Jia Wei Zhang

Jia Wei Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis, specializing in Social Psychology. His research focuses on emotion regulation, particularly self-compassion, awe, gratitude, and their impacts on well-being, consumption behaviors, and social hierarchies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, alongside an M.A. and B.A. from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.

Research interests include understanding how emotions like awe and gratitude influence creativity, prosocial behavior, and temporal perception. His work explores cultural differences in materialism, time perspectives' effects on financial decisions, and the role of nature in psychological well-being. Zhang has published extensively on self-compassion's role in personal improvement, academic performance, and interpersonal acceptance.

Recent work emphasizes the development of emotion assessment tools (PEACE Scale, AWE-S) and examines how self-compassion mindset interacts with academic anxiety. His articles span topics from environmental psychology to consumer behavior, reflecting a cross-disciplinary approach to emotional and social phenomena.

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