Areas of Focus
- Infant Psychology
- Social Cognition
- Parent-Child Relationship
- Mindful Parenting
- Family Intervention
- Stress and Coping
- Maternal and Infant Mental Health
Work Experience
- 2011-2013 - Sun Yat-sen University - Lecturer
- 2013-Present - Sun Yat-sen University - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2001-2005 Bachelor of Science in Psychology: Peking University
- 2005-2009 Master of Arts in Psychology: University of Illinois
- 2009-2011 Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology: University of Illinois
Publications
- Reading Partners, Zi Jing He, 2020
- Theory and Practice of Family Picture Book Education, Zi Jing He, 2018
- The Emotional World of Infants, Alicia Lieberman, Translated by Zi Jing He, 2023
- Mindful Parenting, Shauna Shapiro, Translated by Zi Jing He, 2017
- The Spark of Human Nature, Jerome Kagan, Translated by Zi Jing He, 2015
- False-belief understanding and why it matters: The social-acting hypothesis, Baillargeon, R., He, Z., Setoh, P., Scott, R. M., Sloane, S., & Yang, D. Y.-J., 2014
- Psychological and sociomoral reasoning in infancy, Baillargeon, R., Scott, R. M., He, Z., Sloane, S., Setoh, P., Jin, K., Wu, D., & Bian, L., 2014
- Maternal Emotional Reminiscing, Child Autobiographical Memory, and Their Associations with Pre-Schoolers’ Socioemotional Functioning, Wu, Y.*, He, Z.* (co-corresponding author), & Jobson, L., 2021
- Five-Month-Old Infants Attribute Inferences Based on General Knowledge to Agents, Ting, F.*, He, Z.* (co-corresponding author), Baillargeon, R.*, 2021
- Maternal Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory Features of Mother-Child Dyads in a Cross-Cultural Context, Wu, Y.*, He, Z.* (co-corresponding author), & Jobson, L., 2020
- Toddlers and infants expect individuals to refrain from helping an ingroup victim's aggressor, Ting, F., He. Z. (co-corresponding author), & Baillargeon, R., 2019
- Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies, Barrett, C., Broesch, T., Scott, R., He, Z., Baillargeon, R., Wu, D., Bolz, M. Henrich, J., Setoh, P., Wang, J., & Laurence, S., 2013
- False-belief understanding in 2.5-year-olds: Evidence from two verbal spontaneous-response tasks, Scott, R., He, Z. (corresponding author), Baillargeon, R., & Cummins, D., 2012
- 2.5-year-olds Succeed at a Verbal Anticipatory-Looking False-Belief Task, He, Z. (corresponding author), Bolz, M., & Baillargeon, R., 2012
- False-belief understanding in 2.5-year-olds: evidence from change-of-location and unexpected-contents violation-of-expectation tasks, He, Z. (corresponding author), Bolz, M., & Baillargeon, R., 2011
- False-belief understanding in infants, Baillargeon, R., Scott, R., & He, Z., 2010
- The role of language representation in color category perception, Quan Peng, Zi Jing He, Gao Dingguo, 2011
- Research on the exchange behavior of 3-5 year old children, Mu Yan, Zi Jing He, Su Yanjie, 2004
Awards
- 2018: Excellence in Contribution Award, Zheng Fund
- 2013: Selected for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Support Program
- 2010: J. McVicker Hunt Award for Excellence in Developmental Research
- 2010: Invited Speaker for Knowledge for All Lecture Series, University of Illinois
- 2011, 2009, 2007: Student Conference Award, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
- 2010, 2008, 2007: Lyle H. Lanier Travel Award, University of Illinois
- 2003: Qin Hui Zheng and Li Zhengdao Chinese University Student Internship Fund, Peking University
- 2003: President's Scholarship, Peking University