Areas of Focus
- Social adaptation in the digital age
- Attachment style and social development
- Plasticity and neurophysiological mechanisms of insecure attachment
Work Experience
- Current - Nanjing Normal University - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2020 PhD in Education: Southwest University
- Executive Editor: Frontier in Psychology
- Reviewer: Children and Youth Services Review, Consciousness and Cognition, Psychological Development and Education
Publications
- The role of oxytocin in anxiety recognition and extinction in anxiety-prone groups, Yuanxiao Ma, Xu Chen, 2023
- Adult attachment style moderates the effect of oxytocin on neural responses to infant emotional faces, Yuanxiao Ma, Guangzeng Liu, Ning Hu, Wei Long, 2022
- Boosting attachment security promotes giving behaviour in higher attachment anxiety, Yuanxiao Ma, Wei Long, Guangzeng Liu, Haijing Ma, 2021
- Insecurity primes influence attentional processing of infant emotions: the role of attachment styles, Yuanxiao Ma, Jing Chen, Guangzeng Liu, Xu Chen, 2021
- Intranasal oxytocin attenuates insula activity in response to dynamic angry faces, Yuanxiao Ma, Guangming Ran, Ning Hu, Wei Long, Xu Chen, 2020
- State attachment moderates the maternal-related neural responses to infant faces, Yuanxiao Ma, Ning Hu, Guangzeng Liu, Xu Chen, 2020
- Color perception influences attention processing in females with different attachment styles, Yuanxiao Ma, Ning Hu, Guangzeng Liu, Xu Chen, 2020
- Neural mechanisms of the plasticity of insecure attachment, Yuanxiao Ma, Xu Chen, 2019
- Threshold security priming improves attentional processing of insecurely attached women, Yuanxiao Ma, Xu Chen, 2019
- Security priming improves attentional processing to infant emotions among insecurely attached women: The different roles of supraliminal and subliminal priming, Yuanxiao Ma, Haijing Ma, Xu Chen, 2019
- Mediating effect of dark triad personality traits on the relationship between parental emotional warmth and aggression, Guangzeng Liu, Yao Meng, Yan Pan, Yuanxiao Ma, Dajun Zhang, 2019
- Mediating effect of psychological suzhi on the relationship between perceived social support and self-esteem, Guangzeng Liu, Yan Pan, Yuanxiao Ma, Dajun Zhang, 2018
- Adult attachment affects neural response to preference-inferring in ambiguous scenarios: Evidence from an fMRI study, Xing Zhang, Xu Chen, Guangming Ran, Yuanxiao Ma, 2018
- Do attachment patterns predict aggression in a context of social rejection? An executive functioning account, Yuanxiao Ma, Haijing Ma, Xu Chen, Guangming Ran, Xing Zhang, 2017
- Adult attachment styles associated with brain activity in response to infant faces in nulliparous women: an event-related potentials study, Yuanxiao Ma, Guangming Ran, Xu Chen, Haijing Ma, Ning Hu, 2017
- The processing of body expressions during emotional scenes: the modulation role of attachment styles, Yuanxiao Ma, Xu Chen, Guangming Ran, Haijing Ma, Xing Zhang, Guangzeng Liu, 2017
- Adult attachment and profile images on Chinese social networking sites: A comparative analysis of Sina Weibo and WeChat, Chun Shu, Ning Hu, Xing Zhang, Yuanxiao Ma, Xu Chen, 2017
- The effect of psychological suzhi on problem behaviors in Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of subjective social status and self-esteem, Guangzeng Liu, Dajun Zhang, Yan Pan, Yuanxiao Ma, Xiaoyan Lu, 2017
- Formation mechanism and neural basis of attention bias in insecure attachment, Yuanxiao Ma, Guangming Ran, Xu Chen, 2016
- Pain network: a negative information processing system, Yuanxiao Ma, Haijing Ma, Guangming Ran, Xu Chen, 2016
- Neural mechanisms of the social expectation advantage effect, Guangming Ran, Xu Chen, Xing Zhang, Yuanxiao Ma, 2016
- Adult children's support and self-esteem as mediators in the relationship between attachment and subjective well-being in older adults, Xing Zhang, Xu Chen, Guangming Ran, Yuanxiao Ma, 2016
- Attention modulates neural responses to unpredictable emotional faces in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, Guangming Ran, Xu Chen, Qian Zhang, Yuanxiao Ma, Xing Zhang, 2016