Yue Liang Department of Human Development and Family Studies The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC, 27403 (336) 500-9596 [email protected]

EDUCATION

2012-2014 Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China School of Psychology M.S. Developmental Psychology, June 2014 Major Field: Developmental Psychology Minor Fields: Cognitive Neuroscience Thesis: Dual processing in creative thinking: The role of working memory

2008-2012 China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China Department of Psychology B.S. June 2012 Thesis: Research on relationship between family cohesion and implicit aggression of adolescents with externalizing behaviors

AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Social development of child and adolescent, moral development, parenting behaviors

PUBLICATIONS

Cao, H., Zhou, N., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Liang, Y., Li, J., & Fine, A. M. (Under review). Minority Stress and Relationship Outcomes among Same-sex Couples: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Family Theory and Review.

Kiang, L., Mendonça, S. E, Liang, Y., Payir, A., , Freitas, L. B. L., O’Brien, L., & Tudge, J. R. H. (Under review). If Children Won Lotteries: Materialism, Gratitude, and Spending in an Imaginary Windfall. Social Development.

Tudge, J. R. H., Payir, A., Merçon-Vargas, E., Cao, H., Liang, Y., & Li, J. (Under review). Still misused after all these years? A re-evaluation of the uses of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development. Journal of Family Theory and Review.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

Liang, Y., Zhou, N. & Cao, H. (In progress). Maternal provision of learning opportunities in early childhood and externalizing behaviors in early adolescence: The mediation role of executive functioning.

Mokrova, I., Liang, Y., & Tudge, J. R. H. (In progress). The Related-autonomous- separate-heteronomous scale: Development and psychometric evaluation of a novel assessment tool for measuring parents’ value for children’s development.

Liang, Y., Cao, H., Tudge, J. R. H., & Zhou, N. (In progress). Children’s and adolescents’ expression of gratitude and wishes in China and the United States: A multigroup latent class analysis.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Liang, Y., Zhou, N., Cao, H., & Yan, N. (2016). Maternal provision of learning opportunities and externalizing behaviors in early adolescence: The mediation role of executive functioning. Poster present at 2016 SRA Biennial Meeting Poster Session, Baltimore, United States.

Liang, Y., Cao, H., Wang, C. Y., Zhou, N., Merçon-Vargas, E., Wang, G., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2016). Children’s and adolescents’ expression of gratitude and wishes in China and the United States: A multigroup latent class analysis. Poster present at 2016 SRA Biennial Meeting Poster Session, Baltimore, United States.

Liang, Y., Mokrova, I., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2015). The Related-autonomous-separate- heteronomous scale: Development and psychometric evaluation of a novel assessment tool for measuring parents’ value for children’s development. Talk present at 2015 SSHD Biennial Meeting Symposium Session, Austin, United States.

Liang, Y., Zhang, Z. (2013). Research on relationship between family cohesion and implicit aggression of adolescents with externalizing behaviors. Talk presented at The 16th National Psychology Conference, Nanjing, China.

Liang, Y., Tan, T., Chen, S., Zou, H. (2013). Advances in neuroscience of divergent thinking. Poster presented at The 8th International Conference for Chinese Psychologists, Beijing, China.

Cao, H., Zhou, N., Fine, A. M., & Liang, Y. (2016). Predivorce and postdivorce interparental conflict and child adjustment trajectory: A conceptual process and typology model. Poster present at 2016 SRA Biennial Meeting Poster Session, Baltimore, United States.

Mendonça, S. E., Liang, Y., Merçon-Vargas, E. A.; Mokrova, I. L.; Tudge, J. R. H. (2015). Parents’ value for their children: A confirmatory factor analysis evaluation of Kağitcibaşi’s model in the United State. Submitted for Poster present at 17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal.

Tudge, J. R. H., Mokrova, I., Freitas, L.B., Seidl de Moura, M. L., Kiang, L., Payir A., & Liang, Y. (2015). Developing a new scale to assess autonomy-relatedness: The related autonomous separate heteronomous (RASH) scale. Poster present at 2015 SRCD Biennial Meeting Special Poster Session, Philadelphia, United States.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2014 The First Prize of Academic Scholarship (5%), BNU, China

2013 The First Prize of Jingshi Cup of Academic Work (5%), BNU, China

2011 National Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates (1%), CUPL, China

2011 The First Prize of Academic Scholarship (4%), CUPL, China Award for All-rounded Outstanding Student (3%), CUPL, China

2010 The First Prize of Academic Scholarship (4%), CUPL, China

2009 The Second Prize of Academic Scholarship (8%), CUPL, China Award for All-rounded Outstanding Student (3%), CUPL, China

2009-2011 National Undergraduate Innovational Experimentation Program, China

PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS

Member Society for Research in Child Development Society for Research on Adolescence Chinese Psychological Society

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2014.8 - present Graduate Research Assistant, Supervised by Dr. Jonathan Tudge, UNCG

Tasks included assisting with manuscript preparation, data management, and analyses using SPSS and Mplus.

2013.9 - 2014.6 Graduate Research Assistant, Supervised by Dr. Hong Zou, BNU

Tasks included literature review and manuscript preparation (Funded by Education Ministry, P. R. China, Dr. Qi Doing, PI). This project aims to develop an evaluation system for elementary school in China. This evaluation system provides a norm for elementary and secondary schools to evaluate their education quality.

2011.9 - 2014.6 Graduate Research Assistant, Supervised by Dr. Hong Zou, BNU

Tasks included literature review, EEG data collection, manuscript preparation, data management and analyses using Matlab, Neuroscan, and SPSS (National Funds of Social Science, P. R. China, Dr. Hong Zou, PI). This project aims to investigate the cognitive neural mechanisms of creative thinking via electroencephalography (EEG).

2013.4 - 2014.4 Graduate Research Assistant of National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Supervised by Dr. Ting Jiang, BNU

Served as research assistant in cognitive neuroscience experiments; EEG and ERP data analysis with Neuroscan and Matlab; contributed to data-cleaning processes.

2009.9 – 2010.12 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Supervised by Dr. Zhuo Zhang, CUPL

Tasks included literature review, designed experiments with Eprime, data collection, manuscript preparation, data management and analyses using SPSS with an experimental data set of adolescents with problem behaviors (Funded by China University of Political Science and Law, P. R. China).

COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES

2014-present Member, Mentor and Mentee Committee, HDFS, UNCG

2009-2011 Volunteer at Guangai School for Abandoned Children, Beijing

2010-2011 Volunteer at Psychological Counseling Center in Court of Xicheng District, Beijing