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Dr. Xiaolin Zhou is a professor of psychology, a member of the University Council, and the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University, Beijing, China. After graduating from East China Normal University, he went to Cambridge University, United Kingdom in 1988 to study psychology of language. He was awarded Ph.D by Cambridge University in 1992. Since then Dr. Zhou has worked in several institutes, including Birkbeck College, University of London, Beijing Normal University, and Cambridge University. From 1999, he works full time for Peking University. He is a corresponding fellow of the Rodin Remediation Academy, an Action Editor of BMC Neuroscience and Scientific Reports, and an advisory board member of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, and Annuls of Dyslexia. He received the “National Award for Yong Scientists in China” in 2001 and the “Natural Science Prize of Chinese Universities” from the Ministry of Education of China in 2004. He was honored as “Changjiang Scholar Professor” in 2013 by the Ministry of Education of China.

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Employment (4)

East China Normal University: Shanghai, CN

2023-01-01 to present | Dean (School of Psychology and Cognitive Science)
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Peking University: Beijing, Beijing, CN

1998-12-15 to present | Professor (Department of Psychology)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1998-11-01 to 2000-10-31 | Senior Research Associate (Department of Experimental Psychology)
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Birkbeck College, University of London: London, London, GB

1992-05-01 to 1998-10-31 | Research Associate (Department of Psychology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

East China Normal University: Shanghai, CN

1981-09-01 to 1998-07-01 | BA, MA (Department of Psychology,)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1988-10-15 to 1992-12-12 | Ph.D (Department of Experimental Psychology)
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Works (37)

The expectation-updating mechanism in gratitude: A predictive coding perspective.

Emotion
2025-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Ke Ding; Haiqi Lin; Guanmin Liu; Feng Kong; Jinting Liu; Xiaolin Zhou
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Toward a computational understanding of bribe‐taking behavior

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
2025-02-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Shiwei Qiu; Yancheng Tang; Hongbo Yu; Hanbo Xie; Jean‐Claude Dreher; Yang Hu; Xiaolin Zhou
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Causal role of frontocentral beta oscillation in comprehending linguistic communicative functions

NeuroImage
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Wenshuo Chang; Xiaoxi Zhao; Lihui Wang; Xiaolin Zhou
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Cross-cultural Differences in Using Nonverbal Behaviors to Identify Indirect Replies

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Hio Tong Pang; Xiaolin Zhou; Mingyuan Chu
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Toward a Computational Understanding of Bribe-taking Behavior

2024-06-07 | Preprint
Contributors: Shiwei Qiu; YanCheng Tang; Hongbo Yu; Hanbo Xie; 邱诗苇; Yang Hu; xiaolin zhou
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Are Guilt-Prone Power-Holders Less Corrupt? Evidence From Two Online Experiments

Social Psychological and Personality Science
2024-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Yang Hu; Shiwei Qiu; Gaotong Wang; Kui Liu; Weijian Li; Hongbo Yu; Xiaolin Zhou
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Thanks, and thanks again: Unveiling the temporal dynamics of gratitude

2024-04-02 | Preprint
Contributors: JIE HU; Zhaoyu Liu; xiaolin zhou
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The benefit of making voluntary choices generalizes across multiple effectors

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoxiao Luo; Lihui Wang; Jiayan Gu; Qiongting Zhang; Hongyu Ma; Xiaolin Zhou
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A levels-of-analysis framework for studying social emotions

Nature Reviews Psychology
2024-02-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Hongbo Yu; Xiaoxue Gao; Bo Shen; Yang Hu; Xiaolin Zhou
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Uncovering individual variations in bystander intervention of injustice through intrinsic brain connectivity patterns

NeuroImage
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Yancheng Tang; Yang Hu; Jie Zhuang; Chunliang Feng; Xiaolin Zhou
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The psychological, computational, and neural foundations of indebtedness

Nature Communications
2024-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoxue Gao; Eshin Jolly; Hongbo Yu; Huiying Liu; Xiaolin Zhou; Luke J. Chang
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Differential developmental trajectories of the two components of indebtedness and their potential contributions to the transformation of friend-selection preference in mid-childhood

2023-08-24 | Preprint
Contributors: Ying Fang; Xiaoxue Gao; Jinliang Qin; Weijian Li; xiaolin zhou
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Dissociated amplitude and phase effects of alpha oscillation in a nested structure of rhythm- and sequence-based temporal expectation

Cerebral Cortex
2023-08-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhongbin Su; Xiaolin Zhou; Lihui Wang
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Representing linguistic communicative functions in the premotor cortex

Cerebral Cortex
2023-04-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Wenshuo Chang; Lihui Wang; Ruolin Yang; Xingchao Wang; Zhixian Gao; Xiaolin Zhou
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The Competition Dynamics of Approach and Avoidance Motivations Following Interpersonal Transgression

