Jiajin Yuan, PhD

Director, the Affective Cognition and Regulation Laboratory, Southwest University, China;
Professor (Full), Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, China;
Principal Investigator, Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, China;
Editorial Board & Academic editor: PLOS ONE;
Member, International Society for Social Neuroscience;

1. Emotion, Personality and Mental Health;
2. Interaction between Emotion and executive functions, emotion regulations;
3. Pubertal development, emotion sensitivity and regulation; Perceived similarity, social affiliation and loneliness;

2005.09-2009.12. Ph.D candidate, School of Psychology, Southwest University
2009.12-2012.06: School of Psychology, Southwest University, Research Fellow, Lecturer
2011.12-2012.12: Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago; Postdoctoral Fellow
2012.07-Present: School of Psychology, Southwest University, Research Fellow, Associate Professor
2015.07-present: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University,Professor (Full)
2013.11-Present: Principal Investigator, Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Southwest University), Ministry of Education of P.R. China

1.The impact of coping styles and cognitive trainings on the susceptibility to affective disturbances in adolescents. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. NSFC31371042), 2014.01-2017.12.
2.The interactions of Social stress and biological changes lead to females’ susceptibility to depression. National Natural Science Foundation of China. (Grant No.NSFC81171289). 2012.01-2015.12.
3.The impact of introversion-extraversion on emotion regulation and neural underpinnings. National Natural Science Foundation of China. (Grant No.NSFC81171289). 2012.01- 2015.12.
4. Cognitive neuroscience studies of the humans’ emotion susceptibility and individual differences under varying valence strengths. National Natural Science Foundation of China. (Grant No.NSFC30970897). 2010.01-2010.12.
5.The impact of emotion and strength on executive functions: neural underpinnings. The project of national key discipline of fundamental psychology in Southwest University (Grant No. NSKD08015; total fund: 10000￥). 2009.09-2011.09.
6.The interactive regulations of mental readiness and executive functions on negative emotions. The Team Project of the National Key Discipline of Fundamental Psychology in Southwest University (Grant No.TR201207-3; total fund: 150000￥). 2012.12-2014.12.
7.The children’s developmental neural mechanisms of emotional sensitivity. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. XDJK2009B038). 2010.01- 2013.05.
8.The impacts of mood state and its regulation on neural susceptibility to emotional stimuli. The Doctoral Fund of Southwest University(SWU109028; ￥50000). 2009.11-2012.11.

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