Areas of Focus
- Social Cognition
- Neuroaesthetics
- Obesity Issues
- Educational Psychology Applied Research
- Language Comprehension and Cognition
Work Experience
- 1987-1989: Teacher at Xinning No. 2 High School, Hunan Province
- 1992-1996: Teaching and research at Hunan University of Science and Technology, Lecturer in 1994
- 1999-2006: Teaching and research at South China Normal University, Associate Professor in 2000, Professor in 2004
- 2006-2008: Postdoctoral work at Beijing Normal University
- 2011-2012: Studied at the University of Memphis, USA
- 2012-present: Teaching and research at the School of Psychology, South China Normal University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1984-1987: Studied at Shaoyang University, Hunan Province
- 1989-1992: Master's degree in Educational Psychology from Northeast Normal University
- 1996-1999: Ph.D. in Developmental and Educational Psychology from South China Normal University
- 2010: Selected for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Project
- 2017: Awarded the title of 'Pearl River Scholar' Distinguished Professor by Guangdong Province
- 2019, 2020: Received the First Prize of Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award and the First Prize of Guangdong Province Education and Teaching Achievement Award (Higher Education)
Publications
- The Effect of Moral Behavior on Facial Attractiveness, Li, J., He, D., Zhang, W., Huang, R., & He, X., 2023
- Good performance-high attractiveness effect: an empirical study on the association between athletes’ rankings and their facial attractiveness, Li, W., Zhu, H., Zhao, K., Zhu, H., Wang, X., & He, X., 2023
- The Transition of Robot Identity from Partner to Competitor and Its Implications for Human–Robot Interaction, Yang, D., & He, X., 2022
- Beautiful environment, beautiful heart–The role of environmental aesthetic on moral education, Wu, C., Zhao, K., Zhu, H., Huang, C., Liang, F., Ouyang, Y., ... & He, X., 2022
- Emotion concept in perception of facial expressions: Effects of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words, Li, W., Xu, Q., Liu, S., Yu, L., Yang, Y., Zhang, L., & He, X., 2022
- Morality is Supreme: The Roles of Morality, Fairness and Group Identity in the Ultimatum Paradigm, Liu, W., Wang, H., Zhu, H., Zhu, X., He, X., & Zhang, W., 2022
- Appreciating paintings of the virtuous: The influence of perceived artist morality on aesthetic judgment of their works, Liang, F., Wu, C., Zhu, M., Chatterjee, A., Wang, H., He, D., ... & He, X., 2022
- The Voice of Morality: The Two-Way Relationship Between the Beauty of Voice and Moral Goodness, Wu, C., Liang, X., Duan, Y., Gong, L., Zhang, W., He, M., ... & He, X., 2022
- Ugly food, not eat: the eating intention of emotional eater for different esthetic food, Wu, C., Liang, X., Zhao, K., Zhu, H., Huang, C., Zhang, S., ... & He, X., 2022
- The Influence of Physical Burden on the Esthetic Preference for Green Natural Environment, Liu, S., Wang, H., Liu, W., Lai, S., Zhao, X., He, X., & Zhang, W., 2022
- Does a beautiful environment make food better-The effect of environmental aesthetics on food perception and eating intention, Wu, C., Zhu, H., Huang, C., Liang, X., Zhao, K., Zhang, S., ... & He, X., 2022
- Solid or Liquid Food—The Intention to Eat Different Foods under Negative Emotions, Wu, C., Huang, C., Zhu, H., Yu, Y., Zhang, C., Zhang, W., & He, X., 2022
- Tasting more than just food: effect of aesthetic appeal of plate patterns on food perception, Zhang, S., Qian, J., Wu, C., He, D., Zhang, W., Yan, J., & He, X., 2022
- What is good is beautiful (and what isn’t, isn’t): How moral character affects perceived facial attractiveness, He, D., Workman, C. I., He, X., & Chatterjee, A., 2022
- Positive referential meaning and color metaphor bring beauty: Evidence on aesthetic appraisal of ancient Chinese character from Han, Bai, and Yi ethnic groups, Zhang, W., Tao, Y., Lai, S., Zhao, X., Lai, S., & He, X., 2022
- The effect of aging on facial attractiveness: An empirical and computational investigation, He, D., Workman, C. I., Kenett, Y. N., He, X., & Chatterjee, A., 2021
- The Impact of Motor Imageries on Aesthetic Judgment of Chinese Calligraphy: An fMRI Study, He, M., Zhang, W., Shahid, H., Liu, Y., Liang, X., Duan, Y., ... & He, X., 2021
- The effect of action observation on aesthetic preference of Chinese calligraphy: An fMRI study, He, M., Zhang, W., Deng, J., & He, X., 2021
- The impact of action observation and motor imagery on the aesthetic preference of Chinese calligraphy, He, M., He, X., Zheng, Z., Deng, J., & Wu, C., 2021
- Environmental Aesthetic Value Influences the Intention for Moral Behavior: Changes in Behavioral Moral Judgment, Wu, C., & He, X., 2021
- Spacious Environments Make Us Tolerant—The Role of Emotion and Metaphor, Wu, C., Liang, F., Liang, X., Huang, C., Wang, H., He, X., ... & Duan, Y., 2021
- The Role of Understanding on Architectural Beauty: Evidence From the Impact of Semantic Description on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Architecture, Liu, S., Zhang, W., He, X., Tang, X., Lai, S., & Dai, Z.
Awards
- 2020: First Prize of Guangdong Education and Teaching Achievement Award (Higher Education)
- 2019: First Prize of the Eighth Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award
- 2016: Outstanding Researcher at South China Normal University
- 2015: First Prize of the Eighth Excellent Teaching Achievement Award at South China Normal University
- 2005: First Prize of Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award for 'Coordination and Integration of Information in Text Reading'
- First Prize of the Eighth Teaching Achievement Award at South China Normal University
- First Prize of the 'For Tomorrow' Bilingual Teaching Award at South China Normal University
- Second Prize of the 'For Tomorrow' Young and Middle-aged Teachers Classroom Teaching Competition at South China Normal University