Y Connie Yuan
Biographic Data
| ID | 212575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Connie Yuan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y Connie |
| FAMILY NAME | Yuan |
| SIGNATURE | YUAN Y C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8707-8913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public Awareness of Air Quality Issues in Manhattan Chinatown
Although governmental data showed that Manhattan Chinatown experiences one of the worst air qualities in New York City and has above the national average percentage of asthma cases, people there have been silent about the negative impact of poor air quality on their health. We investigated the community’s awareness of air quality issues and possible factors contributing to low public advocacy. Through interviews, survey, content analysis, and eth…
National prisms of a global phenomenon
This study compares press coverage of climate change in the US, the UK and China from a longitudinal perspective, through a combination of computer-assisted quantitative linguistic analysis and critical discourse analysis. Specifically, we examine the extent to which these three countries portray climate change similarly or differently, and further explore how moral reasoning – a growing area of research in climate change communication – may shap…
Cultural Differences in Cancer Information Acquisition
Cancer is one of the most common causes of death in China and the United States. Past studies found that cancer risk perceptions, fatalistic beliefs, and worry were prominent predictors of health-related behaviors. Perceived cancer risks, fatalistic beliefs, and worry were associated with cancer information acquisition in the United States. However, little is known about whether these factors played comparable roles in China. This study investiga…
Source Trust and Covid-19 Information Sharing
Health information sharing has become especially important during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic because people need to learn about the disease and then act accordingly. This study examines the perceived trust of different COVID-19 information sources (health professionals, academic institutions, government agencies, news media, social media, family, and friends) and sharing of COVID-19 information in China. Specifically, it inv…
Unpacking Medium Effects on Social Psychological Processes in Computer-mediated Communication Using the Social Relations Model
This article introduces the social relations model (SRM) to unpack medium effects on social psychological processes. Although such effects have been theorized at group, dyadic, and individual levels separately, some of them can be concurrently analyzed as medium moderation on SRM components. Drawing on existing theories of computer-mediated communication (CMC), we map SRM components onto social psychological processes susceptible to medium effect…
The Influence of Unrestricted Information Exchange on Willingness to Share Information With Outsiders
This study addressed how engaging in different forms of information exchange within a group is related to group members' willingness to share risk information with outsiders. Drawing from social exchange theories, we focused on 3 unrestricted forms of information exchange: pure-generalized, group-generalized, and productive. We hypothesized that individuals' intentions to share information with outsiders would be associated positively with engage…
Not in the Mood? Affective State and Transactive Communication
This study expanded transactive memory theory by incorporating affective influences on processes that have been primarily examined through a cognitive lens. Drawing on J. P. Forgas' (1995) affect infusion model, the research developed a multilevel model of the role of individual- and group-level state positive affect for individual transactive communication, operationalized as information seeking and sharing. A test of the model using 25 student …
Recognition of Expertise and Perceived Influence in Intercultural Collaboration
Building on tenets from transactive memory (TM) theory and expectation states (ES) theory, this study examined how communication styles influenced expertise recognition and perceived influence in intercultural groups of Chinese and American members. Controlling for the impact of actual expertise, we found that confident communication did not affect expertise recognition, but affected perceived influence; task-oriented communication had significan…
Expertise Recognition and Influence in Intercultural Groups
Expertise recognition is challenging in teamwork, particularly in intercultural collaboration. This research seeks to investigate how cultural differences in communication styles may affect expertise recognition and influence in face-to-face (FtF) versus text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC). Using experimental intercultural groups, we found that in FtF groups East Asian experts had a lower participation rate, and were perceived as les…
Location, Motivation, and Social Capitalization via Enterprise Social Networking
This article conceptualizes how the affordances of enterprise social networking systems can help reduce three challenges in sharing organizational knowledge. These challenges include location of expertise, motivation to share knowledge, and social capitalization in the form of developing and maintaining social ties with knowledge providers to actualize knowledge sharing. Building on previous theories and empirical research on transactive memory t…
