Research

• Associate Editor of Journal of Computational Social Science
• Associate Editor of Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Publications (Google Scholar)

• Hoogeveen, S., Altay, S., Bendixen, T., Berniūnas, R., Bulbulia, J. A., Cheshin, A., ... & van Elk, M. (2022). The Einstein effect: Global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity. Nature Human Behaviour.

• Chan, S. H. M., Qiu, L., Esposito, G., Mai, K. P., Tam, K. P., Cui, J. (2021). Nature in virtual reality improves mood and reduces stress: Evidence from young adults and senior citizens. Virtual Reality. pdf

• Chan, S. H. M., Qiu, L., Esposito, G., Mai, K. P. (2021). Vertical greenery buffers against stress: Evidence from psychophysiological responses in virtual reality. Landscape and Urban Planning. pdf

• Sam, J. Y. T., Qiu, L., & Mai, K. P. (2020). Using virtual reality to improve memory recall and detection of deception in forensic interviews. Polygraph & Forensic Credibility Assessment, 49(2), 121–156.

• Phang, R., Qiu, L., Leung, A. K.-y. (2020). Dual Attitude Model of Opinion Diffusion: Experiments with Epistemically Motivated Agents. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2020). Best Paper Award. pdf

• Chen, J., Qiu, L., & Ho, M-H., R. (2020). A meta-analysis of linguistic markers of extraversion: Positive emotion and social process words. Journal of Research in Personality. pdf

• Qiu, L., Chan, S. H. M., Ito, K., & Sam, J. Y. T. (2020). Unemployment rate predicts anger in popular music lyrics: Evidence from top 10 songs in the United States and Germany from 1980 to 2017. Psychology of Popular Media. pdf

• Qiu, L., & Phang, R. (2020). Agent-based modeling in political decision making. Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making. Oxford University Press. pdf

• Qiu, L., Chen, J., Ramsay, J., & Lu., J. (2019). Personality predicts words in favorite songs. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2018.11.004 pdf

• Qiu, L., Chan, S.H.M. & Chan, D. (2018). Big data in social and psychological science: theoretical and methodological issues. Journal of Computational Social Science, 1, 59-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-017-0013-6 pdf

• Liu, P., Chan, D., Qiu, L, Tov, W., & Victor, N. (2018). Effects of Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Social Network Density on Expression of Positive and Negative Emotions: A Large-Scale Study of Impression Management by Facebook Users. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(11), 1567–1581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218770999 pdf

• Wood, D., Qiu, L., Lu, J., Lin, H., & Tov., W. (2018). Adjusting Bilingual Ratings by Retest Reliability Improves Estimation of Translation Quality. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(9), 1325-1339. pdf

• Leung, A. K.-y., & Qiu, L. (2017). Thinking through design is creative and inspiring: the why and how. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 3(2), 96-98. pdf

• Qiu, L., Lu, J., Ramsay, J., Yang, S., Qu, W., & Zhu, T. (2017). Personality Expression in Chinese Language Use. International Journal of Psychology, 52(6), 463–472. [We compared personality expression in Chinese and English, and showed that the connections between personality and content words is more likely to be consistent across languages than the connections between personality and function words.]pdf

• Lin, H., Yu, H., Miao, C., & Qiu, L. (2016). Towards Emotionally Intelligent Machines: Taking Social Contexts into Account. In G. Meiselwitz (Ed.) SCSM 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 9742, pp. 12–24, 2016. [Best Paper Award of the 8th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media]pdf

• Gao, W., Qiu, L., Chiu, C-y., Yang, Y. (2015). Diffusion of Opinions in a Complex Culture System: Implications for Emergence of Descriptive Norms. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46(10), 1252–1259. pdf

• Liu, P., Tov, W., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D. J., & Qiu, L. (2015). Do Facebook Status Updates Reflect Subjective Well-being? Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 18(7), 373-379. pdf

