SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL - Key Persons
Chunli Yi is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Peking University. She got Ph. D at Peking University. Her current research interests focus on Research and intervention of Autism, Research and intervention of Tourette, family relationship impact on the development of adolescent, family therapy for adolescent with psychological problem, adolescent internet addiction and drug abuse.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Professor in Department of Psychology of Peking University
Dr. Cong Yu is a professor in Department of Psychology of Peking University and a principle investigator of IDG-McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Psychology from University of Louisville at 1995. His lab focuses on the psychophysical and brain mechanisms of perceptual learning, and the perceptual training of patients with amblyopia.
Job Titles:
- Executive Associate Director of the IDG / McGovern Institute for Brain Research
- Professor
Dr. Fang Fang is Professor of Psychology and Executive Associate Director of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Biological Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 2006, and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate between 2006 and 2007. His research seeks to understand the neural mechanisms of visual and cognitive processes by combining neuroimaging, electrophysiology, brain stimulation, psychophysics, computational modeling, and human genetics. Topics under investigation include visual learning and adaptation, visual attention and awareness, object and face perception. He received the Young Investigaor Award: Basic Science from the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) in 2016 and was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2018. He currently serves on the editorial board for Current Biology, Experimental Brain Research, and Science China: Life Sciences.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology
Dr. Feng Shao is associate professor at the Department of Psychology, Peking University. She is graduated from Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science. She studies the establishment of behavioral animal model of schizophrenia and its neural mechanism. She is also interested in Psychoneuroimmunity research work. Now the foundation of her lab is from a National Foundation of Natural Science and a National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program). She has published over 27 peer review research papers.
Xue, X., Shao, S., Wang, W., & Shao, F*. (2013). Maternal separation induces alterations in reversal learning and brain-derived neurotrophic factior expression in adult rats. Neuropsychobiology, 68, 243-249.(corresponding author)
Shao, F., Han, X., Li, N., & Wang, W. (2010). Adolescent chronic apomorphine treatment impairs latent inhibition and reduces prefrontal cortex mGluR5 receptor expression in adult rats.. European Journal of Pharmacology, 649(1-3), 202-205.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Professor at the Department of Psychology
Dr. Haiyan Geng is a professor at the Department of Psychology, Peking University. She got Ph. D in 1998 at Peking University. Her current research is focused on Cognitive and neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious processes. She also studies false memory and its underlying neural mechanisms. She's in charge of four projects supported by National Natural Science Foundations of China.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator at the Department of Psychology
- Tenured Associate Professor
Dr. Jian Li is a Principal Investigator at the Department of Psychology, and the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroeconomics at Baylor College of Medicine in 2007, and a M.B.A. degree in Economics from New York University in 2010. He was a Research Scientist at the Department of Psychology before he came back to China in 2012. Dr. Li is interested in human neural mechanisms and cognition relating to reward-based learning and decision-making, and Chinese National Science Foundation.
Dr. Kunlin Wei is a professor in School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University. He obtained his MS degrees in Kinesiology and Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in year 2002 and 2003 and his Ph.D degree in Kinesiology (motor control) in year 2007, working with Dr. Dagmar Sternad. He then joined Dr Konrad Koerding's lab as a postdoc fellow in Northwestern University and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago between 2007 and 2009. His major research area is sensorimotor control and his interests include motor control and learning, sensory integration, human-machine interaction, computational modeling of behavior, movement biomechanics and motor rehabilitation.
Jiajin Tong, Xiang Yao, Zhixin Lu, & Lei Wang (王垒, corresponding author) (2013). The impact pattern of dialectical thinking on perceived leadership training outcomes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Doi: 10.1111/jasp.12087.
Julie Spencer-Rodgers, Kaiping Peng, & Lei Wang (王垒, Co-Corresponding Author) (2010). Dialecticism and the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41, 109-115. DOI: 10.1177/0022022109349508
Julie Spencer-Rodgers, Helen C. Boucher, Kaiping Peng, & Lei Wang (2009). Cultural differences in self-verification: The role of naïve dialecticism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 860-866. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.03.004
Yunhui Huang, Junqi Shi, & Lei Wang (2008). Selling creates a loss while buying generates a gain: Capturing the implicit irrational bias by the IAT method. Chinese Science Bulletin, 53 (14), 2253-2256.
