Y. Connie Yuan

Selected Journal Publications

• Yuan, Y. C., Chu, M., Ma, S., & Tong, D. (2025). Public awareness of air quality issues in Manhattan Chinatown. Environment and Behavior, 57(3-4), 326-354.  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-8913.

• Song, Y., Schuldt, J. P., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Yuan, Y. C., Zou, S., & Li, J. (2025). Bridging ideologies: Analyzing the use of moral language and framing in social media discourse on climate change by U.S. Congress members through computational approaches. Climatic Change, 178(3), 56. 

• Zhang, C., Yuan, Y. C., Wei, L., Jung, J., Qiu, J., Hwang, H. C., & Song, Y-y.  (2025). Self-enhancement mentality or cognitive preferences? Unpacking different approaches to understanding cultural variations in attribution patterns. Cross-Cultural Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/10693971241309.

• Nguyen, T. P. H., Bell, B., & Yuan, Y. C. (2024). Multiple status signals in multinational teams: Implications of lingua franca proficiency and task expertise for informal leadership. Group & Organization Management, 10596011241293506.

• Lu, L., Liu, J., Yuan, Y. C., Lu, E., & Li, D. (2022). Psychological antecedents of COVID-19 information sharing within strong-tie and weak-tie networks.  PEC Innovation, 12(1). 

• Lu, L., Liu, J., & Yuan, Y. C. (2022). Cultural differences in cancer information acquisition: Perceived cancer risks and cancer fatalistic beliefs as predictors of information seeking and avoidance in the U.S. and China. Health Communication, 37(11), 1442 – 1451.

• Lu, L., Liu, J., Yuan, Y. C., Burns, K. S., Lu, E., & Li, D. (2021). Source trust and COVID-19 information sharing: The mediating roles of emotions and beliefs about sharing. Health Education & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120984760 

• Song, Y-Y., Huang, Z., Schuldt., J. P., & Yuan, Y. C. (2021). National prisms of a global phenomenon: A comparative study of press coverage of climate change in the US, UK and China. Journalism, 23(10), 2208-2229.

• Lu, L., Liu, J., & Yuan, Y. C. (2020). Health information-seeking behaviors and sources preferences between Chinese and U.S. populations. Journal of Health Communication, 25(6), 490-500. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2020.1806414.

• Schuldt, J. P., Yuan, Y. C., Song, Y., & Liu, K. (2019). Beliefs about whose beliefs? Second-order beliefs and support for China’s coal-to-gas policy. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 66, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101367

• Yuan, Y. C., Liao, W., & Bazarova, N. N. (2019). Communication styles and expertise recognition in intercultural collaboration. Management Communication Quarterly, 33(2), 238-271. DOI: 10.1177/0893318918824674

Manuscripts in Preparation or Under Review for Publication

• Yuan, Y. C., Chu, M., Ma, S., & Tong, D. (under review). Pluralistic ignorance regarding air quality in Manhattan Chinatown. Race and Social Problems
• Yuan, Y. C., Fei, D., & Liu K. (R&R). The impact of cultural values on cross-cultural collaboration between Chinese and local employees in Ethiopia. Africa Journal of Management
• Chu, M., Yuan, Y. C., Wang, Z., Song, Y. (under review). Sense of place in Manhattan Chinatown under urbanization and multiculturalism: Voices from tourists and residents. Urban Affairs Review. 
• Yuan, Y. C., Liu, M., Feng, C., & Zhi, M. (under review). Effective communication strategies for achieving positive expertise perceptions in intercultural collaboration. Management Communication Quarterly
• Yuan, Y. C. (in progress). How Buddhist teachings can help foster ethical, inclusive leadership in contemporary organizations.
• Yuan, Y. C. (in progress). Understanding Intercultural Communication, under contract with Edward Elgar (Due August 2027)

Courses Taught

• Comm 3150: Organizational Communication
• Comm3710: Crossing Cultures through Film
• Comm3720: Intercultural Communication
• Comm3730: Mindful Intercultural Communication
• Comm6100: Seminar in Social Networks
• Comm6950: Structural Equation Modeling

• Co-Principal Investigator, Institute of Social Sciences of Cornell University, March 2018, $6,500 (PI: Jonathon Schuldt). Title: Cross-cultural public opinion on climate change amid global energy transitions
• Principal Investigator, NSF-IOS (Grant #: 0822784), Oct. 2008 – Sep. 2012, $445,169 (Co-PI: Professor Janet Fulk from USC), of which $245,078 is awarded to Cornell University. Title: Retaining organizational knowledge in connective and communal transactive memory systems: A cross-culture investigation from a multilevel, network perspective. $13,000 of REU supplementary fund was granted on July 01, 2009.
• Lehman Grant, Cornell University, 2011-2012, $12,000, Intercultural collaboration
• Co-Principal Investigator, Institute of Social Sciences of Cornell University /Presidential Council of Cornell Women, 2010-2011, $10,000 (PI, Natalie Bazarova). Title: Expertise recognition in cross-cultural collaboration in groups: The impact of computer-mediated and face-to-face communication
• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF –DRL (Grant#: 0917487), (Sep. 01, 2009 – Aug. 31, 2013). $1,483,710.00 (PI, Janis Dickinson; Other Co-PIs: Marianne Krasny, Nancy Trautmann, & Nancy Wells). Title: The YardMap network: Social networking for community science
• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF – VOSS (Grant#: 0942659), (Sep. 15, 2009 – Sep. 14, 2011). $147,767 (PI, Jeremy Birnholtz; Other Co-PIs: Geri Gay, & Caren Heller). Title: The roles of awareness and social networks in the initiation and sustenance of research-oriented virtual organizations
• Principal Investigator, USDA/CSREES-CUAES Hatch Project (NYC-131405), Oct. 2006 – Sep. 2009, USDA, $90,000 (Co-PI: Professor Clifford Scherer). Title: The role of social capital and communication technologies in knowledge transfer within Cornell Cooperative Extension programs
• Principal Investigator, Institute of Social Sciences of Cornell University, 2005-2006, $6500. Title: The development of social capital and transactive memories systems in computer-supported collaborative work
• Research Faculty Associate, “Advanced Interactive Discovery Environment,” one of the research projects led by the Human Computer Interaction Group at Cornell University. The multi-year project is funded by NASA (NASA/NYS 3533168) and AT&T to study the role of information technology in facilitating coordination and cooperation in virtual teams. Principal investigator: Geri Gay. July 2004 to June 2006.