• Qiu, L., Lu, J., Yang, S., Qu, W., & Zhu, T. (2015). What Does Your Selfie Say about You? Computers in Human Behavior, 52, 443–449. [Media Coverage: UK Daily Mail The Newsteller Business Insider British Psychological Society Digest New York Daily News Fox News] pdf

• Guntuku, S.C., Qiu, L., Roy, S., Lin, W., & Jakhetiya, V. (2015). Do others perceive you as you want them to? Modeling personality based on selfies. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Conference 2015 Workshop on Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia (ASM).pdf

• Chaturvedi, I., Cambria, E., Zhu, F., Qiu, L., Ng, W. K. (2015). Multilingual Subjectivity Detection Using Deep Multiple Kernel Learning. In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM’15).pdf

• Qiu, L., Lin, H., Chiu, C.-y., & Liu., P. (2015). Online Collective Behaviors in China: Dimensions and Motivations. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 15(1), 44-68. pdf

• Lin, H., Tov, W., & Qiu, L.* (2014). Emotional Disclosure on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Network Structure and Psychological Needs. Computers in Human Behavior, 41, 342-350. (*corresponding author) pdf

• Chiu, C.-y., & Qiu, L. (2014). Communication and Culture: A Complexity Theory Approach. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 17, 108–111. doi: 10.1111/ajsp.12054. pdf

• Leung, A. K.-y., Liou*, S., Qiu*, L., Kwan, L. Y-Y., Chiu, C-y., & Yong, J. C. (2014). The role of instrumental emotion regulation in the emotions—creativity link: How worries render individuals high in neuroticism more creative. Emotion (*The authors contributed equally to this work).pdf

• Qiu, L., Lu, J.H., & Chiu, C.-y.(2014). Detecting the Needs for Happiness and Meaning in Life from Google Books. In Proceedings of IEEE 2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies (ICOT). doi: 10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956620. pdf

• Leung, A. K.-y., Qiu, L., & Chiu, C-y. (2014). The psychological science of globalization. In Y-y. Hong & V. Benet-Martinez (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural identity: Basic and applied perspectives. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199796694.013.022 pdf

• Qiu, L., Lin, H., & Leung, A. K.-y. (2013). Cultural Differences and Switching of In-group Sharing Behavior between an American (Facebook) and a Chinese (Renren) Social Networking Site. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(1), 106-121. pdf

• Tov, W., Ng, K. L., Lin, H., & Qiu, L. (2013). Detecting Well-Being via Computerized Content Analysis of Brief Diary Entries. Journal of Personality Assessment, vol 25(4), 1069-1078. doi: 10.1037/a0033007 pdf

• Leung, A. K.-y., Liou, S., Qiu, L., Kwan, L., Chiu, C-y., & Yong, J. C. (2013). The role of instrumental emotion regulation in the emotions-creativity link: how worries render neurotic individuals more creative. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '13). pdf

• Lin, H., & Qiu, L. (2013). Two Sites, Two Voices: Linguistic Differences between Facebook Status Updates and Tweets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8024, 2013, pp 432-440. pdf

• Qiu, L., Lin, H., Ramsay, J., & Yang, F. (2012). You Are What You Tweet: Personality Expression and Perception on Twitter. Journal of Research in Personality, 46(6),710–718. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2012.08.008.[5-year Impact Factor: 2.772] pdf media coverage

• Qiu, L., Lin, H., Leung, A. K.-y., & Tov, W. (2012). Putting Their Best Foot Forward: Emotional Disclosure on Facebook. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(10), 569-572. doi:10.1089/cyber.2012.0200. [Impact Factor: 2.410] pdf media coverage

• Leung, A. K.-y., Kim, S., Polman, E., Ong, L., Qiu, L., Goncola, J., & Sanchez-Burks, J. (2012). Embodied metaphors and creative “acts.” Psychological Science, 23 (5), 502-509. [Impact Factor: 4.431] pdf press release media coverage media coverage

• Lin, H., & Qiu, L. (2012) Sharing Emotion on Facebook: Network Size, Density, and Individual Motivation. in Proceedings of the 2012 annual conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012). pdf

