Organizational Behavior Ming Dai

My current research primarily focuses on social norms and cooperation. Together with colleagues from economics, we aim to better understand how signaling in the context of following social norms impacts cooperation. Based on this, we also examine cultural differences in norm compliance between Chinese and German samples, which helps us understand how the environment shapes the degree of norm compliance.

In addition, I am working on decision-making in collective environments, focusing on the interaction between risk and time preferences in relation to different decision rules in laboratory settings. I am also interested in children’s development in relation to socioeconomic status in China’s primary schools. Through a field experiment, I am collaborating with co-authors to investigate how an intervention curriculum on growth mindset affects schoolchildren’s academic performance and beliefs about hard work. So far, we have completed pilot experiments in China, and we plan to conduct a large-sample study in the future.

Another current project examines how self-reports and peer comments influence workplace performance, particularly the mechanisms underlying the interaction between self-reports and peer comments.

• Tianming Ren, Chi Cui, Ming Dai (2024) The Measurement of Schoolchildren’s Fairness Views and Its Enlightenment to Moral Education. Children’s Study, (03):71-77
• Chi Cui, Ming Dai, Tianming Ren (2023) Research on the Influence of the Low Socio-economic Status on Prosocial Behavior of Urban Children. Journal of Central University of Finance and Economics, (02):86-100
• Chi Cui, Lulu An, Ming Dai (2023) The Influence Mechanism of Social Norms on Cooperation: An Elicitation of Internalization Effect and Identity Effect. China Journal of Economics, 10(02):335-370
• Chi Cui, Ming Dai, Keke Sun (2022) Are Chinese College Students Refinedly Self-interested? An Experimental Study of Dictator Game Based on GARP. Journal of Northeast Normal University: Philosophy and Social Science, 2022(01):88-99.
• Chi Cui, Zhiwen Lu, Ming Dai (2019) Does Simple and Complex Labor Gain Endowment Affect People’s Prosocial Behavior? Journal of Taxation and Economy, (03):25-31.