
Research Interests
- Managerial decision-making
- Human judgment and decision processes
- Language processing
- Human attention
Academic Qualifications
- Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Experimental psychology
- M. Phil The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Psychology (Human Congnition)
- B.S.Sc. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Psychology
Academic And Professional Experience
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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Management, Professor, since July 2018, Associate Professor, July 2007 - June 2018, Assistant Professor, July 2001 - June 2007.
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Psychology, Post-doctoral Fellow (with teaching duty), August 2000 - June 2001.
Publications
Refereed Journal Publications (Chronological, alphabetical)
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Lee, J.L., Keil, M., & Wong, K.F.E. 2021. When a growth mindset can backfire and cause escalation of commitment to a troubled IT project. Information Systems Journal, 31: 7-32.
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Wong, K.F.E. & Cheng, C. 2020. The turnover intention–behaviour link: A culture-moderated meta-analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 57: 1174-1216.
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Yik, M., Wong, K.F.E., & Zeng, K.J. 2019. Anchoring-and-adjustment during affect inferences. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 2567.
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Feldman, G., & Wong, K.F.E. 2018. When action-inaction framing leads to higher escalation of commitment: A new inaction-effect perspective on the sunk-cost fallacy. Psychological Science, 29: 537-548.
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Wong, K.F.E., & Kwong, J.Y.Y. 2018. Resolving the paradox between adaptive learning and escalation of commitment. Management Science, 64: 1911-1925.
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Feldman, G., Farh, J.-L., & Wong, K.F.E. 2018. (Farh and Wong contributed equally). Agency beliefs across time and culture: Free will beliefs predict higher work satisfaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44: 304-317.
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Lee, J.L., Keil, M., & Wong, K.F.E. 2018. Does a tired mind help avoid a decision bias? The effect of ego depletion on escalation of commitment. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 67: 171-185.
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Feldman, G., Wong, K.F.E., & Baumeister, R. 2016. Bad is freer than good: Positive-negative asymmetry in attributions of free will. Consciousness and Cognition, 42: 26-40.
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Feldman, G., Chandrashekar, S.P., & Wong, K.F.E. 2016. Freedom to excel: Belief in free will predicts better performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 90: 377-383.
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Jong, S.L., Keil, M., & Wong, K.F.E. 2015. The effect of goal difficulty on escalation of commitment. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 28: 114-129.
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Feldman, G., Baumeister, R, & Wong, K.F.E. 2014. Free will is about choosing: The link between choice and the belief in free will. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55: 239-245.
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Kwong, J.Y.Y., & Wong, K.F.E. 2014. (Kwong and Wong contributed equally). Fair or not fair? The effects of numerical framing on the perceived justice of outcomes. Journal of Management, 40: 1558-1582.
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Schwarz, G.M., Wong, K.F.E. & Kwong, J.Y.Y. 2014. A regret theory of organizational institutionalization. Journal of Change Management, 14: 309-333.
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Kwong, J.Y.Y., & Wong, K.F.E. (Equal Authorship). 2014. Reducing and exaggerating escalation of commitment by option partitioning. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99: 697-712.
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Kwong, J.Y.Y., Wong, K. F. E., & Tang, S. K. Y. (Kwong and Wong with equal contribution). 2013. Comparing predicted and actual affective responses to process versus outcome: An emotion-as-feedback perspective. Cognition, 129: 42-50.
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Wong, K.F.E. & Cheng, C. 2013. Predictable or Not? Individuals' Risk Decisions Do Not Necessarily Predict Their Next Ones. PLoS ONE, 8: e56811.
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Wong, K.F.E. 2012. Negative priming under rapid serial visual presentation. PLoS ONE, 5: e37023.
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Wang, H., & Wong, K.F.E. 2012. The effect of managerial bias on employee incentives to make firm-specific investments. Journal of Management Studies, 49: 1435-1458.
More Publications
Selected Recent Conference Presentations
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Wong, K.F.E., & Kwong, J.Y.Y. 2022. Meta-analysis within a single paper using individual-participant data: A simpler alternative. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual convention of Association for Psychological Science.
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Wong, K.F.E., Yong, R.B.A.L., & Kwong, J.Y.Y. 2021. The link between turnover intention and actual turnover behavior: Stronger than it was found!. Paper presented at the annual convention of Academy of Management.
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Wong, K.F.E., Yong, R.B.A.L., & Kwong, J.Y.Y. 2021. The link between turnover intention and actual turnover behavior: Stronger than it was found!. Poster presented at the APS Virtual Poster Showcase, the annual convention of Association for Psychological Science.
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Kwong, J.Y.Y., & Wong, K.F.E. 2020. Resource allocation principles and escalation of commitment. Poster presented at the APS Virtual Poster Showcase, the annual convention of Association for Psychological Science.
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Kwong, J.Y.Y., & Wong, K.F.E. 2020. Will family name bias research’s citation rate? It depends on the citation system. Poster presented at the APS Virtual Poster Showcase, the annual convention of Association for Psychological Science.
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Wong, K.F.E., & Kwong, J.Y.Y. 2019. Age and escalation of commitment: An adaptive learning approach. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Academy of Management, Boston, MA. (Paper appeared in the Best Paper Proceeding).
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Kwong, J.Y.Y., & Wong, K.F.E. 2019. Capturing escalation of commitment across life span: An adaptive learning approach. Poster presented at the annual convention of Association for Psychological Science: Washington, D. C.
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Wong, K.F.E., & Kwong, J.Y.Y. 2018. The learning-escalation paradox: Adaptive learning at the decision-level and strategy-level. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
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Wong, K.F.E., & Cheng, C. 2017. Macroeconomics, turnover intention, and actual turnover behavior: A meta-analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA.
Review Activities
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Consulting Editor:
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Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2013-2018)
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Member of Editorial Board:
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Journal of Applied Psychology (2015-)
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Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (2010-)
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Ad Hoc reviewers (partial listed):
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Academy of Management Journal
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Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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Experimental Psychology
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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Journal of Business Research
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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Funded Projects
General Research Funds/Competitive Earmarked Research Grants from Hong Kong Government:
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After Resolving the Learning-Escalation Paradox: Toward Adaptive Learning as a Formal Theory of Escalation of Commitment. 2018-20 (#14612118): HK$302,040. Co-Investigator (with Jessica Y.Y. Kwong)
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Gamification vs. instruction: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate two coping flexibility interventions in Chinese employees. 2017-20 (#17601917): HK$881,700. Co-Investigator (with Cecilia Cheng and John Bacon-Shone).
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Resolving the paradox between adaptive learning and escalation of commitment. 2014-2015 (#16503614): HK$611,592. Principal Investigator (with Jessica Kwong).
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Affective forecasts and responses as inputs for goal pursuits. 2014-2015 (#14501314): HK$427,112. Co-Investigator (with Jessica Kwong).
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Performance differentiation in performance evaluation. 2012-2014 (#644312): HK$247,520. Principal Investigator (with Jessica Y.Y. Kwong).
Honors & Awards
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2011 Winner, Franklin Prize for MBA Teaching. Elective Courses.