Areas of Focus
- Social Cognition, Social Emotion, and Neuroeconomics
- Attention, Executive Control, and Cross-modal Information Integration
- Brain and Language Cognition
Work Experience
- 2020.9–Present - East China Normal University - Dean of the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science
- 2020.1-2022.9 - East China Normal University - Honorary Dean
- 2018.11–Present - Shanghai International Studies University - Part-time Professor, Dean
- 2016.2–Present - Zhejiang Normal University - Part-time Professor, Dean
- 2013.1–2022.12 - Peking University McGovern Institute for Brain Research - Researcher
- 2008.7–2013.12 - Peking University Department of Psychology - Department Head
- 2001.11–2018.11 - Peking University Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Director
- 1998.12–2022.12 - Peking University Department of Psychology - Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
- 1998.11–2000.8 - University of Cambridge Department of Experimental Psychology - Senior Research Fellow
- 1995.10–1998.12 - Beijing Normal University Department of Psychology - Part-time Associate Professor
- 1994.9–1998.10 - Birkbeck, University of London - Research Fellow
- 1992.5–1994.8 - Birkbeck, University of London - Postdoc Fellow
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1988.10–1992.12 PhD: University of Cambridge
- 1985.9–1988.7 Master's: East China Normal University
- 1981.9–1985.7 Bachelor's: East China Normal University
Publications
- Cross-cultural differences in using nonverbal behaviors to identify indirect replies, Pang, H, T., Zhou, X., & Chu, M., 2024
- A levels of analysis framework for studying social emotions, Yu, H., Gao, X., Shen, B., Hu, Y., & Zhou, X., 2024
- Understanding the cognitive and neuroimaging bases underlying the detrimental impact of sleep deprivation on reciprocity, Yu, W., Chen, J., Kong, Z., Sun, W., Zhou, X., Lu, L., Gao, X., Sun, H., 2024
- The psychological, computational, and neural foundations of indebtedness, Gao, X., Jolly, E., Yu, H., Liu, H., Zhou, X., & Chang, L. J., 2024
- Are guilt-prone power-holders less corrupt? Evidence from two online experiments, Hu, Y., Qiu, S., Wang, G., Liu, K., Li, W., Yu, H., & Zhou, X., 2024
- The benefit of making voluntary choices generalizes across multiple effectors, Luo, X., Wang, L., Gu, J., Zhang, Q., Ma, H., & Zhou, X., 2024
- Volition motivates cognitive performance at the response-execution level by attenuating task-irrelevant motor activations, Luo, X. Wang, L., & Zhou, X., 2024
- Reward delays quitting in visual search, Kang, G., Luo, X., Chen, L., Chen, J., Dai, H., & Zhou, X., 2024
- Uncovering individual variations in bystander intervention of injustice through intrinsic brain connectivity patterns, Tang, Y., Hu, Y., Zhuang, J., Feng, C., & Zhou, X., 2024
- Increased functional connectivity between the auditory cortex and the frontoparietal network compensates for impaired visuomotor transformation after early auditory deprivation, Song, L., Wang, P., Li, H., Weiss, P. H., Fink, G. R., Zhou, X., & Chen, Q., 2023
- The competition dynamics of approach and avoidance motivations following interpersonal transgression, Shen, B., Chen, Y., He, Z., Li, W., Yu, H., & Zhou, X., 2023
- Understanding interpersonal dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder through computational modeling of two social interaction tasks, Xiao, F., Zhao, J., Fan, L., Ji, X., Fang, S., Zhang, P., Kong, X., Liu, Q., Yu, H., Zhou, X., Gao, X., & Wang, X., 2023
- Dissociated amplitude and phase effects of alpha oscillation in a nested structure of rhythm- and sequence-based temporal expectation, Su, Z., Zhou, X., & Wang, L., 2023
- Representing linguistic communicative functions in the premotor cortex, Chang, W., Wang, L., Yang, R., Wang, X., Gao, Z., & Zhou, X., 2023
- Mindfulness training reduces slippery slope effects in moral decision-making and moral judgment, Du, W., Yu, H., Liu, X., & Zhou, X., 2023
- Revisiting the Color-Motion Asynchrony, Huang, J., Su, Z., & Zhou, X., 2023
- Self-reference modulates the perception of visual apparent motion, Huang, J., Chen, L., & Zhou, X., 2023
- Intermodulation from unisensory to multisensory perception: A review, Xu, S., Zhou, X., Chen, L., 2022
- Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice, Li, Y., Hu, J., Ruff, C. C., & Zhou, X., 2022
- Associations of Chinese social face with cortisol level and glucocorticoid receptor gene, Gong, P., Guo, W., Zhang, X., Cao, K., Wang, Q., Zhang, M., Liu, J., Fan, Y., Zhang, R., & Zhou, X., 2022
- Understanding an implicated causality: The brain network for processing concessive relations, Xu, X., Yu, H., Gao, X., Shen, B., Feng, W
Awards
- 2023.12: Government Special Allowance - State Council
- 2018.11: 15th Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award - Jiangsu Provincial Government (Third Place)
- 2016.7: 2016 Jiangsu Province Education Science Research Achievement (Higher Education Philosophy and Social Science Research Category) Second Prize - Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education (Second Place)
- 2015.1-2015.12: Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in Psychology (2015-2022) - Elsevier Publisher
- 2015: Seventh Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) Second Prize - Ministry of Education
- 2014.12: 13th Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award Second Prize - Beijing Municipal Government
- 2013.12: Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor - Ministry of Education
- 2008.8: National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor - Ministry of Education, State Council Academic Degrees Committee
- 2005.1: First Prize in Higher Education Natural Science Award - Ministry of Education
- 2001.9: Beijing Model Teacher - Beijing Education Union
- 2001.6: Seventh China Youth Science and Technology Award - Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, China Association for Science and Technology
- 1985.7: Shanghai Outstanding Graduate - Shanghai Municipal Education Commission