Areas of Focus
- Moral Development
- Lie Detection
Work Experience
- 2016.7-Present - Hangzhou Normal University - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2012.9-2016.6 PhD in Developmental and Educational Psychology: East China Normal University
- 2009.9-2012.6 MSc in Basic Psychology: Zhejiang Normal University
- 2005.9-2009.6 BSc in Applied Psychology: Liaocheng University
- Published over 30 articles in journals such as PNAS, Child Development, and Developmental Science
Publications
- The effect of mental countermeasures on a novel brain-based feedback concealed information test, Zheng, J., Cheng, J., Wang, C., Lin, X., Fu, G., & Sai, L., 2022
- The developmental origins of a default moral response: A shift from honesty to dishonesty, Sai, L., Shang, S., Zhao, C., Liu, X., Jiang, Y., Compton, B. J., Fu, G., & Heyman, G. D., 2022
- Neural mechanisms of deliberate dishonesty: Dissociating deliberation from other control processes during dishonest behaviors, Sai, L., Bellucci, G., Wang, C., Fu, G., Camilleri, J. A., Eickhoff, S. B., & Krueger, F., 2021
- Collaborative Settings Increase Dishonesty, Du, Y., Ma, W., Sun, Q., & Sai, L., 2021
- Neural correlates of spontaneous deception in a non-competitive interpersonal scenario: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study, Lin, X. A., Wang, C., Zhou, J., Sai, L., & Fu, G., 2021
- Feedback does not influence the recognition-related P300 in a novel concealed information test while feedback-evoked P300 shows promising diagnostic accuracy, Sai, L., Li, H., Wang, C., Rosenfeld, J. P., Lin, X., & Fu, G., 2020
- Young children’s lying and early mental state understanding, Sai, L., Zhao, C., Heyman, G. D., Compton, B. J., & Fu, G., 2020
- Promoting Honesty Through Overheard Conversations, Sai, L., Liu, X., Li, H., Compton, B. J., & Heyman, G. D., 2020
- Theory of mind, executive function, and lying in children: a meta-analysis, Sai, L., Shang, S., Tay, C., Liu, X., Sheng, T., Fu, G., … Lee, K., 2021
- Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder’s Lying is Correlated with Their Working Memory But Not Theory of Mind, Ma, W., Sai, L., Tay, C., Du, Y., Jiang, J., & Ding, X. P., 2019
- Children’s second-order lying: Young children can tell the truth to deceive, Sai, L., Ding, X. P., Gao, X., & Fu, G., 2018
- Learning to deceive has cognitive benefits, Ding, X. P., Heyman, G. D., Sai, L., Yuan, F., Winkielman, P., Fu, G., & Lee, K., 2018
- Detecting Concealed Information with Fused Electroencephalography and Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy, Lin, X., Sai, L., & Yuan, Z., 2018
- Telling a truth to deceive: Examining executive control and reward-related processes underlying interpersonal deception, Sai, L., Wu, H., Hu, X., & Fu, G., 2018