Education

Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Southwest University, 2017-2020

M.Ed., Developmental Psychology, Southwest University, 2014-2017

B.S., Pedagogy, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, 2010-2014

 

Research projects

2018-2020 The boosting effect of attachment security priming on attention processing deficit in insecure attachment (The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, No. SWU1809353, PI)

2018-2021 An study on plasticity of insecure attachment and neuromechanism (National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.31771232, Co-PI)

 

Journal Articles (selected)

Ma, Y., Ran, G., Hu, N, Hu Y., Long W., Chen, X^*. (2020). Intranasal oxytocin attenuates insula activity in response to dynamic angry faces. Biological Psychology. In press.

Ma, Y., Hu, N., Liu, G., & Chen, X^*. (2020). State attachment moderates the maternal-related neural responses to infant faces. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 83-92.

Ma, Y., Ma, H., & Chen, X^*. (2019). Security priming improves attentional processing to infant emotions among insecurely attached women: The different roles of supraliminal and subliminal priming. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107216.

Ma, Y., Ma, H., Chen, X.^*, Ran, G., & Zhang, X. (2017). Do attachment patterns predict aggression in a context of social rejection? An executive functioning account. Aggressive Behavior, 43(4), 408-418.

Ma, Y., Ma, H., Chen, X^*. (2019). Plasticity of insecure attachment and its neuromechanism. Advances in Psychological Science, 27(12), 1967-1979. [Paper in Chinese]

Ma, Y., Ran, G., Chen, X^*. (2016). The feature and neural mechanism of attentional bias among individuals with insecure attachment. Advances in Psychological Science, 24(3), 392-401. [Paper in Chinese]

 

Contact

Email: mayuanxiao04@gmail.com