WANG Xiaotian

Projects

WANG Xiaotian
Title:

Professor, Director of Applied Psychology Programme

Education Background:
BA (Beijing Medical Collage/ Medical School of Peking University)
MS (Medical School of Jinan University)
MA (New Mexico State University, USA)
PhD in Cognitive Psychology (New Mexico State University, USA)
Research

Behavioral decision making, Risk management, Evolutionary psychology, Neuroscience of self-control

National Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen JCYJ20220530143803009

Cognitive mechanisms, coping strategies, brain imaging detection and causal modeling of suicide risk: Construction of domestic morms of suicide risk factors and guidelines for assessment and prevention

Chinese National Science Foundation

Principle InvestigatorGrant 31971025. Anticipatory Emotions as Information for Social Decision Making under Risk: Examining Emotional and Cultural Mechanisms underlying Risky Decision Making in Public. January 2020 – December 2023

Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data (SRIBD)

Co-Principal InvestigatorInternal Grant. Early Detection of Psychological Problems in University Student. July 2019 – June 2021

Chinese National Social Science Foundation

Co-Investigator (PI for one sub-project). Grant 15ZDB121, Advanced Studies of Human Cooperative Behavior: A Cognitive Perspective. 2016 to 2021

National Science Foundation

Principal Investigator. Grant SES-1123341, Division of Decision Risk and Management. Metabolic Mechanisms of Intertemporal Choice, Delay Discounting, and Impulsiveness, 2011 to 2016

CBBRe (Center for Brain and Behavioral Research at USD)

Co-Principle Investigator. Research Enhancement Pilot Grant. Brain Signatures of Tri-phasic Delay Discounting: An fMRI Study. 2015-2016

Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Principal Investigator. Open Research Grant. The Effects of Life History Variables and Genetic-Environmental Interaction on Behavioral Decision Making, 2014 to 2016

USD Collaborative Research

Co-Principal Investigator. Grants Program. Intertemporal Choice, Delay Discounting and Impulsivity: From Metabolic to Neural Mechanisms, 2013-2014

Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Principal Investigator, Open Research Grant. Adaptive Decision Making and Neurophysiological Mechanisms, 2010 to 2012

the K.C. Wong Foundation

Principal Investigator: Chinese Academy of Sciences Cross-Disciplinary Research Grant, Hong Kong. Somatic mechanisms of intertemporal choice, 2010-2011

Research Excellence Grant

Principal Investigator, Office of Research, University of South Dakota. Metabolic mechanisms of future discounting, 2008 to 2009.

Chinese Natural Science Foundation

Co-Investigator, NSFC 70371003. Risk perception and decision processes of managers in organizations, 2004 to 2006

Chinese Natural Science Foundation

Co-Director, Summer Research Exchange Fund, 2003

Chinese Natural Science Foundation

Co-Investigator, Risk communication and rationalization of the public (An Emergent Fund for SARS related studies), 2003

National Science Foundation

Principal Investigator, Grant SBR-9876527, Division of Decision Risk and Management. Risky Choices in Social and Cultural Contexts, 1999-2003

James McDonnell Foundation

Principal Investigator, the Eastern European Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program Grant 99-55 EE-GLO.04: Risk Perception and Risky Choice in Social and Cultural Contexts: A Russian Study, 2000 to 2003

Research Incentive Award

Principal Investigator, Reference Points and Risk Distributions: Experiments, Field Studies and Cross-Cultural Comparisons Funded through USD Office of Research, 2002 to 2003

Governor's Faculty Awards

Principle Investigator, Board of Regents, State of South Dakota. Development of Internet-Based Modules for Learning and Memory Courses: Improving Teaching with Computer Technology, 2002

Chinese National Natural Science Foundation

Senior Co-Investigator, with Xie XF (PI) et al. Grant G0106, Study on Risk Perception and Risk Communication Management in Organization. 2002 to 2004

Hong Kong Research Grant Council

Principal Investigator, Direct Allocation Grant. Cooperative and Competitive Decisions in Simulated Managerial Tasks, 2000 to 2001

MacArthur Foundation

Principal Investigator, Risk Research Initiative of the Economic Preferences Network (FP-19307433049). Foraging and Parental Decisions under Risk among Chinese Men and Women, 1999

Proposal Incentive Award

Principal Investigator, Risky Choice in Social and Cultural Contexts. Funded through USD Office of Research, 1999

Research Enhancement Award

Principal Investigator, Predicting Future Memory Performance from a Characteristic Brain-Wave Signature. Funded through USD Office of Research, 1998

Research Initiative Grant

Principal Investigator, Funded through USD Office of Research, 1997

Curriculum Redesign Fund

Principal Investigator, University of South Dakota, 1996