Y. Connie Yuan

Selected Journal Publications

• Lu, L., Liu, J., & Yuan, Y. C. (2020). Health information-seeking behaviors and source preferences between Chinese and U.S. populations. Journal of Health Communication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2020.1806414 [online first]
• 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
• Li, H., Yuan, Y. C., Bazarova, N. N., & Bell, B. (2019). Communication competence dispersion and expertise recognition in diverse teams: The role of talking turn equity and communication medium. Group & Organization Management, 44(5), 953-989. DOI: 10.1177/1059601118756734
• Liao, W., Bazarova, N. N., & Yuan, Y. C. (2018). Expertise judgment and communication accommodation in computer-mediated and face-to-face groups. Communication Research. 45(8), 1122-1145. Doi: 10.1177/0093650215626974
• Liao, Wang, Bazarova, N. N., & Yuan, Y. C. (2018). Unpacking medium effects: Using the Social Relations Model to study social psychological aspects of computer-mediated communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 23(2), 90-106. DOI:10.1093/jcmc/zmy002
• Liao, W., Yuan, Y. C., & McComas, K. A. (2018). Communal risk information sharing: Motivations behind voluntary information sharing for reducing interdependent risks in a community. Communication Research, 45(6), 909-933. DOI: 10.1177/0093650215626981 [An earlier draft of this paper won the Second Best Faculty Paper from the CommSHER Division, AEJMC Annual Conference, August 2015: San Francisco, CA]
• Neff, J., Fulk, J., & Yuan, Y. C. (2014). Not in the mood? Affective state and transactive communication. Journal of Communication, 64(3), 785-805. DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12109. [Dennis Gouran Research Award from the Group Communication Division of National Communication Association 2016 Annual Conference]
• Yuan, Y. C., Carboni, I., & Ehrlich, K. (2014). The impact of affective relationships and awareness on expertise retrieval: A multilevel network perspective on transactive memory theory. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23(4), 554-569. DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2013.766393
• Fulk, J., & Yuan, Y. C. (2013). Location, motivation, and social capitalization via enterprise social networking. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19 (1), 20-37. DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12033 [Second Runner-up for Best Published Paper Award by the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management 74th Annual Conference, August 2014: Philadelphia, PA.]
• Yuan, Y. C., Zhao, X., Liao, Q.-y., & Chi, C.-y. (2013). ­­­The usage of different information and communication technologies to support knowledge sharing in organizations: From email to micro-blogging, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(8), 1659-1670. DOI: 10.1002/asi.22863
• Yuan, Y. C., Bazarova, N., Fulk, J., & Zhang, Z-x. (2013). Recognition of expertise and perceived influence in intercultural group collaboration. Journal of Communication, 63(3), 476-497. DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12026
• Yuan, Y. C., Fulk, J., Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (2010). Expertise directory development, shared task-interdependence, and strength of communication network ties as multilevel predictors of expertise exchange in transactive memory work groups. Communication Research, 37(1), 20-47. DOI:10.1177/009365020351469 [An earlier version of this paper was published in the Best Papers Proceedings of Academy of Management 2005 Annual Conference]

Manuscripts in Preparation or Under Review for Publication

• Lu, L., Liu, J., & Yuan, Y. C. (under review). Cultural differences in cancer information acquisition: Testing perceived cancer risks and cancer fatalistic beliefs as predictors of information seeking and avoidance in the U.S. and China. Under review at Communication Research.
• Song, Y-Y., Huang, Z., Schuldt., J. P., & Yuan, Y. C. (202). National prisms of a global phenomenon: A comparative study of press coverage of climate change in the US, UK and China.
• Wang, L., Margolin, D., & Yuan, Y. C.  (2019). Sharing fake news on social media: Understanding the relationship between believe and share.
• Liao, W., Bazarova, N., Yuan, Y. C., & McLeod, P. L. (2020). Communication technology and group communication.
• McLeod, P. L. & Yuan, Y. C., (2020). Diversity and group communication
• Zhang, C., & Yuan, Y. C. (submitted to ICA 2020). Self-serving bias in attributional communication in East Asian Cultures
• Gao, X., & Yuan, Y. C. (submitted to ICA 2020). Mindfulness in empathetic communication and its impact on group communication.

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.