My research interest is investigating information transmission and decision-making, particularly media reporting strategies in both autocracies and democracies, from approaches including game theory and quantitative methods.

Publications 

1. Partisan Attitudes and the Motivation behind the Spread of Misleading Information (with Myunghoon Kang, Chunho Park, and Jisung Yoon; accepted at Humanities and Social Science Communications) 

2. Succinct and Efficient: Optimizing Risk-Taking Propensity Measurement (DOSPERT) with Artificial Intelligence Techniques (Min-Heng Wang, Po-Yi Chen, and Emily Ho; published in Personality and Individual Differences 244 (2025): 113241)

3. Fact News in Taiwan: How People Authenticate Fact from Fiction  (in Fact News Across Asian Countries, ed. Edson C. Tandoc Jr.  Oxford: Routledge (March, 2025))

4. The Autocracy Bias: Evaluating Democratic Citizens' Perception of Human Rights Violations in Policy Proposals Abroad (with Joan Barcelo; published in the International Studies Quarterly 68.4 (2024): sqae135) 

5. Punishment Trumps Warning in Prebunking Misinformation: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Taiwan ( forthcoming in the Journal of Asian and African Studies)

6. The Making of the Boy Who Cried Wolf: Fake News and Media Skepticism (with Myunghoon Kang; published in Political Science Research and Methods 13.2 (2025): 465-474) 

7. Commitment and Information Problems in Authoritarian Regimes. (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; in Research Handbook on Authoritarianism, eds. Natasha Lindstaedt, and Jeroen J. J. Van den Bosch. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (March, 2024))

8. Tell Me the Truth? Dictatorship and the Commitment to Media Freedom (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics 36.1 (2024): 37-63)

9. Politics Matters for Individual Attitudes toward Vaccine Donation: Cross-national Evidence from the United States and Taiwan  (with Yuan Hsiao, Fang-Yu Lin, and Ching-Hsing Wang; published in Globalization and Health 19 (2023): 40)

10. WHO Approves? Relative Trust, the WHO, and China’s COVID-19 Vaccines (with Hans H. Tung, Chien-Hui Wu, and Wen-Chin Wu; published in  the Review of International Organizations 18 (2023): 499-521)

11. Experts or Politicians? Citizen Responses to Vaccine Endorsements across 5 OECD Countries (with Joan Barcelo, Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in Public Opinion Quarterly 87.1 (2023): 142-155) 

12. Power Sharing and Media Freedom under Dictatorships (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in Political Communication 39.2 (2022): 202-221)  

• Winner of the 2022 Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award, Political Communication Division,  International Communication Association.

13. Vaccine Nationalism Among the Public: A Cross-country Experimental Evidence of Own-country Bias towards COVID-19 Vaccination (with Joan Barcelo, Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in Social Science & Medicine 310 (2022): 115278)  

14. Media with Reputational Concerns: Yes Men or Watchdogs? (published in Political Science Research and Methods 9.2 (2021): 345-364) 

15. Citizen Journalism and Credibility of Authoritarian Government in Risk Communication Regarding the 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak: A Survey Experiment (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; NYUAD Division of Social Science Working Paper No. 0040; published in PLoS ONE 16.12 (2021): e0260961)

16. Voluntary Adoption of Social Welfare-enhancing Behavior: Mask-wearing in Spain during the COVID-19 Outbreak (with Joan Barcelo; published in PLoS ONE 15.12 (2020): e0242764)

中文發表

1. 非發展與非優惠性金援對國家外債影響之分析：以中國金援為例 （與平思寧合著，發表於台灣政治學刊 27.1 (2023): 1-58）

2. 軟實力還是文化入侵？《黑神話：悟空》之關注評析 （與李庭妤合著，發表於展望與探索 22.10 (2024): 30-37）