I'm a PhD Candidate in Cognitive Science with
Dr.Jiaying Zhao
at the University of British Columbia. I expect to finish my PhD in 2022.
Main Research Lines:
One major line of my research has been focused on the cognitive consequences of statistical learning. As the environment is highly structured, containing regularities in terms of how objects co-occur in space and time, statistical learning is an automatic process that allows the extraction of regularities, and thus produces implicit knowledge about the associations between individual objects.
My projects examined how statistical learning guides the spatial scale of attention, generates novel inferences based on transitive relations and across the categorical hierarchy, and creates false memories.
Sustainability depends on both an intention to act and the accurate implementation of actions. Focusing on waste disposal, I developed a sorting game to identify and correct the most prominent biases in recycling and composting behaviors. The sorting game was also launched in residences to improve students’ sorting behaviors.
People’s perceptions of their physical environment are related to their environmental actions and subjective wellbeing. To further investigate this topic, I developed an assessment tool for a private company to examine its clients' subjective wellbeing at work.
Luo, Y., & Zhao, J. (2023). Using behavioral interventions to reduce single-use produce bags. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 193, 106942.
Luo, Y., Andrew L., Soman, D., & Zhao, J. (under review). A meta-analytic cognitive framework of nudge and sludge. PsyArXiv.
Luo, Y., Douglas, J., Pahl, S., & Zhao, J. (2022). Reducing plastic waste by visualizing marine consequences. Environment and Behavior, 54, 809-832.
Zhao, J. & Luo, Y. (2021). A framework to address cognitive biases of climate change. Neuron, 109, 3548-3551.
Luo, Y. & Zhao, J. (2021). Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 42, 22-26.
Luo, Y. & Zhao, J. (2019). Motivated attention in climate change perception and action. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1541.
Yu, R., Luo, Y., Osherson, D., & Zhao, J. (2019). Perception of multi-dimensional regularities is driven by salience. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1564-1578.
Luo, Y., Zelenika, I., & Zhao, J. (2019). Providing immediate feedback improves recycling and composting accuracy. Journal of Environmental Management, 232, 445-454
Luo, Y. & Zhao, J. (2018). Statistical learning creates novel object associations via transitive relations. Psychological Science, 29, 1207-1220.
Zhao, J. & Luo, Y. (2017). Statistical regularities guide the spatial scale of attention. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 24-30.
Luo, Y. & Zhao, J. (2017). Learning induced illusions: Statistical learning creates false memories. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society(pp. 774-779). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Luo, Y. & Zhao, J. (2016). Statistical learning creates novel object associations via transitive relations. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society(pp. 984-989). Austin, TX: Cognitive ScienceSociety.