Twenty-Five Years of Hidden Profiles in Group Decision Making
This meta-analysis summarized findings from 65 studies using the hidden profile paradigm (101 independent effects, 3,189 groups). Results showed (a) groups mentioned two standard deviations more pieces of common information than unique information; (b) hidden profile groups were eight times less likely to find the solution than were groups having full information; (c) two measures of information pooling, including the percentage of unique informa…
Evolution of Public Issues in Wildlife Management
We examined the evolution of four public wildlife management issues using theories from collective action, social networks, and social constructionism to understand key roles and perspectives among stakeholders engaged in collective actions related to wildlife management policies. We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with 50 key stakeholders in four communities in New York State that experienced collective stakeholder interactions in…
Building Stronger Ties With Alumni Through Facebook to Increase Volunteerism and Charitable Giving
This research explores how strength of network ties, as fostered by the use of a social network site, Facebook, (a) influences alumni attitudes toward volunteering for and making charitable gifts to their alma mater, and (b) fortifies consistency between attitude and behavior. After exploratory interviews and participant observation, a survey of 3,085 alumni was conducted for hypothesis testing. Structural equation modeling analysis revealed: Fir…
Managing knowledge networks
In knowledge societies, effective knowledge management can offer an organization a competitive advantage (Argote, Ingram, Levine, & Moreland, 2000; Castells, 1996/1999; Drucker, 1999). How to help organizations achieve effective knowledge management has therefore attracted attention from both practitioners and scholars from multiple disciplines. Given the plethora of publications on this topic, it is not easy to write a book that can make a uniqu…
The Diffusion of a Task Recommendation System to Facilitate Contributions to an Online Community
This paper studies the diffusion of SuggestBot, an intelligent task recommendation system that helps people find articles to edit in Wikipedia. We investigate factors that predict who adopts SuggestBot and its impact on adopters' future contributions to this online community. Analyzing records of participants' activities in Wikipedia, we found that both individual characteristics and social ties influence adoption. Specially, we found that highly…
Homophily of Network Ties and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital in Computer-Mediated Distributed Teams
This research studied homophily of network ties in distributed teams in both task-related instrumental networks and non-task related expressive networks. Homophily of network ties was examined in terms of demographic and social characteristics, including gender, race, geographic location, and group assignment. Social network data were collected from 32 students enrolled in a distance learning class from two universities. MQAP regression analysis …
Focused Activities and the Development of Social Capital in a Distributed Learning “Community”
This study examined the development of individual social cap-ital in a distributed learning community. Feld’s theory of focused choice predicts that the formation of network ties is constrained by contextual factors that function as foci of activities. In our research, we examined how group assignment and location could function as such foci to influence the development of individual social capi-tal in a distributed learning community. Given that…
Homophily of Network Ties and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital in Computer-Mediated Distributed Teams
This research studied homophily of network ties in distributed teams in both task-related instrumental networks and non-task related expressive networks. Homophily of network ties was examined in terms of demographic and social characteristics, including gender, race, geographic location, and group assignment. Social network data were collected from 32 students enrolled in a distance learning class from two universities. MQAP regression analysis …
Location, Motivation, and Social Capitalization via Enterprise Social Networking
This article conceptualizes how the affordances of enterprise social networking systems can help reduce three challenges in sharing organizational knowledge. These challenges include location of expertise, motivation to share knowledge, and social capitalization in the form of developing and maintaining social ties with knowledge providers to actualize knowledge sharing. Building on previous theories and empirical research on transactive memory t…
Building Stronger Ties With Alumni Through Facebook to Increase Volunteerism and Charitable Giving
This research explores how strength of network ties, as fostered by the use of a social network site, Facebook, (a) influences alumni attitudes toward volunteering for and making charitable gifts to their alma mater, and (b) fortifies consistency between attitude and behavior. After exploratory interviews and participant observation, a survey of 3,085 alumni was conducted for hypothesis testing. Structural equation modeling analysis revealed: Fir…
