Behavioral Science PhD Student Yuanze Liu
Education
MA, Psychology, Peking University
BA, Psychology, Beijing Normal University
Background
Yuanze is a doctoral student in Behavioral Science. Before that, Yuanze worked as a research professional at Booth for two years with Professor Joshua Jackson on cultural evolution. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology in China.
Research Interests
Yuanze studies cultural evolution. One area of his research examines how human psychology (e.g., social evaluation, prejudice) evolves with social ecology, often in spontaneous and adaptive ways. Another area investigates how human societies intentionally shape their cultural evolution, for example, by deciding which practices to adopt, what ideas to spread, how information circulates, and how disagreements are managed. Taken together, Yuanze’s work aims to understand how we can build better forms of collective life.
Selected Publications
Liu, Y., Hou, Y., & Hong, Y. (2025). The profiles, predictors, and intergroup outcomes of cultural attachment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 51(3), 374–393.
Liu, Y., Wu, Z., Wang, Y., Dong, Z., Sun, Z., & Gan, Y. (2024). Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID 鈥�19 pandemic: A cross鈥恘ational analysis. Political Psychology, 45(2), 363–382.