Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Psychology, NYU Shanghai
Yuerui (Julia) Wu is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU Shanghai. She completed her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of California, Davis, and earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on cognition, emotions, and trauma (e.g., child maltreatment), with a special interest in legal applications. She provides explanations for psychologically crucial and legally relevant phenomena by investigating how past experiences shape memories through the gateway of emotions, how thoughts about events may alter emotional experiences, and how cognition and emotions can both contribute to decision-making within social contexts.
Wu, Y., Hartman, D. T., Brown, L. F., Wang, Y., Vidales, D., Grandchamp, J., Enriquez, R., Moriarty, N., Goldfarb, D., & Goodman, G. S. (2024). Collective trauma: Childhood abuse, perceived discrimination, and Covid-19. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 16, S115–S124.
Wu, Y., Hartman, D. T., Wang, Y., Goldfarb, & Goodman, G. S. (2023). Suppression and memory for childhood traumatic events: Trauma symptoms and non-disclosure. Topics in Cognitive Science. Advance online publication.
Wu, Y., Goodman, G. S., Goldfarb, D., Wang, Y., Vidales, D., Brown, L. F., Qin, J., & Eisen, M. L. (2023). Memory accuracy after 20 years for interviews about child maltreatment. Child Maltreatment, 28, 85-96.
Hartman, D. T., Wang, Y., Wu, Y., Goldfarb, D., Vidales, D., Qin, J., Eisen, M. L., & Goodman, G. S. (2023). A Longitudinal study of child sexual abuse: Disclosures and denials. Child Maltreatment, 28, 462-275.
Goldfarb, D., Goodman, G. S., Wang, Y., Fisher, R., Vidales, D., Gonzalves, L., Wu, Y., Hartman, D. T., Qin, J., & Eisen, M. L. (2023). Adults’ memory for a maltreatment-related childhood experience: Interview protocols. Clinical Psychological Science, 11, 164-182.