This paper aimed to explore the characteristics of emotional contagion in the elderly and its relationship with cognitive level by comparing facial muscle activity and subjective emotion scores between elderly and young participants (Experiment 1) as well as between elderly with mild cognitive impairment and healthy elderly (Experiment 2), finding that the elderly exhibited stronger contagion of happy emotions and that cognitive decline increased susceptibility to sad emotions.

Emotional Contagion Characteristics and Relationship with cognition levels in the elderly

The conceptualization of happiness varies across different cultures. In Chinese culture, happiness includes oneself and hinges on others. Chinese social development has influenced psychological traditionality (PT), psychological modernity (PM), and personal happiness. Our study recruited 450 participants to examine the different happiness levels in Chinese students with diverse PT and PM. The results indicate that individuals scoring higher in PT and PM reported higher life satisfaction. Moreover, individuals scoring higher in PT reported more positive emotions, fewer negative emotions, and greater social well-being, while those scoring higher in PM reported more negative emotions and greater relationship happiness. The happiness of Chinese students comprised individual, relational, and societal levels and happiness at different levels related to Chinese PT and PM. The present study may promote cross-cultural understanding and potentially inform interventions for individual happiness within positive psychology.

Psychological Traditionality and Modernity and Happiness: The Different Happiness Levels in Chinese Students

The research aimed to create a reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing trait emotional contagion ability in Chinese college students. Through two studies, the final 12-item Emotional Contagion Ability Scale demonstrated high reliability and validity, providing a valid tool for laboratory-based emotional contagion research among college students.

Emotional Contagion Ability Scale: Compilation and empirical validity for Chinese college students

This study investigates how cultural background influences emotion recognition, particularly in relation to emotional body language (EBL). The findings reveal that cultural context significantly impacts individuals' ability to recognize and interpret EBL, highlighting the importance of considering cultural nuances in cross-cultural communication.

The Influence of Cultural Background Information on Emotional Body Language Recognition

This article focuses on the psychological and behavioral consequences of reverse culture shock experienced by returnees, emphasizing its impact on cognition, affect, interpersonal relationships, and sociocultural adaptation. The study aims to contribute scientific evidence and empirical support to assist government and higher education institutions in formulating informed policies for the well-being of returnees.

From “Studying Abroad Fever” to “Returning Home Wave”: Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Returnee’s Reverse Culture Shock.

This study explores the impact of makeup on emotional experiences during video chats, finding that makeup enhances perceived facial attractiveness, increases willingness to communicate, and weakens negative emotional experiences in response to angry and sad expressions. The research suggests that makeup influences emotional contagion and interpersonal communication, prompting consideration of the adaptiveness of the alleviated negative experiences associated with makeup use.

Light makeup decreases receivers’ negative emotional experience

This study investigates the encoding of Chinese character identity and location information in word recognition, revealing that the effects of transposed non-words differ based on prime duration. Additionally, in sentence reading, the research suggests a separation of identity and location information encoding, with location information exhibiting flexibility in early parafoveal processing, influenced by predictability.

Effects of predictability on the time course of identity information and location information in Chinese word recognition.

This study highlights distinctions between silent and oral reading, encompassing differences in reading behaviors, cognitive mechanisms, and brain arousal. The suggested future research areas include exploring the transition from oral to silent reading, examining eye movement disparities in the development of reading modes, and investigating the impact of pronunciation and background music on reading experiences.

The differences between silent and oral reading

This study emphasizes the role of schools in cultivating Chinese national community consciousness among students by integrating community sense with individual motivation and linking national consciousness with personal life. The suggested strategies include creating diverse and harmonious physical spaces, fostering inclusive interpersonal environments, developing comprehensive knowledge spaces, and enhancing experiential spaces within schools.

Cultivating the Community Consciousness of the Chinese Nation in School Education from the Perspective o f Mental Space Production

This research explores the cultural characteristics of Chinese college students, noting the evolving shift towards individualism while maintaining interdependent self-construction. The study, conducted through World Values Survey analysis and questionnaire-based assessments, reveals an increasing trend of individualistic behaviors among the younger generation, yet highlights the persistent influence of interdependence on emotional contagion abilities, particularly noting a negative correlation between anxious contagion and independent self-construction.

The individualism and collectivism of culture characteristics and their influence on emotional contagion

This study investigates the impact of cultural shifts on individual values, focusing on changes in ideal affect (IA) and emotional patterns from Traditionality to Modernity in Chinese society. Findings suggest that individuals with modern values exhibit higher arousal in their ideal affect, influencing emotional body language (EBL) recognition, while those with traditional values tend towards lower arousal and neutrality, indicating a correlation between cultural changes and emotional perception.

More Modern, More Arousal? Ideal Affect in Cultural and Psychological changes during the social transformation in China

The influence of location information and word frequency on Chinese poly morphemic word recognition

The relation of word frequency and fixation duration or skipping rate during Chinese reading

The Structure of Relief and the Effect of its Appraisal Components on Risk Decision-making

This research investigates the impact of vocabulary types, word frequency, and morpheme position information processing in Chinese three-character words through behavioral and eye movement experiments. Findings reveal that word frequency and word segmentation significantly influence the processing of morpheme position information, with differences observed in isolated word presentation and sentence reading, supporting the interactive activation model over the dual-path processing model.

The word-type effect of morpheme position information processing and the regulation of word frequency

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Renmin University of China (RUC)	Beijing, China
Ph.D., Social Psychology	Sept 2019 to January 2025
l Research Interests: Cultural Psychology, Emotional Psychology, Cultural Changes, Cross-cultural Communication. l PhD Dissertation: “The Structure of Relief and the Effect of its Appraisal Components on Risk Decision-making”	ㅤ
Liaoning Normal University (LNNU)	Liaoning, China
M.A., Basic Psychology	Sept 2015 to June 2018
B.A., Psychology (Normal College)	Sept 2011 to June 2015