工作经历：

2025.08-至今        北京师范大学心理学部，副教授

2023.03-2025.08        北京师范大学心理学部，讲师

2021.01-2022.12        美国哥伦比亚大学, 博士后

 

学习经历：

2017.08-2020.12     美国弗吉尼亚理工大学心理学院，博士

2015.08-2017.05     美国弗吉尼亚理工大学心理学院，硕士

2011.09-2015.07     山东师范大学与美国ETSU心理学院，学士

科研项目：

教育部中国特色哲学社会科学研究重大专项“中国心理学自主知识体系建设”，重大项目“极端环境下的心理变化研究”，子课题负责人，2025-2027

北京市“高创计划”青年人才托举工程，2025-2027

国家自然科学基金青年项目，“儿童行为抑制亚型对焦虑的影响及其认知控制机制”，2025-2027，主持

海外博士后YC专项，“孕期空气污染与母亲心理健康对婴儿行为抑制交互影响的认知神经机制研究”2024-2026，主持

教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目，“母亲侵入性对儿童社交焦虑的影响及认知神经机制研究”，2024-2026，主持

中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助青年创新团队项目，“基于人工智能的中小学生学习效率增强与情感支持一体化干预研究”，2024-2025，子课题负责人

唐仲英基金会项目，“中国人口精神健康筛查与干预新方法研究”，2023-2025，子课题负责人

北京师范大学中央高校基本科研业务费，青年教师科研启动项目，“儿童内化问题形成的多水平影响因素及神经生理机制研究”，2023-2025，主持

北京师范大学心理学部自主科研项目，“儿童主动控制及其神经机制对易恐气质与社交焦虑关系调控作用”，2023-2026，主持

National Institute of Health, Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution and Childhood Social Anxiety Symptoms: Novel pathogenic pathways, (PI: Amy Margolis), R01ES035792, 2024.09-2029.06, Consultant

Environmental bisphenol exposure, infant brain and behavior: Human and animal models (PI: Amy Margolis), National Institutes of Health, R01ES030950, 2020.01–至今,参与

Brain Activity during Infant Inhibitory Control (PI: Martha Ann Bell), National Institutes of Health, R21HD097942, 结题,参与

Development of Inhibitory Control during Infancy (PI: Martha Ann Bell), National Institutes of Health, R03HD091644, 结题,参与

Psychobiology of Cognitive Development (PI: Martha Ann Bell), National Institutes of Health, R01HD049878, 结题,参与

学术文章（*通讯作者）：

Kong, T, Yang Y, Ji F, Liu, J, Liu, R*, & Luo, L.* (2025). Combined effects of prenatal ozone exposure and school/neighborhood environments on youth brain, cognition, and psychotic-like experiences. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.14167.

Yang, Y., Kong, T., Liu, R.*, & Luo, L.* (2025). Associations of interpersonal and socioeconomic early life adversity dimensions with adolescents’ corticolimbic circuits, cognition, and mental health. Translational Psychiatry. 15(168),1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03384-6

Liu, J., Yang, Y., Kong, T., Liu, R.*, & Luo, L.* (2025). Associations Among Green Space Exposure, Brain, and Mental Health and Cognition in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 104, 102625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102625

Cai, H., Niu, Y., Gao, X., Liu, R., Liu, Z., Guo, X., & Luo, L.* (2025). Dynamic Associations between Self-Efficacy and Depressive Symptoms During the Transition to Adolescence: A 3-year Longitudinal Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02181-0

Liu, R.*, Smith, C. L., & Bell, M. A. (2025). Co‐Changes and Mutual Influences of Fearful Temperament, Task Switching, and Maternal Intrusiveness in Early Childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 67(2), e70031. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.70031

Yang, Y., Kong, T., Ji, F., Liu, R.*, & Luo, L.* (2024). Associations among environmental unpredictability, changes in resting-state functional connectivity, and adolescent psychopathology in the ABCD study. Psychological Medicine, 54(15), 4119-4128. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724001855

Wu, Y., Zhao, B., Liu, J., Liu, R., & Luo, L.* (2024) Parallel change process of paternal and maternal homework involvement with early adolescents: the role of parental motivational beliefs. Current Psychology, 43, 31169–31184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06624-y

Liu, R.*, Pagliaccio, D., Herbstman, J. B., Fox, N. A., & Margolis, A. E. (2023). Prenatal exposure to air pollution and childhood internalizing problems: roles of shyness and anterior cingulate cortex activity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(7), 1037-1044. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13768

Margolis, A. E.*, Lee, S. H., Liu, R., Goolsby, L., Champagne, F., Herbstman, J. B., & Beebe, B. (2023). Associations between prenatal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and infant self-regulation in a New York city longitudinal prospective birth cohort. Environmental Research, 227,115652.

