Publications

Chen, S. Y., Urminsky, O., & Yu, J. (2023). We do what we are: Representation of the self-concept and identity-based choice. Journal of Consumer Research. [pdf]

Chen, S. Y. & Urminsky O. (2022). What's left of me? The role of self-continuity in decision making and judgments about identity persistence. In Tobia, K. (Ed.) Advances in experimental philosophy of identity and the self. (pp 71-85). Bloomsbury. [pdf]

Molouki, S., Chen, S. Y., Urminsky O., & Bartels, D. M. (2020). How personal theories of the self shape beliefs about identity continuity. In Lambert, E. & J. Schwenkler (Eds.) Becoming someone new: Essays on transformative experience, choice, and change (pp 52-73). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. [abstract]

Chen, S. Y., & Urminsky, O. (2019). The role of causal beliefs in political identity and voting. Cognition, 188, 27-38. [pdf]

Chen, S.Y. (2019). Causal beliefs in the self-concept and identity-based consumption. In Reed II, A. & M. Forehand (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Identity Theory in Marketing (pp. 298-312). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Chen, S. Y., Urminsky, O., & Bartels, D. M. (2016). Beliefs about the causal structure of the self-concept determine which changes disrupt personal identity. Psychological Science, 27, 1398-1406. [pdf] [supplemental materials]

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Chen, S. Y., Ross, B. H., & Murphy, G. L. (2016). Eyetracking reveals multiple-category use in induction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1050-1067. [pdf]

Chen, S. Y., Ross, B. H., & Murphy, G. L. (2014). Decision making under uncertain categorization. Frontiers in Psychology: Special Issues on Common Mechanisms in Memory, Reasoning and Categorization, 5, article no. 991.

Chen, S. Y., Ross, B. H., & Murphy, G. L. (2014). Implicit and explicit processes in category-based induction: Is induction best when we don’t think? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 227-246. [pdf]

Murphy, G. L., Chen, S. Y., & Ross, B. H. (2012). Reasoning with uncertain categories. Thinking & Reasoning, 18, 81-117. [pdf]

Working Papers (All available upon request)

*Meng, R., *Chen S. Y., & Bartels, D. M. (under revision Journal of Consumer Research). Use of diverse evidence in prediction of preference.

Chen, S. Y., & Urminsky, O. (working paper). Not all (brand) changes are equal: Understanding which changes impact brand loyalty.

*indicates equal authorship

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Chen, S. Y. (2018). The complexity of consumer identity: How consumer choices and outcomes are driven by the dynamic and multi-faceted self. In Gershoff, A., Kozinets, R., & White, T. (Eds.), NA Advances in Consumer Research Vol 46. (pp 237-241). [pdf]

Chen, S. Y., & Urminsky, O. (2018). Representations of the self-concept and identity-based choice. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp 208-213). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Chen, S. Y., Bartels, D. M., & Urminsky, O. (2016). Is the self-concept like other concepts? The causal structure of identity. In Papafraou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp 1727-1732). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Meng, R., Chen S. Y., & Bartels, D. M. (2015). Reasoning about diverse evidence in preference predictions. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp 1577-1582). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Chen, S. Y., Ross, B. H., & Murphy, G. L. (2013). Eyetracking as an implicit measure of category-based induction. In Knauff, M., Pauen, M., Sebanz, N., & Wachsmuth, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp 316-321). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]