Papers

Li, Ye, Cade Massey, and George Wu. (2025). Learning to detect change: an experimental investigation. Experimental Economics, 1-26.

Yueh, Lim, Ye Li, and Rasam Dorri. (2025). Balancing speed and experience: the cognitive and affective impacts of playback acceleration in digital media consumption. Frontiers in Psychology.

Mansell, Wade S., Ye Li, and David Hardisty. (2024). Assessing patience and predictivity validity for mixed sign intertemporal choices. Judgment and Decision Making, 19(e30).

Bartels, Daniel M., Ye Li, and Soaham Bharti. (2023). How well do laboratory-derived estimates of time preference predict real-world behavior? Comparisons to four benchmarks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(9), 2651-2665.

Li, Ye, Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb, Daniel Wall, Eric J. Johnson, Olivier Toubia, and Daniel M. Bartels. (2022). The More You Ask, the Less You Get: When Additional Questions Hurt External Validity. Journal of Marketing Research, 59(5), 963-982.

Jie, Yun and Ye Li. (2022). Chronological Cues and Consumers' Preference for Mere Newness. Journal of Retailing, 98(3), 527-541.

Sugarman, Eli R., Ye Li, and Eric J. Johnson. (2021). Local Warming is Real: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Recent Temperature on Climate Change Beliefs. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 42(12), 121-126.

Li, Ye, Jie Gao, Zeynep Enkavi, Lisa Zaval, Elke U. Weber, and Eric J. Johnson. (2015). Sound credit scores and financial decisions despite cognitive aging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(1), 65-69.

Lerner, Jennifer S., Ye Li, Piercarlo Valdesolo, and Karim Kassam. (2015). Emotion and Decision Making. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 799-823.

DeSteno, David, Ye Li, Leah Dickens, and Jennifer S. Lerner. (2014). Gratitude: A Tool for Reducing Economic Impatience. Psychological Science, 25(6), 1262-1267.

Li, Ye, Martine Baldassi, Eric J. Johnson, and Elke U. Weber. (2013). Complementary Cognitive Capabilities, Economic Decisions, and Aging. Psychology and Aging, 28(3), 595-613.

Lerner, Jennifer S., Ye Li, and Elke U. Weber. (2013). The Financial Cost of Sadness. Psychological Science, 24(1), 72-79.

Li, Ye, Eric J. Johnson, and Lisa Zaval. (2011). Local Warming: Daily Temperature Deviation Affects Beliefs and Concern about Climate Change. Psychological Science, 22(4), 454-459.

Li, Ye and Nicholas Epley. (2009). When the best appears to be saved for last: Serial position effects on choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 22(4), 378-389.

Zaval, Lisa, Ye Li, Eric J. Johnson, and Elke U. Weber. (2015). Complementary Contributions of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence to Decision Making Across the Life Span. In Aging and Decision-Making: Empirical and Applied Perspectives, Academic Press.

Salloum, Marah and Ye Li. (2025). Anxiety Effects on Decision Making by College Students. UCR Undergraduate Research Journal, Volume XIX, 101-108.

Huang, Helen and Ye Li. (2023). Less is Less: Fast Ad Delivery Undermines Impact. University of California Riverside Undergraduate Research Journal, Volume XVII, 57-66.

Ghabour, Mira and Ye Li. (2015). Body Perceptions and Naturalness. University of California Riverside Undergraduate Research Journal, Volume IX, 47-53.

Fisar, Milos, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali Ozkes, and Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. (2024). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 70(3), 1343-1356.

Li, Ye and Claus O. Wilke. (2004). Digital evolution in time-dependent landscapes. Artificial Life, 12(2), 123-134.

Moritz Jorling, Ye Li, and Meng Zhu. The Complementarity Dilemma in AI Collaborations: Evidence from Incentive-Compatible Studies. In prep, Information Systems Review.

Jie, Yun and Ye Li. Discounting for past options. In prep, Judgment and Decision Making.

Shen, Hang and Ye Li. Accidentally Bayesian: Preference similarity effects on advice taking. In prep, Journal of Marketing.

Li, Ye, Lisa Zaval, and Eric J. Johnson. Older and Wiser: Older consumers exhibit less future anhedonia. In prep, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Li, Ye. Incentivizing Workers Using Prosocial Motivations. In prep, Academy of Management Journal.

Li, Ye, Daniel M. Bartels, and George Wu. A pairwise-comparison model of intuitive probabilistic inference. In prep, Cognition.

Zhang, Yan, Ye Li, and Ting Zhu. How multiple anchors affect judgment: Evidence from the lab and eBay. In prep, Journal of Consumer Psychology.