Greenwood, P. B.*, Cohen, J. W., Liu, R., Hoepner, L., Rauh, V., Herbstman, J., Pagliaccio, D., & Margolis, A. E. (2022). Effects of prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and childhood material hardship on reading achievement in school-age children: A preliminary study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 933177.

Meza-Cervera, T.*, Tucker, A., Liu, R., & Bell, M. A. (2022). Child emotion inhibition mediates the effect of parent’s adaptive cognitive emotion regulation on child frontal EEG asymmetry during reappraisal. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(8), e22339

Liu, R.*, DeSerisy, M., Fox, N., Herbstman, J.B., Rauh, V.A., Beebe, B., & Margolis, A.E. (2022). Prenatal exposure to air pollution and maternal stress predict infant individual differences in reactivity and regulation and socioemotional development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(11), 1359-1367. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13581

Margolis, A.E.*, Liu, R. Conceição, V.A., Ramphal, B., Pagliaccio, D., DeSerisy, M., Koe, E., Selmanovic, E., Raudales, A., Emanet, N., Maia, T.V., Beebe, B., Pearson, B.L., Herbstman, J.B., Rauh, V.A., Fifer, W.P., Fox, N., & Champagne, F.A. (2022). Convergent neural correlates of prenatal exposure to air pollution and behavioral phenotypes for psychiatric risk: Potential biological and cognitive pathways. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 137, 104645.

Liu, R.*, & Bell, M.A. (2023). Fearful temperament in middle childhood predicts adolescent attention bias and anxiety symptoms: The moderating role of frontal EEG asymmetry. Development and Psychopathology, 35(3), 1335-1345. doi:10.1017/S0954579421001231 Hunter, H.*, Allen, K., Liu, R., Jaekel, J., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Examining the bidirectional sample: A longitudinal study from infancy to middle childhood. Depression and Anxiety, 38(12), 1245-1255. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23207

Liu, R.*, Phillips, J.J., Ji, F., Shi, D., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Temperamental shyness and anger/frustration in childhood: Normative development, individual differences, and the impacts of maternal intrusiveness and frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry. Child Development, 92(6), 2529-2545. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13621

Goodman, S.H.*, Liu, R., Lusby, C.M., Park, J.S., Bell, M.A., Newport, D.J., & Stowe, Z.N (2021). Consistency of EEG asymmetry patterns in infants of depressed mothers. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(4), 768-781. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22046

Liu, R.*, Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems during childhood. Development and Psychopathology. 33(3), 1016-1025. doi:10.1017/S0954579420000309

Liu, R.* & Bell, M.A. (2020). Fearful temperament and the risk for child and adolescent anxiety: The role of attention biases and effortful control. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 23(2), 205-228. https://doi: 10.1007/s10567-019-00306-z

Liu, R.*, Blankenship, T.L., Broomell, A.P.R., Garcia-Meza, T., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Executive function mediates the association between toddler negative affectivity and early academic achievement. Early Education and Development, 29(5), 641-654. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2018.1446880

**reprinted in: Moving Forward in the Study of Temperament and Early Education Outcomes: Mediating and Moderating Factors (Routledge, 2020) ISBN: 978-0-367-36189-1

Liu, R.*, Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Fearful inhibition, inhibitory control, and maternal negative behaviors during toddlerhood predict internalizing problems at age 6. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46(8), 1665-1675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0419-5

学术书刊：

Margolis, A.E. & Liu, R. (2023). Anxiety, executive functions, and reading disorder:

A neurobiological view. In A.E., Margolis & J. Broitman (Eds.), Learning disorders across the lifespan: A mental health framework (pp. 17-24). Switzerland: Spring Nature.