Focused Activities and the Development of Social Capital in a Distributed Learning “Community”
This study examined the development of individual social cap-ital in a distributed learning community. Feld’s theory of focused choice predicts that the formation of network ties is constrained by contextual factors that function as foci of activities. In our research, we examined how group assignment and location could function as such foci to influence the development of individual social capi-tal in a distributed learning community. Given that…
Expertise Recognition and Influence in Intercultural Groups
Expertise recognition is challenging in teamwork, particularly in intercultural collaboration. This research seeks to investigate how cultural differences in communication styles may affect expertise recognition and influence in face-to-face (FtF) versus text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC). Using experimental intercultural groups, we found that in FtF groups East Asian experts had a lower participation rate, and were perceived as les…
The Diffusion of a Task Recommendation System to Facilitate Contributions to an Online Community
This paper studies the diffusion of SuggestBot, an intelligent task recommendation system that helps people find articles to edit in Wikipedia. We investigate factors that predict who adopts SuggestBot and its impact on adopters' future contributions to this online community. Analyzing records of participants' activities in Wikipedia, we found that both individual characteristics and social ties influence adoption. Specially, we found that highly…
Homophily of Network Ties and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital in Computer-Mediated Distributed Teams
This research studied homophily of network ties in distributed teams in both task-related instrumental networks and non-task related expressive networks. Homophily of network ties was examined in terms of demographic and social characteristics, including gender, race, geographic location, and group assignment. Social network data were collected from 32 students enrolled in a distance learning class from two universities. MQAP regression analysis …
Focused Activities and the Development of Social Capital in a Distributed Learning “Community”
This study examined the development of individual social cap-ital in a distributed learning community. Feld’s theory of focused choice predicts that the formation of network ties is constrained by contextual factors that function as foci of activities. In our research, we examined how group assignment and location could function as such foci to influence the development of individual social capi-tal in a distributed learning community. Given that…
The Diffusion of a Task Recommendation System to Facilitate Contributions to an Online Community
This paper studies the diffusion of SuggestBot, an intelligent task recommendation system that helps people find articles to edit in Wikipedia. We investigate factors that predict who adopts SuggestBot and its impact on adopters' future contributions to this online community. Analyzing records of participants' activities in Wikipedia, we found that both individual characteristics and social ties influence adoption. Specially, we found that highly…
Managing knowledge networks
In knowledge societies, effective knowledge management can offer an organization a competitive advantage (Argote, Ingram, Levine, & Moreland, 2000; Castells, 1996/1999; Drucker, 1999). How to help organizations achieve effective knowledge management has therefore attracted attention from both practitioners and scholars from multiple disciplines. Given the plethora of publications on this topic, it is not easy to write a book that can make a uniqu…
Evolution of Public Issues in Wildlife Management
We examined the evolution of four public wildlife management issues using theories from collective action, social networks, and social constructionism to understand key roles and perspectives among stakeholders engaged in collective actions related to wildlife management policies. We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with 50 key stakeholders in four communities in New York State that experienced collective stakeholder interactions in…
Building Stronger Ties With Alumni Through Facebook to Increase Volunteerism and Charitable Giving
This research explores how strength of network ties, as fostered by the use of a social network site, Facebook, (a) influences alumni attitudes toward volunteering for and making charitable gifts to their alma mater, and (b) fortifies consistency between attitude and behavior. After exploratory interviews and participant observation, a survey of 3,085 alumni was conducted for hypothesis testing. Structural equation modeling analysis revealed: Fir…
Twenty-Five Years of Hidden Profiles in Group Decision Making
This meta-analysis summarized findings from 65 studies using the hidden profile paradigm (101 independent effects, 3,189 groups). Results showed (a) groups mentioned two standard deviations more pieces of common information than unique information; (b) hidden profile groups were eight times less likely to find the solution than were groups having full information; (c) two measures of information pooling, including the percentage of unique informa…
