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. Does Lay Participation Increase Trust in the Judicial System? A Survey Experiment (with Jing-Huey Shao, and Wei-Ting Tsai; accepted at Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2026)) 

2. Partisan Attitudes and the Motivation behind the Spread of Misleading Information (with Myunghoon Kang, Chunho Park, and Jisung Yoon; published in Humanities and Social Science Communications 12 (2025): 1369) 

3. 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)

4. 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))

5. 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) 

6. Punishment Trumps Warning in Prebunking Misinformation: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Taiwan ( published in the Journal of Asian and African Studies 60.8 (2024): 5397-5417)

7. 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) 

8. 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))

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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) 

13. 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.

14. 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)  

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

16. 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)

17. 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）