Areas of Focus
- Social Cognition, Self and In-group
Work Experience
- 2004-Present - Southwest University, School of Psychology - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2013-2014 Visiting Scholar: University of Texas, El Paso
- 2006-2009 Ph.D.: Southwest University, School of Psychology
- 2001-2004 Master's Degree: Peking University, Department of Psychology
- 1998-2001 Bachelor's Degree: Southwest Normal University (Southwest University), Department of Psychology
- 1994-1998 Bachelor's Degree: Shandong Normal University, Department of Education
Publications
- The influence of self-information on attention, Fang Wang, Hongsheng Yang, Nianjun Gu, 2014
- Name-letter effect: An implicit self-esteem indicator, Nianjun Gu, Hongsheng Yang, Fang Wang, 2014
- The cognitive advantage for one’s own name is not simply familiarity: An eye-tracking study, Hongsheng Yang, Fang Wang, Nianjun Gu, X. Gao, G. Zhao, 2013
- The familiarity issue in self-information processing advantage, Hongsheng Yang, 2013
- The processing advantage of self-related information: Evidence from online name recognition, Hongsheng Yang, Fang Wang, Nianjun Gu, Xiting Huang, 2012
- In-group bias in social categorization and face recognition, Hongsheng Yang, Xiting Huang, 2012
- Identity salience: The switch to self-activation, Xiaoyong Wu, Hongsheng Yang, Lei Cheng, Xiting Huang, 2011
- Self-reliant personality and problem-solving in college students, Lingxiang Xia, Xiting Huang, Li Wan, Hongsheng Yang, 2011
- Cross-cultural comparison of group-referent memory effect, Hongsheng Yang, Xiting Huang, 2009
- Effect of characteristics of target cues on task interference from prospective memory, Y.Z. Chen, X.T. Huang, T. Jackson, Hongsheng Yang, 2009
- Minorities remember more: The effect of social identity salience on group-referent memory, Hongsheng Yang, Q.M. Liao, X.T. Huang, 2008
- Research on the other-race effect in face recognition, Hongsheng Yang, Xiting Huang, 2008
- Research on the issue of self-uniqueness, Huaihu Li, Benyou Chen, Hongsheng Yang, Dan Su, 2008
- Task Interference from Event-based Prospective Memory: an event-related potentials study, Y.Z. Chen, X.T. Huang, Hongsheng Yang, G.F. Ren, 2007
- The uniqueness of self-information processing: Evidence from name recognition, Hongsheng Yang, Xiting Huang, 2007
- Cognitive impact of cultural differences, Hongsheng Yang, 2007
- Group-referent memory effect in Chinese people, Hongsheng Yang, Xiting Huang, 2007
- ERP study on conditional reasoning, Jiang Qiu, Qinglin Zhang, Antao Chen, Hongsheng Yang, Yuejia Luo, 2006
- The uniqueness of self-face recognition, Hongsheng Yang, 2005
- New advances in autobiographical memory research, Hongsheng Yang, Ying Zhu, 2004
- Self and retrieval-induced forgetting, Hongsheng Yang, Ying Zhu, 2004
- Self-memory effect in elderly Chinese people, Hongsheng Yang, Ying Zhu, 2004
- Handbook of Personality (Translation), Xiting Huang, Hongsheng Yang, 2003
- Cognitive Psychology (Translation), Xiting Huang, Rong Zhou, Zhijie Zhang, Houchao Lü, Hongsheng Yang, 2000
- Research on counterfactual thinking, Hongsheng Yang, Xiting Huang, 2000