Areas of Focus
- Relationship between personality and advanced cognitive functions
- Longitudinal survey and big data analysis of personality and sociality
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2011 - Bachelor's Degree in Applied Psychology: Southwest University
- 2014 - Master's Degree in Applied Psychology (Social Psychology): Southwest University
- 2018 - Ph.D. in Basic Psychology (Personality Psychology): Southwest University
- Director of the Basic Psychology Teaching and Research Office
Publications
- Social network site use and materialistic values: the roles of self-control and self-acceptance, Yang, Q., Xu, Y., & Van den Bos, K., 2024
- Motivational inconsistency effects in error processing: Controversy and integration, Li, Y., Zhao, R., & Yang, Q., 2024
- Is uncertainty bad? Characteristics and explanatory mechanisms of error processing in uncertain states, Yang, Q., & Li, Y., 2023
- Mechanisms for enhancing the professional mission of normal students from the perspective of self-concept: A longitudinal study, Zhang, X., Li, Y., Huang, X., & Yang, Q., 2023
- Identity lost and found: Self-concept clarity in social network site contexts, Yang, Q., Van den Bos, K., Zhang, X., Adams, S., & Ybarra, O., 2021
- Intolerance of uncertainty, future time perspective, and self-control, Yang, Q., Van den Bos, K., & Li, Y., 2021
- Temporal self-appraisal in a Chinese context: Distancing autobiographical memory following self-uncertainty salience, Yang, Q., Ybarra, O., Van den Bos, K., Zhao, Y., Guan, L., & Huang, X., 2020
- Restoring meaning: Self-uncertainty increases subjective distance between the past and present self, Yang, Q., Ybarra, O., Zhao, Y., & Huang, X., 2020
- Neurophysiological and behavioral evidence that self-uncertainty salience increases self-esteem striving, Yang, Q., Ybarra, O., Van den Bos, K., Zhao, Y., Guan, L., Cao, Y., Li, F., & Huang, X., 2019
- Implicit attitudes toward the self over time in Chinese undergraduates, Yang, Q., Zhao, Y., Guan, L., & Huang, X., 2017
- Self-uncertainty: Connotation, structure, and theory, Yang, Q., Bi, C., Li, L., & Huang, X., 2017
- The effect of perspective taking on negative cognitive responses induced by intergroup threat, Yang, Q., & Zhao, Y., 2013
- The double-edged effect of future scenario thinking on goal achievement and its mechanism, Wang, T., Yang, Q., & Huang, X., 2017
- Enhanced memory for both threat and neutral information under conditions of intergroup threat, Zhu, Y., Zhao, Y., Ybarra, O., Stephan, W. G., & Yang, Q., 2015
Awards
- Shandong Province Education Science Outstanding Achievement Award (2021): First Prize
- Shandong Province Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award (2020): First Prize
- Qufu Normal University 'Xingtan Scholar' Talent Project
- First Prize in the 10th and 14th Young Teachers Teaching Competition of Qufu Normal University (2019, 2023)
- Outstanding Graduate Supervisor of Qufu Normal University (2023)
- Outstanding Teaching and Research Model of the School of Education, Qufu Normal University (2019, 2020)
- Outstanding Teaching and Research Model of the School of Psychology, Qufu Normal University (2021, 2022, 2023)