Orthogonal Representational Geometry in dACC Underpins Human Hierarchical ReasoningOn September 1, 2026, Prof. Chen Qi's team from the School of Psychology at Shenzhen University published a research paper entitled "Orthogonal representational geometry in dACC underpins human hierarchical reasoning" in the journal Cell Reports. Combining a novel hierarchical reasoning behavioral paradigm, Bayesian ......

Why Do We Keep Doing What We Know We Shouldn’t? Impaired Midfrontal–Motor Theta Synchronization Reveals the Computational Neural Mechanism Underlying the “Knowing–Doing Gap” in Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderOn September 1, Professor Chen Qi’s research team from the School of Psychology at Shenzhen University published a research article online in PLOS Biology , entitled “Impaired midfrontal-......

Dr. Jieting Zhang recently collaborated with the Department of Psychiatry, Department of Statistics, and Department of Psychology at McGill University (Canada), the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany), and the DEPRESSD HADS International Consortium to conduct a large-scale individual participant data meta-analysis (IPDMA) focusing on the scoring methodology ......

Recently, Associate Professor Jieting Zhang’s research team, in collaboration with Associate Professor Bassam Khoury of McGill University in Canada and Professor Rodrigo Vergara of the National Center for Artificial Intelligence in Chile, conducted a series of studies on psychometric issues in trait mindfulness from the perspective of embodiment theory. To date, two international journal articles ......

The research group led by Associate Professor Haobo Zhang from the School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, has published a research article entitled “Individualized single-session iTBS modulates functional networks and neural activation to predict cognitive gain” in NeuroImage (IF = 4.5; SCI Category: Neuroimaging Q1), an academic journal in neuroimaging. Combining individualized functional magnetic ......

Research Highlights | Professor Wu Jianhui Publishes Psychological Resilience: Growing amid Stress and Uncertainty1.Why Is Psychological Resilience So Important?Throughout life, each of us encounters various stressful events. Whether stress becomes a source of pathology or a driving force depends on resilience. In the face of stress, challenges, adversity, or trauma, psychological resilience does not ......

Recently, a research team led by Professor Guan Qing and Associate Professor Tao Wuhai from the School of Psychology at Shenzhen University published a research paper titled "Compensatory and impaired trust updating in mild cognitive impairment: Evidence from computational modeling and fMRI" in the top-tier international neuroimaging journal NeuroImage(IF=4.5). The study innovatively combined a multi-......

Professor Peng Weiwei’s research team has published a paper titled “Modulating empathy with tDCS: dissociable roles of rTPJ and lDLPFC” in the international journal Psychological Medicine. Using high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) to target the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) and the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC), the study reveals that the rTPJ ......

Recently, Professor Li Xiaodong and Dr. Jiang Ronghuan of the School of Psychology published an empirical study entitled “From Additive to Multiplicative Thinking: Individual Cognitive Patterns Revealed Through Bayesian Classification” in the internationally leading journal Journal of Educational Psychology. Founded in 1910, Journal of Educational Psychology is a top-tier journal of the American ......
