality traits? Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 1261–1266.