Dongning Ren

2.0k total citations
42 papers, 811 citations indexed

About

Dongning Ren is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Dongning Ren has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 811 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Social Psychology, 16 papers in Clinical Psychology and 11 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Dongning Ren's work include Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (22 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (13 papers) and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (11 papers). Dongning Ren is often cited by papers focused on Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (22 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (13 papers) and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (11 papers). Dongning Ren collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Belgium. Dongning Ren's co-authors include Eric D. Wesselmann, Kipling D. Williams, Wen Wei Loh, Olga Stavrova, Ilja van Beest, Ximena B. Arriaga, Tila Pronk, Anthony M. Evans, Kenneth Tan and Kai Qin Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychologist and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Dongning Ren

40 papers receiving 781 citations

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Dongning Ren

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Máire B. Ford United States

A. Will Crescioni United States

Janina Larissa Bühler Switzerland

Ian Tyndall United Kingdom

Samantha Krauss Switzerland

Laura C. Dapp Switzerland

Joshua K Wood Australia

Ruibo Xie China

Adam J. Rock Australia

Virginia Blankenship United States

Máire B. Ford United States

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218 ×0.9

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Erle, Thorsten M., et al.. (2025). Coping With Ostracism Over Time: A Time-Contingent Sampling Study of Immediate and Later Responses at Day 0, Day 3, and Day 6. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Ren, Dongning, Olga Stavrova, Ilja van Beest, Eric van Dijk, & Wen Wei Loh. (2025). Investigating lived ostracism: valid causal inference requires articulating the causal estimand. The Journal of Social Psychology. 166(1). 83–90. 3 indexed citations

Loh, Wen Wei & Dongning Ren. (2024). The Incremental Propensity Score Approach for Diversity Science. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 7(2). 2 indexed citations

Loh, Wen Wei, Dongning Ren, & Stephen G. West. (2024). Parametric g-formula for Testing Time-Varying Causal Effects: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Implement It in Lavaan. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 59(5). 995–1018. 6 indexed citations

Ren, Dongning, Wen Wei Loh, Joanne M. Chung, & Mark J. Brandt. (2024). Person‐specific priorities in solitude. Journal of Personality. 93(1). 12–30. 2 indexed citations

Loh, Wen Wei & Dongning Ren. (2024). Enhancing Causal Pursuits in Organizational Science: Targeting the Effect of Treatment on the Treated in Research on Vulnerable Populations. Organizational Research Methods. 28(3). 433–456. 1 indexed citations

Ren, Dongning, et al.. (2024). Ostracism in everyday life: A framework of threat and behavioral responses in real life.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 129(5). 870–887. 18 indexed citations

Loh, Wen Wei & Dongning Ren. (2023). Adjusting for Baseline Measurements of the Mediators and Outcome as a First Step Toward Eliminating Confounding Biases in Mediation Analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 18(5). 1254–1266. 17 indexed citations

Ren, Dongning, Olga Stavrova, & Anthony M. Evans. (2023). Does dispositional preference for solitude predict better psychological outcomes during times of social distancing? Beliefs and reality. Journal of Personality. 91(6). 1442–1460. 1 indexed citations

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Ren, Dongning, et al.. (2023). Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources?. Acta Psychologica. 237. 103956–103956. 3 indexed citations

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Loh, Wen Wei & Dongning Ren. (2023). The Unfulfilled Promise of Longitudinal Designs for Causal Inference. Collabra Psychology. 9(1). 8 indexed citations

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Stavrova, Olga, Daniel Ehlebracht, & Dongning Ren. (2023). Cynical people desire power but rarely acquire it: Exploring the role of cynicism in leadership attainment. British Journal of Psychology. 115(2). 226–252. 2 indexed citations

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Stavrova, Olga & Dongning Ren. (2023). Alone in a Crowd: Is Social Contact Associated with Less Psychological Pain of Loneliness in Everyday Life?. Journal of Happiness Studies. 24(5). 1841–1860. 15 indexed citations

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Loh, Wen Wei & Dongning Ren. (2023). Understated gender disparities due to outcome-dependent selection: Commentary on Mackelprang et al. (2023).. American Psychologist. 78(6). 811–813. 2 indexed citations

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Loh, Wen Wei & Dongning Ren. (2023). Data-driven covariate selection for confounding adjustment by focusing on the stability of the effect estimator.. Psychological Methods. 29(5). 947–966. 5 indexed citations

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Ren, Dongning, Olga Stavrova, & Wen Wei Loh. (2021). Nonlinear effect of social interaction quantity on psychological well-being: Diminishing returns or inverted U?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 122(6). 1056–1074. 32 indexed citations

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Loh, Wen Wei & Dongning Ren. (2020). Estimating social influence in a social network using potential outcomes.. Psychological Methods. 27(5). 841–855. 5 indexed citations

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Ren, Dongning, Eric D. Wesselmann, & Kipling D. Williams. (2017). Hurt people hurt people: ostracism and aggression. Current Opinion in Psychology. 19. 34–38. 109 indexed citations

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Hales, Andrew H., Dongning Ren, & Kipling D. Williams. (2016). Protect, Correct, and Eject. Oxford University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations

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Wesselmann, Eric D., Dongning Ren, & Kipling D. Williams. (2015). Motivations for responses to ostracism. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 40–40. 64 indexed citations

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