On the afternoon of October 13th, Professor Yang Qian from Zhejiang University was invited to give a lecture entitled “Telling Chinese Stories and Enhancing Cultural Confidence with Research” to the School. The lecture is one of the series of Famous Lectures of the School. Professor Liu Bing, Assistant Dean of the school, attended the lecture, and Professor Lin Weipeng of the Department of Leadership and Organizational Management presided over the lecture.
With the theme of “Exploring the Controversy of Chinese Civic Honesty”, Professor Yang Qian, starting from the existing research, introduced the dialogue of cultural perspective through the constructive replication experiment of “Losing Wallet and Picking up Wallet”, and explained in detail the preparation for replication experiment and the consensus that the research team needs: extreme replication, academic neutrality and the pursuit of truth. Professor Yang then introduced the experimental conditions and procedures required for the replication experiment, and pointed out that the different behavioral characteristics of collectivism/individualism in cultural psychology can be used to design an honest measurement method that can better reflect the collectivist culture. The final results show that under the influence of collectivism’s introversion, restraint and behavioral constraints, citizens are more inclined to show introverted honesty, and will “properly keep the wallet” and wait for the owner to come back; while under the influence of individualism’s expression, self-confidence and behavioral independence, citizens are more inclined to show extroverted honest behaviors of “proactive contact”; thus pointing out the bias of Science’s original research.
Yang Qian, the professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Social Medicine and Health Care Administration, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, is the executive director of the Psychological Cognition and Behavioral Health Research Center of the National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine of Zhejiang University. She is also the young talent under the “10,000 Talents” Plan of Zhejiang Province and leads 20 research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Institutes of Health Foundation of the United States, and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province. She has published nearly 50 papers in PNAS, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Applied Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior and other journals, published one monograph, and co-edited one planning textbook and four other textbooks. She is engaged in psychological and behavioral health research in Chinese culture, and committed to employing positive psychology, behavioral science theory and group counseling techniques to empower power-down patients and care recipients, and promotes positive aging under the framework of common prosperity and rural revitalization. She serves as a member of the Special Committee on Positive Psychology of the Chinese Psychological Society, a member of the Behavioral Health Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medical Association, a youth member of the Group Psychology Branch of the Chinese Psychological Society, and a vice-chairman of the School Committee of the Zhejiang Association for Health Promotion and Health Education.
