ph.d., associate professor
email: [email protected]
education
hebei normal university, b.s., 1995-1999(psychology)
capital normal university, m.a., 2000-2003(psychology)
beijing normal university, ph.d., 2003-2006(psychology)
employment
associate and assistant professor, department of psychology, renmin university of china, 2009-present.
assistant professor, school of society and population, renmin university of china, 2006-2009.
visiting scholar, psychological science, university of california, irvine, 2015-2016.
courses taught
undergraduate level
experimental psychology
advanced experimental techniques
language, cognition and culture
graduate level
psychological academic writing
culture, emotion and cognition
psycholinguistic literature
research areas
emotion and cognition, health
academic journals (*corresponding author)
articles published in english journals
1. xu, c., wang, r., zhu, l., liao, z., wang, z., wang, y., liu, c*. (2024). influence of social distance on foreign language effect in moral judgment. journal of psycholinguistic research, 53, 34.
2. sheng, h., wang, r., liu, c*. (2023). the effect of explicit and implicit online self-compassion interventions on sleep quality among chinese adults: a longitudinal and diary study. frontiers in psychology, 14, 1062148.
3. wang, r., wang, y., chen, c., huo, l., liu, c*. (2023). how do eye cues affect behaviors? two meta-analyses. current psychology, 10.1007/s12144-023-04395-6.
4. liu, c., wang, y., li, j., xing, x., chen, x., liu, j., & wu, x. (2022). the development of social function questionnaire for chinese older adults. frontiers in psychology, 13, 794990.
5. liu, c., li, j., chen, c., yuan, l., & yu, g. (2021). individual pride and collective pride: differences between chinese and american corpora. frontiers in psychology, 12, 1806.
6. liu, c*., li, j., tao, z., wang, z., chen, c., & dong, y. (2021). prestige and dominance as assessed by friends, strangers, and the self. personality and individual differences, 179, 110965.
7. liu j., zhu l., & liu, c*. (2020). sleep quality and self-control: the mediating roles of positive and negative affects. frontiers in psychology, 11, 3412.
8. liu, c., cheng, y., hsu, a., chen, c., liu, j., & yu, g. (2018). optimism and self-efficacy mediate the association between shyness and subjective well-being among chinese working adults. plos one, 13(4): e0194559.
9. liu, c., yuan, l., chen, c., & yu, g. (2016). authentic and hubristic pride as assessed by self, friends, and strangers. social psychological and personality science, 7(7), 690–696.
10. liu, c., lai, w., yu, g., & chen, c. (2014). the individual and collective facets of pride in chinese college students. basic and applied social psychology, 36(2), 176–189.
11. yan, z., liu, c., valtteri, n., & yu, g. (2013). exploring the impact of trust information visualization on mobile application usage. personal and ubiquitous computing, 17(6), 1295–1313.
12. yu, g., wang, y., & liu, c*. (2012). improving public service quality from a developmental perspective: empathy, attachment, and gender differences. public personnel management, 41(5), 9–20.
13. liu, c., lu, k., yu, g., & chen, c. (2012). implicit association between authentic pride and prestige compared to hubristic pride and dominance. psychological reports, 111(2), 424–442.
14. song, y., peng, d., lu, c., liu, c., li, x., liu, p., qu, z., & ding, y. (2007). an event-related potential study on perception learning in grating orientation discrimination. neuroreport, 18(9), 945–948.
15. peng, d., hu, z., liu, h., liu, c., & ding, g. (2006). neuro-cognitive mechanisms underlying the emotional modulation of word reading. chinese science bulletin, 51(4), 377–384.
articles published in chinese journals
1. liu, s., zhu, l., wang, r., xu, c., wang, y., & liu, c.* (2024). is there dialect effect in moral decision-making?. studies of psychology and behavior, 22(1), 31–38.
2. xu, c., zhu, l., wang, y., wang, r., & liu, c.* (2023). the effect of foreign language speaking anxiety on the quality of verbal interaction: a fnirs-based hyperscanning study. acta psychologica sinica, 55(12), 1949–1965.
3. wang, r., xu, s., zhu, l., wang, y., & liu, c.* (2023). the influence of need for cognition and need for cognitive closure on foreign-language effect in risk decision-making. journal of psychological science, 46(1), 121–129.
4. wang, y., zhu, l., du, h., & liu, c.* (2022). the effect of self-compassion on sleep quality: the mediating roles of positive affect, negative affect, and self-control. journal of psychological science, 45(4), 785–793.
