Publications & Manuscripts
-
Ji, Eugene Yu (2026). “Unraveling Authoritarian Reform Strategies: A Metacognitive-Subcognitive Model.” American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.70054)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu (2025). “A Metalinguistic Framework for Multimodal Communicative Alignment.” (in review; ArxivPreprint: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.01535)
-
Zhang, Bolun, Yang Shen, Linzhuo Li, Eugene Yu Ji*, Di Wu, Tongyu Wu, Lianghao Dai (2025). “Tinkering Against Scaling.” ArxivPreprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.16546
-
Ji, Eugene Yu (2024). “Performing as Ways of Knowing: Projects of Legibility and State Simplification in Postcolonial Hong Kong.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology JLA 00 (0): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12434
-
Ji, Eugene Yu (2024). “Large Language Models: A Historical and Socio-cultural Perspective.” Cognitive Science, 48, e13430. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13430
-
Ji, Eugene Yu (2022). “A Cognitively Driven Weighted-entropy Model for Embedding Semantic Categories in Hyperbolic Geometry.” ArxivPreprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.06876.pdf
-
Ji, Eugene Yu. “Cognitive and Cultural Topology of Linguistic Categories: A Semantic-Pragmatic Metric Approach.” (in review)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu. “Bounded Rationality’s Missed Integration: Methodological Pragmatics and Normative Spillovers in Simon, Williamson, and North.” (R &R in The Journal of the History of Economic Thought JHET)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu. “A Motivational Theory of Principal–Agent Dynamics within China’s Bureaucratic System.” (2025 MPSA)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu. “From Revolution to Development: Chronotope, Recontextualization, and Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour.” (2025 SSHA)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu. “A Dynamical-Systems Approach to Metapragmatic Awareness of Cross-Generational Lexical Variations.” (in preparation)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu*, Marieke Huysentruyt, Yuhao Zhuang. “Speaking the Future: Evidence from a Human–AI Field Experiment on the Effects of Motivational Framings with Children Living in Extreme Poverty in Rural China.” (In preparation)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu. “Metalinguistic Engineering in Large Language Models” (in preparation)
-
Chen, Liu & Eugene Yu Ji*. “Modeling The Genre-Footprint of Mid-to-Late Tang Chinese Literati.” (in preparation)
-
Ji, Eugene Yu. “Medium Specificity and Recursive Embodiment in Shitao (1642 -1707)’s Daoist Paintings.” (in preparation)
Ongoing Research Projects
-
Metacognitive human-AI alignment (w/Igor Grossmann and Amir H. Karimi)
-
Commitment problem in LLMs’ alignment (w/ Xiaoyu Ke & Yang Shen)
-
AI-assisted metacognitive interventions for Burmese refugee adolescents along the Myanmar–Thailand border (w/ Yuhao Zhuang, Marieke Huysentruyt, & the Peach Foundation)
-
Socio-political selfhood and literati culture in the Northern Song (960–1127)(w/ Chen Liu)
-
Olfactory language in culture (w/ Leslie Kay)