Staff profile

Yingli Deng is an Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Durham University Business School. She holds a M.S. in Accounting from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2016) and Ph.D in Management from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (2021). She was the visiting student in Management & Organisations Department at Northwestern University from 2019 to 2021.

Her research interests fall within two overarching topic areas: emotions and behavioural ethics. She uses multi-level methods to examine her theories in both topics. She publishes in top research outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Personnel Psychology. Her work has also been highlighted in prominent media outlets, such as the BBC.

 

Contact email: yingli.deng@durham.ac.uk

Mini-Biography

Yingli Deng is an Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Durham University Business School, and Co-director of Centre for Leadership and Followership. She is also the Deputy Chair of Board of Examiners (UG).

• Emotions
• Unethical behaviors
• Team dynamics
• Leadership

Journal Article

• The role of interdependent self‐construal in mitigating the effect of conspiratorial beliefs on vaccine acceptance
  
  Deng, Y., Wang, C. S., Cheng, G. D., Whitson, J. A., Dow, B. J., & Lee, A. Y. (2025). The role of interdependent self‐construal in mitigating the effect of conspiratorial beliefs on vaccine acceptance. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(1), Article e12836. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12836
• When competitive rewards create obsessions with bottom‐line outcomes: A social interdependence theory perspective of the mediating role of bottom‐line mentality
  
  Mawritz, M. B., Greenbaum, R. L., Deng, Y., Rosikiewicz, B. L., Farro, A. C., & Mitchell, M. (2024). When competitive rewards create obsessions with bottom‐line outcomes: A social interdependence theory perspective of the mediating role of bottom‐line mentality. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(8), 1231-1248. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2791
• Mitigating and managing COVID-19 conspiratorial beliefs
  
  Dow, B. J., Wang, C. S., Whitson, J. A., & Deng, Y. (2022). Mitigating and managing COVID-19 conspiratorial beliefs. BMJ Leader, 6(4), 259-262. https://doi.org/10.1136/leader-2022-000600
• Managing my shame: Examining the effect of parental identity threat and emotional stability on work productivity and investment in parenting
  
  Greenbaum, R., Deng, Y., Butts, M., Wang, C., & Smith, A. (2022). Managing my shame: Examining the effect of parental identity threat and emotional stability on work productivity and investment in parenting. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(9), 1479-1497. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000597
• Culture and patterns of reciprocity: The role of exchange type, regulatory focus, and emotions.
  
  Deng, Y., Wang, C., Aime, F., Wang, L., Sivanathan, N., & Kim, Y. (2021). Culture and patterns of reciprocity: The role of exchange type, regulatory focus, and emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(1), 20-41.
• A business frame perspective on why perceptions of top management's bottom-line mentality result in employees’ good and bad behaviors
  
  Babalola, M., Greenbaum, R., Armanani, R., Shoss, M., Deng, Y., Garba, O., & Guo, L. (2020). A business frame perspective on why perceptions of top management’s bottom-line mentality result in employees’ good and bad behaviors. Personnel Psychology, 73(1), 19-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12355