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Ji, L.J., Khei, M., Yap, S., Wang, X., Zhang, Z., & Hou, Y. (2021). Cultural differences in the construal of suffering and the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(6), 1039–1047. doi:10.1177/1948550620958807
Ji, L.J., Vaughan-Johnston, T., Zhang, Z., Jacobson, J., Zhang, N., & Huang, X. (2021). Context and cultural differences in optimism. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(5), 449-467.
Vaughan-Johnston, T., Imtiaz, F., Lee, A., & Ji, L.J. (2021). Age differences of leadership positions across cultures. Frontiers in Psychology. (correspondence author)
Yap, S., Lee, A., Ji, L.J., Li, Y. & Dong, Y. (2021). Cultural differences in people’s psychological response to COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:636062. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.636062 (correspondence author)
Huo, J‐Y, Wang, X‐Q, Ge, Y, Wang, Y-C., H. X-Y., Liu, M-F., Ji, L.J., Ye, B-J. (2021).
Chinese college students' ability to recognize facial expressions based on their meaning‐in‐life profiles: An eye‐tracking study. Journal of Personality. 89, 514-530.
Yang, Z., Ji, L.J., Yang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhu, L., & Cai, H. (2021). Meaning making helps cope with covid-19: A longitudinal study. Personality and Individual Difference, 174, 110670.
Imtiaz, F., Ji, L.J. & Vaughan-Johnston , T. (2021). Exploring preference for present- and future-focused job opportunities across seniors and young adults. Current Psychology.
Chen, Q., Wang, X.Q., He, X.X., Ji, L.J. Liu, M., & Ye, B. (2021). The relationship between search for meaning in life and symptoms of depression and anxiety: Key roles of the presence of meaning in life and life events among Chinese adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 545-553.
Imtiaz, F. & Ji, L.J., (2021). Then and Now: Examining the impact of temporal focus on persuasive messages across seniors and young adults, Experimental Aging Research, 47(1), 57-78. DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2020.1839309
Spina, R., Ji, L.J., Li, Y., & Zhang, Z. (2020). Cultural differences in the tendency to seek practical versus theoretical information. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 51(7-8), 636-653. doi.org/10.1177/0022022120933691
Lee, A., Ji, L.J., Li, Y., & Zhang, Z. (2020). Fear David or Goliath? Inferring competence from demeanor across cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46 (7), 1074-89. DOI: 10.1177/0146167219893999. (correspondence author)
Ji, L.J. & An, S. (2020). Cultural differences in people’s responses to accidents. Journal of Loss and Trauma.
Ji, L.J., Yap, S., Best, M., & McGeorge, K. (2019) Global processing makes people happier than local processing. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00670
Ji, L.J, Hong, E., Guo, T., Zhang, Z., Su, Y., & Li, Y. (2019). Culture, psychological proximity to the past and future, and self-continuity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (4), 735-747.
Imtiaz, F., Ji, L. J., & Vaughan-Johnston, T. (2019). Exploring the influence of a low-dose mindfulness induction on performance and persistence in a challenging cognitive task. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 2, 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.32
Yap, S., Ji, L.J., & Hong, E. (2018). Culture and cognition. In Sharon Tompson-Schill (ed.) The Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119170174.epcn314
Imtiaz, F., Khei, M., & Ji, L. J. (2018). Resilience through Suffering: A Potential Military Application. In A. MacIntyre, D. Legace-Roy, & D.R. Lindsay (Eds.) Global Views on Military Stress and Resilience. Canadian Defence Academy Press, 37-53.
Zhang, N., Ji., L.J., Bai, B., & Li, Y. (2018). Culturally Divergent Consequences of Receiving Thanks in Close Relationships. Emotion, 18(1), 46-57. doi: 10.1037/emo0000385
Zhang, N., Ji. L.J., & Guo, T. (2018) Culture and lay theories of change, in Julie Spencer-Rogers and Kaiping Peng (Eds.) The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Thinking, Oxford University Press, 81-104.
Ji. L.J., & Chan, E. (2017) Chinese thinking styles and religion, in Justin Barrett and Ryan Hornbeck (eds.) Religious cognition in China, Springer International, 35-54.
Ji, L.J., Zhang, N., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Harper, G, Khei, M., & Li, J. (2017). Cultural variations in reasons for advice-seeking. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 30:708-718.
An, S., Ji, L.J., Marks, M., & Zhang, Z. (2017). Two Sides of Emotion: Exploring positivity and negativity in six basic emotions across cultures. Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 610
Zhang, N., Ji, L.J., & Li, Y. (2017). Cultural differences in opportunity cost consideration. Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 45. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00045/abstract
Ji, L.J., & Yap, S. (2016). Culture and cognition. Current Opinion in Psychology. 8: 105-111. DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.10.004
Zhang, N., & Ji, L.J. (2015). Beyond whom and when: a revisit of the influences of social norms on behavior. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 46: 1319-1323. DOI: 10.1177/0022022115600261
Ji, L.J., McGeorge, K., Li, Y., Lee, A., & Zhang, Z. (2015). Culture and gambling fallacies. Springerplus, 4 (1):510. http://www.springerplus.com/content/4/1/510. DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-1290-2
Lee, A., & Ji, L.J. (2014). Moving away from a bad past and towards a good future: feelings influence the metaphorical understanding of time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 143(1), 21-26.
