Areas of Focus
- The neural mechanisms of deception
- Moral judgment and decision making
Work Experience
- 2019.08-now: Sun Yat-sen University, Department of Psychology, Associate professor
- 2017.04-2019.07: Sun Yat-sen University, Department of Psychology, Research associate professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2012.10-2017.02: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Bonn
- 2009-2012: Master of Science, East China Normal University
- 2005-2009: Bachelor of Science, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Publications
- Self-deception: distorted metacognitive process in ambiguous contexts, Dongmei Mei†, Zijun Ke†, Zhihao Li, Wenjian ZhangS, Dingguo GaoCA, Lijun YinCA, 2023
- Functional connectivity between the caudate and medial prefrontal cortex reflects individual honesty variations in adults and children, Lijun YinCA, Shuo ZhongS, Xiaoli GuoS, Zhihao LiCA, 2021
- Charity misconduct on public health issues impairs willingness to offer help, Lijun YinCA, Ruzhen MaoS, Zijun Ke, 2021
- Neural responses of in-group 'favoritism' and out-group 'discrimination' toward moral behaviors, Dongmei Mei†, S, Wenjian Zhang†, S, Lijun YinCA, 2020
- Inflammation and decreased functional connectivity in a widely-distributed network in depression: Centralized effects in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex, Lijun Yin†, Xiaodan Xu†, Gang Chen, Mehta, N., Haroon, E., Miller, A., Yuejia Luo, Zhihao LiCA, & Jennifer FelgerCA, 2019
- An integrative Bayesian approach to matrix-based analysis in neuroimaging, Gang ChenCA, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Paul A. Taylor, Zhihao Li, Lijun Yin, Daniel R. Glen, Joshua Kinnison, Robert W. Cox, & Luiz Pessoa, 2019
- I lie, why don't you: Neural mechanisms of individual differences in self-serving lying, Lijun YinCA, & Bernd Weber, 2019
- The good lies: altruistic goals modulate processing of deception in the anterior insula, Lijun Yin, Yang Hu, Dennis Dynowski, Jian Li, Bernd Weber, 2017
- Attractiveness Modulates Neural Processing of Infant Faces Differently in Males and Females, Lijun Yin, Mingxia Fan, Lijia Lin, Delin Sun, Zhaoxin WangCA, 2017
- Can beneficial ends justify lying? Neural responses to the passive reception of lies and truth-telling with beneficial and harmful monetary outcomes, Lijun YinCA, Bernd Weber, 2016
- Let the man choose what to do: Neural correlates of spontaneous lying and truth-telling, Lijun YinCA, Martin Reuter, Bernd Weber, 2016
- Neural evidence for the use of digit-image mnemonic in a superior memorist: an fMRI study, Lijun Yin†, Yuting Lou†, Mingxia Fan, Zhaoxin WangCA, Yi HuCA, 2015