Li-Jun Ji

Li-Jun Ji is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University under the Faculty of Arts and Science. Her research explores the intersection of culture and cognition, focusing on how cultural background (East Asian vs. American) shapes thinking, perception, and decision-making processes.

• Education: B.S. and M.S. from Peking University; Ph.D. from University of Michigan
• Contact: lijunji@queensu.ca

Her work examines cultural variations in attention, categorization, prediction, and judgment, with implications for social cognition. Recent studies investigate cultural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, temporal focus in decision making, and emotional processing across generations.

Collaborative publications highlight cross-cultural differences in pandemic coping strategies, opportunity cost evaluation, and gratitude expression. Her lab at Queen's University addresses topics like cultural processing styles, resilience through suffering, and cognitive heuristics.