• 👋 Hi, I’m @HelenLiu
• 🧐 Ph.D student in Applied Psychology, working with Prof. Xiaotian Wang at the Human Development & Behaviroal Decision Making Lab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
• “Laziness is the TRUE Mother of Coding”
• 📫 Reach me at zhengliu2@link.cuhk.edu.cn!

Social decision making Self-cognition Meta-research Computational modelling

1. In progress (expected graduation 2026)

■ The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Ph.D in Applied Psychology

2. 03/2021-03/2022

■ University of Sydney (USYD), Sydney, Australia

M.Ed. in Educational Psychology

3. 11/2016-10/2020

■ Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia

■ Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China

 B.Sc. in Psychology in ANU and SWU

• Liu,Z.,Wang X.T., Wang,Z., Yan,W., Hu,M. (2024). Registered Reports in Psychology Across Academic Citations and Public Dissemination: A comparative Meta-evaluation of More than a Decade of Practice. (major revision,American Psychologist)
• Cai,Y., Hu,M., Liu,Z.*. (2024). Business Decision-making Game Facilitates Training Effectiveness: A Three-level Meta-Analysis. (under review)
• Liu,Z., Noel,E.S., Wang X.T. (2024). Differential Signaling Effects of Blood Glucose on Delay Discounting in Healthy and Type 1 Diabetes Samples. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-024-00500-7
• Liu,Z.#, Hu,M.#, Zheng,Y., Sui, J., & Hu,C-P. (2023). A Multiverse Assessment of the Reliability of the Perceptual Matching Task as a Measurement of the Self-Prioritization Effect. (major revision, Behavior Research Methods) preprint available: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g6uap
• Liu,Z.*, Wen,J., Liu,Y., & Hu, C.-P. (2023). The Effectiveness of Self: A Meta-analysis of Using Self-Referential Encoding Techniques in Education. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 112–137. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12636
• Hu, C.-P*, Liu,Z.*, Wang,X., Lu,S. (2023). Cognitive Ontology: A Unified Framework for Psychological Constructs. (In Chinese) https://chinaxiv.org/abs/202301.00098
• Li,J., Liu,Z., Du,Z., Zhu,N., Qiu,X., & Xu,X. (2021). Cortical Activation During Finger Tapping Task Performance in Parkinson’s Disease Is Influenced by Priming Conditions: An ALE Meta-Analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 774656. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.774656

• Liu,Z.#, Hu, M.#, Zheng, Y., Sui, J., & Hu, C.-P. (2023). Reliability of Self-Prioritization Effect as Measured by the Perceptual Matching Task: Evidence from Multiple Datasets. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZV628 (Pre-registration)
• Liu,Z., Hu, C.-P, & Sui, J. (2021). Is Self-associative Learning Unique? A Meta-analytical Comparison of the Prioritization Effect of Self- and Non-self Associative Learning. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EUQMF (Pre-registration)

• Cai,Y., Hu,M., Liu,Z.*. (2024). Business Decision-making Game Facilitates Training Effectiveness: A Three-level Meta-Analysis. The Academy of Management(AOM) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Liu, Z., Noel,E.S., Wang X.T. (2023). Differential Signaling Effects of Blood Glucose on Delay Discounting in Healthy and Type 1 Diabetes Samples. International Conference on Mental Health Promotion, Shenzhen, China.
• Liu, Z.#, Hu, M.#, Zheng, Y., Sui, J., & Hu,C-P.(2023). A Multiverse Assessment of the Reliability of the Perceptual Matching Task as a Measurement of the Self-Prioritization Effect. The 25th National Academic Conference of Psychology, Chengdu, China.

• 2023 Best Oral Presentaion, International Conference on Mental Health Promotion
• 2021 Postgraduate Student Leader of the Year Award, USYD
• 2017 Dean’s International Science Excellence Scholarship, ANU
• 2017 Annual Studentship in Excellence, SWU

• Summer 2023

Neuromatch Academy- Computational Neuroscience

Teaching assistant

• Winter 2020 – Summer 2022

Meta-Self Lab (PI：Professor Hu Chuan-peng), Nanjing Normal Univeristy

Lab Manager & Research assistant

■ Computational Modelling

1. Computational Mechanisms of Value Representation in Risky Decision from Experience
2. Decomposing the Decreasing impatience Effect in Delay Discounting

■ Experiments

1. Time Bank Policy in China
2. Loss Aversion in Driving

■ Meta-research

1. Meta-analytical Review of the Self-prioritization Effect in the Associative Learning Tasks
2. Registered reports in Psychology