Publications
Publications
Assistant Professor
Management
Cooperation, Social Norms, Cultural Dynamics, Intergroup Relations, Computational Social Science
Publications
1. Pan, X., Hsiao, V., Nau, D. S., & Gelfand, M. J. (2024). Explaining the evolution of gossip. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(9), e2214160121.
2. Pan, X., Landry, A., & Gelfand, M. J. (2024). The evolution of intergroup relations. Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution.
3. Gelfand, M. J., Pan, X., & Landry, A. (2023). A failure of fear: Liabilities of looseness during COVID-19. In M. K. Miller (Ed.), The social science of the COVID-19 pandemic: A call to action for researchers. Oxford University Press.
4. Zhou, Y., Li, W., Gao, T., Pan, X., & Han, S. (2023). Neural representation of perceived race mediates the opposite relationship between subcomponents of self-construals and racial outgroup punishment. Cerebral Cortex, bhad157.
5. Choi, V. K., Shrestha, S., Pan, X., & Gelfand, M. J. (2022). When danger strikes: A linguistic tool for tracking America’s collective response to threats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(4), e2113891119.
6. Pan, X., Gelfand, M., & Nau, D. (2021). Integrating evolutionary game theory and cross-cultural psychology to understand cultural dynamics. American Psychologist, 76(6), 1054-1066.
7. Gelfand, M. J., Jackson, J. C., Pan, X., Nau, D., Pieper, D., Denison, E., Dagher, M., Van Lange, P.A.M., Chiu, C., & Wang, M. (2021). The relationship between cultural tightness–looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: A global analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(3), e135-e144.
8. Liu, Y., Li, S., Lin, W., Li, W., Yan, X., Wang, X., Pan, X., Rutledge, R. B., & Ma, Y. (2019). Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 22(4), 633-641.
9. Pfabigan, D. M., Wucherer, A. M., Wang, X., Pan, X., Lamm, C., & Han, S. (2018). Cultural influences on the processing of social comparison feedback signals—an ERP study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(12), 1317-1326.
Selected Working in Progress
1. Pan, X., Nau, D. S., & Gelfand, M. J. The emergence of symbolic norms.
2. Pan, X., De, S., Hsiao, V., Nau, D. S., & Gelfand, M. J. Extreme threat leads to the evolution of intergroup cooperation.