Department of Psychology
Seminar Series

 The Development and Indigenous Practices of Behavioral Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Prof. Yini Liao
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University

The Relationship between Number Sense and Symbolic Mathematical Learning in Children

Prof. Yi Mou
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University

The Comorbidity Mechanisms and Interventions for Children with Developmental Dyslexia and Dyscalculia

Prof. Xiujie Yang
Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University

Why Intelligent People Do Unnatural Things

Prof. Satoshi Kanazawa
Reader, London School of Economics and Social Sciences, UK

Examining the Socioemotional Consequences of Bilingualism in Dual Language Learners

Prof. Qing Zhou
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Psychological Adjustment in Chinese American Children of Immigrant Families: The Roles of Cultural Orientations, Parenting, and Neighborhood

Prof. Qing Zhou
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

What is Universal and What is Specific in the Basic Facts of Eye-movement Control during Reading

Prof. Victor Kuperman
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University, Canada

Boundaries of Self-Perception: How similar do people view themselves on social media versus offline?

Prof. Virginia S.Y. Kwan
Professor & Area Head of Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Food Preferences, Their Modification by Hypnosis and Story Telling and Some Neural Correlates

Prof. Werner Sommer
Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, Humboldt University

The Cognitive and Cultural Foundation of Ineffective Technologies in Human Societies

Prof. Kevin Hong
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau

The impact of pathogen prevalence on pre-political beliefs, human-rights, political ideology and partisan preference

Prof. Brian O’Shea
Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham

Neural evidence for working memory training improving fluid intelligence and emotional regulation

Prof. Zhou Renlai
Professor, Head of Department of Psychology, Nanjing University

A comprehensive exploration of the mechanisms of spatial working memory

Prof. Huang Liqiang
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

井底之蛙: Why cross-cultural research is central to understanding and improving education

Prof. Kevin Miller
Professor, Departments of Educational Studies & Psychology, University of Michigan

Neural evidence for working memory training improving fluid intelligence and emotional regulation

Prof. Zhou Renlai
Professor, Head of Department of Psychology, Nanjing University

Neuroplasticity of the Human Brain

Prof. Tatia Lee
Chair Professor, Head of Psychology and Director of Laboratory of Neuropsychology, The University of Hong Kong

An Evolutionary Life History Approach to Understanding Human Behaviors

Prof. Bin-Bin Chen
Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Psychology at Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Socioeconomic Status Health Disparities across the Lifespan: Insights from a Biopsychosocial Perspective

Prof. Samuele Zilioli
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology & Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Wayne State University

Multilevel Modeling: Introduction and Recent Advances for Behavioral Research

Prof. Lai Hok Chio
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Quantitative Methods, University of Southern California

Dating violence in adolescence: from prevalence data to psychological intervention

Prof. Ricardo Barroso
Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal.

Marital hostility, adolescents’ responses to marital conflict, and adolescents’ adjustment: The moderating role of cooperative marital conflict

Prof. Zhou Nan
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

Visual and Cross-Modal Representations of Real-World Scenes in the Human Brain

Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
Assistant Professor University of Toronto

IL-6 and CRP Are Not Merely Biomarkers of Inflammation: An Evolutionary Perspective and Why It Matters to Health Psychology

Prof. Steven W. Gangestad
Department of Psychology University of New Mexico

Evil lurks in the city: The Dark Triad traits and geographic preferences

Prof. Peter K. Jonason
Western Sydney University

To see or not to see: About studying visual attention

Dr. Florian Goller
University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology

Visual Attention

Prof. Ulrich Ansorge
Professor University of Vienna, Austria; Chair In Cognitive Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology of Risky Choice and Intertemporal Choice

Prof. Xiao-Tian Wang
Professor(tenured) Psychology Department, University of South Dakota, USA

Problematic Smartphone Use and Relations with Mental Health

Dr. Jon D. Elhai
Professor, Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toledo

Juvenile offending in New South Wales, Australia

Dr Andrew McGrath
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology at Charles Sturt University

Cooperation, Culture and Behavioral Change: Insights from Evolutionary Theory and Experimental Economics

Dr. Shakti Lamba
Senior Lecturer, Human Behavioral Ecology at the University of Exeter, UK

The Psychological Foundations of Cultural Change: Experimental Studies of Human Cultural Evolution

Dr. Alex Mesoudi
Associate Professor, Cultural Evolution at the University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus), UK

Culturally Sensitive Collaborative Treatment (CSCT) for Primary Care Patients with Depression

Dr. Albert Yeung
Director, Primary Care Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital Depression Clinical and Research Program Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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