Publications
[Refereed]
[Non-Refereed]
Liu, M. (2024). Effects of Educational Mediation on Children's ICT Use: An Integrative Analysis of School and Parental Roles (in Japanese). ISS BERD Joint Research Project (JLSCP) report of “2023 Fact-finding Survey on Children's Utilization of ICT”, 49-61.
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Liu, M. (2024). Emotion norms across social media platforms and their formation (in Japanese). The Society of Socio-Informatics Annual Conference Proceedings 2024, 139-144.
Presentations
Liu, M. (2019, Sep). Understanding Japanese Cultural Psychology through emoji usage. The 31st Conference of the Japanese Academy of Facial Studies, Hokkaido, Japan.
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Liu, M. (2019, Nov). Evaluating emoji communication in social media. The UT-SNU-NCCU Symposium, Seoul, Korea.
Liu, M. (2019, Nov). Decoding Smiley Faces: Do They Truly Express Happiness? Cross-disciplinary Workshop of Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Liu, M. (2023, May). Emotion norms within the online interactions. The 31st Conference of the Japan Society for Research on Emotions, Ehime, Japan.
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Liu, M. (2023, Nov). A comparative study of emotion norms across different social media platforms. The 34th Japanese Psychological Association research session for International Students, Virtual.
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Liu, M. (2024, Mar). Effects of Educational Mediation on Children's ICT Use: An Integrative Analysis of School and Parental Roles. Research Presentation Session, Center for Social Research and Data Archives, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, Virtual.
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Liu, M. (2024, Jun). Educational Mediation of Children's ICT Use and Its Predictors. The 50th conference of the Japanese Society of Information and Communication Research, Tokyo, Japan.
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Liu, M. (2024, Sep). Emotion norms across social media platforms and their formation. The 2024 Annual Conference of The Society of Socio-Informatics, Kagawa, Japan.
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Professional Affiliations
The Society of Socio-Informatics
Japanese Academy of Facial Studies　　　　　　　　
Japan Society for Research on Emotions
The Japanese Society of Social Psychology
International Communication Association
​Profesional Service
2018.11 Exhibiting Artist, “emo-i”, University of Tokyo iii exhibition, Tokyo
2020.1-Now Young Researcher Committee of Japanese Academy of Facial Studies
2023.10 Proposal Peer Reviewer (Academic Book in the field of Cyber Psychology. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan)
2024.10 Peer Reviewer (Telematics and Informatics; New Media & Society)
Liu, M (2023). Are you really smiling? Display rules for emojis and the relationship between emotion management and psychological well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 372.
Liu, M. (2023). Individual differences in emoji use across age, gender, and personality: Based on a Survey of Simeji Users in 10s and 20s (in Japanese). Socio-Informatics, 11(3), 53-69.
Media Coverage
Study found people use emojis to mask feelings, CBS Newsc (interview)
People use emojis to mask their negative feelings, study suggests, FOX News
Scientists find that people use emojis to hide, as well as show, their feelings, Frontiers Science News
People use emojis to soften the blow of negative feelings, Popular Science
What does your emoji use say about your emotions – study, The Jerusalem Post
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