Current Research Interests
Dr. Li is a quantitative psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His research covers Rasch modeling, mixed models, behavioral decision theory, and Bayesian decision modeling. Dr. Li's current research involves the assessment of smokers' risk perception and smoking cessation behavior, cancer patients' desire of hastened death at end of life, cancer patients' cognitive looming vulnerability, cancer patients' depression and pain, and psychosexual functioning among childhood cancer survivors.
Selected Publications:
- Li Y, Steinberg AG, Bain L, Yaeger D, Bieler A, Ewing R, Kaimal G, Krantz I. Assessing parental attitudes toward genetic testing for childhood hearing loss: Before and after genetic consultation. Am J Med Genet A. 2007; 143:1546-53.
- Li Y, Using the Open-Source Statistical Language R to Analyze the Rasch Model. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 2006; 38:532-541.
- Li Y, Krantz DH. Experimental Tests of Subjective Bayesian Methods. Psychological Record. 2005; 55:251-277.
- Li Y, Doukas DJ. Health motivation and emotional vigilance in genetic testing for prostate cancer risk. Clin Genet. 2004 Dec;66(6):512-6.
- Li Y, Womer RB, Silber JH. Predicting cisplatin ototoxicity in children: the influence of age and the cumulative dose. Eur J Cancer. 2004 Nov;40(16):2445-51.
