Areas of Focus
- Emotion Psychology and Affective Neuroscience
Work Experience
- 2022/01—Present - East China Normal University - Professor
- 2011/12—2021/12 - East China Normal University - Associate Professor
- 2006/07—2011/12 - East China Normal University - Lecturer
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2003/01—2006/06 PhD: Capital Normal University, Department of Psychology
- 2000/09—2003/07 Master's: Northeast Normal University, Department of Psychology
- 1996/09—2000/07 Bachelor's: Northeast Normal University, Department of Psychology
Publications
- Interpersonal emotion regulation and physiological synchrony: Cognitive reappraisal versus expressive suppression, Wang, Y., & Shi, Y., 2024
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reduced attentional bias towards natural emotional sounds, Wang, L., Zhu, T., Wang, A., & Wang, Y., 2024
- Emotion contagion and physiological synchrony: The more intimate relationships, the more contagion of positive emotions, Lin, D., Zhu, T., & Wang, Y., 2024
- Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression evoke distinct neural connections during interpersonal emotion regulation, Liu, Z., Lu, K., Hao, N., & Wang, Y., 2023
- Content specificity of attentional bias to COVID-19 threat-related information in trait anxiety, Zhao, Y., Jia, X., Pan, S., Ji, H., & Wang, Y., 2023
- Successful emotion regulation via cognitive reappraisal in authentic pride: Behavioral and event-related potential evidence, Lin, D., Bi, J., Zhang, X., Zhu, F., & Wang, Y., 2022
- Auditory and cross-modal attentional bias toward positive natural sounds: Behavioral and ERP evidence, Wang, Y., Tang, Z., Zhang, X., & Yang, L., 2022
- Interpersonal neural synchronization could predict the outcome of mate, Yuan, D., Zhang, R., Liu, J., Feng, D., Hu, Y., Li, X., Wang, Y., & Zhou, X., 2022
- Subliminal affective priming effect: Dissociated processes for intense versus normal facial expressions, Wang, Y., Chen, J., & Ku, Y., 2021
- Attentional disengagement from negative natural sounds for high-anxious individuals, Wang, Y., Xiao, R. Q., Luo, C., & Yang, L. B., 2019
- Mechanisms underlying auditory and cross-modal emotional attentional biases: Engagement with and disengagement from aversive auditory stimuli, Wang, Y., Xiao, R. Q., & Luo, C., 2019
- Valence evaluation with approaching or withdrawing cues: directly testing valence–arousal conflict theory, Wang, Y., Li, T., & Li, L., 2018
- The effects of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression on memory of emotional pictures, Wang, Y., Chen, J., & Han, B. Y., 2017
- Positive emotion facilitates cognitive flexibility: An fMRI study, Wang, Y., Chen, J., & Yue, Z., 2017
- Can We Distinguish Emotions from Faces? Investigation of Implicit and Explicit Processes of Peak Facial Expressions, Xiao, R. Q., Li, X. C., Li. L., & Wang, Y., 2016
Awards
- East China Normal University Excellent Practice Innovation Instructor Award (2013)
- Second Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Excellent Instructor Award (2016)