Book Chapter
Wang, Zhechen, Jetten, Jolanda and Steffens, Niklas K. (2019). Do people want more wealth and status in unequal societies?. The Social Psychology of Inequality. (pp. 289-303) edited by Jolanda Jetten and Kim Peters. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-28856-3_18
Journal Articles
Xu, Chen, Sun, Shijin, Zhang, Xiaoyan and Wang, Zhechen (2025). Distinct roles of early life deprivation and unpredictability in shaping mating-related behaviours and sexual harassment perceptions. Frontiers in Psychology, 16 1548676, 16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1548676
Qi, Wei, He, Xiangyang and Wang, Zhechen (2024). Childhood unpredictability and sleep quality in adulthood: the mediating roles of life history strategy and perceived stress. Frontiers in Psychology, 15 1347365, 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1347365
Sun, Shijin, Cao, Xuemin, Li, Xiangqian, Nyeong, Yeopham, Zhang, Xin and Wang, Zhechen (2023). Avoiding threats, but not acquiring benefits, explains the effect of future time perspective on promoting health behavior. Heliyon, 9 (9) e19842, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19842
Yang, Liu, Shi, Li-Jun, Shen, Shi-Yu, Yang, Jing-Yan, Lv, Su-Su, Wang, Zhe-Chen, Huang, Qian, Xu, Wen-Dong, Yu, Jin and Zhang, Yu-Qiu (2023). Toward antifragility: social defeat stress enhances learning and memory in young mice via hippocampal synaptosome associated protein 25. Psychological Science, 34 (5), 616-632. doi: 10.1177/09567976231160098
Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida, Jetten, Jolanda, Peters, Kim, Ashokkumar, Ashwini, Barry, Oumar, Billet, Matthew, Becker, Maja, Booth, Robert W., Castro, Diego, Chinchilla, Juana, Costantini, Giulio, Dejonckheere, Egon, Dimdins, Girts, Erbas, Yasemin, Espinosa, Agustín, Finchilescu, Gillian, Gómez, Ángel, González, Roberto, Goto, Nobuhiko, Hatano, Aya, Hartwich, Lea, Jarukasemthawee, Somboon, Karunagharan, Jaya Kumar, Novak, Lindsay M., Kim, Jinseok P., Kohút, Michal, Liu, Yi, Loughnan, Steve, Onyishi, Ike E. ... Yeung, Victoria Wai‐Lan (2023). A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53 (2), 367-382. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2908
Kirkland, Kelly, Van Lange, Paul A. M., Van Doesum, Niels J., Acevedo-Triana, Cesar, Amiot, Catherine E., Ausmees, Liisi, Baguma, Peter, Barry, Oumar, Becker, Maja, Bilewicz, Michal, Boonyasiriwat, Watcharaporn, Castelain, Thomas, Costantini, Giulio, Dimdins, Girts, Espinosa, Agustin, Finchilescu, Gillian, Fischer, Ronald, Friese, Malte, Gomez, Angel, Gonzalez, Roberto, Goto, Nobuhiko, Halama, Peter, Ilustrisimo, Ruby D., Jiga-Boy, Gabriela M., Kuppens, Peter, Loughnan, Steve, Markovik, Marijana, Mastor, Khairul A., McLatchie, Neil ... Bastian, Brock (2022). Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 22102, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y
Hornsey, Matthew J., Pearson, Samuel, Kang, Jemima, Sassenberg, Kai, Jetten, Jolanda, Van Lange, Paul A. M., Medina, Lucia G., Amiot, Catherine E., Ausmees, Liisi, Baguma, Peter, Barry, Oumar, Becker, Maja, Bilewicz, Michal, Castelain, Thomas, Costantini, Giulio, Dimdins, Girts, Espinosa, Agustín, Finchilescu, Gillian, Friese, Malte, González, Roberto, Goto, Nobuhiko, Gómez, Ángel, Halama, Peter, Ilustrisimo, Ruby, Jiga‐Boy, Gabriela M., Karl, Johannes, Kuppens, Peter, Loughnan, Steve, Markovikj, Marijana ... Bastian, Brock (2022). Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53 (1), 78-89. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2888
Bentley, Sarah V., Young, Tarli, Álvarez, Belén, Jetten, Jolanda, Haslam, Catherine, Cruwys, Tegan, Casara, Bruno Gabriel Salvador, Crimston, Charlie R., Dare, Michael, Ionescu, Octavia, Krug, Henning, Selvanathan, Hema Preya, Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida, Steffens, Niklas K., Wang, Zhechen and Wibisono, Susilo (2022). Double jeopardy: How lower levels of support during COVID-19 exacerbated the relationship between loneliness and distress. Frontiers in Public Health, 10 976443, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.976443
Kirkland, Kelly, Crimston, Charlie R., Jetten, Jolanda, Rudnev, Maksim, Acevedo-Triana, Cesar, Amiot, Catherine E., Ausmees, Liisi, Baguma, Peter, Barry, Oumar, Becker, Maja, Bilewicz, Michal, Boonyasiriwat, Watcharaporn, Castelain, Thomas, Costantini, Giulio, Dimdins, Girts, Espinosa, Agustín, Finchilescu, Gillian, Fischer, Ronald, Friese, Malte, Gastardo-Conaco, Maria Cecilia, Gómez, Ángel, González, Roberto, Goto, Nobuhiko, Halama, Peter, Jiga-Boy, Gabriela M., Kuppens, Peter, Loughnan, Steve, Markovik, Marijana, Mastor, Khairul A. ... Bastian, Brock (2022). Moral expansiveness around the world: the role of societal factors across 36 countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14 (3), 305-318. doi: 10.1177/19485506221101767
