Wu Song, received his PhD in Applied Psychology from Beijing Normal University in 2015, and then engaged in teaching and research at the School of Psychology, Shenzhen University. Dr. Wu Song is engaged in research areas including the influence of individual beliefs on behavior, the evolutionary mechanism of human psychology, personality and social factors affecting lie behavior, the psychological mechanism of lie behavior, the theory and technology of lie detection, and the social cognition and moral judgment of lie behavior. He has presided over one National Natural Science Foundation of China, one Humanities and Social Science Program of the Ministry of Education and participated in many national projects. He has published more than 30 papers in domestic and international journals such as Evolution and Human Behavior, Social Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Psychology, and Advances in Psychological Science.
Education
2012.09 – 2015.06 Ph.D. Beijing Normal University, China, Social Psychology
2009.09 – 2012.06 M.A. Beijing Normal University, China, Social Psychology
2005.09 – 2009.06 B.A. Southwest University, China, Psychology
Academic positions
2019.01 – till now Shenzhen University, School of Psychology, Associate Professor
2015.11-2019.01 Shenzhen University, School of Psychology, Assistant Professor
Publications
Tan, X., Zhang, L., Zhang, X., & Wu, S. (2024). The role of just-world beliefs in predicting dishonest behavior. Journal of Individual Differences, 45(2), 69-79. doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000412
Cai, W., Guinote, A., & Wu, S. (2023). Revisiting the powerful-not-lonely effect across cultures: The mediating role of self-construal and social support. Current Psychology, 42(11), 8824-8832. doi:10.1007/s12144-021-02157-w
Cai, S., & Wu, S. (2023). Dark side of white lies: How altruistic lying impacts subsequent self-interested lying. Current Psychology, 43(6), 5090-5103. doi:10.1007/s12144-023-04678-y
Dong, M., van Prooijen, J.-W., Wu, S., & van Lange, P. A. M. (2021). Culture, Status, and Hypocrisy: High-Status People Who Don’t Practice What They Preach Are Viewed as Worse in the United States Than China. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(1), 60-69. doi:10.1177/1948550621990451
Dong, M., Palomo‐Vélez, G., & Wu, S. (2021). Reducing the gap between pro‐environmental disposition and behavior: The role of feeling power. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(3), 262-272. doi:10.1111/jasp.12733
Cai, W., & Wu, S. (2021). Greater death anxiety, greater dishonesty for self-benefit: The moderating role of social dominance orientation. Motivation and Emotion, 45(3), 368-376. doi:10.1007/s11031-021-09877-3
Wu, S., Yuan, T., & Jin, S. (2020). The asymmetric effect of regulatory fit on moral judgments of other-oriented lies. International Journal of Psychology, 55(2), 282-290. doi:10.1002/ijop.12561