Miyamoto, Y., Knoepfler, C.A., Ishii, K., & Ji, L.J. (2013). Cultural variation in the focus on goals versus processes of actions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(6), 707-719, doi: 10.1177/0146167213483579
Ji, L.J., & Kaulius, M. (2013). Judgment and decision making across cultures. Advances in Psychological Science, 21(3), 381-388.
Guo, T., Ji, L.J, Spina, R., & Zhang, Z. (2012). Culture, temporal focus, and values of the past and the future. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(8), 1030 – 1040, DOI 10.1177/0146167212443895. (correspondence author)
Jacobson, J., Ji, L.J., Ditto, P.H., Zhang, Z., Reiss, S.K., Legnini, V., Sorkin, D., Roper-Coleman, S., Ebel-Lam, A. (2012). The Effects of Culture and Self-Construal on Responses to Threatening Health Information. Psychology and Health. DOI:10.1080/08870446.2011.652963
Rounding, K., Lee, A., Jacobson, J., & Ji, L.J. (2012). Religion Replenishes Self-Control. Psychological Science. 23(6), 635-642.
Miyamoto, Y., & Ji, L.J. (2011). Power fosters context-independent, analytic cognition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(11), 1449-1458.
Hsieh, A.Y., Tripp, D., Ji, L.J. (2011). The influence of ethnic concordance and discordance on verbal reports and nonverbal behaviors of pain. Pain. 152(9),2016-22
Ji, L.J. (2010). Is Confucian culture forgiving? Learning and Individual Difference, 20(6), 569-570.
Hsieh, A.Y., Tripp, D.,Ji, L.J. & Sullivan, M.J.L. (2010) Comparisons of catastrophizing, pain attitudes, and cold pressor pain experience between Chinese and European Canadian young adults. Journal of Pain. 11(11), 1187-94.
Spina, R., Ji, L.J., Guo, T., Zhang, Z, Li, Y., & Fabrigar, L. (2010) Cultural Differences in the Representativeness Heuristic: Expecting a Correspondence in Magnitude between Cause and Effect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 36(5), 583-597.
Spina, R., Ji, L.J., Ross, M., Li, Y., & Zhang, Z. (2010) Why best can’t last: Cultural differences in anticipating regression toward the mean. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 13, 153-162.
Ji. L.J., Lee, A., & Guo, T. (2010) The thinking styles of Chinese people, in Michael Bond (ed.) The handbook of Chinese Psychology (2nd edition), Oxford University Press, p155-167.
Yates, F.J.,Ji, L.J., Oka, T, Lee, J.W., Shinotsuka, H., & Sieck, W. (2010) Indecisiveness and culture: Incidence, values, and thoroughness. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41(3), 428-444.
Ji, L.J., Guo, T., Zhang, Z.,& Messervey, D. (2009) Looking into the past: Cultural differences in perception and representation of past information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(4), 761-769.
Ji, L.J. (2008) The leopard cannot change his spots, or can he: Culture and the development of lay theories of change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(5), 613-622.
Ji, L.J., Zhang, Z., & Guo, T. (2008) To buy or to sell: Cultural differences in stock market decisions based on stock price trends. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21(4), 399-413.
Ji, L.J. (2005). Culture and lay theories of change. In Culture and Social Behavior: The Tenth Ontario Symposium. Edited by Richard M. Sorrentino, Dov Cohen, Jim Olson, Mark Zanna. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 117 -135.
Messervey, D., Ji, L.J., & Uchida, Y. (2004). Cognition and Culture. In Charles Spielberger (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology. San Diego, CA: Elsevier Ltd., 357-364.
Ji, L.J., Zhang, Z., & Nisbett, R.E. (2004) Is it Culture, or is it language? Examination of language effects in cross-cultural research on categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87(1), 57-65.
Ji, L.J., Zhang, Z., Usborne, E., & Guan, Y. (2004). Optimism across cultures: In response to the SARS outbreak. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 7(1), 25-34.
Haberstroh, S., Oyserman, D., Schwarz, N., Kuhnen, U., & Ji, L.J. (2002) Is the interdependent self more sensitive to question context than the independent self? Self-construal and the observation of conversational norms. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 323-329.
Hedden, T., Park, D., Nisbett, R.E.,Ji, L.J., Jing, Q., & Jiao, S. (2002) Cultural variation in verbal versus spatial neuropsychological function across the lifespan. Neuropsychology, 16, 65-73.
Ji, L.J., Nisbett, R.E., & Su, Y. (2001) Culture, change, and prediction. Psychological Science. 12 (6), 450-456. [Also available at http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/ps/index.html]
Ji, L.J., Peng, K., & Nisbett, R.E. (2000) Culture, control and perception of relationships in the environment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 78 (5), 943-955.
Ji, L.J., Schwarz, N., & Nisbett, R. E. (2000) Culture, autobiographical memory, and social comparison: Measurement issues in cross-cultural studies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 26 (5), 586-594.