Areas of Focus
- Creativity Cultivation and its Neural Mechanisms
- Regulation of Negative Emotions and its Neural Mechanisms
Work Experience
- 2020.10–Present - Hangzhou Normal University - Lecturer, Associate Professor
- 2014.08–2020.09 - Shanxi Normal University - Assistant Lecturer
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2016.09–2020.07 PhD in Developmental and Educational Psychology: Capital Normal University
- 2011.09–2014.07 Master's in Basic Psychology: Southwest University
- 2006.09–2010.07 Bachelor's in Psychology: Shanxi Normal University
- Published in Cerebral Cortex, NeuroImage, Biological Psychology, and other journals
- Reviewer for journals like Advances in Psychological Science and Psychological and Behavioral Research
- Applied for one national patent
- Received a National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project
Publications
- From 'aha!' to 'haha!' using humor to cope with negative stimuli, Wu, X. F., Guo, T, T., Zhang, C., Hong, T.Y., Cheng, C.M., Wei, P, Hsieh, J.C., & Luo. J, 2021
- Superior emotional regulating effects of creative cognitive reappraisal, Wu, X. F., Guo, T. T., Tan, T. T., Zhang, W. C., Qin, S. Z., Fan, J., & Luo, J., 2019
- Neural underpinnings of divergent production of rules in numerical analogical reasoning, Wu, X. F., Jung, R. E., & Zhang, H., 2016
- The Facilitative Effects of Ambiguous Figures on Creative Solution, Wu, X. F., Gu, X. J., & Zhang, H., 2019
- The Mnemonic Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Creative Chunk Decomposition Tasks, Wu, X. F., Liu, Y., & Luo, J., 2018
- Role of Creativity in the Effectiveness of Cognitive Reappraisal, Wu, X. F., Guo, T. T., Tan, T. T., Shi, B. G., & Luo, J., 2017
- Decomposing a Chunk into Its Elements and Reorganizing Them as a New Chunk: The Two Different Sub-processes underlying insightful chunk decomposition, Wu, X. F., He, M., Zhou, Y. L., Xiao, J., & Luo, J., 2017
- Regulating Anger under Stress via Cognitive Reappraisal and Sadness, Zhan J, Wu X. F, Fan J, Guo J, Zhou J, Ren J, Liu C and Luo J, 2017
- Incubation optimizes the promoting effects of rewards on creativity, Zhang, Z., Zhang, W. Wu, X. F. Tan, T. & Luo, J., 2018
- Dissociable Posterior and Anterior Insula Activations in Processing Negative Stimulus Before and After the Application of Cognitive Reappraisals, Zhang Z, Guo T, Fan J, Wu X. F, Tan T and Luo J, 2020
- 创造性认知重评的迁移效应及其神经基础, 武晓菲,肖风,罗劲, 2021
Awards
- Second Prize (2021): Zhejiang Province Ninth Neuroscience Society Young Scholars Forum