Job Titles:
- Tenured Associate Professor
Dr. Li Yi received her bachelor's degree from Department of Psychology, Peking University in 2003. Then she got her master and Ph.D. degrees majoring in Developmental Psychology from Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University. She worked as an assistant professor and then an associate professor at Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University from 2009-2015. Since 2015, she joined the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Qian Wang is a research assistant professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and she is also a Co-PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University (Prof. Fang Fang's lab). She received her bachelor's degree from Department of Psychology, Peking University in 2006. Then she got her Ph.D. from School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University in 2016. She then joined Capital Medical University as a postdoc fellow and finished her clinical training between 2016 and 2018. Her research interest mainly focuses on intracranial recording and stimulating in human brain.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor With Tenure
Dr. Sheng Li is an associate professor with tenure at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University. He received his B.Eng degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1998 and D.Phil degree from the University of Sussex, UK, in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests cover from cognitive neuroscience with functional brain imaging techniques (fMRI, EEG, MEG) to theoretical modelling of neural information processing in the human brain. Currently, he focuses on the neural mechanism of human visual category learning and perceptual decision making.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in Department of Brain
Dr. Shuchang He is an associate professor in Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of Peking University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Occupational and Environmental Health from Peking University in 2003. Her research interests are on job stress and Cognitive, depression and social cognitive, job burnout and related molecular mechanism, job stress and sleep disorders.
Dr. Wanze Xie is an assistant professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University (PKU). He obtained his Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 2017 from University of South Carolina. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Nelson Lab at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School from October 2017 to July 2021 before he joined PKU. He studies the neurodevelopmental origin of social attention by studying the neural correlates of child visual attention and social perception from a brain network perspective. His recent research also explores how early adverse experiences would impact children's brain health and cognitive outcomes. His work at PKU will involve the study of social attention and its neural correlates in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). His research integrates a combination of behavioral (child looking behaviors), physiological (ECG and EEG/ERP), and neuroimaging (Cortical source localization, fNIRS and MRI) techniques.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in Department of Developmental
Dr. Xiangzhi Meng is an associate professor in Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology of Peking University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Psychology from Peking Normal University at 2000. Her research interests are on developmental dyslexia
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in School of Brain
Dr. Yan Bao is an associate professor in School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of Peking University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Psychology from Peking University in 2000. Her research interests are on time perception - temporal information processing in both high-frequency and low-frequency neural oscillation domains including circadian rhythms, spatial attention - behavioral and neural mechanisms of spatial attention in the perifoveal and peripheral visual fields and their temporal control, neuroaesthetics - temporal and spatial processing mechanisms in visual art, music and poetry.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in Department of Managerial
Dr. Yubo Hou is an associate professor in Department of Managerial and Social Psychology of Peking University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in psychology from Peking University in 2004. His research interests are on personality and social psychology, cyber psychology, cultural psychology and social media research.
Qi Wang , Yubo Hou, Huizhen Tang ,and Alicia Wiprovnick: Travelling bacwards and forwards in time:Culture and Gender in Episodic specificity of past and future events. Memory,2011,19(1)103-109
Frank K Hu，Fan zhiwei，Arthur G. Samuel*，He Shuchang*. Effects of display complexity on location and feature inhibition. Atten Percept Psychophys，2013，75（8）:1619-1632.
Job Titles:
- Tenured Associate Professor
Hu Frank K，He Shuchang，Fan Zhiwei，Lupianez Juan. Beyond the inhibition of return of attention: reduced habituation to threatening faces in schizophrenia.Front Psychiatry，2014，5:7-7.
Wang, M., Huang, Y., Luo, H., Zhang, H.* (2020) Sustained visual priming effects can emerge from attentional oscillation and temporal expectation. Journal of Neuroscience 40(18): 3657-3674.
Song, K.*, Luo, H.* (2017) Temporal organization of sound information in auditory memory. Frontiers in Psychology 8:999.
Luo, H.*, Wang, Y., Poeppel, D., Simon, J.Z. (2007) Concurrent encoding of frequency and amplitude modulation in human auditory cortex: an encoding transition. Journal of Neurophysiology 98: 2473-3485.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical
Jie Zhong is an associate professor at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Peking University. He earned his doctor degree of psychology from Peking University. His research grants include risk analysis of police group and the development of music relaxation program, development of the Chinese antisocial personality disorder inventory, development of the Chinese personality organization inventory, etc.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental
Li Wang is an associate professor at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Peking University. She earned her Ph.D. in Developmental psychology from Beijing Normal University. Her research interests include social emotion development, socialization in the family and socialization in the cultural context.
Han, S., Humphreys, G.W., & Chen, L. (1999). Uniform connectedness and classical Gestalt principles of perceptual grouping. Perception & Psychophysics, 61(4):661-674.