• Leung, A. K-y., Qiu, L., Ong, L., & Tam, K-P. (2011). Embodied Cultural Cognition: Situating the Study of Embodied Cognition in Socio-Cultural Contexts. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, volume 5, Issue 9. pdf

• Qiu, L., Lin, H., & Leung, A. K-y. (2010). How Does Facebook Browsing Affect Self-awareness and Social Well-being: the Role of Narcissism. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Taiwan, 2010. pdf media coverage

• Qiu, L., Leung, A. K-y., Ho, J. H., Yeung, Q. M., FRANCIS, K. J., & Chua, P. F. (2010). Understanding the Psychological Motives Behind Microblogging, Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine, Vol 8, Special issue: Imaging the future. pp. 112-114. pdf

• Qiu, L., and Tang, N. (2010). An experimental study on Twitter usage. In Proceedings of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) Annual Conference, Singapore.

• Qiu, L. (2010). Computer Support in E-collaborative Learning-by-doing Environments. In B. Ertl (Eds.), Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning, Hershey, PA: IGI Global. pdf

• Qiu, L., Tay, W. W., and Wu, J. (2009). The Impact of Virtual Teamwork on Real-world Collaboration. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE’09). pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K. Human-in-the-loop: A Feedback-driven Model for Authoring Knowledge-based Interactive Learning Environments, Journal of Educational Computing Research, 38(4), pp. 469-509, 2008. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K. An Incremental Model for Developing Educational Critiquing Systems: Experiences with the Java Critiquer, Journal of Interactive Learning Research. 19 (1), pp. 119-145. Chesapeake, VA: AACE, 2008. pdf

• Qian, T., Qiu, L. Automatic Suggestion of Idiomatic Usage in English Using Web Search. in Proceedings of Web Intelligence 2007, IEEE Computer Society Press. pdf

• Qiu, L. SketchUML: The Design of a Sketch-based Tool for UML Class Diagrams. in Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA), June 2007.pdf

• Qiu, L. Tabcon: A Tablet-based Tool for Teaching Concurrent Programming. Poster at Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology in Education (WIPTE), June 2007.

• Qiu, L. Taking Student Affective States into Account: the Design and Evaluation of an Affective Strategy in a Critiquing System, in Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA), June 2006. pdf

• Qiu, L. Balancing Tradeoffs in Designing, Deploying, and Authoring Interactive Web-based Learn-by-doing Environments, book chapter in Advances in Computer-Supported Learning, F. Neto and F. Brasileiro (Eds.), pp. 339 - 361, Information Science Publishing, Idea Group Inc., ISBN:1-59904-355-6, 2006.pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C.K. Authoring Knowledge-based Educational Software: A Use-Driven Feedback-based Approach, in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE), June 2006. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C.K. Designing Web-based Interactive Learning Environments for Problem-based Learning, in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), July 2005. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K. The Design for Authoring and Deploying Web-based Interactive Learning Environments, in Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA), June 2005. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C.K. An Incremental Model for Developing Educational Critiquing Systems: Experiences with the Java Critiquer. in Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA), Switzerland, June 2004. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C.K. Incremental Authoring of Computer-based Interactive Learning Environments for Problem-based Learning. in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), Finland, 2004. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C.K. A Web-based Interactive Learn-by-doing Environment for Problem-based Learning. paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Researchers Association (AERA), April 12-16, 2004, San Diego, CA.

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C.K. Making Critiquing Practical: Incremental Development of Educational Critiquing Systems. in Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Portugal, January 2004. pdf

• Riesbeck, C. K., Qiu, L., Weusijana, B. K., Walsh, J. T., Parsek, M. R. Learning Technologies to Foster Critical Reasoning. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Volume 22, Number 4, 2003.

