Areas of Focus
- Cognitive Psychology
- Social and Emotional Skills
- Cognitive Task Analysis
- Cognitive Processes
- Cognitive Styles
- Neurophysiological Mechanisms
- Cognitive and Personality Factors
- Social Cognition
- Cultural Life Scripts
- Creativity Evaluation
Work Experience
- 1985.7 - Present: East China Normal University, Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science (Retired)
Publications
- Technical Report on the Second Round of Social and Emotional Skills Assessment of Chinese Adolescents, Zhifang Shao*, Yipeng Tang, Jing Zhang, 2024
- Self- and other-focused autobiographical memories of life story events across cultures, Zaragoza Scherman, A., Salgado, S., Shao, Z., & Berntsen, D., 2023
- Open Ability: The Fourth Report on the Social and Emotional Skills Assessment of Chinese Adolescents, Zhifang Shao*, Zhi Liu, Shuyu Yang, Zhongjing Huang, 2021
- Younger adults report more distress and less well-being: A cross-cultural study of event centrality, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and life satisfaction, Zaragoza Scherman, A., Salgado, S., Shao, Z., & Berntsen, D., 2020
- Gender Differences in Real-time Estimation of High School Students, Zhifang Shao*, Weiguo Pang, 2018
- Gender Differences in High School Exam Papers and Their Relationship with Admission Gender Ratio, Zhifang Shao*, Weiguo Pang, Rui Duan, 2018
- Life script events and autobiographical memories of important life story events in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark, Zaragoza Scherman, A., Salgado, S., Shao, Z., & Berntsen, D., 2017
- Review and Prospects of Gender Differences in College Entrance Examination Scores, Zhifang Shao*, Weiguo Pang, 2016
- Event centrality of positive and negative autobiographical memories to identity and life story across cultures, Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman, Sinué Salgado, Zhifang Shao & Dorthe Berntsen, 2015
- Cognitive Task Analysis of Multiple Indicators of Test Difficulty, Erxia Li, Zhifang Shao*, 2009
- Object Substitution Masking: New Advances in Visual Backward Masking Research, Lizhuang Yang, Zhifang Shao*, 2009
- The Impact of Stroke Frequency and Font on Chinese Character Size Recognition Threshold, You Wang, Zhifang Shao*, 2009
- Chinese Character Size Recognition Threshold and Reasonable Character Spacing on Electronic Maps, Jian Wang, Zhifang Shao*, 2008
- Cognitive Task Analysis of Test Difficulty Beforehand, Zhifang Shao*, Lan Yu, 2008
- Perceptual Learning of Dot Pattern, Zhifang Shao*, Mingxuan He, 2007
- Multiple Representations of Concepts and Their Bipolar Structure Model, Zhifang Shao, 2006
- Experimental Study on Contour and Visual Search Order, Zhifang Shao*, Xiaojia Wang, 2006
- Experimental Study on pCI and Causal Judgment, Zhifang Shao*, Jian Wang, 2005
- Re-examining the Implicit Learning Artificial Grammar Paradigm, Zhifang Shao*, Zheng Lu, 2004
- Experimental Study on Causal Illusion, Zhifang Shao*, Juan Zhao, 2004
- Establishing Norms for the Diagnostic Scale for Children with Learning Difficulties, Zhifang Shao*, Guopeng Chen, Yang Shan, 2000