Gai, Phyliss Jia, Xiaoying Zheng, Yanping Tu, Yin Lin, and Jing Xu (2023), “The Paradox of Female Happiness in China: The Impact of Work-Family Time Balance”, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Management, [中文全文] [summary in English]
Chinese females believe they will be happier if they devote equal time to work and family, but in reality, they feel worse when their time allocation is balanced.
*An interesting fact: We did not find the paradox in other countries.
*An interesting fact: We did not find the paradox in other countries.
Yiqi, Yu, Feng Yu, and Phyliss Jia Gai (2022), “Preferences for AI versus Human under Uncertainty: The Role of Perceived Luck,” Nankai Business Review, 25 (4), 155-65. [中文全文] [slides in English]
Most research looked at when people relied on algorithms vs. human for their ability. We investigated when people relied on algorithms vs. human for their luck. The assumption is that we need luck in most life scenarios, especially in life-changing events. Counter to the algorithm aversion, we find people prefer services by algorithms over human when they need good luck.
Gai, Phyliss J., Mirjam A. Tuk, and Steven Sweldens (2022), “Light or Regular, Now or Later: The Impact of Advance Ordering and Restrained Eating on Choices and Consumption of Light and Regular Vice Food," Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 7 (4), 492-500. [Journal Link] [PDF]
When choosing between regular and light vice food, restrained eaters prefer the light and consume lower calories. The timing of choice (immediate or in advance) does NOT impact choices or consumption.
*JACR video summarizing the research (from 1:21:45)
*JACR video summarizing the research (from 1:21:45)
Gai, Phyliss J. and Amit Bhattacharjee (2022), “Willpower as Moral Ability," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151 (8), 1999-2006. [Journal Link] [PDF]
People infer moral goodness from the success in non-moral self-control, but not moral badness from the failure, because willpower indicates the ability to be good.
*See a easier-to-digest summary here.
*See a easier-to-digest summary here.
Gai, Phyliss J. and Stefano Puntoni (2021) “Language and Consumer Dishonesty: A Self-Diagnosticity Theory," Journal of Consumer Research, 48 (2), 333-351. [Open Access]
A theory of when using a foreign language would increase, decrease, and not change lying behavior, compared to using one's native language.
* Created an original paradigm on cheating, summarized here and adapted for neural studies.
* Early findings incorporated in a meta-analysis by Köbis et al. (2019).
* A short summary in layperson language on JCR website
A theory of when using a foreign language would increase, decrease, and not change lying behavior, compared to using one's native language.
* Created an original paradigm on cheating, summarized here and adapted for neural studies.
* Early findings incorporated in a meta-analysis by Köbis et al. (2019).
* A short summary in layperson language on JCR website
Gai, Phyliss J. and Anne-Kathrin Klesse (2019), “Making Recommendations More Effective through Framings: Impacts of User- versus Item-based Framings on Recommendation Click-throughs," Journal of Marketing, 83 (6), 61-75. [Open Access]
Framing the same recommendation as "People who like this also like" versus "Similar items" improves the click-through rate of recommendations, under certain conditions.
* Coverage on Forbes, RSM Discovery, and AMA site
* Video of me summarizing it
* Coverage on Forbes, RSM Discovery, and AMA site
* Video of me summarizing it
Book
Gai, Phyliss Jia (2020), Contextualized Consumers: Theories and Evidence on Consumer Ethics, Product Recommendations, and Self-Control. ERIM PhD Series Research in Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. [Link]
My dissertation with the self-designed book cover. Chapters 2 to 4 have been revised and published as journal articles (Gai & Puntoni 2021; Gai & Klesse 2019; Gai, Tuk, & Sweldens, 2022, see above).