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K. Facilitating Critiquing in Education: The Design and Implementation of the Java Critiquer, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Hong Kong, December 2003. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K., Parsek, M. R. The Design and Implementation of an Engine and Authoring Tool for Web-based Learn-by-doing Environments. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA), Hawaii, June 2003. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K. Open Goal-Based Scenarios: An Architecture for Hybrid Learning Environments. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn), Montreal, Canada, October 2002.pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K. A Software Tool for Building Investigate and Decide Learning Environments. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA) Poster Session, Denver, June 2002. pdf

• Qiu, L., Riesbeck, C. K. Indie: A Software Tool for Investigate-and-Decide. Annual Conference of the American Educational Researchers Association (AERA), Poster Session, New Orleans, April 2002. pdf

Invited Presentations

• 大数据与计算社会科学, Wuhan University, China, June 30, 2021.
• 大数据时代社会科学研究的变革与挑战, Hunan University, China, Oct 20, 2021.
• Dual Attitude Model of Opinion Diffusion: Experiments with Epistemically Motivated Agents. The 7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2020), Bournemouth, UK, Nov 5 -7, 2020.
• Agent-based Modeling: 一座连接个体行为和宏观现象的桥梁. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, May 14, 2020.
• 大数据时代社会科学研究的新方法. Sichuan University, China, April 3, 2020.
• Big Data and Computational Social Science. Sichuan University, China, Dec 27, 2019.
• Social Media Analytics for Personality and Well-being. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China, Dec 26, 2019.
• 网络数据暴露了你: 使用社交媒体研究人格与幸福感. Southwest University, China, Dec 22, 2019.
• Agent-based Modeling: Connecting Individual Processes to Macro-level Phenomena, Wuhan University, China, Dec 9, 2019.
• Big Data in Computational Social Psychology: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Central China Normal University, China, Dec 9, 2019.
• Big Data in Computational Social Psychology: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Sun Yat-sen University, China, Dec 7, 2019.
• Push the Boundaries of Behavioral Sciences: Big Data and Virtual Reality. South China Normal University, China, Dec 5, 2019.
• Using Social Media to Study Personality and Subjective Well-being, Wuhan University, China, Dec 1, 2019.
• Virtual Reality: A New Methodological Tool for Behavioural Sciences, Wuhan University, China, Nov 30, 2019.
• Push the Boundaries of Behavioral Sciences: Big Data and Virtual Reality. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, Nov 29, 2019.
• Big Data and Computational Social Science, Wuhan University, China, Nov 25, 2019.
• Push the Boundaries of Behavioral Sciences: Big Data and Virtual Reality. Wenzhou University, China, Nov 18, 2019.
• Social Media Analytics for Personality and Well-being. Fudan University, China, Nov 5, 2019.
• Big Data and Computational Social Science, Central University of Finance and Economics, China, Oct 28, 2019.
• Big Data and Computational Social Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, China, Oct 28, 2019.
• Big Data, Social Media, and Public Policy. Xiamen University, China, Oct 23, 2019.
• Can the songs you like predict who you are? 2018 conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP2018), New Zealand, April 5‐7, 2018.
• Lyrics and Personality: Linguistic Cues in Favorite Songs Reflect Personality (你被写在你爱的歌里： 歌词反映人格), The 10th Conference for Chinese Psychologists (第十届华人心理学家学术研讨会), Harbin, China, September 16-18, 2017. [Emerging Scholars Award(华人新秀奖)].
• The Effect of Cultural Holidays in a Multicultural Society, 8th Culture Mixing Conference, Guangzhou, China, March 7-8, 2015.
• Use Online Data to Study Personality and Subjective Well-being (用网上数据来研究人格和幸福感), Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-sen University 中山大学岭南（大学）学院, Guangzhou, China, Dec 30, 2014. poster
• Analyzing Big Data to Understand Personality, Subjective Well-being, and Collective Behaviors (传播与大数据系列讲座3：分析网上数据来研究人格、幸福感和集群行为), School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), Guangzhou, China, Dec 29, 2014. poster