5. zhu, l., liu, j., li, j., & liu, c.* (2022). moral foreign language effect and its moderating variables: a systematic review and meta-analysis. advances in psychological science, 30(1), 32–50.
6. liu, c., dong, y., wang, h., & zhang, d. (2021). social exclusion experience and health condition among the rural elders: the moderated mediating effect. psychological development and education, 37(5), 752–760.
7. wang, h., fang, y., dong, y., liu, c., & yu, g. (2020). development and validation of the academic authentic pride and academic hubristic pride questionnaire for adolescence. chinese journal of clinical psychology, 28(6), 1182–1185.
8. liu, c., wang, z., & liu, j. (2019). emotional status of beijing residents and its relationship with happiness. available in beijing social psychological service promotion center. blue book of beijing social mentality: annual report on beijing social mentality (2018-2019) (pp. 73−107). beijing: social sciences academic press.
9. liu, c., & fan, c. (2017). the effect of social rejection on psychological needs and negative affects: the moderating role of self-construction. study of social psychology, 112, 36–43.
10. wang, z., zhang, x., ji, w., lu, k., & liu, c.* (2017). the influence of male hubristic pride, authentic pride and self-deprecation on intimate relationship. study of social psychology, 112, 80–105.
11. zhang, x., & liu, c.* (2017). the watching eyes effect on prosociality. advances in psychological science, 25(3), 475–485.
12. liu, r., guo, c., & liu, c. (2013). the role of proactive interference to working memory: how the brain resolve proactive interference? advances in psychological science, 21(1), 48–58.
13. zheng, p., liu, c., & yu, g. (2012). an overview of mood-induction methods. advances in psychological science, 20(1), 45–55.
14. wang, y., yu, g., & liu, c. (2010). social cognitive neuroscience: the paradigm and its influences on psychology. psychological science, 33(5), 1174–1176.
15. zhang, y., liu, c.*, & dong, y. (2010). the new form of self-views: a review of self-compassion research. advances in psychological science, 18(12), 1872–1881.
16. liu, c., zhang, y., & yu, g. (2010). affective forecasting biases and related studies. advances in psychological science, 18(8), 1246–1255.
17. fan, z., yu, g., & liu, c. (2009). a brief review of psychological pain research: focused on the psychological pain of victims from the 5·12 earthquake. advances in psychological science, 17(3), 631–638.
18. yu, g., & liu, c. (2009). independent or integrated: the influence and challenges of social cognitive neuroscience on social psychology. journal of renmin university of china, 23(3), 70–79.
19. liu, c., & yu, g. (2009). the function of human amygdala in cognition. progress in physiological sciences, 40(4), 349–352.
20. liu, c., wang, y., yu, g., & wang, y. (2009). related theories and exploration on dynamic model of empathy. advances in psychological science, 17(5), 964–972.
21. hu, z., xu, s., liu, h., liu, c., peng, d., jin, z., & shu, l. (2008). different activation pattern to unattended emotional words in depressed vs. healthy subjects. national medical journal of china, 88(5), 289–292.
22. liu, c., guo c., ding j., & yu g. (2008). effects of character frequency and preexisting representation on the subsequent memory effect. acta psychologica sinica, 40(06), 662–670.
23. liu, c., peng, d., & lu, m. (2006). advances in brain imaging research of acc in conflict monitoring and executive control. progress in physiological sciences, 37(2), 169–172.
monographs and translations
1. phenomenological sociology, by harvie ferguson, translated by liu conghui, guo zhitian, & zhang qi, peking university press, 2010.
2. self-compassion: stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind, by kristin neff, translated by liu conghui, china machin press, 2012.
3. is there anything good about men? how cultures flourish by exploiting men, by baumeister, r. f., translated by liu conghui, china machin press, 2014.
4. exploring the psychology of interest, by paul j. silvia, translated by liu conghui, people’s education press, 2018
5. mismatch: how our stone age brain deceives us every day, by ronald giphart, mark van vugt, translated by liu conghui, china machine press, 2022
6. research on english learning anxiety of undergraduate, by liu conghui. ocean university of china press, 2008.
7. analysis of schachter's classic works on mental health, by liu conghui. zhejiang education press, 2013.
8. an introduction to the classics of social psychology, beijing normal university press, 2008, main co-editor.
9. frontiers in social psychology, beijing normal university press, 2010, main co-editor.
10. introduction to the classics of mental health, kaiming press, 2012, main co-editor.