Lihan Chen is an Associate Professor at School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 1999 and Master degree in General Psychology from Zhejiang University in 2005. He got his PhD degree in Experimental Psychology at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in 2010, working with Dr. Zhuanghua Shi and Dr. Hermann J. Müller.
He was a postdoc fellow between 2009 and 2011 and was an Assistant Professor during 2011-2015 at Department of Psychology, Peking University. His major research interests include multisensory time perception,cross-modal correspondence and tactile perception.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in Department of Psychology at Peking University
Dr.Mao, Lihua is an associate professor in Department of Psychology at Peking University since 2006. He obtained his MS and Ph.D degrees in Psychology from Peking University in year 1998 and 2005, working with Prof. Ying Zhu and Dr. Shihui Han. His major research area is cognitive processing and neural substrates of social cognition such as self-referential processing, theory-of-mind, and humor processing.
Mao, L., Zhou, B., Zhou, W., Han, S. (2007). Neural correlates of covert orienting of visual spatial attention along vertical and horizontal dimensions. Brain Research, 1136, 142-153.
Dr. Zhu received her bachelor's degree in Physics from Shandong University, master's degree in Economics from Peking University, and Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2010 she joined Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley as an Associate Consultant, and in 2011 Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
X Gao, J Liu, P Gong, J Wang, W Fang, H Yan, L Zhu, X Zhou (2017). Identifying new susceptibility genes on dopaminergic and serotonergic pathways for the framing effect in decision-making. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12.9 (2017): 1534-1544
Job Titles:
- Research Assistant Professor
Niu, Q; He, SC; Nan, PH. Assessment of the cardiovascular autonomic nervous function in aluminum electrolytic workers. Neurotoxicology, 2004 25(4): 694-695.
Q Niu, SC He, HY Li, et al. A comprehensive neurobehavioral and neurophysiological study for low-level lead-exposed workers. G Ital Med Lav Erg 2000; 22(4): 299-276.
Ping Yao is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Peking University. She got Ph. D in 2004 at Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her current research interests focus on Parenting and Children's Mental Health and Counseling and Psychotherapy.
Job Titles:
- Investigator at School of Psychology
Pinglei Bao is currently a principle investigator at School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/Mcgoven Institute, Center for Life Sciences, at Peking University. He received his bachelor's degree at the School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China in 2003 and his doctorate degree in University of Southern California. Later, he did his post-doctoral research at California Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He joined Peking University in November 2020.
Prof. Shihui Han and the Culture and Social Cognitive Neuroscience lab study cultural and genetic influences on psychological and neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and social behavior by integrating social/cultural psychology and brain imaging such as fMRI/EEG/MEG. Their research aims to clarify how the brain represents self-related information (self-referential processing), how the brain understands and shares others' emotion (empathy), and how the brain processes death-related information and the related effects on other social cognitive/affective processes.
Han, S., Ma,Y. (2014). Cultural differences in human brain activity: A quantitative meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 99, 293-300.
Varnum, M.E.W., Shi, Z., Chen, A., Qiu, J., Han, S. (2014). When "Your" reward is the same as "my" reward: Self-construal priming shifts neural responses to own vs. friends' rewards. NeuroImage, 87, 164-169.
Han, S. (2013). How to identify mechanisms of cultural influences on human brain functions. Psychological Inquiry, 24, 37-41.
Han, S. (2013). Cross-cultural variation in social cognition and the social brain. In D. L. Roberts & D. L. Penn (Eds.), Social cognition in schizophrenia: From evidence to treatment (Chapter 3). pp. 69-92, New York: Oxford University Press.
Han, S., Mao, L., Qin, J., Friederici, A. D., Ge, J. (2011). Functional roles and cultural modulations of the medial prefrontal and parietal activity associated with causal attribution. Neuropsychologia, 49, 83-91.
Ma, Y., Wang, C., Han, S. (2011). Neural responses to perceived pain in others predict real-life monetary donations in different socioeconomic contexts. NeuroImage, 57, 1273-1280.
Ma, Y., Han, S. (2010). Why respond faster to the self than others? An implicit positive association theory of self advantage during implicit face recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 619-633.
Han, S., Northoff, G. (2009). Understanding the self: a cultural neuroscience approach. Progress in Brain Research, 178, 203-212.
Casco, C., Campana, G., Han, S. & Guzzon, D. (2009). Psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence of independent facilitation by collinearity and similarity in texture grouping and segmentation. Vision Research, 49(6), 583-593.
He, X., Humphreys, G. W., Fan, S., Chen, L., Han, S. (2008). Differentiating spatial and object-based effects on attention: An event-related brain potential study with peripheral cueing. Brain Research, 1245, 116-125.
