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The Turnover Intention–Behaviour Link: A Culture‐Moderated Meta‐Analysis by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Cheng, Cecilia

“…Turnover intention is widely regarded as a direct antecedent to and proxy for actual voluntary turnover behaviour. However, previous studies have found the…”
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When a growth mindset can backfire and cause escalation of commitment to a troubled information technology project by Lee, Jong Seok, Keil, Mark, Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…This research focuses on information technology (IT) project managers' growth mindset concerning IT project management (PM) ability and investigates how such a…”
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Agency Beliefs Over Time and Across Cultures: Free Will Beliefs Predict Higher Job Satisfaction by Feldman, Gilad, Farh, Jiing-Lih, Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…In three studies, we examined the relationship between free will beliefs and job satisfaction over time and across cultures. Study 1 examined 252 Taiwanese…”
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When Action-Inaction Framing Leads to Higher Escalation of Commitment: A New Inaction-Effect Perspective on the Sunk-Cost Fallacy by Feldman, Gilad, Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…Escalation of commitment to a failing course of action occurs in the presence of (a) sunk costs, (b) negative feedback that things are deviating from…”
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Effects of Rater Goals on Rating Patterns: Evidence From an Experimental Field Study by Ellick Wong, Kin Fai, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y

“…The goal-based perspective of performance appraisals suggests that raters who pursue different goals give different performance ratings. Yet previous studies…”
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The freedom to excel: Belief in free will predicts better academic performance by Feldman, Gilad, Chandrashekar, Subramanya Prasad, Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…Increasing evidence supports the importance of beliefs in predicting positive outcomes in life. We examined the performance implications of the belief in free…”
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Coping style and mental health amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a culture-moderated meta-analysis of 44 nations by Cheng, Cecilia, Ying, Weijun, Ebrahimi, Omid V., Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…In the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid transmission of a novel virus and the unprecedented disease-mitigation measures have elicited…”
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The Effect of Goal Difficulty on Escalation of Commitment by Lee, Jong Seok, Keil, Mark, Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…Escalation of commitment to a failing course of action is a problem in behavioral decision making that occurs across a wide range of social contexts. In this…”
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The Role of Anticipated Regret in Escalation of Commitment by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y

“…This research tests the general proposition that people are motivated to reduce future regret under escalation situations. This is supported by the findings…”
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Anchoring-and-Adjustment During Affect Inferences by Yik, Michelle, Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Zeng, Kevin J

“…People can easily infer the thoughts and feelings of others from brief descriptions of scenarios. But how do they arrive at these inferences? Three studies…”
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Understanding the Emotional Aspects of Escalation of Commitment: The Role of Negative Affect by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Yik, Michelle, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y

“…Despite the importance of understanding the emotional aspects of organizational decision making, prior research has paid scant attention to the role of emotion…”
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Negative priming under rapid serial visual presentation by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…Negative priming (NP) was examined under a new paradigm wherein a target and distractors were temporally separated using rapid serial visual presentation…”
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Fair or Not Fair? The Effects of Numerical Framing on the Perceived Justice of Outcomes by Kwong, Jessica Y. Y., Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…The authors draw on prospect theory and demonstrate that the perceived justice of an outcome is affected by the way numerical information is presented. Three…”
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Reducing and Exaggerating Escalation of Commitment by Option Partitioning by Kwong, Jessica Y. Y, Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…Options under escalation situations can be presented as a general class (e.g., investing in electronic products) or be partitioned into disjunctive suboptions…”
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Predictable or not? Individuals' risk decisions do not necessarily predict their next ones by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Cheng, Cecilia

“…This research examines the extent to which people may be free to make choices by testing their consistency in choosing risk options. In two experiments,…”
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Comparing predicted and actual affective responses to process versus outcome: An emotion-as-feedback perspective by Kwong, Jessica Y.Y., Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Tang, Suki K.Y.

“…•This research questions the notion that affective forecasts are generally biased.•This research distinguishes between forecasts of emotional reactions to…”
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The Role of Risk in Making Decisions under Escalation Situations by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…Cet article décrit deux recherches portant sur la relation entre l’intensification de l’implication et trois variables liées au risque: la propension au…”
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Cognitive processes in evaluating reference letters by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Werbel, James D.

“…This study simultaneously evaluates confirmatory information search theory and dual‐process theory in a selection process that uses reference letters as the…”
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The role of ratio differences in the framing of numerical information by Kwong, Jessica Y.Y., Wong, Kin Fai Ellick

“…It is well documented that presentation of qualitatively equivalent information in different frames has considerable impacts on consumer preferences and…”
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Between-Individual Comparisons in Performance Evaluation: A Perspective From Prospect Theory by Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y

“…This article examines how between-individual comparisons influence performance evaluations in rating tasks. The authors demonstrated a systematic change in the…”
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