Dr. Yanan Wang

Dr. Yanan Wang

My research interests:

1) Understanding how the thought of losing a loved one (i.e., mortality salience regarding a loved one) influences one's consumption behaviour

2) Understanding how people evaluate their overall experience on losses as a function of time discrepancy

3) Exploring how effort affects one's monetary budgeting under the context of gift-giving

4) Exploring the relationship between consumer's state of loneliness and preference of darkness (embodied cognition)

5) Exploring how religion-related priming affects one's social responsible consumption behaviour (social marketing)

Primary Cluster Themes:

1. Self-Perceptions, Health, and Well-Being

2. Stress, Health, and Well-Being

3. Promoting Well-Being