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Ran Liu
Psychology
Beijing Normal University
Beijing
Language: English, Chinese
Social-Emotional Development
Children
Adolescents
Anxiety
Depression
Temperament
Executive Function
Monitoring
Processing
Parenting
Areas of Focus
- Early individual and environmental factors influencing social-emotional development in children and adolescents
Work Experience
- 2023.3-present - Beijing Normal University - Lecturer
- 2021.1-2022.12 - Columbia University, USA - Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2017.8-2020.12 Ph.D., Developmental Psychology: Virginia Tech, USA
- 2015.8-2017.5 M.S., Developmental Psychology: Virginia Tech, USA
- 2011.9-2015.7 B.S., Psychology (Summa Cum Laude): Shandong Normal University & East Tennessee State University
Publications
- Prenatal exposure to air pollution and childhood internalizing problems: roles of shyness and anterior cingulate cortex activity, Liu, R., Pagliaccio, D., Herbstman, J. B., Fox, N. A., & Margolis, A. E., 2023
- Associations between prenatal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and infant self-regulation in a New York city longitudinal prospective birth cohort, Margolis, A. E., Lee, S. H., Liu, R., Goolsby, L., Champagne, F., Herbstman, J. B., & Beebe, B., 2023
- Effects of prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and childhood material hardship on reading achievement in school-age children: A preliminary study, Greenwood, P. B., Cohen, J. W., Liu, R., Hoepner, L., Rauh, V., Herbstman, J., Pagliaccio, D., & Margolis, A. E., 2022
- Child emotion inhibition mediates the effect of parent’s adaptive cognitive emotion regulation on child frontal EEG asymmetry during reappraisal, Meza-Cervera, T., Tucker, A., Liu, R., & Bell, M. A., 2022
- Prenatal exposure to air pollution and maternal stress predict infant individual differences in reactivity and regulation and socioemotional development, Liu, R., DeSerisy, M., Fox, N. A., Herbstman, J. B., Rauh, V. A., Beebe, B., & Margolis, A. E., 2022
- Convergent neural correlates of prenatal exposure to air pollution and behavioral phenotypes for psychiatric risk: Potential biological and cognitive pathways, Margolis, A.E., Liu, R. Conceição, V.A., Ramphal, B., Pagliaccio, D., DeSerisy, M., Koe, E., Selmanovic, E., Raudales, A., Emanet, N., Maia, T.V., Beebe, B., Pearson, B.L., Herbstman, J.B., Rauh, V.A., Fifer, W.P., Fox, N., & Champagne, F.A., 2022
- Fearful temperament in middle childhood predicts adolescent attention bias and anxiety symptoms: The moderating role of frontal EEG asymmetry, Liu, R., & Bell, M.A., 2021
- Examining the bidirectional relationships between maternal intrusiveness and child internalizing symptoms in a community sample: A longitudinal study from infancy to middle childhood, Hunter, H., Allen, K., Liu, R., Jaekel, J., & Bell, M.A., 2021
- Temperamental shyness and anger/frustration in childhood: Normative development, individual differences, and the impacts of maternal intrusiveness and frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry, Liu, R., Phillips, J.J., Ji, F., Shi, D., & Bell, M.A., 2021
- Consistency of EEG asymmetry patterns in infants of depressed mothers, Goodman, S.H., Liu, R., Lusby, C.M., Park, J.S., Bell, M.A., Newport, D.J., & Stowe, Z.N, 2020
- Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems during childhood, Liu, R., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A., 2021
- Fearful temperament and the risk for child and adolescent anxiety: The role of attention biases and effortful control, Liu, R. & Bell, M.A., 2020
- Executive function mediates the association between toddler negative affectivity and early academic achievement, Liu, R., Blankenship, T.L., Broomell, A.P.R., Garcia-Meza, T., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A., 2018
- Fearful inhibition, inhibitory control, and maternal negative behaviors during toddlerhood predict internalizing problems at age 6, Liu, R., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A., 2018
Awards
- 2021: Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $395
- 2020: Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $395
- 2019: National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, $6000
- 2019: Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $395
- 2019: Graduate Student Travel Award, the Society for Research in Child Development, $300
- 2018: Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $385
- 2018: Graduate School Travel Funds, Virginia Tech, $350
- 2018: Graduate School Travel Funds, Virginia Tech, $225
- 2016: Graduate School Travel Funds, Virginia Tech, $132
- 2015: Summa cum laude, ETSU
- 2015: Certificate of Distinction-The Dean’s List, ETSU
- 2014: Johnia Hope Berry Scholarship, ETSU, $500
- 2013: Certificate of Distinction-The Dean’s List, ETSU
