Publications

Peer-reviewed

1. Liu, X.S., & McKenzie, C.R., & Schachner, A.(2025). When Default Options Explain Away Preferences: A Causal Reasoning Account of Mental State Reasoning from Default Options. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47.

2. Stewart, R.D., Diaz, A., Hou, X., Liu, X. S., Vainik, U., Johnson, W., & Mõttus, R. (2024). The ways of the world? Cross-sample replicability of personality trait-life outcome associations. Journal of Research in Personality, 112, 104515.

3. Liu, X.S.(2021). What motivates us to go on strike? Social and moral norms and their impact on strike participation in individualist and collectivist situations in western cultures. Journal of European Psychology Students, 12(1), pp.1–15.

Under review/revision

McKenzie, C.R., Sher, S., Liu, X.S., & Kleiman-Lynch, J.L. (under revision). When and Why Framing Effects Are Neither Errors nor Mistakes. Mind and Society

In preparation

1. Liu, X.S., McCauley, T., & McCullough, M.E. (in prep). Watch me be self-controlled.

2. Liu, X.S., & Mõttus, R. (in prep). Happy and in control: exploring cultural differences in the relationship across cultures using IPIP dataset. Personality Science.

3. Liu, X.S., McKenzie, C.R., McCullough, M.E., Winkielman, P. (in prep). Second-order preferences: Origins and implications.

4. Liu, X.S., Leong, L., McKenzie, C. & Sher, S. (in prep). Who accepts description invariance?