Zhu, Y., Han, S. (2008). Cultural differences in the self: From philosophy to psychology and neuroscience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 2, 1799-1811.
Fan, Y., Han, S. (2008). Temporal dynamic of neural mechanisms involved in empathy for pain: An event-related brain potential study. Neuropsychologia, 46, 160-173.
Mao, L., Zhou, B., Zhou, W., Han, S. (2007). Neural correlates of covert orienting of visual spatial attention along vertical and horizontal dimensions. Brain Research. 1136, 142-153.
Han, S., Glyn, W. Humphreys (2005). Perceptual organization at attended and unattended locations. Science in China, series C, 48(2), 106-116.
Han, S. (2004). Interactions between proximity and similarity grouping: An ERP study. Neuroscience Letters, 367 (1), 40-43.
Han, S., & Humphreys, G.W. (2003). Relationship between uniform connectedness and proximity in perceptual grouping. Science in China, series C, 46(2), 113- 126.
Jiang, Y., Han, S. (2003). Perceptual grouping by proximity and similarity in the peripheral vision. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 35 (supplement): 70-78.
Chen, H., Li, S., Han, S., Wang, X. (2002). The research on visual global and local cognitive function of patients with Parkinson's disease. Chinese Journal of Clinical Rehabilitation. 6(11): 1694- 1695.
Han, S. & Chen, L (1994). Different attentional effects on detection of orientation and color. Chinese Science Bulletin. 39(12). 1045-1048.
Ng, S., Han, S., Mao, L., Lai, Julian C. L.(2010). Dynamic bicultural brains: fMRI study of their flexible neural representation of self and significant others in response to culture primes. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 13(2), 83-91
Han, S., Jiang, Y., Mao, L. (2006). Right hemisphere dominance in perceiving coherence of visual events. Neuroscience Letters, 398 (1-2): 18-21.
Van Bavel, J. J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., Crockett, M. J., Crum, A. J., Douglas, K. M., Druckman, J. N. Drury, J., Dube, O., Ellemers, N., Finkel, E. J., Fowler, J. H., Gelfand, M., Han, S., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., Kitayama, S., Mobbs, D., Napper, L. E., Packer, D. J., Pennycook, G., Peters, E., Petty, R. E., Rand, D. G., Reicher, S. D., Schnall, S., Shariff, A., Skitka, L. J., Smith, S. S., Sunstein, C. R., Tabri, N., Tucker, J. A., van der Linden, S., Van Lange, P. A. M., Weeden, K. A., Wohl, M. J. A., Zaki, J., Zion, S. & Willer, R. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(5): 460-471.
Wenqi Wei, Jackson G. Lu, Adam D. Galinsky, Han Wu, Samuel D. Gosling, Peter J. Rentfrow, Wenjie Yuan, Qi Zhang, Yongyu Guo, Ming Zhang, Wenjing Gui, Xiao Yi Guo, Jeff Potter, Jian Wang, Bingtan Li, Xiaojie Li, Yang-Mei Han, Meizhen Lv1, Xiang-Qing Guo, Yera Choe, Weipeng Lin, Kun Yu, Qiyu Bai, Zhe Shang, Han Ying, & Lei Wang (corresponding author) (2017). Regional Clement Temperature associated with Human Personality. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 890-895. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0240-0.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental
Xin Zhang is an associate professor at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Peking University. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Motivation in older adults, Aging stereotypes, Self-perception of aging and Emotion Regulation.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Investigator at School of Psychology
Yang Zhou is currently a principle investigator at School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/Mcgoven Institute, Center for Life Sciences, at Peking University. He received his bachelor's degree at the School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University in 2008 and his doctorate degree in Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Later, he did his post-doctoral research at the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University, and the Department of Neurobiology at The University of Chicago. He joined Peking University in August 2020.
Research Interest:
Yang's laboratory is dedicated to exploring the neural circuits and computations of high cognitive functions such as conceptual representation and learning, flexible decision-making, and try to apply them to the development of artificial intelligence and the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in patients. In terms of methods, it will be based on multi-channel extracellular recordings across multi-brain areas of behaving monkeys, combined with pharmacological inactivation, optogenetic stimulation, two-photon calcium imaging, human psychophysics, and machine learning based artificial neural networks.
Zhang Xiang Yang*，Chen Da Chun，Xiu Mei Hong，De Yang Fu，Tan Yun Long，He Shuchang，Kosten Therese A，Kosten Thomas R. Thioredoxin, a novel oxidative stress marker and cognitive performance in chronic and medicated schizophrenia versus healthy controls. Schizophrenia Research，2013，143（2-3）:301-306.