Bell, M.A., Wolfe, C.D., Diaz, A., & Liu, R. (2019). Cognition and emotion in development. In V. LoBue, K. Buss, & K. Perez-Edgar (Eds.), Handbook of emotional development (pp. 375 - 403). New York: Springer.

会议报告：

刘然(2023),“儿童执行功能与内化问题发展轨迹的关联”，分组报告，中国心理学会发展心理专业委员会第十六届学术年会，南京

Liu, R., Bowers, M.E., Pini, N., Leach, S.C., Gimenez, L., Fifer, W.P., Fox, N.A. & Margolis, A.E. (2021, November). Adapting the Maryland analysis of developmental EEG pipeline for the automated preprocessing of sleep EEG. Poster at the Society for Developmental Psychobiology 2021 Hybrid Meeting.

Liu, R., J.J. Phillips, & Bell, M.A. (2020, April). Maternal intrusiveness, frontal EEG asymmetry, and the trajectories of shyness and anger/frustration across childhood. In R. Liu (Chair), The Multilevel Factors Influencing the Development of Temperament. Symposium at the Society for Research in Child Development.

Liu, R., M. Zerrouk, & Bell, M.A. (2020, April). Fearful Temperament and Adolescent Anxiety Symptoms: The Roles of Attention Biases and Frontal EEG Asymmetry. Poster at the Society for Research in Child Development.

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2020, November). Infant negative affectivity, frontal EEG asymmetry, and maternal intrusiveness predict externalizing problems in toddlerhood. Poster at the Occasional Temperament Conference, Blacksburg, VA

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2020, October). Frontal EEG asymmetry and the trajectory of externalizing problems across early childhood. Poster at the Society for Developmental Psychobiology Virtual Meeting.

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2019, October). Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems during middle childhood. Oral presentation at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2019, March). State frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the association between maternal distress responses and child externalizing problems. In L. MacNeill & X. Fu (Chairs), Using a social-interactive neuroscience approach to studying cognitive processes underlying risk for developmental psychopathology. Symposium at the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2019, March). Association between emotion regulation and externalizing problems: The moderating role of RSA reactivity and gender. Poster at the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2018, November). Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems. Poster at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2018, November). Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems. Poster at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Liu, R. (2018, August). Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems. Symposium at the Department of Psychology Annual Research Fair, Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, VA

Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2018, July). Infant frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the association between early maternal intrusiveness and 36-month anxiety and depression. Poster at the International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Liu, R. (2017, August). Fearful inhibition, inhibitory control, and maternal negative behaviors during toddlerhood predict internalizing problems at age 6. Symposium at the Developmental Science and Biological Psychology Annual Research Symposium, Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

Liu, R. & Bell, M.A. (2017, April). Fear/shyness, effortful control, and maternal negative behaviors predict internalizing problems: A longitudinal study. Poster at the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Liu, R. & Bell, M.A. (2016, May). Verbal ability mediates the association between effortful control and executive function at 24 months. Poster at the International Congress on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA.

教学项目：

1.心理学部教学建设与改革项目，“《教育心理学》教学设计研究”，2024-2025，已结题

2.北京师范大学教师教学发展基金项目，“《教育心理学》136课程思政模式构建与实践”，2024-2025，已结题

教授课程：

教育心理学、发展心理学（全英文授课，美国弗吉尼亚理工大学）、发展心理学实验（全英文授课，美国弗吉尼亚理工大学）、普通心理学（全英文授课，美国弗吉尼亚理工大学）

期刊审稿人：

Child Development, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Early Education and Development, Infant Behavior and Development, Development and Psychopathology, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology), Infant and Child Development, Journal of Family Psychology, Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology

学术会员：

中国心理学会(CPS), Association of Psychological Science (APS), The International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), The International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS)

2021        Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $395

2020        Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $395

2019        国家留学基金委优秀自费留学生奖学金, $6000

2019        Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $395

2019        Graduate Student Travel Award, the Society for Research in Child Development, $300

2018        Graduate Student Travel Award, the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, $385

2018        Graduate School Travel Funds, Virginia Tech, $350

2018        Graduate School Travel Funds, Virginia Tech, $225

2016        Graduate School Travel Funds, Virginia Tech, $132

2015        Summa cum laude, ETSU