Research
My research focuses on children’s early social and moral development, with a core emphasis on the impact of contextual factors—particularly social class and rural-urban differences—on the development of prosocial behavior and fairness-related behaviors. I am dedicated to exploring the underlying psychological mechanisms driving class-based disparities in children’s social behavior, and investigating how social and cultural environments interact with individual development to shape early human development.
Ya-Meng Wang
- E-mail address: wangyameng_psych(at)163.com (opens your email program)
- Location: Sedanstraße 1, 018
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Academic career
- since 2026: PhD Candidate at the Chair of Developmental and Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Regensburg
- 09/2022 – 06/2025: M.Ed. Psychology, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
09/2018- 06/2022: B.Sc. Applied Psychology, Nantong University, Nantong, China
Publications
Selected Publications
Wang, Y. M., Zhao, S., Lyu, S. S., Wang, Z. J., Wang, D., & Chan, K. Q. (2025). Social Class and Children’s Third-party Intervention Tendency and Forms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, doi.org/10.1177/01461672251352895.
Lyu, S. S., Wang, Y. M., Liu, C. J., Wang, Q. H., Ding, D. D., Wang, Z. J., & Wang, D. (2025). Chinese adolescents’ belief in a just world: Social class and age disparities. Youth & Society, 57(5), 816-829. doi.org/10.1177/0044118X241313189.
Wang, Z.-J., Wang, Y.-M., Wei, Y., Zhang, T.-T., Wang, F., & Chan, K. Q. (2024). Social class, schadenfreude, and children’s prosocial behavior in moral contexts. Emotion, 24(6), 1417-1427. doi.org/10.1037/emo0001363
Wang, Z. J., Liu, C. Y., Wang, Y. M., & Wang, Y. (2024). Childhood psychological maltreatment and adolescent depressive symptoms: Exploring the role of social anxiety and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Journal of Affective Disorders, 344, 365-372. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.10.046