Staff Profile
Dr Daqing Liu
Lecturer, Psychology
I am a social psychologist with a particular interest in moral emotions and moral character judgment. I completed my MSc in Social and Applied Psychology in 2018 and received my PhD in Social Psychology in 2023, both at the University of Kent. My PhD research focused on the emotions of sociomoral disgust and anger, investigating what moral judgments distinguish the two emotions and their different signalling functions in interpersonal communication. I joined York St John in March 2024.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – d.liu1@yorksj.ac.uk
Teaching
I currently contribute to teaching on the following modules:
- PSY4008M Survey Research Methods and Statistics
- PSY5007M Advanced Research Methods
Publications and conferences
Journal articles
Liu, D., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (in press). Bad people alert: The expression of disgust signals its target’s bad moral character. Collabra: Psychology
Liu, D., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2023). Social-functional characteristics of Chinese terms translated as “shame” or “guilt”: a cross-referencing approach. Cognition and Emotion, 37(3), 466–485. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2179976
Uskul, A. K., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Vignoles, V. L., Rodriguez-Bailón, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Yalçın, M. G., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Jin, S., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Liu, D., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Özkan, Z., . . . Uchida, Y. (2023). Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000342
Imada, H., Codd, D., & Liu, D. (2021). Intergroup discrimination in cooperation among moral and non-moral groups. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 12(1), 28–33. https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2021.86
Conference presentations/posters
Giner-Sorolla, R. & Liu, D. (2023). Dark Triad traits, even if harmless, are still disgusting because of the bad character signals they send. In R. Giner-Sorolla (Chair), Interpersonal disgust in judgments and action [Symposium]. European Association of Social Psychology 19th General Meeting, Kraków, Poland.
Liu, D. & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2022). Social-functional characteristics of Chinese emotion terms translated as “shame” or guilt” in responses and production [Poster presentation]. Consortium of European Research on Emotion 9th Conference, Granada, Spain
Liu, D. & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2022). Judgment of bad moral character distinguishes moral disgust from anger [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention 2022, virtual.
