Sherry Jueyu Wu
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Behavioral Decision Making
About
Sherry Jueyu Wu’s work is concerned with group influence over long-lasting behavioral changes, and decision processes under resource disparity and social inequality. Her research in group dynamics has shown that changing a small facet of group life can lead to a change in a long-term behavioral pattern and in generalized attitudes. Overlapping with her research on behavioral change, she has investigated people’s decisions within and perceptions of inequality and scarcity.
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12 Articles
Chinese Citizens, Given Voice in Local Budgeting, Are More Satisfied With Country’s Regime — and Want More From It
Taste of democracy engenders the opposite of cynicism
Why Offspring of Rice Farmers Are Better at Detecting Emotions
Raising the crop is a communal project, more so than the work of wheat farmers, who’re less attuned to feelings of others
Another Political Trick? Inducing Forgetting By Mentioning Irrelevant Information
Positive views on, say, a social policy are more easily suppressed than negative ones
Why So Few Women in STEM Fields: The Role of Middle-School Peer Influence
Notion that boys are innately better at math undermines girls’ self-belief
American and Chinese Perceptions of Having a Say at Work
It’s generally a positive in both cultures, but buy-in is more tentative in China
Do Money Troubles Make It Harder to Daydream?
Popular notion that the poor console themselves with fantasy is perhaps more a comfort to the rich
Economic and Ideological Predictors of the Unique U.S. COVID-19 Failure
Examining local-level plans and behavior to uncover drivers of failed compliance with expert advice
Rich People: Hated in China, Venerated in America?
Research suggests the nations actually have similar feelings toward wealth
Workplace Empowerment Can Alter One’s View of Societal Authority
Chinese garment workers and U.S. university employees, worlds apart, react similarly when allowed a bit of self-determination
Motivating Workers with a Sacred Symbol: Promise and Peril
A Chinese garment factory tidied up after golden coins were displayed