Professor
Email: zhangyanyan@jlu.edu.cn
Biography
Zhang Yanyan, female, born in 1980 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, Professor of the Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy and Sociology, Jilin University. 1998-2002: She did undergraduate degree at Department of Sociology, Nankai University, Tianjin.
2002-2005: She did master degree in Social Psychology in Nankai University and PhD at Irvine Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in University of California.
Since 2011: She has successively been promoted as an associate professor and professor, Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Jilin University.
Since 2017: She has successively been a director of the Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy and Sociology, Jilin University.
Courses
General Psychology (Bilingual Teaching Courses)
Personality Psychology (Bilingual Teaching Courses)
Cultural Psychology
College Students’ Self-awareness and Personality Development
Research Interests
Social Psychology: Moral Judgment and Punishment; Research on Human Spouse Selection Behavior; Cross-cultural Comparative Research between Eastern and Western; Research on Evolutionary Psychology Theory and Practice.
Developmental Psychology: Related Research on Adolescents’ Achievement Motivation and Academic Performance.
Other research interests include Research on the Brain Mechanism of Human Social Behavior; Biochemistry and Bolecular Biology Basis of Moral Values.
Publications
Papers
1. Zhang, Y., Chen, C., Knowles, E.D., & Greenberger, E. (2017). A Cross-Cultural Study of Punishment Beliefs and Decisions. Psychological Reports, 120(1), 5-24.
2. Van Rooij, B., Fine, A., Zhang, Y., & Wu, Y. (2017). Comparative Compliance: Digital Piracy, Deterrence, Social Norms, and Duty in China and the United States. Law and Policy , 39(1), 73-93.
3. Zhang Bibi, Zhang Yanyan. (2016). The Relationship between Resilience and Internet Addiction among College Students: the Mediating Effect of Coping Style. Psychological Techniques and Application, 4(8), 483-490.
4. Zhang, Y. & Li, S. (2015). Two Measures for Cross-Cultural Research on Morality: Comparison and Revision. Psychological Reports, 117(1), 144-166.
5. Zhang Yanyan, Zhang Wendong. (2015). Research on the Influence of Moral intuition and Emotion on Entrepreneurial Intention. World of Labor and Social Security, 4, 41-43.
6. Zhang yanyan, The Effect of Terror Management on Moral Foundations and Moral Judgment, Chinese Journal of Applied Psychology, 2013-12-15.
7. Zhang, Y., Haddad, E., Torres, B., & Chen, C. (2011). The Reciprocal Relationships Parent Amongal Expectations, Adolescents' Expectations, and Adolescents’ Achievement: A Two-wave Longitudinal Analysis of the NELS data. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40(4), 479-489.
8. Crawford, C.B., & Zhang, Y. (2011). Evolutionary Psychology: Bring Nature into Human Nature. Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology, 1, 46-51.
Projects
1. In 2012, she participated in a major project of the National Social Science Fund : Analysis and Research on the effect of Individual and Group Behaviors Based on Large-scale Network Actual Measurements. The project number is 12&ZD218.
2. In 2012, she hosted the National Social Science Foundation Youth Project: Sino-US Comparative Study on the Effect of Moral Standards on Spouse Selection Behavior. The project number is12CSH064.
