Su Lu
Su is currently a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at De Montfort University. She received her PhD in Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a Postdoc Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2012-2013) and an Assistant Professor at the University of International Business and Economics (2013-2019).
Her primary research focuses on how social cognition has an impact on judgment and decision-making and how this knowledge informs group dynamics and well-being. Recently, she has looked into the roles of subjective resource scarcity and childhood unpredictability.
Su has published in psychology journals and book chapters such as the Journal of Behavioural Decision Making, Plos One, Journal of Environmental Psychology, and Personality and Individual Differences..
Academic publications
Ogunbode, C. A.,…Lu, S.,…& Karasu, M. (2022). Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84(18), 101887. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101887
Park, J.,…Lu, S.,… & Yadav, R. (2022). Comparison of the inter-item correlations of the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10) between Western and non-Western contexts. Personality and Individual Differences, 196, 111751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111751
Lu, S.^, Jiang, F.^*, & Zhang, R.^ (2021). Red and risk preferences: The effects of culture and individual differences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. doi:10.1002/bdm.2233
Lu, S.^, Jiang, F.^, Zhu, X.*, & Song, X. (2021). Social media impacts the relation between interpersonal conflict and job performance. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 59(3), 420–441. doi:10.1111/1744-7941.12250
Ogunbode, C. A.*,…Lu, S.,…& Lomas, M. J. (2021). Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries. Current Psychology, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01385-4
Lu, S.^*, Jiang, F.^, Wang, H., Zhu, X., & Lin, W. (2020). The Roles of Leader Empowering Behaviour and Employee Proactivity in Daily Job Crafting: A Compensatory Model. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30(1), 58–69. doi:10.1080/1359432x.2020.1813110
Lu, S.^, Jiang, F.^, Jiang, T.*, & Jia, H. (2020). Does the Relation Between Humor Styles and Subjective Well-Being Vary Across Culture and Age? A Meta-Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02213
Lu, S., Au, W. T., Zhu, Y.*, & Jiang, F.* (2019). True versus strategic fairness in a common resource dilemma: Evidence from the dual‐process perspective. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32(3), 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2111
Lu, S.^, Li, Y. J., Lan, J., & Jiang, F. (2019). Feel safe to take more risks? Insecure attachment increases consumer risk-taking behavior. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 874. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00874
Lu, S.^, Wang, Y., Liu, J., Tan, J., & Zhang, J. (2019). The Influence of Culture on Attitudes Towards Humorous Advertising. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1015. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01015
Yam, P. P. C., Ng, G. T. T.*, Au, W. T., Tao, L., Lu, S., Leung, H., & Fung, J. M. Y. (2018). The effect of subgroup homogeneity of efficacy on contribution in public good dilemmas. PLOS ONE, 13(7), e0201473. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0201473
Yue, X., Jiang, F.*, Lu, S., & Hiranandani, N. (2016). To Be or Not To Be Humorous? Cross Cultural Perspectives on Humor. Frontiers in psychology, 7(1495). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01495
Jiang, F., Yue, X., Lu, S.*, Yu, G., & Zhu, F. (2016). How belief in a just world benefits mental health: The effects of optimism and gratitude. Social Indicators Research, 126(1), 411-423. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01495
Jiang, F., Yue, X., Lu, S.*, & Yu, G. (2015). Can you forgive? It depends on how happy you are. Scandinavian journal of psychology, 56(2), 182-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12185
Shek, D. T.*, Leung, H., & Lu, S. (2014). Perceived Family Life Quality in Junior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong. Social indicators research, 117(3), 757-775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0397-5
Jiang, F., Lu, S., Yao, X.*, Yue, X. D., & Au, W.-T. (2014). Up or down? How culture and color affect judgments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 27(3), 226-234. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1800
Lu, S., Au, W.-T., Jiang, F.*, Xie, X., & Yam, P-C. (2013). Cooperativeness and competitiveness as two distinct constructs: Validating the cooperative and competitive personality scale in a social dilemma context. International Journal of Psychology, 48, 1135-1147. doi: 10.1080/00207594.2012.743666
Jiang, F., Lu, S., Hou, Y.*, & Yue, X. D. (2013). Dialectical thinking and health behaviors: The effects of the theory of planned behavior. International Journal of Psychology, 43, 206-214. doi: 10.1080/00207594.2012.656130
Au, W.-T.*, Lu, S., Leung, H., Yam, P., & Fung, J. (2012). Risk and prisoner’s dilemma: A reinterpretation of Coobs’ re-parameterization. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 25, 476-490. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.743
Jiang, F., Yue, X. D., & Lu, S.* (2011). Different attitudes toward humor between the Chinese and Americans students: Evidence from implicit association test. Psychological Reports, 109, 99-107. doi: 10.2466/09.17.21.PR0.109.4.99-107
Books
Lai, J. C. L., Chang, K., Rochelle, T. L., Jiang, F., Yu, N. X., Lu, S., & Ng, S. M. (Eds.). (2021). Resilience and Health in the Chinese People during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Frontiers Media SA.
Book chapters
Shek, D. T. & Lu, S. (2013). Qualitative findings derived from focus groups based on the program implementers. In Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (PATHS) (pp. 179-191). Springer Singapore.