• What do Your Tweets and Selfies Say about You? Using Social Media to Predict Personality, Hang Seng Management College (恒生管理學院), Hong Kong, Oct 2014.
• Online Collective Behaviors in China: Dimensions and Motivations, New Silk Road Peak Of Excellence Workshop, Singapore, March 14, 2014
• Leveraging Social Media for Social Science Research, Behavioral Sciences Institute (BSI), Singapore Management University, March 11, 2014.
• Personality Perception Based on Facebook Status Updates, American Psychological Association Annual Convention in Honolulu, USA, July 31 – August 4, 2013.
• The Role of Instrumental Emotion Regulation in the Emotions-Creativity Link: How Worries Render Neurotic Individuals More Creative, Creativity and Cognition 2013 Conference, Sydney, June 2013.
• An Integrative Approach to Studying the Psychology of Cyberspace, Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院心理研究所), Beijing, Dec 17, 2012
• Two Approaches to Modeling Electric Vehicles Charging Behavior, TUM CREATE Scientific Workshop, Singapore, Nov 14, 2012
• Agent-based Modeling: A Computational Approach to Social Psychological Research, Institute of Sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院社会学研究所), Beijing, June 27, 2012.
• Self-disclosure on Facebook: The Influence of Network Properties and Personal Needs, 24th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention in Chicago, USA, May 24 – 27, 2012
• 创新，创意，创业 (Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship), Institutes of Creative Industries Design (ICID), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (台湾國立成功大學創意產業設計研究所)， Feb 29 ， 2012. photo
• Product Design for New Business Venture, Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC), Feb 7, 2012
• The Psychology of New Technology, Singapore Management University, Jan 31, 2012
• Psychological Studies of Online Social Media, Hewlett-Packard Labs Singapore, Dec 6, 2011
• Insight from the success of Facebook: a case study of technology innovation and entrepreneurship, MBA workshop, Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC), Nov 15，2011.
• Cross-functional Team Creativity Workshop: 跨領域團隊創意工作營， Institutes of Creative Industries Design (ICID), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (台湾國立成功大學創意產業設計研究所)， Oct 5-7， 2011 photo
• "Understanding the Psychological Motives Behind Microblogging", Workshop on Social Network Mining, Singapore Management University, Sept, 2010.
• "Tablet PC-based visualization for teaching concurrent programming", Conversation between Art & Science on Information Visualization conference, State University of New York at Oswego, NY, March, 2007.
• "Designing for Learners, Instructors, and Authors." CHIRoch and HFES-Western NY meeting, Rochester, NY, December 2004.
• "Facilitating Problem-based Learning: An Engine and Authoring Tool for Building Web-based Learning-by-doing Environments." Vanderbuilt University, Nashville, TN, May 2002.
• "Building Web-based Interactive Learning Environments to Facilitate Delivering Problem-based Learning." Learning Sciences Research Seminars, Northwestern University, Fall 2002.
• "Indie: A Software Tool for Building Investigate and Decide Learning Environments." MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.

Teaching and Supervision

• Ph.D. students:
  Luo Yin (2021 - present)
  Yunlin Wang (2021 - present)
  Bernice Lin (2021 - present)
  Jerlyn Lam (2020 - present)
  Jamie Miang (2019 - present)
  Joyce Sam (2018 - 2021)
  Sarah Chan (2017 - 2021)
  Jiayu Chen (2016- 2021, currently at Huawei 2012 research lab)
  Jiahui Lu (2013 - 2018, currently Associate Professor at Tianjin University, China)
  Han Lin (2009 - 2014, currently at Alibaba.com)
  
• Lab team members
• John Cheung Endowment Award for Best Use of Social Media in Learning and Teaching 2016

Media Coverage

• Live interview with Channel News Asia's First Look Asia program about the social and psychological aspects of Selfie. May 26, 2014
• Live interview with "The Matt Bubala Show" on WGN Radio in Chicago: "Falling off a cliff with reversed camera in hand: The last selfies these people ever took." Sept 26, 2015
• News reports: UK Daily Mail The Newsteller Business Insider British Psychological Society Digest New York Daily News Fox News

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