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    When word frequency meets word order: factors determining multiply-constrained creative association
    with Wangbing Shen, Bernhard Hommel, Qiping Ren, Meifeng Hua, and Fang Lu
    Thinking and Reasoning. forthcoming.
    Creative association is inherent and essential to creativity and insight. Here we utilised a Chinese compound Remote Associates Task (cRAT) to identify the potential impact of word order (i.e., solution position hereinafter) and word frequency on creative association across two behavioural experiments. Experiment 1 identified the effects of (a) word order and word frequency on cRAT-induced association without considering the specific strategies used during solving such problems and (b) their int…Read more
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    Iterative genetic improvement: Scaling stochastic program synthesis
    with Wolfgang Banzhaf
    Artificial Intelligence 322 (C): 103962. 2023.
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    Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China
    with Tao-Jie Zhou, Hao-Yang Ren, Guo-Die Xie, Geng-Fu Wang, and Pu-Yu Su
    Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2022.
    As the prevalence of self-harm among adolescents in Chinese escalates, finding out the potential risk factors associated with self-harm behaviors has aroused much attention. This study aims to explore the association between parent-child separation and series of self-harm subtypes among Chinese adolescents. We survey a total of 4,928 middle school students aged from 12 to 18 years at school. Parent-child separation was investigated from four dimensions—occurrence of parental separation, separati…Read more