Zheng Yan

Zheng Yan is Associate Professor of developmental and educational psychology at University at Albany since 2007. He graduated from Harvard University Graduate School of Education with a doctoral degree in Human Development and Psychology in 2000. His research mainly concerns dynamic and complex relations between contemporary technologies and human development as well as research methodology of human development. He is currently investigating children’s understanding of the Internet as a complex artifact and human behaviors in the cyber space as an emerged field of research.

Publications

Analyzing Human Behavior in Cyberspace
Zheng Yan. © 2019. 333 pages.
The rapid evolution of technology continuously changes the way people interact, work, and learn. By examining these advances from a sociological perspective, researchers can...
Cyber Attacks, Contributing Factors, and Tackling Strategies: The Current Status of the Science of Cybersecurity
Samantha Bordoff, Quan Chen, Zheng Yan. © 2019. 18 pages.
This article describes how as access to the Internet has increased, cybersecurity has become important, with businesses and the government spending much time and resources to...
Cyber Attacks, Contributing Factors, and Tackling Strategies: The Current Status of the Science of Cybersecurity
Samantha Bordoff, Quan Chen, Zheng Yan. © 2019. 18 pages.
This article describes how as access to the Internet has increased, cybersecurity has become important, with businesses and the government spending much time and resources to...
Cyber Attacks, Contributing Factors, and Tackling Strategies: The Current Status of the Science of Cybersecurity
Samantha Bordoff, Quan Chen, Zheng Yan. © 2019. 18 pages.
This article describes how as access to the Internet has increased, cybersecurity has become important, with businesses and the government spending much time and resources to...
Growing From Childhood Into Adolescence: The Science of Cyber Behavior
Zheng Yan, Robert Z. Zheng. © 2019. 14 pages.
In this theoretical review paper, the authors discuss five important issues about the science of cyber behavior as a field of scientific research. First, they argue that the...
Assessing and Measuring Statistics Cognition in Higher Education Online Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Justin P. Chase, Zheng Yan. © 2017. 265 pages.
The ability to effective learn, process, and retain new information is critical to the success of any student. Since mathematics are becoming increasingly more important in our...
Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
Zheng Yan. © 2015. 1542 pages.
The rise of mobile phones has brought about a new era of technological attachment as an increasing number of people rely on their personal mobile devices to conduct their daily...
Mobile Phone Behavior: An Emerged Discipline of Research
Zheng Yan, Quan Chen. © 2015. 11 pages.
Mobile phones are becoming the most ubiquitous technology in the history. Researchers in various disciplines of behavioral sciences have been extensively examining how people use...
Can the Virginia Internet Safety Program Improve Fourth Graders' Internet Safety Knowledge?
Tammy McGraw, Zheng Yan, Jean Weller, Stan Bumgardner. © 2014. 8 pages.
The Virginia Internet safety program is the first statewide educational strategy to improve children's Internet safety. It aims to improve children's Internet safety...
Growing From Childhood into Adolescence: The Science of Cyber Behavior
Zheng Yan, Robert Z. Zheng. © 2013. 14 pages.
In this theoretical review paper, the authors discuss five important issues about the science of cyber behavior as a field of scientific research. First, they argue that the...
The Science of Cell Phone Use: Its Past, Present, and Future
Zheng Yan, Quan Chen, Chengfu Yu. © 2013. 12 pages.
Cell phones are becoming the most ubiquitous technology. Researchers in various other disciplines in behavioral sciences have been extensively examining how people use cell...
The Science of Cyber Behavior: An Emerged Field of Research
Zheng Yan. © 2013. 6 pages.
Is the science of cyber behavior an emerging field or an emerged field? This sounds like a debatable topic. The central argument of this theoretical article, however, is that...
New Evidence of Impacts of Cell Phone Use on Driving Performance: A Review
Quan Chen, Zheng Yan. © 2013. 16 pages.
Mobile phone use when driving is widely considered to be a major cause of car accidents. This paper attempts to review the existing literature by focusing on three key issues...
Mobile Phones in Data Collection: A Systematic Review
Füsun Şahin, Zheng Yan. © 2013. 21 pages.
Mobile phones are increasingly popular tools not only for daily use but also for research purposes. The authors systematically searched related literature using mobile phones as...
Self-Report Versus Web-Log: Which One is Better to Predict Personality of Website Users?
Ang Li, Zheng Yan, Tingshao Zhu. © 2013. 11 pages.
Number of studies have investigated the relationship between personality and web use behaviors on Social Network Sites (SNS), and the measurement of web use behaviors relies on...
Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior
Zheng Yan. © 2012. 1632 pages.
Cyber behavior, such as e-learning, e-voting, e-shopping, e-privacy, and e-therapy, could be broadly considered as any physical, social, or mental activities that humans engage...
Online Decision-Making in Receiving Spam Emails Among College Students
Zheng Yan, Hamide Y. Gozu. © 2012. 12 pages.
Decision-making in the real world has been extensively studied, whereas decision-making in the cyber world is relatively unknown. The present study investigated how email users...
Prevalence and Correlates of Internet Addiction in Undergraduate Students: Assessing with Two Major Measures
Daniel Schoenfeld, Zheng Yan. © 2012. 19 pages.
This study determined if two different internet addiction assessments would identify the same individuals as addicted to the internet. A total of 224 undergraduate internet users...
Cell Phone Use Leads to Brain Tumors
Lai Lei Lou, Zheng Yan. © 2012. 9 pages.
Wide concerns have been raised that the use of cell phones could increase brain tumors. This paper systematically reviews the scientific evidence regarding the associations...
Internet vs. Matter: Differences in Students’ Concept Development from Elementary through High School
Zheng Yan, Xiufeng Liu. © 2012. 13 pages.
Internet is an emerging complex scientific concept that children have not yet systematically learned in schools but continuously experience in their daily lives. In contrast...
Growing From Childhood into Adolescence: The Science of Cyber Behavior
Zheng Yan, Robert Z. Zheng. © 2011. 12 pages.
In this theoretical review paper, the authors discuss five important issues about the science of cyber behavior as a field of scientific research. First, they argue that the...
Do High School Students Benefit from the Children's Internet Protection Act?
Zheng Yan. © 2010. 17 pages.
The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA; 2000) requires an Internet filtering and public awareness strategy to protect children under 17 from harmful visual Internet...