Recognition of Expertise and Perceived Influence in Intercultural Collaboration
Building on tenets from transactive memory (TM) theory and expectation states (ES) theory, this study examined how communication styles influenced expertise recognition and perceived influence in intercultural groups of Chinese and American members. Controlling for the impact of actual expertise, we found that confident communication did not affect expertise recognition, but affected perceived influence; task-oriented communication had significan…
Expertise Recognition and Influence in Intercultural Groups
Expertise recognition is challenging in teamwork, particularly in intercultural collaboration. This research seeks to investigate how cultural differences in communication styles may affect expertise recognition and influence in face-to-face (FtF) versus text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC). Using experimental intercultural groups, we found that in FtF groups East Asian experts had a lower participation rate, and were perceived as les…
Location, Motivation, and Social Capitalization via Enterprise Social Networking
This article conceptualizes how the affordances of enterprise social networking systems can help reduce three challenges in sharing organizational knowledge. These challenges include location of expertise, motivation to share knowledge, and social capitalization in the form of developing and maintaining social ties with knowledge providers to actualize knowledge sharing. Building on previous theories and empirical research on transactive memory t…
Not in the Mood? Affective State and Transactive Communication
This study expanded transactive memory theory by incorporating affective influences on processes that have been primarily examined through a cognitive lens. Drawing on J. P. Forgas' (1995) affect infusion model, the research developed a multilevel model of the role of individual- and group-level state positive affect for individual transactive communication, operationalized as information seeking and sharing. A test of the model using 25 student …
The Influence of Unrestricted Information Exchange on Willingness to Share Information With Outsiders
This study addressed how engaging in different forms of information exchange within a group is related to group members' willingness to share risk information with outsiders. Drawing from social exchange theories, we focused on 3 unrestricted forms of information exchange: pure-generalized, group-generalized, and productive. We hypothesized that individuals' intentions to share information with outsiders would be associated positively with engage…
Unpacking Medium Effects on Social Psychological Processes in Computer-mediated Communication Using the Social Relations Model
This article introduces the social relations model (SRM) to unpack medium effects on social psychological processes. Although such effects have been theorized at group, dyadic, and individual levels separately, some of them can be concurrently analyzed as medium moderation on SRM components. Drawing on existing theories of computer-mediated communication (CMC), we map SRM components onto social psychological processes susceptible to medium effect…
Source Trust and Covid-19 Information Sharing
Health information sharing has become especially important during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic because people need to learn about the disease and then act accordingly. This study examines the perceived trust of different COVID-19 information sources (health professionals, academic institutions, government agencies, news media, social media, family, and friends) and sharing of COVID-19 information in China. Specifically, it inv…
National prisms of a global phenomenon
This study compares press coverage of climate change in the US, the UK and China from a longitudinal perspective, through a combination of computer-assisted quantitative linguistic analysis and critical discourse analysis. Specifically, we examine the extent to which these three countries portray climate change similarly or differently, and further explore how moral reasoning – a growing area of research in climate change communication – may shap…
Cultural Differences in Cancer Information Acquisition
Cancer is one of the most common causes of death in China and the United States. Past studies found that cancer risk perceptions, fatalistic beliefs, and worry were prominent predictors of health-related behaviors. Perceived cancer risks, fatalistic beliefs, and worry were associated with cancer information acquisition in the United States. However, little is known about whether these factors played comparable roles in China. This study investiga…
Public Awareness of Air Quality Issues in Manhattan Chinatown
Although governmental data showed that Manhattan Chinatown experiences one of the worst air qualities in New York City and has above the national average percentage of asthma cases, people there have been silent about the negative impact of poor air quality on their health. We investigated the community’s awareness of air quality issues and possible factors contributing to low public advocacy. Through interviews, survey, content analysis, and eth…
Psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Knowledge Management and Sharing (6 works) · World Wide Web (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Knowledge management (5 works)