Xin Zhao

Academic Title: Associate Professor

Email: xzhao@dep.ecnu.edu.cn

Lab Website: ccdlabecnuen.mysxl.cn

CV:  

PhD, Cornell University, Developmental Psychology (2019)

Master, Cornell University, Developmental Psychology (2017)

Bachelor, Tsinghua University, Psychology and Economics (2014)

Developmental Psychology

Educational Psychology

Development Across Life Span

Social Cognition and Social Learning

Social cognitive development, culture and child development, children’s understanding of choice, moral development, self-control

See more information on my lab website: ccdlabecnuen.mysxl.cn

Flanagan, T., Zhao, X., Xu, F., & Kushnir, T. (2024). Is it personal or is it social? The interaction of knowledge domain and statistical evidence in US and Chinese preschoolers’ social generalizations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Guo, R., Li, D., & Zhao, X. (2024). Children consider “who” and “what” when reasoning about rule changes: A comparative study of children from two cultures. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 01650254241246238.

Li, S., & Zhao, X. (2024). Choosing Among Undesirable Options: Children Consider Desirability of Available Choices in Evaluation of Socially Mindful Actions. Cognitive Science, 48(4), e13441.

Wu, W., Zhang, Q., & Zhao, X. (2023). Who makes the choice? The influence of choice on preschoolers’ sharing behaviors and feelings. Acta Psychologica Sinica

Yang, X., Zhao, X., Dunham, Y., & Bian, L. (2024). The development and predictors of a preference for strivers over naturals in the United States and China. Child Development, 95(2), 593-608.

Zang, L., Li, D., & Zhao, X. (2023). Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 228, 105605.

Zhao, X., & Kushnir, T. (2023). When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness. Developmental science, 26(1), e13257.

Zhao, X., & Yang, X. (2022). She succeeded despite lack of ability or resources: Children’s consideration of constraint in beliefs and reasoning about academic achievement. Developmental Psychology

Zhao, X., Li, D., & Yang, X. (2022). The relationship between preschoolers' understanding of considerate socially-mindful actions and theory of mind. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 54(8), 892.

Zhao, X., Wente, A., Flecha, M. F., Galvan, D. S., Gopnik, A., & Kushnir, T. (2021). Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood. Cognition, 210, 104609.

Zhao, X., Zhao, X., Gweon, H., & Kushnir, T. (2021). Leaving a Choice for Others: Children’s Evaluations of Considerate, Socially-Mindful Actions. Child Development, 92(4), 1238-1253.

Wente, A., Zhao, X, Gopnik, A. Kang, C., &Kushnir, T.  (2020). The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs About Self-Control. In Mele, A. (Ed) Philosophy and Science of Self Control.

Zhao, X. & Kushnir, T. (2019). How U.S. and Chinese children talk about moral, conventional and personal choices. Cognitive Development, 52, 100804

Zhao, X. & Kushnir, T. (2018). Young children consider individual authority and collective agreement when deciding who can change rules. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 101-116

Wente, A. O., Bridgers, S., Zhao, X., Seiver, E., Zhu, L., & Gopnik, A. (2016). How Universal Are Free Will Beliefs? Cultural Differences in Chinese and US 4- and 6-Year-Olds. Child Development, 87, 666-676

Wang, H., Sun, P., Ip, C., Zhao, X., & Fu, S. (2015). Configural and featural face processing are differently modulated by attentional resources at early stages: An event-related potential study with rapid serial visual presentation. Brain research, 1602, 75-84.

Zhao, X., Yuan, J., Xu, Y., Fu, S. (2014). What is the “object”? An introduction of mechanisms and influence factors of Object-Based Attention. Advances in Psychological Science

Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Psychology, General

Reviewer, Nature Communications

Reviewer, Developmental Science

Reviewer, Cognition

Reviewer, Developmental Psychology

Reviewer, Child Development

Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology