Areas of Focus
- Social Cognitive Neuroscience
- Empathy for Pain and Intergroup Relations
Work Experience
- 2020.03-2023.03 - University of Würzburg - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2023.03-present - Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Associate Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2010.09-2014.06 Bachelor: Fudan University, Department of Psychology
- 2014.09-2020.01 Doctorate: Peking University, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Publications
- Neural dynamics of racial categorization predicts racial bias in face recognition and altruism, Zhou, Y., Gao, T., Li, W., Wu, T., Zhang, T., Han, X., Han. S, 2020
- The social transmission of empathy relies on observational reinforcement learning, Zhou, Y., Han, S., Kang, P., Tobler, P. N., & Hein, G, 2024
- Neural dynamics of pain expression processing: Alpha-band synchronization to same-race pain but desynchronization to other-race pain, Zhou, Y., & Han, S, 2021
- Racial outgroup favoritism in neural responses to others' pain emerges during sociocultural interactions, Zhou, Y., Pang, C., Pu, Y., & Han, S, 2022
- Learning from ingroup experiences changes intergroup impressions, Zhou, Y., Lindström, B., Soutschek, A., Kang, P., Tobler, P. N., & Hein, G, 2022
- Neural representation of perceived race mediates the opposite relationship between subcomponents of self-construals and racial outgroup punishment, Zhou, Y., Li, W., Gao, T., Pan, X., & Han, S, 2023
- Are women more empathetic than men? Questionnaire and EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability, Pang, C., Li, W., Zhou, Y., Gao, T., Han. S, 2023