• Xu Mengran

    Associate Professor

    Marketing

    Add: Guoshun Road Siyuan Building Room 613, Siyuan Building

    Tel: 25011199(TEL)

    E-mail: xumengran@fudan.edu.cn

    Research Field: Consumer Behavior, Attitudes and Persuasion, Consumer Decision-Making, Online Word-of Mouth Behavior, Brand Loyalty

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    Achievements in scientific research
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    Educational Background

    Doctor Degree,Psychology,The Ohio State University, USA

    Master Degree,Psychology,The Ohio State University, USA

    Bachelor Degree,Psychology,The University of Virginia, USA


    Journal Papers


    1.Mengran Xu and Richard E. Petty2025Using two-sided messages to facilitate misinformation correction for strongly held beliefsJournal of Experimental Social Psychology 121 1-9.  



    2.Mengran Xu and Richard E. Petty2025Using two-sided messages to combat misinformation: An overviewBehavioral Science & Policy 11(1) 1-8.  



    3.Mengran Xu and Richard E. Petty2025Order matters when using two-sided messages to influence morally based attitudesPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin 51(8) 1456-1471.  



    4.Mengran Xu and Richard E. Petty2024Two-sided messages promote openness for a variety of deeply entrenched attitudesPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 50(2) 215–231.  



    5.Mengran Xu and Duane T. Wegener2024Persuasive benefits of self-generated arguments: Moderation and mechanismSocial Psychological and Personality Science 15(1) 60–69.  



    6.Mengran Xu, Rebecca Walker Reczek, and Richard E. Petty2023Need to evaluate as a predictor of creating and seeking online word of mouthMarketing Letters 34(4) 697-712.  



    7.Mengran Xu and Richard E. Petty2022Two-sided messages promote openness for morally based attitudesPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin 48(8) 1151-1166.  



    8.Mark W. Susmann, Mengran Xu, Jason K. Clark, Laura E. Wallace, Kevin L. Blankenship, Aviva Z. Philipp-Muller, Andrew Luttrell, Duane T. Wegener, and Richard E. Petty2022Persuasion amidst a pandemic: Insights from the Elaboration Likelihood ModelEuropean Review of Social Psychology 33(2) 323-359.  



    9.Mengran Xu, Richard E. Petty, Nicholas Wright, and Pablo Briñol2021Individual differences in three aspects of evaluation: the motives to have, learn, and express attitudesJournal of Personality and Social Psychology 121(2) 257–284.  



    10.Mengran Xu , Pablo Briñol, Jeremy D. Gretton, Zakary L. Tormala, Derek D. Rucker, and Richard E. Petty2020Individual differences in attitude consistency over time: The Personal Attitude Stability ScalePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin 46(10) 1507-1519.  



    11.Andrew Luttrell, Richard E. Petty, and Mengran Xu2017Replicating and fixing failed replications: The case of need for cognition and argument qualityJournal of Experimental Social Psychology 69 178-183.  


    Papers in Books

    Joseph J. Siev, Mengran Xu, Andrew Luttrell, and Richard E. Petty.The role of attitude strength in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.In .The Social Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Oxford University Press,2024

    Translated Works

    Xiongwen Lu, Qingyun Jiang, Weitao Zhao, Qian Xu, and Mengran XuMarketing Management(16th Edition),Beijing,CITIC Press Group,2022.09 (in Chinese)

    Research Projects

    2025.01—2029.12MemberResearch on Innovation and Application of AI Marketing Technology: The Perspective of Creation Capability of AINational Natural Science Foundation of China

    2024.09—2027.08MemberUnderstanding Extreme Attitudes, Behaviors, and Persuasive MessagesTempleton World Charity Foundation

    2024.01—2027.12MemberThe Dynamic Influence of Consumer Motivational Factors on the Sustainable Consumption JourneyNational Natural Science Foundation of China

    2024.01—2026.12Principal InvestigatorPersuasive Message Design to Encourage Competitors’ Consumers to Engage in Brand Switching BehaviorsNational Natural Science Foundation of China


    Academic Conferences

    2025.02Society for Consumer Psychology Annual ConferenceLas Vegas, NV, USA

    Case

    许梦然,金立印,张洁友,沈梦媛蔚来:开创电动汽车BaaS模式, , 2024

    Mengran Xu,Shiyao Zhang,Yangbo ChenOATLY: The Journey from B2B to B2C, , 2023

    Mengran Xu,Xiangling Tian,Jiaping YuChong Hui Han Tang: Chinas First Hanfu Store, , 2023