Mengyao Li
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Research
Broadly speaking, my research interests include the psychology of justice, group-based violence, conflict resolution, and intergroup reconciliation. My most recent research explored how and why international conflicts tend to perpetuate themselves and the potential ways to mitigate the cycle of violence. Currently, I am also investigating how victim and perpetrator group members' attitudes toward justice (e.g., criminal justice) change over time.
Teaching
PSY240 Statistics in Psychology - Instructor
PSY891DA Advanced Data Analysis - Teaching assistant
PSY241 Research Methods in Psychology - Lab instructor
Publications
Li, M., Leidner, B., Petrović, N, Orazani, S. N., & Rad, M. S. (under review). The Role of Retributive Justice and the Use of International Criminal Tribunal in Post-conflict Reconciliation.
Li, M., Leidner, B., & Fernandez-Campos, S. (under review). Stepping Into Perpetrators’ Shoes: How Ingroup Transgressions and Victimization Shape Support for Justice Through Perspective Taking of Perpetrators.
Li, M., Leidner, B., Euh, H., & Choi, H.-S. (2016). The Contagion of Interstate Violence Reminders of Historical Interstate (but Not Intrastate) Violence Increase Support for Future Violence Against Unrelated Third-Party States. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(8), 1003–1024.
Li, M., Rovenpor, D. R., & Leidner, B. (2016). Regulating the Scope of an Emotion Regulation Perspective on Intergroup Reconciliation. Psychological Inquiry, 27(2), 117–123.
Leidner, B., & Li, M. (2015). How to (re)build human rights consciousness and behavior in post-conflict societies: An integrative literature review and framework for past and future research. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21(1), 106–132.
Leidner, B., Li, M., & Kardos, P. (2015). Healthy and unhealthy wars: The effects of ingroup-committed violence on physical and mental health. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21(3), 334–358.
Li, M., Leidner, B., & Castano, E. (2014). Towards A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Dehumanization: Integrating Two Senses of Humanness, Mind Perception Theory, and Stereotype Content Model. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 21(3), 285-300.
Li, X., Yang, S., & Li, M. (2012). The Effects of Power and Authoritarian Personality on Moral
Thinking. Acta Psychologica Sinica [Xin Li Xue Bao], 44(7), 964-971.
Biography
I am a fourth year doctoral student in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program. I grew up in Nanjing, China, and received my BA in Psychology and Human Rights from Bard College before joining UMass Amherst.