Areas of Focus
- Personality Psychology
- Social Psychology
Work Experience
- 2018- Director, Institute of Personality and Social Psychology, Nanjing Normal University
- 2017- Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Nanjing Normal University
- 2014-2017 Director, Institute of Personality and Social Psychology, Central China Normal University
- 2012-2017 Director, National Psychology Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Central China Normal University
- 2009-2010 Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK
- 2000-2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, Western Philosophy, Wuhan University
- 1998-1999 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, USA
- 1991-2017 Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Central China Normal University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1996-2000 PhD in Educational Psychology: Nanjing Normal University
- 1988-1991 Master's in Educational Psychology: Central China Normal University
- 1980-1984 Bachelor's in School Education: Central China Normal University
- Published over 200 papers in Chinese and English journals
- Authored, translated, or edited over 10 academic books and textbooks
Publications
- Personality Theory, Guo Yongyu, Liu Yi, You Jin, 2021
- Personality Research, Guo Yongyu, 2016
- Psychology and Social Governance, Yang Yufang, Guo Yongyu, Xu Yan, Zhang Jianxin
- Psychology Discipline Development Report 2012-2013, Chinese Psychological Society (Chief Scientist: Yang Yufang, Expert Group Member: Guo Yongyu), 2014
- New Advances in Psychology, Ye Haosheng (Chief Editor), Guo Yongyu (Deputy Chief Editor), 2006
- Personality Psychology: The Study of Human Nature and Its Differences, Guo Yongyu, 2005
- The Pursuit of Spirit: Transpersonal Psychology and Its Therapeutic Theory, Guo Yongyu, 2002
- The Isolated Modern Man: Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis, Guo Yongyu, 1999
Awards
- 2020: Second Prize, Eighth Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences), Ministry of Education
- 2019: Discipline Construction Achievement Award, Chinese Psychological Society
- 2015: Third Prize, Seventh Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences), Ministry of Education
- 2009: Second Prize, Hubei Province Teaching Achievement Award
- 2007: Excellent Teacher of Hubei Province
- 2006: Third Prize, Third National Education Science Research Outstanding Achievement Award