Mengqi Liao
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3863647 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mengqi Liao |
| PRENOMES | Mengqi |
| SOBRENOME | Liao |
| ASSINATURA | LIAO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7287-7731 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
When an AI Says It Is False
To combat misinformation at scale, automated fact-checkers are being deployed, but we do not know if lay users trust them. Are AI fact-checkers trusted more than human fact-checkers because of their accuracy in identifying tell-tale features of fake news? Or are they trusted less because they are seen as lacking the subjectivity necessary for corroborating evidence? A pre-registered 2 (Fact-checking source: Human vs. AI) × 3 (Fact-checking approa…
When AI Disagrees
Does transparency matter when an AI system meets performance expectations? An experiment with an online dating site
Mitigating the News-Finds-Me Perception
Social media foster a News-Finds-Me perception (NFM), whereby individuals believe important news will “find them” without actively seeking it. Although the negative consequences of NFM are well-documented, strategies to mitigate NFM’s effects remain unexplored. In a pre-registered 3 (educational warning: general vs. personalized vs. control) ✕ 2 (NFM level: low vs. high) between-subjects experiment ( N = 405), we test whether general educational …
When We Think “News Will Find Me”
Many individuals do not seek news, believing instead that “news will find me” (NFM), implying that they trust their social networks to keep them informed, saving them the trouble of proactively seeking news from journalistic outlets. Does this mean that they trust social media algorithms to accurately filter and recommend content that is relevant to them? Do they trust their friends to keep them informed, just like they would journalists? To answ…
When an AI Doctor Gets Personal
How do we know when someone knows us? Does it matter whether the knower is a human or a machine? Following the theory of interpersonal knowledge, a between-subjects experiment investigated whether a doctor’s incorporation of individualized knowledge about a patient’s social or medical history enhances doctor-patient relationships in online conversations. Patients in this study conversed with either a human doctor, an AI doctor, or an AI-assisted …
How Does VR Affect Emotional Appeal and Persuasiveness of Gain Versus Loss-Framed Messages
Can virtual reality (VR) lead to more desirable persuasion effects than videos in communicating the science of contentious issues like climate change? And, will these effects differ between messages that offer hope versus fear? We addressed these questions with a 2 (Modality: Desktop VR vs. Unidirectional video) × 2 (framing: Gain vs. Loss) between-subjects experiment ( N = 130), and found that VR triggered more fearful responses, which in turn l…
Sharing without clicking on news in social media
Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception
Individuals harboring perceptions that the “news will find me” (NFM) tend to be less active consuming traditional media, preferring news online and on social media. NFM has also been linked with lower political knowledge and political participation over time. What remains to be seen, however, is whether high-NFM individuals are in fact less likely to expose themselves to news once they do encounter it online. This preregistered study fills this g…
Less vigilant in the mobile era? A comparison of information processing on mobile phones and personal computers
Do people process information differently on mobile phones compared to computers? We investigate this question by conducting two online field experiments. We randomly assigned participants to use their mobile phones or personal computers (PCs) to process different kinds of information. Study 1 ( N = 116) discovered that participants using mobile phones process emails more efficiently (i.e., spend less time) than those using PCs. Study 2 ( N = 241…
Sound of silence
When E-Commerce Personalization Systems Show and Tell
In the e-commerce context, are we persuaded more by a product recommendation that matches our preferences (content filtering) or by one that is endorsed by others like us (collaborative filtering)? We addressed this question by conceptualizing these two filtering types as cues that trigger cognitive heuristics (mental shortcuts), following the heuristic-systematic model in social psychology. In addition, we investigated whether the degree to whic…
Less vigilant in the mobile era? A comparison of information processing on mobile phones and personal computers
Do people process information differently on mobile phones compared to computers? We investigate this question by conducting two online field experiments. We randomly assigned participants to use their mobile phones or personal computers (PCs) to process different kinds of information. Study 1 ( N = 116) discovered that participants using mobile phones process emails more efficiently (i.e., spend less time) than those using PCs. Study 2 ( N = 241…
Sound of silence
When E-Commerce Personalization Systems Show and Tell
In the e-commerce context, are we persuaded more by a product recommendation that matches our preferences (content filtering) or by one that is endorsed by others like us (collaborative filtering)? We addressed this question by conceptualizing these two filtering types as cues that trigger cognitive heuristics (mental shortcuts), following the heuristic-systematic model in social psychology. In addition, we investigated whether the degree to whic…
Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception
Individuals harboring perceptions that the “news will find me” (NFM) tend to be less active consuming traditional media, preferring news online and on social media. NFM has also been linked with lower political knowledge and political participation over time. What remains to be seen, however, is whether high-NFM individuals are in fact less likely to expose themselves to news once they do encounter it online. This preregistered study fills this g…
Less vigilant in the mobile era? A comparison of information processing on mobile phones and personal computers
Do people process information differently on mobile phones compared to computers? We investigate this question by conducting two online field experiments. We randomly assigned participants to use their mobile phones or personal computers (PCs) to process different kinds of information. Study 1 ( N = 116) discovered that participants using mobile phones process emails more efficiently (i.e., spend less time) than those using PCs. Study 2 ( N = 241…
When an AI Doctor Gets Personal
How do we know when someone knows us? Does it matter whether the knower is a human or a machine? Following the theory of interpersonal knowledge, a between-subjects experiment investigated whether a doctor’s incorporation of individualized knowledge about a patient’s social or medical history enhances doctor-patient relationships in online conversations. Patients in this study conversed with either a human doctor, an AI doctor, or an AI-assisted …
How Does VR Affect Emotional Appeal and Persuasiveness of Gain Versus Loss-Framed Messages
Can virtual reality (VR) lead to more desirable persuasion effects than videos in communicating the science of contentious issues like climate change? And, will these effects differ between messages that offer hope versus fear? We addressed these questions with a 2 (Modality: Desktop VR vs. Unidirectional video) × 2 (framing: Gain vs. Loss) between-subjects experiment ( N = 130), and found that VR triggered more fearful responses, which in turn l…
Sharing without clicking on news in social media
When an AI Says It Is False
To combat misinformation at scale, automated fact-checkers are being deployed, but we do not know if lay users trust them. Are AI fact-checkers trusted more than human fact-checkers because of their accuracy in identifying tell-tale features of fake news? Or are they trusted less because they are seen as lacking the subjectivity necessary for corroborating evidence? A pre-registered 2 (Fact-checking source: Human vs. AI) × 3 (Fact-checking approa…
When AI Disagrees
Does transparency matter when an AI system meets performance expectations? An experiment with an online dating site
Mitigating the News-Finds-Me Perception
Social media foster a News-Finds-Me perception (NFM), whereby individuals believe important news will “find them” without actively seeking it. Although the negative consequences of NFM are well-documented, strategies to mitigate NFM’s effects remain unexplored. In a pre-registered 3 (educational warning: general vs. personalized vs. control) ✕ 2 (NFM level: low vs. high) between-subjects experiment ( N = 405), we test whether general educational …
When We Think “News Will Find Me”
Many individuals do not seek news, believing instead that “news will find me” (NFM), implying that they trust their social networks to keep them informed, saving them the trouble of proactively seeking news from journalistic outlets. Does this mean that they trust social media algorithms to accurately filter and recommend content that is relevant to them? Do they trust their friends to keep them informed, just like they would journalists? To answ…
Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Social media (5 obras) · Advertising (4 obras) · Business (4 obras) · World Wide Web (4 obras) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 obras) · Internet privacy (3 obras) · Media Influence and Health (3 obras)