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Yifan Zhao

3 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2025-2026

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“I Was Told to Come Back and Share This”: Social Media-Based Near-Death Experience Disclosures as Expressions of Spiritual Beliefs

April 13, 2026 Yifan Zhao, Yuxin Fang, Yihuan Chen et al. 1 citation

People who experienced near-death events often turn to personal expression as a way of processing trauma and articulating beliefs. While scholars have examined how individuals share near-death experiences (NDEs), limited research has explored how these narratives are communicated collaboratively on today’s social media platforms. We analyzed 200 randomly sampled TikTok videos tagged with #nde...

"I Was Told to Come Back and Share This": Social Media-Based Near-Death Experience Disclosures as Expressions of Spiritual Beliefs

arXiv Preprint Archive February 12, 2026 Yifan Zhao, Yuxin Fang, Yihuan Chen et al.

People who experienced near-death events often turn to personal expression as a way of processing trauma and articulating beliefs. While scholars have examined how individuals share near-death experiences (NDEs), limited research has explored how these narratives are communicated collaboratively on today's social media platforms. We analyzed 200 randomly sampled TikTok videos tagged with #nde...

Play It Again, For the Next Time: Iteratively Reinterpreting Dreams with Generative AI

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing November 21, 2025 Yifan Zhao, Bowen Liu, Zhi-Peng Jia et al.

Our dreams are so fleeting that every time we try to recall them, we reinterpret them anew. To explore how human psyche can iterative reconstruct dreams to re-imagine dream content in novel contexts, we created a workflow whereby one dream recorder wrote down eight distinct dreams, and three dream interpreters use these narrative fragments to visually recreate these subconscious experiences...