Zhao Lin

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,Department of Business,Business CourseLecturer
Last Updated :2025/10/07

■Researcher basic information

Degree

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Management, Hiroshima University, Mar. 2020

Research Keyword

  • Pay What You Want

Field Of Study

  • Humanities & social sciences, Business administration, Pay What You Want

■Career

Career

  • Apr. 2024 - Present
    Teikyo Heisei University, Department of Business, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Senior Lecture
  • Mar. 2023 - Mar. 2024
    Gifu University, School of Social System Management, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2020 - Feb. 2023
    Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Junior College, Department of Information and Multimedia Technology, Assistant Professor

Educational Background

  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2020, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of Management Studies
  • Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2014, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of Management Studies
  • Aug. 2007 - Jun. 2011, Southeast University, School of Foreign Languages, Department of Japanese

■Research activity information

Paper

  • Through the 2024 Fresh Seminar Class in the First Year of the Department of Business Administration International Exchange between Japan Students and International Students - Based on "Researching Hometowns' SDGs" Participation Factors of Japanese and International Students in Intenational Exchange Classes -               
    ONODERA Taeko; NAKAMURA Masahiko; YUAN Xiaoyu; LIN Zhao
    Journal of Teikyo Heisei University, Mar. 2025, [Reviewed]
  • How Group Perception Affects What People Share and How People Feel: The Role of Entitativity and Epistemic Trust in the “Saying-Is-Believing” Effect
    Tingchang Liang; Zhao Lin; Toshihiko Souma
    Frontiers in Psychology, 22 Sep. 2021, [Reviewed]
    This research investigated how interpersonal communication with a large audience can influence communicators’ attitudes. Research on the saying-is-believing effect has shown that when an individual’s attitude is perceived in advance by a communicator, the communicator tunes the message to the person, which biases the communicator’s attitude toward the person’s attitude. In this study, we examined the conditions under which audience tuning and attitude bias can occur with audiences containing more than one individual. We manipulated communicators’ perceived group entity for a large audience and the audience’s prior attitudinal valence and measured the audience’s epistemic trust. The results showed that communicators tuned their messages to the audience’s attitude when they perceived group entitativity and epistemic trust. Furthermore, tuning the message to the audience was found to bias communicators’ subsequent impressions of the topic in a direction closer to the audience’s attitude. These results suggest that perceiving a large audience as a group influences the subsequent impressions of electronic word-of-mouth product or service communicators.
  • 「大学経営」が職員の革新的な行動を促すためには何が必要か -大学職員と民間企業の従業員との比較から-               
    Mar. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • The Effect of Active Learning Lessons- A Case of a Financial Education for the Elderly -
    Lin Zhao; Deji Chie; Soma Toshihiko
    Journal of Japan Academy of Consumer Education, 2019, [Reviewed]
    Although active learning in consumer education has already been put into use, the effect has not
    yet been tested. In this research, focusing on consumer education for the elderly, we first aim to
    empirically examine whether active learning is effective in acquiring knowledge and information.
    The results of the survey, which was conducted as a financial education lesson for the elderly,
    revealed that active learning was more effective in acquiring knowledge and information than
    lectures. Moreover, it was revealed that the effect of active learning is greater when the students’
    level of understanding and involvement in the educational content is lower.
  • A Study on Influence Factor of Pricing Method Called Pay What You Want—Focusing on the Content Industry of China—
    Lin Zhao; Muramatsu Junichi
    Journal of Japan Management Diagnosis Association, Mar. 2016, [Reviewed]
    It has become necessary and important to have a perspective of customer-based pricing because according to value co-creation, the value is co-created in the process of consumption and uniquely determined by customers. As the first step of the study of customer-based pricing, this study focused on exploring influence factors and chose Pay What You Want as the typical customer-based pricing method to analysis. Through the result of internet questionnaire, it is found that satisfaction which is before and after consuming and altruism has a positive influence on the payment of Pay What You Want. Fairness and self-image concerns are insignificant factors. Finally, based on the results, we showed the direction of the strategy of Pay What You Want and was able to contribute a new means to the development of pricing strategies in management diagnosis.

Books and other publications

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • アクティブ・ラーニングを取り入れた講座の効果—高齢者に対する金融教育講座を通じて—               
    Oct. 2018
  • 自己愛人格傾向が起業意向に及ぼす影響1—自信過剰を通じた間接効果に着目して—               
    Sep. 2018
  • Pay What You Want方式の価格決定とマーケティング戦略               
    Sep. 2015
  • 価値共創の成果とpay what you want方式による価格決定               
    Dec. 2014

■Achievement List

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • |, 01 Dec. 2014, Public discourses, seminars, tutorials, courses, lectures and others
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  • 01 Sep. 2015, Verbal presentations (general)
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  • ||, 01 Sep. 2018, Poster sessions
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  • ||, 01 Oct. 2018, Verbal presentations (general)
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