Li Ying

My new paper with @thomhills in Cognition analyzed newspaper language referring to 60 U.S ethnic and cultural minority groups. Our research shows linguistic patterns underlying both the degree and content of outgroup prejudice. doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn…

Humans create more novelty than ChatGPT when asked to retell a story, by @FritzBreithaupt, @egeotenen, @Devin_R_Wright, @liying_n, and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

‼️Paper alert‼️ Our paper "Humans create more novelty than ChatGPT when asked to retell a story" has been published in Nature Scientific Reports. We compare various differences between humans and ChatGPT when they serially reproduce 116 stories in chains. nature.com/articles/s4159…

The abstract portal is NOW OPEN for #AffectScience2024 March 1 - March 3 in NEW ORLEANS! Abstract submissions are due *Wed, November 15 2023* We look forward to your poster (new idea or new results), flash talk, and symposium submissions! society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/20…

Why Suicide Rates Are Dropping Around the World | WIRED wired.com/story/suicide-…

Woohooo! So great to hear @talvaldivia and @DanMirea4 present their work on emotion fluency and social media use in depression!

We've been working on a lot of semantic norming projects over the last 2 years, but this one is the biggest: Now published in #psynomBRM: Concreteness ratings for 62000 multiword expressions, with @ejmuraki @summerabdalla and Marc Brysbaert. rdcu.be/cSlzz

How does society think about #risk? In our 🚨 new article 🚨 in @ScienceAdvances, we use free associations and #network analysis to map people's multi-facetted representation of risk and show commonalities and differences across languages, age, and gender. With @rui__mata

Taken together, our research demonstrates that semantic change is shaped by processing and acquisition patterns across generations of language users.

This hampering effect may have, in turn, curbed the rate of semantic change so that language does not change too fast for the human mind to catch up.

Why have some words changed their meanings more than others? My article with @csqsiew suggests that the rate of semantic change is constrained by how people use and learn language. link.springer.com/article/10.375…

@michael_geers_ @stefanmherzog I can't agree more.

Psychologists are increasingly sharing their code and data. Why not share their entire surveys too (instead of just screenshots)? Some immediate benefits for other researchers would be (1) better understanding of the exp. paradigm and (2) ease of reuse. Anything I’m missing?

"rats.. can switch to a “stochastic” mode when challenged with a competitor that they cannot defeat by counterprediction... switching between strategic and stochastic behavioral modes is controlled by locus coeruleus input into ACC" cell.com/fulltext/S0092…

@YuhanZhang_ I find this quite fun to look around :etymonline.com

🗓️REMINDER 🗓️Abstract submissions for #2022SAS are due November 22nd! The all-virtual conference will be held March 30-April 2, 2022! society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/20…

🙏Grateful about this first student-led work by Asra Fatima at @CognoscoL with @liying_n, @thomhills and I. Started as a final project @exetercompsci , we produced an #AI using cognitive data and networks to predict & understand #stress, #anxiety and #depression levels in texts.