l Overview
Øeducation background
Peking University Ph.D., Psychology, 2008
Hunan Normal University B.S., Linguistics, 1994
Øacademic appointments
Beijing Technology and Business University Professor 2023-
Tsinghua University Associate Professor 2017-2022
Tsinghua University Assistant Professor 2012-2017
University of California, Berkeley, USA Visiting Researcher 2010-2012
Tsinghua University Postdoctoral 2008-2010
lResearch area
Economic decision-making, Scarcity, Nudging
Embodied cognition, Social cognitive dual processing theory
Moral decision-making and judgment, Prosocial behavior
Creativity, Occupational Mental Health
etc.
lPersonal profile
She is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the School of International Economics and Management, at Beijing Technology and Business University. Her research interests include the application of social psychology in organizational management and economic life; in the last five years, she has focused on economic decision-making, consumer behavior and social cognition from the perspectives of embodiment, dual processing and scarcity. Theoretically, she proposed the theory of embodied dual processing for the first time to explain the development mechanism of the embodied effect and the boundary conditions of the stability of the embodied effect; methodologically, she developed the CAN algorithm for moral dilemma research to provide a methodological reference for potential conflicting issues. She has presided over more than 10 scientific research projects, including the NSFC, the NSSFC, and the sub-projects of the National Defense Key Project, etc. She has published more than 30 academic papers indexed by SSCI and CSSCI, and has won many awards for excellent papers in international and domestic academic conferences.
lResearch achievements
Selected publications in the past 5 years
ØRefereed journal publications
Cheng, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2023). Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic: Risk Perception Predicts Life Optimism, Journal of Happiness Studies, 24, 351–371. DOI.10.1007/s10902-022-00583-6.
Cheng, C. #, Liu, C.#, & Liao, J.* (2023). Haze Blocks the Windows to the Soul: The Role of Anonymity in the Unethical Effects of Air Pollution, Current Psychology. 42, 893–909, DOI.10.1007/s12144-022-03393-4.
Liu, C.#, & Liao, J.* (2022). Is the more psychopathic more concerned with human beings overall? A data reanalysis exploration, Current Psychology. July, 2022, Advance online publication. https://DOI.10.1007/s12144-022-03234-4.
Liu, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2022). A dual process perspective of embodied cognition: boundary conditions for embodiment effects, Psychological science(Chinese), 45(2), 1-7.
Ma, X. #, & Liao, J.* (2022) Buying to cope with scarcity during public emergencies: a serial mediation model based on Cognition-Affect Theory. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:791850. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.791850
Liu, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2021). The development of empirical paradigms and their theoretical values in moral dilemma research. Advances in Psychological Science(Chinese), 29(8): 1508-1520. DOI:10.3724/SP.J.1042.2021.01508.
Liu, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2021). Stand up to action: the postural effect of moral dilemma decision-making and the moderating role of dual processes, PsyCh Journal, 10(4), 587-597. doi.org/10.1002/pchj.449.
Liu, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2021). Unfortunate morality: the worse the luck, the more utilitarian. Chinese Social Psychology Review, 21, 220-242.
Liu, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2020). Superstition makes you less deontological: explaining the moral function of superstition by compensatory control theory. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 14(2), 273–277. 4/16, 2020, Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000316.
Liu, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2020) CAN Algorithm: an individual level approach to identify consequence and norm sensitivities and overall action/inaction preferences in moral decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 547916. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.547916
Wang, C., Huang, J., Liao, J., Wan, X. (2020). Food sharing with choice: Influence on social evaluation. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02070
Liao, J.*, & He, L. (2018). Appearance attractiveness from a psychological perspective, Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery, 34(3)，242-246.
Liu, C. #, & Liao, J.* (2018). An analytical approach to understanding and solving the replication crisis of the embodiment effect, Advances in Psychological Science(Chinese), 26(12), 2260-2271.
ØAwarded papers in conferences
Cheng, C. #, & Liao, J.*(2021) Coping with the coronavirus pandemic: risk perception predicts life optimism, the Best Paper Award of 2021 AUA and ICSGS Academic Conference, in November, 2021, online.
Cheng, C. #, & Liao, J.*(2021) The influence of thinking processing mode and gain-loss framing on consumers' purchase intention: based on the perspective of construal level theory, the Best Paper Award of the 24th Annual Academic Conference of Chinese Social Psychology Society, in October, 2021, Suzhou.
Liu, C. #&, & Liao, J.*(2019). The motivation process of the moral-question framing effect is explained by the action-based model of cognitive dissonance, the Best Paper Award of Annual Academic Conference of Chinese Social Psychology Society, in June, 2019, Changchun.
Du, Y., # & Liao, J. * (2019). Strong planting or weak planting: the role of brand–plot consistency and humor in product placement, the Best Paper Award of theAnnual Academic Conference of Chinese Social Psychology Society, in June, 2019, Changchun
Cheng, C. #, Liu, C. #, Liao, J.* & Xu, Y. (2019). Haze blocks windows to the soul: the role of anonymity in the ethical effects of air pollution, the Best Paper Award of the 22nd Annual Academic Conference of Chinese Social Psychological Society, in October, 2019, Hangzhou.
Cheng, C. #, Liu, C. #, Liao, J.* & Xu, Y. (2019). Haze blocks windows to the soul: the role of anonymity in the ethical effects of air pollution, the Best Paper Award of the 22nd Annual Academic Conference of Chinese Social Psychological Society, in October, 2019, Hangzhou.
lAcademic adjuncts
Council Member of the Chinese Psychology Branch of the International Association on EAP
Secretary-general and Member of the professional committee on Applied Social Psychology, the Chinese Social Psychology Association
Member of the professional committee on Economic Psychology, the Chinese Psychological Association
Member of the professional committee on Employee Promotion, the Chinese Psychological Association
Member of the professional committee on Science and Technology Human Resources Committee