Bidding competition is one of the main transaction approaches in a deregulated electricity market. Locational marginal prices (LMPs) resulting from bidding competition and system operation conditions indicate electricity values at a node or in an area. The LMP reveals important information for...

Research suggests that power triggers assertive action. However, people from different cultures might expect different types of action from powerful individuals such as leaders. In comparing cultural differences in leadership imagery, we find that Americans represent leaders standing ahead of...

This paper explores real power generation planning, considering distributed generation resources and energy storage in a small standalone power system. On account of the Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord, wind and photovoltaic (PV) powers are considered as clean and renewable energies. In...

The "ripple effect" refers to a robust cultural difference in how individuals make social judgments regarding the consequence of events, with East Asian individuals perceiving a greater distal impact of events than Western individuals (Maddux & Yuki, 2006). The present research offers the first...

Social mobility is associated with opportunities, justice, equality, and well-being. Therefore, perceiving society as highly mobile is often presumed to have only beneficial outcomes for individuals. Departing from this account, we investigated a potential undesired effect of consumers’ social...

How may the current zero-COVID policy affect Chinese people’s confidence in the political system? This paper uses two waves of online survey experiments in 2020 and 2022 to investigate the relationship between attitudes toward dynamic zero-COVID policy and confidence in China’s political...