Zhu, Y. E., Leiner, D., Neuendorf, N. L., Scherr, S. (2026). The power of context: how choice set size and composition influence overall and cross-cutting news exposure. Human Communication Research. [doi]

Zhu, Y., Zeid, N., Leiner, D. J., & Scherr, S. (2025). What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet? Journal of Health Psychology. [doi]

Zhu, Y. E., & Scherr, S (under review). Emotional choice sets: Asymmetric congruency effects in algorithmic news feed curation.

Zhu, Y. E., & Scherr, S. (2025). ‘Hook’-shaped polarization: how conservative super-commenters shape conspiracy beliefs and news engagement across the political spectrum. Information, Communication & Society. [doi]

Luo, C., Zhu, Y., & Chen, A. (2024). What motivates people to counter misinformation on social media? Unpacking the roles of perceived consequences, third-person perception and social media use. Online Information Review. [doi] (co-first authorship)

Strydhorst, N. A., Zhu, Y. E., Middleton, L., Renner, J., Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (under review). Consensus science communication: A replication experiment investigating the collateral damage hypothesis.

Liu, Y., Gao, F., & Zhu, Y. (2019). Why do intuitions differ? Explaining how individual and scenario features influence disgust and moral judgements on GMOs. Cultures of Science. [doi]

Eom, D., Renner, J., Zhu, Y. E., Shao, A., Choi, S., Newman, T. P., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (Revise & Resubmit). The human factor in AI governance: Dispositional predictors of public concern and regulatory preferences.

Zhu, Y. E., Juarez Miro, C., Jang, H., & Xu, H. (under review). Knowledge and populist attitudes in participatory AI governance: Evidence from a three-country survey.

Xu, H., Zhu, Y. E., Jang, H. & Juarez Miro, C. (under review). From optimism to obligation: how positive orientation toward AI drives public demands for governance and corporate responsibility.

Eom, D., Zhu, Y. E., Mackey, C. D., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. Why public support for Artificial Intelligence varies: Intellectual humility, deference to scientific authority, and moral opposition across distinct publics. Manuscript in preparation.

Mackey, C. D., Zhu, Y. E., López, A. I., Strydhorst, N. A., Yang, J., Buckley, N., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. How science-religion relationship perceptions shape who speaks about emerging technologies (and who doesn’t). Manuscript in preparation.