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Yang Hu
Psychology and Cognitive Science
East China Normal University
Shanghai
Language: English, Chinese, German
Moral Decision-Making
Social Decision-Making
Corruption
Third-Party Justice
Social Emotions
Guilt
Moral Cognition
Personality Traits
Autism
Cognitive Neuroscience
Areas of Focus
- Moral and Social Decision-Making
- Social Emotions and Moral Cognition
- Individual Differences in Moral and Social Behavior
Work Experience
- 2017-04 to 2019-03 - CNRS - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2019-04 to 2021-08 - Peking University - Postdoctoral Researcher (Boya Program)
- 2021-09 to Present - East China Normal University - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2006-09 to 2010-06 Bachelor of Science: East China Normal University, Applied Psychology
- 2010-09 to 2013-06 Master of Science: East China Normal University, Basic Psychology
- 2013-10 to 2017-04 Doctor of Philosophy: University of Bonn, Basic Psychology
Publications
- Toward a Computational Understanding of Bribe-taking Behavior, Qiu, S., Tang, Y., Yu, H., Xie, H., Dreher, J-C., Hu, Y., Zhou, X., 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
- Uncovering Individual Variations in Bystander Intervention of Injustice through Intrinsic Brain Connectivity Patterns, Tang, Y., Hu, Y., Zhuang, J., Feng, C., Zhou, X., 2024
- Testosterone administration modulates inequality aversion in healthy males: evidence from computational modeling, Liao, J., Ou, J., Hu, Y., Tobler, P. N., Wu, Y., 2023
- Perturbation of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex makes power holders less resistant to tempting bribes, Hu, Y., Philippe, R., Guigon, V., Zhao, S., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., Dreher, J-C., 2022
- Neural basis of corruption in power-holders, Hu, Y., Hu, C., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., Qu, C., Dreher, J-C., 2021
- Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hu, Y., Pereira, A., Gao, X., Campos, B., Derrington, E., Zhou, X., Cendes, F., Dreher, J-C., 2021
- Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying flexible immoral decisions benefiting self and others: an fMRI investigation, Qu, C., Hu, Y., Tang, Z., Dreher, J-C., 2020
- Indirect reciprocity in adolescents: Evidence from incentivized inequality-related economic paradigms, Hu, Y., Ma, J., Luan, Z., Dubas, J., Xi, J., 2019
- What drives the (un)empathic bystander to intervene? Insights from eye-tracking, Hu, Y., Fiedler, S., Weber, B., 2019
- Spreading Inequality: Neural computations underlying pay-it-forward reciprocity, Hu, Y., He, L., Zhang, L., Wölke, T., Dreher, J-C., Weber, B., 2018
- Helping or punishing strangers: Neural correlates of altruistic decisions as third-party and of its relation to empathic concern, Hu, Y., Strang, S., Weber, B., 2015
- Computational and neurobiological substrates of cost-benefit integration in altruistic helping decision, Hu, J., Hu, Y., Li, Y., Zhou, X., 2021
- The good lies: Altruistic goals modulate processing of deception in the anterior insula, Yin, L., Hu, Y., Dynowsky, D., Li, J., Weber, B., 2017
- Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms, Ou, J., Wu, Y., Hu, Y., Gao, X., Li, H., Tobler, P. N., 2021
- A levels-of-analysis framework for studying social emotions, Yu, H., Gao, X., Shen, B., Hu, Y., Zhou, X., 2024
- Exogenous testosterone increases the audience effect in healthy males: evidence for the social status hypothesis, Wu, Y., Zhang, Y., Ou, J., Hu, Y., Zilioli, S., 2020
