Ning Zhang, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Department of Psychology, School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics.

Majors: Social Psychology, Judgment and Decision Making

Research Interests: Social cognition; Cross-cultural psychology; Behavioral decision making;

Education

Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Queen’s University, 2016

MSc in Applied Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011

B.A. in Humanities, Wuhan University, 2007

Working Experience

2017- Present,Assistant professor of Department of Psychology, School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics  

Research Projects

Posttraumatic growth among the survivors of the Sichuan Earthquake (2011-2013), National Science Foundation Research Project, Key member

Posttraumatic stress symptoms and psychological screening of at risk survivors of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (2008-2009), Emergent Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Participant

Main Publications

REFEREEDJOURNAL ARTICLES

Zhang N., Ji L.J., & Li Y. (2017). Cultural Differences in Opportunity Cost Consideration. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00045.

Ji L.J*., Zhang N*., & Li Y., Zhang Z.Y., Harper G., Khei M., Li J. (2016). Cultural Variations in Reasons forAdvice-seeking. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.  

Zhang N.,&Ji L.J. (2015). Beyond Whom and When: A Revisit of the Influences of Social Norms on Behavior. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46(10), 1319-1323.

Zhang N., Zhang Y.Q., Wu K.K., Zhu Z.H., & Dyregrov A. (2011). Facture Structure of the Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale with Children and Adolescents Survived the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 52(2), 236-241.

Zhang N., Zhang Y.Q., & Wu K.K. (2011). Psychological and neurophysiologic mechanisms of trust (In Chinese). Psychological Science, 34(5), 1137-1143.

Zhang N., Zhang T.Y., Zhang Y.Q., & Wu K.K. (2011). Chinese People’s Beliefs of Lying and Lie Detection Behavior and Its Group Differences. Chinese Journal of Ergonomics, 17(1), 31-35.

Chen Z.G., Zhang Y.Q., Liu Y., Zhang N., & Wu K.K. (2011). Ethnicity, culture, and disaster response: Identifying and explaining ethnic differences in PTSD six months after Sichuan earthquake in China. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology,19(4), 503-507.

Liu Y., Chen Z.G., Zhang Y.Q., & Zhang N. (2011). Ethnic differences of posttraumatic stress disorder. Advances in Psychological Science, 19(10), 1511-1517.

Zhang N., & Zhang Y.Q. (2010). Character strengths: The Psychological Capital that Builds a Good Life. Advances in Psychological Science, 18(7), 1161-1167.

Zhang N., Zhang Y.Q., Wu K.K., Chen Z.G., Liu Y., & Zhu Z.H. (2010). Risk factors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake Survivors. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 18(1), 69-72.

Wu K.K., Zhang Y.Q., Zhang N., Liu Y., Chen Z. G., & Wang L. (2010). Structure Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms of 2008 Sichuan Earthquake Survivors in a Severely Hit Area. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 18(1), 60-62.

Chapters in Books

Zhang, N., Ji. L.J., & Guo, T. (2017). Culture and lay theories of change, in Julie      

Spencer-Rogers and Kaiping Peng (Eds.) The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of    

Dialectical Thinking. Oxford University Press.