Research

Xu, Y. (2023). A Cross-Cultural Examination of Social Essentialism. Chinese Social Psychological Studies, 1, 205-214. 

 

Xu, Y., & Coley, J.D. (2022). Intuitive Biology Thinking in Chinese Middle Schoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105511

 

Xu, Y., Burns, M., Wen, F., Thor, E. D., Zuo, B., Coley, J. D., & Rhodes, M. (2022). How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning: A Developmental Comparison. Journal of Cognition and Development, 51, 681-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2022.2085708 

 

Xu, Y., Wen, F., Zuo, B., Rhodes, M. (2022). Social Essentialism in the United  States and China: How Social and Cognitive Factors Predict Within- and Cross-Cultural Variances in Essentialist Thinking. Memory & Cognition, 23(5), 644-659. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01306-1  

 

Xu, Y., Berryessa, M. C., Dowd, M., Penta, D., & Coley, J. D. (2021). Essentialist Bias in Culpability and Punishment Decision-Making. Psychology, Crime, and Law, 28(3), 246-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2021.1905812 

 

Xu, Y., Li, X., & Coley, J. D. (2021). How Essentialist Beliefs about National Groups Differ by Cultural Origin and Study-Abroad Experience among Chinese and American College Students. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 24(4), 537-552. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12456 

 

Wen, F., Ye, H., Wang, Y., Xu, Y., & Zuo, B. (2021). Icing on the cake: “Amplification Effect” of innovative information form in news report about COVID-19. Frontiers Psychology,12:600523. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.600523 

 

Wen, F., Zuo, B., Ma, S., Xu, Y., Coley, J.D., & Wang, Y. (2020). Do We See Masculine Faces as Competent and Feminine Faces as Warm? Effects of Sexual Dimorphism on Facial Perception. Evolutionary Psychology,18(4), 1474704920980642. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704920980642 

 

Coley, J. D., Feeney, A., Xu, Y., Wen, F., & Zuo, B. (2019). A Two-component Framework Captures Cross-cultural Similarities and Differences in Essentialist Thinking About Social Categories. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jbg4r 

 

Coley, J. D., Arenson, M., Xu, Y., & Tanner, K. (2017). Intuitive Biological Thought: Developmental Changes and Effects of Biology Education in Late Adolescence. Cognitive Psychology, 92, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.11.001