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Jianshu Wang

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Understanding people in context

I study how people make decisions, regulate emotion, and prepare to act, using behavioral experiments, brain measurements, and interactive systems.

  1. Published comparison of honesty rates and response times across monitoring conditions.

    Published 2026

    Personality and responses to AI oversight

    How do responses to AI monitoring and incentives vary with personality, and what happens to honesty after rewards or feedback are withdrawn?

  2. Published 2026

    Both sides of interpersonal emotion regulation

    How do different emotion-regulation strategies affect the feelings and neural responses of both people in an interaction?

  3. Preprint · Submitted

    Predicting decisions in human–agent dialogue

    How well do language models predict people’s choices from their words and past behavior, across agent personas and user personalities?

  4. A seated person using a VR headset, steering wheel and pedals in the driving experiment.

    Manuscript submitted

    From preparation to action in driving takeovers

    How do drivers’ prior tendencies and preparation relate to braking and steering as they take over from automation?

  5. Participant seated on a six-degree-of-freedom motion platform facing three displays, with the original face covering retained.

    Manuscript submitted

    Responding to visual cues during whole-body motion

    What shapes people’s responses to visual cues during whole-body motion?

  6. Manuscript submitted

    Community environments and everyday well-being

    How are community environments associated with residents’ well-being and the way they evaluate their own community?