jing zhang, ph.d.
associate professor of psychology
department of psychology, renmin university of china
email: [email protected];
research fields
emotion regulation and brain, especially automatic emotion regulation
emotion and social behavior
research directions
neuroscience of emotion regulation in anxiety and depression
anger and negative social behaviors
positive intervention tools for emotional issues
education
beijing normal university, basic psychology, ph.d. (science)
the university of queensland, school of psychology, joint ph.d. program
beijing normal university, m.s. in basic psychology (science)
shannxi normal university, basic psychology, b.s. in basic psychology (science)
work experience
renmin university of china, department of psychology, associate professor
renmin university of china, department of psychology, assistant professor
professional service
reviewer: social cognitive and affective neuroscience, communications biology, development and psychopathology
selected publications
zhang, j.*, zhang, w., guan, w., & liu, p.* (2024). induced emotion counter-regulation affects attentional inhibition of emotional information: erp evidence from a randomized manipulation approach.cerebral cortex, 34(2), bhae004.
zhang, j.*, guan, w., & lipp, o. v. (2023). the effect of emotion counter-regulation to anger on working memory updating. psychophysiology, 60(11), e14366.
zhang, j.*, guan, w., chen, x., zhao, y., & liu, p. (2023). automatic emotion regulation prompts response inhibition to angry faces in sub-clinical depression: an erp study. biological psychology, 178, 108515.
guo, s., yang, j., lipp, o. v., & zhang, j.* (2025). emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents. cognition & emotion, 39(8), 1955–1965.
zhang, j.*, guo, s., lipp, o. v., & wang, m. (2023). emotion malleability beliefs predict daily positive and negative affect in adolescents. cognition & emotion, 37(5), 1040–1048.
li, r.#*, zhang, j#. (co-first author), wu, x., et al. (2020). brain-wide resting-state connectivity regulation by the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex is associated with fluid intelligence. brain structure and function, 225(5), 1587–1600.
hua, y., li, m. x., wang, q. t., feng, c. x., & zhang, j.* (2020). the role of the left orbitofrontal cortex in attentional selection under automatic emotion regulation: evidence from transcranial direct current stimulation. acta psychologica sinica,52(9), 1048–1056.
zhang, j.*, hua, y., xiu, l., et al. (2020). resting state frontal alpha asymmetry predicts emotion regulation difficulties in impulse control. personality and individual differences, 159, 109870.
zhang, m., wang, s., zhang, j.*, jiao, c.*, chen, y., chen, n., zhao, y., wang, y., & zhang, s. (2020). the effects of subliminal goal priming on emotional response inhibition in cases of major depression. frontiers in psychology, 11, 542454.
craig, b. m., zhang, j., & lipp, o. v.* (2017). facial race and sex cues have a comparable influence on emotion recognition in chinese and australian participants. attention, perception, & psychophysics, 79(7), 2212.
zhang, j.*, lipp, o. v., & hu, p. (2017). individual differences in automatic emotion regulation interact with primed emotion regulation during an anger provocation. frontiers in psychology, 8, 614.
zhang, j., feng, c., & mai, x.* (2016). automatic emotion regulation in response inhibition: the temporal dynamics of emotion counter-regulation during a go/no-go task. psychophysiology, 53(12), 1909–1917.
zhang, j., lipp, o. v., oei, t. p., & zhou, r.* (2011). the effects of arousal and valence on facial electromyographic asymmetry during blocked picture viewing. international journal of psychophysiology, 79(3), 378–384.
zhang, j., oei, t. p., & zhou, r.* (2011). the effects of valence and arousal on hemispheric asymmetry of emotion: evidence from event-related potentials. journal of psychophysiology, 25(2), 95-103.
ling zou, renlai zhou, senqi hu, jing zhang, yansong li. (2008). single trial evoked potentials study during an emotional processing based on wavelet transform. advances in neural networks-isnn, 5263, 1-10.
research projects (principal investigator)
national natural science foundation of china project: neural mechanisms and plasticity of automatic emotion regulation.
beijing educational science planning project: promotion mechanisms and application research on psychological resilience among middle school students in beijing.
renmin university of china major project fund: psychological mechanisms of racial group identity recognition under emotional conflict.
industry collaborative project: public speaking anxiety and its psychological regulation mechanisms.
co-investigator on projects
national social science fund key project: research on the national student mental health monitoring system.
national natural science foundation of china project: the evolutionary origins and operational processes of mental accounting: behavioral and physiological evidence.
national natural science foundation of china project: the effects and mechanisms of emotion on interpersonal trust.
national natural science foundation of china project: the impact of gender ratio imbalance on economic decision-making.
ministry of education humanities and social sciences planning project: the influence of moral emotions on moral psychological licensing from the perspective of construal level theory.
books / translations
[translations] understanding anxiety: from the new science of emotion to new treatments for anxiety. in joseph ledoux et al., translated by zhang jing, liu ruizhe. beijing: china machine press, 2021
[translations] explaining abnormal behavior: a cognitive neuroscience perspective. by bruce f. pennington, translated by zhang jing. beijing: china machine press, 2017.
[books] secrets of emotion and emotion regulation. by zhang jing. beijing: modern education press, 2015.
[translations] twelve lessons to overcoming depression. by rosenwald et al., translated by cui lixia, zhang jing. china light industry press, 2014.
courses taught
undergraduate:cognitive psychology; general experimental psychology
graduate (master's): brain and cognition, advances in physiological psychology, special topics in applied psychological experimental techniques, frontiers in cognitive neuroscience