Hanjie Liu

Hanjie Liu is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Media and Information in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University.

• Her research examines bidirectional relationships between technological platforms and users' cognitive, attitudinal, and well-being changes.
• Key areas include social media engagements, mental health messaging, algorithmic influence, and psychological processing.
• She employs quantitative surveys, experiments, experience sampling methods (ESM), and implicit association tasks (IAT).

Academic recognitions include:

• HRCC Sandi Smith Research Fellowship
• Charles J. Strosacker Foundation Research Fund for Health and Risk Communication
• Outstanding Teaching Award (Michigan State University, 2023)
• Recognition for teaching excellence (University of Minnesota, 2021)

Her work has been presented at conferences such as ICA, NCA, AEJMC, and ICORIA.