Conference Presentations

Wang, X.T. & Dvorak, R. (2009, June). Physiology of Foraging Choice: Blood Glucose and Future Discounting. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA.

Wang, X.T. & Ziebarth G. E. (2008, November). Heuristics in context. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, Illinois.

Wang, X.T. & Yang, M. L. (2008, November). Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in Risk Communication and Risky Choice. Paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Klein, A. & Wang, X.T. (2008, September). Discount ratio effect and mental accounting in money saving decisions. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New York.

Wang, X.T. & Yang, M.L. (2008, June). Signaling in risk communication: Priority and consistency of vocal, facial and verbal cues. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Kyoto, Japan.

Zhang, W.H. & Wang X.T. (2008, June). Self-framing, risk perception and risky choice. Poster presented at the IACMR (International Association for Chinese Management Research), Guangzhou, China.

Wang, X.T. (2007, June). An Evolutionary Analysis of Risk Communication: Ambiguity and Ambivalence Hypothesis of Judgmental and Decision Biases. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, Texas.

Wang, X.T. (2006, December). A tri-reference point model of risk analysis and Communication. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, Baltimore, Maryland.

Wang, X.T. (2006, November). Decision heuristics examined in the context of presidential choice. Paper presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, Texas.

Kruger, D, Wang, X.T., & Wilke, A. (2006, May). Evolutionary domain specificity in perceptions of risk taking. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Kruger, D.J., Wang, X.T., & Wilke, A. (2006, May). Identifying evolutionary valid domains of risk taking. Poster presented at the annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY.

Wang, X.T. (2006, April). Consumption of ideology and voting heuristics. Paper presented at the 64th annual national conference of the Midwest Political Science, Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Wang, X.T., Kruger, D, & Wilke, A. (2005, November). Towards a valid risk-taking scale: Evolutionary domains and personal life history. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Toronto, Canada.

Wang, X.T. & Johnson, J. (2005, July). Three reference points in risky decisions. Paper presented at the 5th Conference of Chinese Psychologists. Suzhou, China.

Wang, X.T. & Kruger, D. & Wilke, A. (2005, June). Evolutionary domains of risk and life-history. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, Texas.

Wang, X.T. & Wilke, A. & Kruger, D. (2005, June). Towards a valid evolutionary domain-specific risk-taking scale. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, Texas.

Wang, X.T. (2005, April). Evolutionary Psychology and Risk Management in Organizational Contexts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Las Angeles, California.

Wang, X.T. (2004, November). Risky choice in cultural contexts. Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Wang, X.T. (2004, August). Reproductive variance and family decisions. Paper presented at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.

Wang, X.T. (2004, August). Evolutionary psychology of risk. Invited speech at the Japanese Evolutionary Psychology Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

Wang, X.T. (2004, July). Hedonic mental accounting and consumer preference.Paper       presented at the Society of Consumer Psychology Conference at the APA (Association of American psychology) Annual Convention, Hawaii.

Wang, X.T. & Savina, E.A. (2004, July). Kinship, Ethnicity and Sex: A Russian Study of Risk Taking. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Berlin, Germany.

Wang, X.T. & Xie, X.F. (2004, June). Organizational cues and managerial decision making. Poster presented at the inaugural conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Beijing, China.

 Wang, X.T. (2003, November). Emotions within reason: dualism of risky decisions. Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Wang, X.T. (2003, November). Hedonic tone of self framing and choice at risk. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Vancouver, Canada.

Wang, X.T. (2003, June). Reproductive variance and reproductive investment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Wang, X.T. (2002, November). Frames, reference points and risk distributions. Paper presented at the 43d annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, Kansas.

 Savina, E. & Wang, X.T. (2002, September). Risk taking examined in social and ethnical contexts. Paper presented at the International conference on social psychology, Yaroslavl, Russia.

X.T. Wang (2002, May). Distributional patterns of consumer expenditure tested in two cultures: How Men and Women Expect From Each Other. Paper presented at Asian-Pacific Conference of the Association of Consumer Research, Beijing, P. R. China.

 X.T. Wang, & K. Xin (2002, April). Social-organizational knowledge and managerial decision-making. Paper presented at the third European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities, Athens, Greece.

 Wang, X.T. & Xie, X.F. (2001, November). Risk-perception and risk-taking in organizational contexts: Dissociate Framing Effects from Reflection Effects. Poster presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, Florida.

Wang, X.T. (2001, November). A Darwinian approach to risk and risky choice.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and decision Making, Orlando, Florida.

Krauss, S., Martignon, L, Vitouch, O & Wang, X.T. (2001, September) The impact of perspective change on probabilistic insight. Paper presented at the 32nd European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

Wang, X.T. & Xie, X.F. (2001, August). Risk-taking in cultural and organizational contexts: Information framing and achievement motives. Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Washington, D.C.

Wang, X.T. (2001, June). Risk distribution, risk perception, and risky choice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, London, England.

Landa, J. & Wang, X.T. (2001, April). Rational economic man revisited: Taking account of social contexts in rational choice and psychological risky choice theories. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Paris, France.

Wang, X.T. (2000, November). Self-framing of expected choice outcomes. Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.  

Wang, X.T. (2000, June). In the eyes of the beholder: How men and women, tested in two cultures, estimate each other¡®s investment distributions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Chen, Y. C. & Wang, X.T. (2000, June). Sexual selection and perception of health environmental risks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Keller, M., Lindzey, S., & Wang, X.T. (2000, June). The development of deontic reasoning: Cheating detection, perspectives and emotions. Paper presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Montreal, Canada.

Wang, X.T. (1999, November). Intuitive Bayesian Updating. Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.  

Krauss, S., & Wang, X.T. (1999, November).  The Monty Hall dilemma: Helping people overcome difficulties in solving a world-famous brain teaser. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Wang, X.T. (1999, June). Risk, risk distribution, and brain modules. Invited speech at the Risk Research Initiative Group & Economic Preference Network conference, sponsored by MacArther Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Wang, X.T. (1999, June). Cues for risk under Darwinian priorities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Galinsky, A., & Wang, X.T. (1999, June). Hemispheric mechanisms in risky choices. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Wang, X.T. (1998, November). Cue priorities in making risky choice. Paper presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, Texas.  

Wang, X.T. (1997, June). Sex differences and imagined sex differences in hypothetical investment decisions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Tucson, AZ.

Wang, X.T. (1996, November). Age cue and sociobiological perspective-dependent choices. Paper presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. November, 1996.  

Wang, X.T. (1996, June). Risk variance-sensitive choice model: Empirical examinations and computer simulation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Evanston, IL.  

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