Wang, Zhechen, Jetten, Jolanda and Steffens, Niklas K. (2022). Restless in an unequal world: Economic inequality fuels the desire for wealth and status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49 (6), 1461672221083747-890. doi: 10.1177/01461672221083747
Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida, Álvarez, Belén, Jetten, Jolanda, Bentley, Sarah V., Casara, Bruno Gabriel Salvador, Crimston, Charlie R., Ionescu, Octavia, Jarukasemthawee, Somboon, Krug, Henning, Selvanathan, Hema Preya, Steffens, Niklas K., Wang, Zhechen and Wibisono, Susilo (2021). Unlocking collective cooperation in the midst of COVID‐19: the role of social support in predicting the social class disparity in cooperation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61 (3), 940-951. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12514
Jetten, Jolanda, Peters, Kim, Álvarez, Belén, Casara, Bruno Gabriel Salvador, Dare, Michael, Kirkland, Kelly, Sánchez-Rodríguez, Ángel, Selvanathan, Hema Preya, Sprong, Stefanie, Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida, Wang, Zhechen and Mols, Frank (2021). Consequences of economic inequality for the social and political vitality of society: a social identity analysis. Political Psychology, 42 (S1), 241-266. doi: 10.1111/pops.12800
Peters, Kim, Jetten, Jolanda, Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida, Wang, Zhechen, Mols, Frank and Verkuyten, Maykel (2021). The language of inequality: evidence economic inequality increases wealth category salience. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48 (8), 1-16. doi: 10.1177/01461672211036627
Wang, Zhechen, Jetten, Jolanda, Steffens, Niklas K., Álvarez, Belén, Bentley, Sarah V., Salvador Casara, Bruno Gabriel, Crimston, Charlie R., Ionescu, Octavia, Krug, Henning, Selvanathan, Hema Preya, Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida, Wibisono, Susilo, Chen, Shuting, Wang, Jiajun, Zhang, Xin and Sun, Shijin (2021). A world together: global citizen identification as a basis for prosociality in the face of COVID-19. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26 (1) 13684302211051619, 71-95. doi: 10.1177/13684302211051619
Wang, Zhechen, Jetten, Jolanda and Steffens, Niklas K. (2020). The more you have, the more you want? Higher social class predicts a greater desire for wealth and status. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50 (2) ejsp.2620, 360-375. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2620
Sprong, Stefanie, Jetten, Jolanda, Wang, Zhechen, Peters, Kim, Mols, Frank, Verkuyten, Maykel, Bastian, Brock, Ariyanto, Amarina, Autin, Frédérique, Ayub, Nadia, Badea, Constantina, Besta, Tomasz, Butera, Fabrizio, Costa-Lopes, Rui, Cui, Lijuan, Fantini, Carole, Finchilescu, Gillian, Gaertner, Lowell, Gollwitzer, Mario, Gómez, Ángel, González, Roberto, Hong, Ying-Yi, Jensen, Dorthe Høj, Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga, Karasawa, Minoru, Kessler, Thomas, Klein, Olivier, Lima, Marcus, Mégevand, Laura ... Wohl, Michael J. A. (2019). “Our country needs a strong leader right now”: Economic inequality enhances the wish for a strong leader. Psychological Science, 30 (11), 095679761987547-1637. doi: 10.1177/0956797619875472
Jetten, Jolanda, Wang, Zhechen, Steffens, Niklas K, Mols, Frank, Peters, Kim and Verkuyten, Maykel (2017). A social identity analysis of responses to economic inequality. Current Opinion in Psychology, 18, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.05.011
Li, Li-Hong, Wang, Zhe-Chen, Yu, Jin and Zhang, Yu-Qiu (2014). Ovariectomy results in variable changes in nociception, mood and depression in adult female rats. PLoS ONE, 9 (4), e94312. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094312
Bian, Chao, Wang, Zhe-Chen, Yang, Jia-Le, Lu, Ning, Zhao, Zhi-Qi and Zhang, Yu-Qiu (2014). Up-regulation of interleukin-23 induces persistent allodynia via CX3CL1 and interleukin-18 signaling in the rat spinal cord after tetanic sciatic stimulation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 37, 220-230. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.12.011
Thesis
Wang, Zhechen (2020). Who aspires to have more? The impacts of social class and economic inequality on people’s desire for wealth and status. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.201