Peer-reviewed Papers
Tian, Y. & Bian, L. (2023) Should leaders conform? Developmental evidence from the United States and China. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001451
Legaspi, J. K., Pareto, H. G., Korroch, S. L., Tian, Y., & Mandalaywala, T. M. (2023). Do American children automatically encode cues to wealth? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 234, 105706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105706
Jiang, X., & Tian, Y. (2016). Cultural confidence of Chinese people: Reflection on “The Spirit of the Chinese People”. Higher Education of Social Sciences, 11(4), 8-13.
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Working Papers
Tian, Y., Gonzalez, G., & Mandalaywala, T. (Revise and Resubmit) Beliefs About Social Mobility in Young American Children. Developmental Science.
Shachnai, R., Leshin, R., Wang, M., Tian Y., Bian, L., & Cimpian., A. (Revise and Resubmit) A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Girls’ and Boys’ Political Ambition.
Wang, Q., Mert, N.,& Tian, Y.. (under review) Remembering the Good and Bad and the Self and Others in a Culturally Modulated Self-Memory System.
Tian, Y., & Mandalaywala, T. (in prep) The development of children’s social mobility belief: A review of the cognitive foundations.
Tian, Y., & Bian, L. (in prep) Do children expect boy leaders to conform less than girl leaders? Developmental evidence from the U.S. and China.
Tian, Y., Ukairo, O., Yu, X., & Mandalaywala, T. (in prep) Children’s beliefs in group-based disparities of upward social mobility.
Research Talks and Presentations
Tian, Y., & Mandalaywala, T., (February 2024) Children’s Beliefs in Group-based Disparities of Social Mobility. Poster to be presented at the 2024 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
Tian, Y., & Mandalaywala, T., (May 2023) Children’s causal attribution of upward social mobility. Talk presented at the Child Seminar for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA.
Tian, Y., & Mandalaywala, T., (March 2023) Children’s preferential attention to and memory for stereotypical information. Paper presented to the Biennial Conference 2023 of Society of Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tian, Y., & Mandalaywala, T.,(March 2022) Children’s inferences about and explanations for occupation-based wealth. Paper presented to the Biennial Conference 2022 of Child Development Society, Madison, WI.
Tian, Y., & Mandalaywala, T.,(April 2022) Children’s inferences about and explanations for occupation-based wealth. First-year presentation at the Developmental Science seminar for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA.
Shachnai, R., Leshin, R., Tian Y., Wang, M., Bian, L., & Cimpian., A., The development of gendered concepts of political leaders: Evidence from the US and China. Paper presented to the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Tian, Y., Bian, L., (April 2021) More power, more freedom: 4- to 8-year-old children approve of powerful group members’ non-conformity. Paper presented to the 2021 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Tian, Y., Wang, Q., (February 2021) Remembering the good and the bad: Culture, memory, and well-being. Poster presented in the 2021 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention.
Tian, Y., Bian, L., (November 2020) More power, more freedom: The power to be different. Talk presented at the Ithaca Youth Research Café, Ithaca, NY.
Tian, Y., Bian, L., (November 2020) Young children from two cultures approve of powerful group members’ non-conformity. Talk presented at the Cornell Human Development Brown Bag Series, Ithaca, NY.
Tian, Y., Wang, Q.,(February 2020). The moderating role of culture for the relation of success and failure memories to well-being. Talk presented at the Cornell Human Development Prospective Graduate Students Interview Weekend, Ithaca, NY.