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Qi Wang

Joan K. and Irwin M. Jacobs Professor

Publications

(Selected. For a complete list of publications, see Curriculum Vitae)

Wang, Q. (2021). The cultural foundation of human memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 72, 151-179. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-070920-023638

Yang, Y., Wang, L., & Wang, Q. (2021). Take your word or tone for it? European American and Chinese children’s attention to emotional cues in speech. Child Development, 92(3), 844-852. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13576

Swallow, K. M., & Wang, Q. (2020). Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104450

Wang, Q., & Jeon, H. J. (2020). Bias in Bias Recognition: People View Others but not Themselves as Biased by Preexisting Beliefs and Social Stigmas. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240232. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240232

Wang, Q., Koh, J. B. K., Santacrose, D., Song, Q., Klemfuss, J. Z., & Doan, S. N. (2019). Child-centered memory conversations facilitate children’s episodic thinking. Cognitive Development, 51, 58-66. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.05.009

Wang, Q., Hou, Y., Koh, J. B. K., Song, Q., & Yang, Y. (2018). Culturally motivated remembering: The moderating role of culture for the relation of episodic memory to well-being. Clinical Psychological Science, 6(6), 860-871. 

Wang, Q., & Song, Q. (2018). He says, she says: Mothers and children remembering the same events. Child Development, 89(6), 2215-2229. 

Wang, Q. (2016). Why should we all be cultural psychologists? Lessons from the study of social cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 5, 583-596.

Wang, Q., & Koh, J. B. K. (2015). How will things be the next time? Self in the construction of future events among school-aged children. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 131-138. 

Wang, Q., & Peterson, C. (2014). Your earliest memory may be earlier than you think: Prospective studies of children’s dating of earliest childhood memories. Developmental Psychology, 50(6), 1680-6.

Wang, Q. (2013). Gender and emotion in everyday event memory. Memory, 21, 503-511. 

Wang, Q., Hou, Y., Tang, H., & Wiprovnick, A. (2011). Traveling backward and forward in time: Culture and gender in the episodic specificity of past and future events. Memory, 19, 1, 103-109.

Wang, Q., Shao, Y., & Li, Y. J. (2010). “My way or Mom’s way?” The bilingual and bicultural self in Hong Kong Chinese children and adolescents. Child Development, 81, 2, 555-567. 

Wang, Q. (2009). Are Asians forgetful? Perception, retention, and recall in episodic remembering. Cognition, 111, 123-131 

Wang, Q. (2008). Emotion knowledge and autobiographical memory across the preschool years: A cross-cultural longitudinal investigation. Cognition, 108, 117-135.

Wang, Q. (2008). Being American, being Asian: The bicultural self and autobiographical memory in Asian Americans. Cognition, 107, 743-751.

Eli Friedman

Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor

Nancy Chau

Professor

Publications

Xu Xin

Adjunct Associate Professor

Jessica Chen Weiss

Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies

Ding Xiang Warner

Professor

Publications

  • “A Splendid Patrimony”: Wang Bo and the Development of a New Poetic Decorum in Early Tang China.  T'oung Pao.  98:113-144. 2012
  • The Two Voices of Wangchuan Ji: Poetic Exchange between Wang Wei and Pei Di.  Early Medieval China.  10-11:57-72. 2005
  • Rethinking the Authorship and Dating of 'Gujing ji' (The Story of an Ancient Mirror).  T'ang Studies.  20-21:1-38. 2002
  • Wang Tong and the Compilation of the Zhongshuo (Discourses on the Mean): A New Evaluation of the Source Materials and Points of Controversy.  Journal of the American Oriental Society.  121:370-390. 2001
  • Mr. Five Dippers of Drunkenville: The Representation of Enlightenment in Wang Ji's Drinking Poems.  Journal of the American Oriental Society.  118:347-355. 1998

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Jeremy Lee Wallace

Professor

Publications

Books

Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014.

Articles and Chapters

2017. “Seeing Ghosts: Parsing China’s “Ghost City” Controversy.” Urban Geography. (with Max Woodworth).

2016. “Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China.” British Journal of Political Science. 46(1): 11–29. Media mentions: Marginal Revolution, 16 May 2014; Washington Post Monkey Cage, 30 April 2014.

2015. “The Political Geography of Nationalist Protest in China: Cities and the 2012 Anti-Japanese Demonstrations.” China Quarterly. Vol. 222, 403–429. (with Jessica Chen Weiss)

2015. “Information Politics in Dictatorships.” in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (eds.) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn. John Wiley and Sons.

2014. “Central vs. Local States: Which Matters More for China’s Urban Growth?” Land Use Policy Vol. 38, (May 2014): 487–496. (with Qian Zhang, Karen Seto, & Xiangzheng Deng)

2013. “Cities, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Regime Survival.” The Journal of Politics. Vol. 75, no. 3. (Jul 2013): 632–645. Media mentions: Foreign Policy. 15 July 2013; Wall Street Journal.
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Allen R. Carlson

Associate Professor

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