Biography
I am a fifth-year PhD Candidate in I/O psychology. Before I came to UIUC, I attained my bachelor's degree in computer science/software engineering and master's degree in psychology, both in Fudan University, China. I primarily work on topics about leadership, specifically meta-analyses on linking leadership to workplace outcomes such as turnover intentions, and also linking personality to leadership effectiveness/emergence.
Aside from leadership, I am also enthusiastic about seeking out opportunities where techniques of computer science and programming can be applied to improvement on psychometric methods.
Outside of research, I also identify myself as a piano composer with passion in creativity, as well as a fan for old computer games such as DOOM and HOMM III.
Research Interests
Personality Measurement
Personality and Leadership
Job Attitudes & Turnover Intentions
Research Methods (Meta-Analysis, Machine Learning, Item Response Theory)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, Fudan University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University College Dublin (Joint Degree)
Master of Arts in Psychology, Fudan University
Courses Taught
Fall 2021: PSYC 245 (Instructor)
Spring 2021, Fall 2020: PSYC 245 (Teaching Assistant)
Spring 2020: PSYC 353 (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2019: PSYC 468 (Teaching Assistant)
Highlighted Publications
Li, M., Zhang, B., Li, L., Sun, T., & Brown, A. (in press). Mix-keying or desirability-matching in the construction of forced-choice measures? An empirical investigation and practical recommendations. Organizational Research Methods.
Javalagi, A. A., Newman, D. A., & Li, M. (in press). Personality and Leadership: Meta-Analytic Review of Cross-Cultural Moderation, Behavioral Mediation, and Honesty-Humility. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Li, M., Sun, T., & Zhang, B. (2022). autoFC: An R Package for Automatic Item Pairing in Forced-Choice Test Construction. Applied Psychological Measurement, 46(1), 70–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/01466216211051726
Recent Publications
Zhou, Z., Li, M., Wu, J., & Li, X. (2021). Differential Associations Between Parents' Versus Children's Perceptions of Parental Socialization Goals and Chinese Adolescent Depressive Symptoms. Frontiers in psychology, 12.
Chang, C. W., Yeh, S. C., & Li, M. (2020). The Adoption of a Virtual Reality–Assisted Training System for Mental Rotation: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling Approach. JMIR serious games, 8(1), e14548.
Chang, C. W., Li, M., Yeh, S. C., Chen, Y., & Rizzo, A. (2020). Examining the Effects of HMDs/FSDs and Gender Differences on Cognitive Processing Ability and User Experience of the Stroop Task-Embedded Virtual Reality Driving System (STEVRDS). IEEE Access, 8, 69566-69578.
Chang, C. W., Yeh, S. C., Li, M., & Yao, E. (2019). The introduction of a novel virtual reality training system for gynecology learning and its user experience research. IEEE Access, 7, 43637-43653.