Under Review

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Yixiao Sun, & Zhihao Ma^*. (Under Review). Bipolarity of Positive and Negative Affects: Contemporaneous Network Relations of Nuanced Affect States.

Yixiao Sun, & Zhihao Ma^*. (Under Review). Authoritarians in Response to Social Crisis: Reciprocal Dynamics of Right-Wing Authoritarianism, COVID-19 Fear and Prevention Belief.

Selected Works in Progress

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Yixiao Sun, & Zhihao Ma^*. Measuring Agency Through Text and Language Data: Validating Two Distinct NLP Approaches, Riveter and LIWC, Across Diverse Scenarios.

Yixiao Sun, & Zhihao Ma^*. Agency and Meaning in Life as Conscious Experiences in Shaping Emotions.

Yixiao Sun, Yaotian Zhang, & Cheng-Jun Wang^*. Too Deep in the Role: Unveiling the Connection Between U.S. Political Elites’ Social Media Narrative Identity and Their Dissent Voting Behavior.

Wenyuan Li, Yixiao Sun, & Yifan Yue. Artificial Intelligence vs. Medical Experts: A Comparative Analysis of Semantic Quality and Readability in Health Advice from Large Language Models and Human Institutions.