Xinyuan Fu   Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology, School of Sociology and Psychology,

Central University of Finance and Economics

Research Interests: Dr. Fu studies economic psychology and social psychology.

Her primary research interests focus on how money, power, and materialism impact adolescents and adults.

Education

Ph.D., Beijing Normal University, 2016

B.S., Beijing Normal University, 2011

Visitor, Brigham Young University, 2015

Work Experience

2016 - present     Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics

Research Funding

Effect of recipients' power on actors' prosocial behavior (JY2015004; 2015-2016). “The Social Science and Medical Research Papers Prize”, Project Director.

Moral education in Grade Four and Eight: Quality monitoring, measure development, and report writing (2016). National Basic Education Quality Monitoring Project, Project Member.

An investigation of junior middle school students' social attitudes in Beijing (PXM2014_014202_07_000067; 2015-2016).  Funded by Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Project Member.

Publications

Yang, Y., Li, P., Fu, X., & Kou, Y. (2016). Orientations to happiness and subjective well-being in Chinese adolescents: The roles of prosocial behavior and internet addictive behavior. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10902-016-9794-1

Fu, X., Liu, X., Yang, Y., Zhang, M., & Kou, Y. (2015). The role of relative intrinsic aspirations in Chinese adolescents' prosocial behaviors. Youth & Society, 1-18. doi: 10.1177/0044118X15588552

Fu, X., Kou, Y., & Yang, Y. (2015). Materialistic values among Chinese adolescents: Effects of parental rejection and self-esteem. Child & Youth Care Forum. 44(1), 43-57. doi: 10.1007/s10566-014-9269-7

Zhang, L., Kou, Y., Zhao, Y., & Fu, X. (2015). Group boundary permeability moderates the effect of a dependency meta-stereotype on help-seeking behaviour. International Journal of Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12165

Wang, J., Fu, X., Zhang, L., & Kou, Y. (2015). The impacts of moral evaluations and descriptive norms on children's and adolescents' tolerance of transgression. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 9(02), 86-96. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/prp.2015.11

Liu, C., Zhang, X., Sun, F., Wang, L., Fu, X., & Zhao, X. (2012). Effect of multiplayer interactive violent video games on players' explicit and implicit aggression. In International Conference on Web-Based Learning (pp. 201-212). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Fu, X., Fang, X, & Kou, Y. (2016). Can self-control resist the effect of negative descriptive norms on middle school students' pro-environmental behavior? Psychological Development and Education, 32(1), 143-150. [In Chinese]

Kou, Y., Fu, X., Yuan, M., Shi, J., & Bai, C. (2016). Social psychology teaching design basing on students' needs and learning rules. Educational Research and Experiment, (1), 87-90. [In Chinese]

Aidi, M., Yang, Y., Fu, X., & Kou, Y. (2016). The influence of parent-child attachment on the tendency of social dominance of adolescents: The role ofrelative extrinsic aspirations. Youth Studies, (5), 1-11. [In Chinese]

Fu, X., Lu, Z., & Kou, Y. (2015). Effects of a stranger's presence and behavior on moral hypocrisy. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 47(8), 1058-1066. [In Chinese]

Yang, J., Yu, J., Kou, Y., & Fu, X. (2015). Intervention on peer relationship promoting middle school students' prosocial behavior. Psychological Development and Education, 31(2), 239-245. [In Chinese]

Fu, X., Wen, J., & Kou, Y. (2014). Security affects women's material preference in mate-choosing. Journal of Psychological Science, 37(4), 950-956. [In Chinese]

Chen, H., & Fu, X. (2014). University general education curriculum: Taking liberal arts students learning mathematical statistics courses as an example. Teacher's Journal, 4, 50-53. [In Chinese]

Fu, X. (2013). Fear of death: The future cannot be reached by heart. China Postgraduates,8, 20-21. [In Chinese]

Chen, H., & Fu, X. (2013). An investigation of liberal arts students' attitudes toward mathematical statistics courses. Teacher's Journal, 1, 29-31. [In Chinese]

Fu, X., Luo, X., Mai, L., & Kou, Y. (2012). Peer conflict resolution skills training among primary and middle school students. Teacher's Journal, 14, 51-55. [In Chinese]

Zhang, X., Liu, C., Zhang, L., Fu, X., Sun, F., & Wang, L. (2012). An investigation on media habits and their influence on violence tendency among adolescents. Contemporary Youth Research, 11, 21-26. [In Chinese]

Kou, Y., Fu, X., Huang, Y., Huang, Y., Wang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., & Feng, J. (2012). Cognitive development on bribery perception among children and adolescents in Beijing. Social Science of Beijing, 6, 72-80. [In Chinese]

Community/Professional Service

Journal of Research on Adolescence, Peer Reviewer

Social Development, Peer Reviewer

Child & Youth Care Forum, Peer Reviewer

Emerging Adulthood, Peer Reviewer