2023-04-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Bo Shen; Yang Chen; Zhewen He; Weijian Li; Hongbo Yu; xiaolin zhou
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Author Correction: Mindfulness training reduces slippery slope effects in moral decision-making and moral judgment

Scientific Reports
2023-03-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Wei Du; Hongbo Yu; Xinghua Liu; Xiaolin Zhou
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Mindfulness training reduces slippery slope effects in moral decision-making and moral judgment

Scientific Reports
2023-02-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Wei Du; Hongbo Yu; Xinghua Liu; Xiaolin Zhou
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Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-12-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Yue Li; Jie Hu; Christian C. Ruff; Xiaolin Zhou
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Intermodulation from Unisensory to Multisensory Perception: A Review

Brain Sciences
2022-11-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Shen Xu; Xiaolin Zhou; Lihan Chen
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Belief in control: Voluntary choice enhances subsequent task performance under undefeated choice-outcome causation

Cognition
2022-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoxiao Luo; Lihui Wang; Xiaolin Zhou
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Neural segregation in left inferior frontal gyrus of semantic processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy

Neuropsychologia
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Xun Li; Xiaoming Jiang; Wenshuo Chang; Yingying Tan; Xiaolin Zhou
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The benefit of making voluntary choices generalizes across multiple effectors

2022-07-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Xiaoxiao Luo; Lihui Wang; Jiayan Gu; Qiongting Zhang; Hongyu Ma; xiaolin zhou
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Representing linguistic communicative goals in the premotor cortex

2022-05-26 | Preprint
Contributors: Wenshuo Chang; Lihui Wang; Ruolin Yang; Xingchao Wang; Zhixian Gao; Xiaolin Zhou
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Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice

2022-05-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Yue Li; Jie Hu; Christian C. Ruff; Xiaolin Zhou
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Making a saccade enhances Stroop and Simon conflict control

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
2022-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoxiao Luo; Jiayan Gu; Yueyuan Zheng; Xiaolin Zhou
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Volition motivates cognitive performance at the response-execution level by attenuating task-irrelevant motor activations

2022-01-27 | Preprint
Contributors: Xiaoxiao Luo; Lihui Wang; xiaolin zhou
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Belief in Control: Voluntary Choice Enhances Subsequent Task Performance under Undefeated Choice-Outcome Causation

2021-12-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Xiaoxiao Luo; Lihui Wang; xiaolin zhou
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Computational and Neurobiological Substrates of Cost-Benefit Integration in Altruistic Helping Decision

The Journal of Neuroscience
2021-04-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Jie Hu; Yang Hu; Yue Li; Xiaolin Zhou
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Right Temporoparietal Junction Underlies Avoidance of Moral Transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Journal of Neuroscience
2021-02-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Yang Hu; Alessandra M. Pereira; Xiaoxue Gao; Brunno M. Campos; Edmund Derrington; Brice Corgnet; Xiaolin Zhou; Fernando Cendes; Jean-Claude Dreher
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Whose promises are worth more? How social status affects trust in promises

European Journal of Social Psychology
2020-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Philip R. Blue; Jie Hu; Lu Peng; Hongbo Yu; Huiying Liu; Xiaolin Zhou
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The hidden cost of receiving favors: A theory of indebtedness

2020-02-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Xiaoxue Gao; Eshin Jolly; Hongbo Yu; Huiying Liu; Xiaolin Zhou; Luke J. Chang
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Altered transposition asymmetry in serial ordering in early Parkinson's disease

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
2019-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Shaoyang Ma; Yingshuang Zhang; Na Liu; Weizhong Xiao; Shuaiqi Li; Guanyu Zhang; Xiaolin Zhou; Thomas F. Münte; Zheng Ye
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Differential brain mechanisms for processing distracting information in task‐relevant and ‐irrelevant dimensions in visual search

Human Brain Mapping
2019-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ping Wei; Hongbo Yu; Hermann J. Müller; Stefan Pollmann; Xiaolin Zhou
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Reward enhances cross‐modal conflict control in object categorization: Electrophysiological evidence

Psychophysiology
2018-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Guanlan Kang; Wenshuo Chang; Lihui Wang; Ping Wei; Xiaolin Zhou
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Distinguishing neural correlates of context-dependent advantageous- and disadvantageous-inequity aversion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018-08-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoxue Gao; Hongbo Yu; Ignacio Sáez; Philip R. Blue; Lusha Zhu; Ming Hsu; Xiaolin Zhou
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Lateral prefrontal/orbitofrontal cortex has different roles in norm compliance in gain and loss domains: a transcranial direct current stimulation study

European Journal of Neuroscience
2017-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Yunlu Yin; Hongbo Yu; Zhongbin Su; Yuan Zhang; Xiaolin Zhou
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Neural correlates of fine‐grained meaning distinctions: An fMRI investigation of scalar quantifiers

Human Brain Mapping
2017-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Jiayu Zhan; Xiaoming Jiang; Stephen Politzer‐Ahles; Xiaolin Zhou
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