I am currently a PhD candidate in Psychology at Zhejiang University, affiliated with the Center for Psychological Sciences and the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. Since 2025, I have also been a visiting PhD student at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore.

My research integrates perspectives from machine psychology and moral psychology to explore how individuals make moral judgments in both human and human–AI contexts. I am particularly interested in the role of interpersonal relationships in shaping moral evaluations and responsibility attributions. My work combines experimental methods with behavioral analysis to understand how emerging technologies challenge and transform moral cognition.

📝 Publications

^#These authors contributed equally to this work; ^*Corresponding author(s)

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• To Apologize or Not to Apologize? Trust Repair After Automated Vehicles’ Mistake
  Yunhao Cai^#, Yueying Chu^#, Zhigang Xu, Peng Liu^* (in press). Transportation Research Record

• Road Rage Against the Machine: Humans and LLMs Share a Blame Bias Against Driverless Cars
  Yueying Chu, Peng Liu^*, Julian Savulescu, Brian D. Earp (in press). International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

• Machine Creativity: Aversion, Appreciation, or Indifference?
  Peng Liu^*, Yueying Chu, Yandong Zhao, and Siming Zhai (2025). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Advance online publication).

• Morality on the road: Should machine drivers be more utilitarian than human drivers?
  Peng Liu^*, Yueying Chu, Siming Zhai, Tingru Zhang^*, and Edmond Awad (2025). Cognition, 254, 106011.

• Credit and Blame for AI-Generated Content: Effects of Personalization in Four Countries
  Brian D. Earp^#, Sebastian Porsdam Mann^#, Peng Liu^#,*, Ivar Hannikainen^#,*, Maryam Ali Khan, Yueying Chu, and Julian Savulescu (2024). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1542, 51-57.

• To Err is Automation: Can Trust be Repaired by the Automated Driving System After its Failure?
  Peng Liu, Yueying Chu, Guanqun Wang, and Zhigang Xu^* (2024). IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 54(5), 508–519.

• Automation complacency on the road.
  Yueying Chu and Peng Liu^* (2023). Ergonomics, 66(11), 1730-1749.

• Machines and humans in sacrificial moral dilemmas: Required similarly but judged differently?
  Yueying Chu and Peng Liu^* (2023). Cognition, 239, 105575.

• Public aversion against ChatGPT in creative fields?
  Yueying Chu and Peng Liu^* (2023). The Innovation, 4(4), 100449.

• People with more misconceptions about automated vehicles might be more positive toward them.
  Peng Liu^*, Manqing Du, Zhigang Xu, and Yueying Chu (2022). Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 87, 264-278.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings and papers

• Examining Cross-Cultural Differences in Intelligent Vehicle Agents: Repair Strategies after Their Failures.
  Lan Lan^#, Yunhao Cai^#, Yueying Chu, Wenting Tang, Yuchu Chen, Peng Liu^*. In 17th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (Automotive UI ’25), Brisbane, Australia, Sep 22-25.

• Privacy Concern and Acceptability of Driver Monitoring System
  Yueying Chu, Zihui Yuan, and Peng Liu^* (2023). In 2023 AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing (AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 4-6.

• Human factor risks in driving automation crashes (🏆Best Paper Award)
  Yueying Chu and Peng Liu^* (2023). In 5th International Conference, MobiTAS 2023, held as part of the 25th HCI International Conference (HCII 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23–28.

• What does that car mean? The influence of vehicle motion and symbolic patterns of LED signals on pedestrians’ interpretation of a vehicle’s intent
  Yueying Chu, Deveshwar Hariharan, Seth Hollar, and Jing Feng^* (2022). In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 66(1), 977–981. Atlanta, Georgia, October 10-14.

💬 Oral Presentations and Posters

As a presenter🎤

• 2025.01 Oral Presentation "To Apologize or Not to Apologize? Trust Repair After Automated Vehicles’ Mistake" 104th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. January 5-9, 2025, Washinton DC, USA.
• 2025.01 Poster "Can External Human-Machine Interfaces Promote Prosocial Intentions of Human Drivers Toward Automated Vehicles in Mixed Traffic?" 104th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. January 5-9, 2025, Washinton DC, USA.
• 2024.08 Oral Presentation "Examining a dual-process model for explaining the effectiveness of trust repair in human-automation interaction" 22nd Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) Jointly with INCOSE HSI2024 (3rd INCOSE International Conference on Human Systems Integration). August 25-29, 2024, ICC JEJU, Republic of Korea.
• 2024.07 Oral Presentation "Dynamic Trust Repair: Conceptual and Feasibility Analysis" 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024) and the Affiliated Conferences. July 24-27, 2024, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France.
• 2024.06 Oral Presentation "Are large language models more rational than humans in ascribing responsibility?" Fourth International Workshop on Logics for New-Generation Artificial Intelligence. June 15-16, 2024, Hangzhou, China.
• 2023.12 Oral Presentation "Privacy Concern and Acceptability of Driver Monitoring System" 2023 AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing (AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition) Applications for Interservice and Industry. December 4-6, 2023, Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• 2023.11 Oral Presentation "自动化自满概念：挑战与影响 (The concept of automation complacency: Challenges and implications)." 浙江省心理学会学术年会 (Zhejiang Psychology Association Annual Meeting). November 24-26, 2023, Huzhou, China.
• 2023.07 Oral Presentation "Human Factor Risks in Driving Automation Crashes." 5th International Conference, MobiTAS 2023, held as part of the 25th HCI International Conference (HCII 2023). July 23–28, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  Others

• 2025.07 Poster "Temporal shifts in human perception of automated vehicles" 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). July 21-24, 2025, Norrköping, Sweden.
• 2025.06 Talk "Co-creating artistic images with generative AI: personalisation boosts credit attribution, but not aesthetic appreciation" 5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference (XPhi Europe 2025). July 10-12, 2025, UEA, Norwich, UK.

🎖 Selected Honors and Awards

• 2025.01 Zhejiang University Qiushi Xinxing (new star) Program
• 2024.12 Zhejiang University Qiushi Feiying Program (NUS visiting student)
• 2023 Zhejiang University, Outstanding Graduate Student (2022-2023)
• 2023 Transfer, Transfer Third Scholarship (2022-2023)
• 2023.07 Best Paper Award of the 5th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport and Automotive Systems.
• 2022.06 Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University, 2022
• 2021.09 Zhejiang University Scholarship - First Prize (Top 3%) (2020-2021)
• 2020.09 Zhejiang Provincial Scholarship (2019-2020)

📄 Academic Service

• Reviewer: Journal of Medical Ethics
• Co-chair: AHFE2024 Session 102: Interaction with Emerging Technologies II
• Co-chair: HCII2023 S012: Human and social sides of automated vehicles

📖 Educations

• 2022.09 - now, PhD candicate, Zhejiang Univeristy, Hangzhou.
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, Zhejiang Univeristy, Hangzhou.