prof. xin ziqiang
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correspondence: xin ziqiang, department of psychology, renmin university of china, 59 zhongguancun street, haidian district, beijing 100872, china.
educational and professional experience
dean, department of psychology, renmin university of china，since 2023;
professor, department of psychology, renmin university of china，since 2021;
professor, school of sociology and psychology, central university of finance and economics, 2010-2021;
visiting scholar, department of psychology, carnegie mellon university, feb. to oct., 2009;
teacher, school of psychology, beijing normal university, 2002-2010;
ph. d., beijing normal university, 2002.
research areas
(1) economic psychology (e.g. economic decision-making, financial literacy, psychological influences of marketization);
(2) social psychology (e.g. social trust, birth cohort changes in psychology, social governance psychology).
academic services
member of the psychological teaching steering committee of the ministry of education;
director of economic psychology branch of chinese psychology society;
director of social psychological services branch of chinese association of social psychology;
editor-in-chief of psychology: techniques and applications;
editorial board members of journal of community & applied social psychology, acta psychologica sinica, advances in psychological science.
recent projects
the major project of the national social science fund of china: the construction of chinese citizen’s financial literacy indexes and database (no. 17zda325; 2017-2023).
the key project of the national social science fund of china: the mental construction in the context of societal governance (no. 16azd05; 2016-2021).
the key grant from the beijing social science foundation: the mental construction in community in beijing (no. 14sha002; 2014-2017).
the moe project of key research institute of humanities and social sciences at universities: the impact of social identity and its representation on trust (no.14jjd190006; 2014-2017).
the program for new century excellent talents in university from moe of china: interpersonal trust and its correlates in social transitional period (ncet-10-0869; 2011-2013).
selected journal papers
he has authored 300 papers in chinese and english journals which were cited more than 10,000 times. the selected papers in english as following:
xin ziqiang, & yang zhixu (2023). provincial marketization and individual financial literacy in china. journal of neuroscience, psychology, and economics, 16(2), 60–79.
xin ziqiang, xiao huiwen, & lin gege (2023). math anxiety and financial anxiety predicting individuals’ financial management behavior. depression and anxiety, article id 3131631.
xin ziqiang, yang zhixu, li zhe, & chen hongfei (2023). does debt pressure lead to unethical behavior intention? evidence on aggregate and individual levels. asian journal of social psychology, 26(1), 119–131.
xin ziqiang, liu guofang, & zong zheng (2023). feeling and calculation: the impact of lay rationalism thinking mode on mental budgeting. current psychology , 42, 26514–26526.
xiao huiwen, & xin ziqiang (2022). financial literacy is better than income to predict happiness. journal of neuroscience, psychology, and economics, 15(3), 119–136.
yang zhixu, & xin ziqiang (2020). heterogeneous risk perception amid the outbreak of covid-19 in china: implications for economic confidence. applied psychology: health and well-being, 12(4), 1000–1018.
yang zhixu, & xin ziqiang (2020). income inequality and interpersonal trust in china. asian journal of social psychology, 23(3), 253–263.
xie fang, zhang li, chen xu, & xin ziqiang (2020). is spatial ability related to mathematical ability: a meta-analysis. educational psychology review, 32, 113–155.
zhang yue, & xin ziqiang (2019). rule comes first: the influences of market attributes on interpersonal trust in the marketization process. journal of social issues, 75(1), 286–313.
xin ziqiang, & xin sufei (2017). marketization process predicts trust decline in china. journal of economic psychology, 62, 120–129.
xin ziqiang, yang zhixu, & liu youhui (2017). the impact of friend-or-foe cues and survival pressure on trust in the investment game. evolution and human behavior, 38(2), 181–189.
xin ziqiang, yang zhixu, & ling xihuan (2017). interdependent self-construal matters in the community context: relationships of self-construal with community identity and participation. journal of community psychology, 45(8), 1050–1064.
xin ziqiang, liu youhui, yang zhixu, & zhang hongchuan (2016). effects of minimal social cues on trust in the investment game. asian journal of social psychology, 19(3), 235–243.
xin sufei, xin ziqiang, & lin chongde (2016). effects of trustor’s social identity complexity on interpersonal and intergroup trust. european journal of social psychology, 46(4), 428–440.
liu dong, & xin ziqiang (2015). birth cohort and age changes in the self-esteem of chinese adolescents: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1996–2009. journal of research on adolescence, 25(2), 366–376.
xin ziqiang, niu jianghe, & chi liping (2012). birth cohort changes in chinese adolescents’ mental health. international journal of psychology, 47(4), 287–295.
xin ziqiang, & chi liping (2010). wording effect leads to a controversy over the construct of the social dominance orientation scale. the journal of psychology, 144(5), 473–488.
books in chinese
xin ziqiang (2020). social governance psychology and social psychological services. beijing: beijing normal university press.
xin ziqiang (2018). new advances of research methods in psychology. beijing: beijing normal university press.
xin ziqiang (2017). research methods in psychology (2nd ed.). beijing: beijing normal university press.
xin ziqiang (2014). classic and recent experiments in economic psychology. beijing: beijing normal university press.
xin ziqiang (2013). social psychology of different populations in the transitional period. jinan: shandong people press.
yu guoliang, & xin ziqiang (2013). social development. beijing: china renmin universtiy press.
xin ziqiang, & chi liping (2008). adolescents in social change. beijing: beijing normal university press.
xin ziqiang (2006). the research of knowledge construction: from constructivism to empirical investigations. beijing: educational sciences publishing house.
xin ziqiang (2005). problem solving and knowledge construction. beijing: educational sciences publishing house.