赵欣 - 华东师范大学

个人简介

Hi! I am an Assistant Professor (晨晖学者）in Department of Educational Psychology at East China Normal University (华东师范大学), Shanghai, China. I study children's social cognitive development. Specifically, my research program centers around children's developing understanding of choice and constraints across cultures, as well as its implications on children's behavioral regulation and social evaluations. 教育经历 2014-2019 美国康奈尔大学，发展心理学博士 2014-2017 美国康奈尔大学，发展心理学硕士 2010-2014 清华大学，心理学学士与经济学学士获奖情况 2018, SPP student travel award 2017, 2019, SRCD Travel Award 2017, 2018, Cornell Human Ecology College fellowship

研究领域

To successfully navigate the world, human beings must identify the choices they can make as well as the constraints on their choices. These perceptions and beliefs about choice can be influenced by multiple factors, some of which originate from the external world (e.g., physical laws, socio-moral norms) and some of which originate from the internal world (e.g., desires, goals, motivations etc). Large individual and cultural variations exist in adults’ perceptions and beliefs about choices. Importantly, these views about choice often guide actions, both the regulation of one’s own actions and the interpretation of others’ actions. My research program investigates how beliefs about choice develop throughout childhood and across cultures, as well as their implications on children’s developmental outcomes — both the regulation of one’s own actions and the evaluations of others’ actions. These studies speak to children’s self-regulation and goal-pursuit, as well as their social evaluations and moral judgment.

近期论文

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Journal Publications Wu, W., Zhang, Q., & Zhao, X. (2023). Who makes the choice? The influence of choice on preschoolers’ sharing behaviors and feelings. Acta Psychologica Sinica Yang, X., Zhao, X., Dunham, Y., & Bian, L. (2023). The development and predictors of a preference for strivers over naturals in the United States and China. Child Development Zang, L., Li, D., & Zhao, X. (2023). Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 228, 105605. Zhao, X., & Yang, X. (2022). She succeeded despite lack of ability or resources: Children’s consideration of constraint in beliefs and reasoning about academic achievement. Developmental Psychology Zhao, X., Li, D., & Yang, X. (2022). The relationship between preschoolers' understanding of considerate socially-mindful actions and theory of mind. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 54(8), 892. Zhao, X. & Kushnir, T. (2022). When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness. Developmental Science e13257. Zhao, X., Wente, A., Fernandez-Flecha, M., Segvia Galvan, D., Gopnik, A. & Kushnir, T. (in press). Culture Moderates the Relationship Between Self-Control Ability and Free Will Beliefs in Childhood. Cognition Zhao, X., Zhao, X., Gweon, H., & Kushnir, T. (in press). Leaving Choice for Others: Children’s understanding of considerate actions. Child Development Zhao, X.& Kushnir, T. (2019). How U.S. and Chinese children talk about moral, conventional and personal choices. Cognitive Development. Wente, A., Zhao, X., Gopnik, A. Kang, C., & Kushnir, T. (2020). The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs About Self-Control. In Mele, A. (Ed) Philosophy and Science of Self Control. Zhao, X.& Kushnir, T. (2017). Young children consider individual authority and collective agreement when deciding who can change rules. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Zhao, X. & Kushnir, T. (2019) She helped even though she wanted to play: Children consider psychological costs in social evaluations. Proceedings of the 41st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Zhao, X.& Kushnir, T. (2016). Children’s Awareness of Authority to Change Rules in Various Social Contexts. Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Wente, A. O., Bridgers, S., Zhao, X., Seiver, E., Zhu, L., & Gopnik, A. (2016). How Universal Are Free Will Beliefs? Cultural Differences in Chinese and US 4‐and 6‐Year‐Olds. Child Development, 87, 666-676. Wang, H., Sun, P., Ip, C., Zhao, X.,& Fu, S. (2015). Configural and featural face processing are differently modulated by attentional resources at early stages: An event-related potential study with rapid serial visual presentation. Brain research, 1602, 75-84. Zhao, X., Yuan, J., Xu, Y., Fu, S. (2014). What is the “object”? An introduction of mechanisms and influence factors of Object-Based Attention. Advances in Psychological Science Chaired Symposium Following Authorities, Goals, or Groups? New Perspectives on Children’s Normative Reasoning and Behavior. Society for Research in Child Development 2017 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2017) Keeping others in mind: New evidence for selective and effective prosociality in toddlers and young children. Society for Research in Child Development 2019 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2019) Conference Presentations Zhao, X., & Li, D. The Relationship Between Preschoolers’ Understanding of Considerate Socially-mindful Actions and Theory of Mind. Individual Talk, Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2023) Zhu, T., Chang, X., Zhao, X., & Scott, R.M. Essentialist beliefs about SES and residency in Chinese young adults. Poster Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2023) Zhang, Q., Wu, W., & Zhao, X. Who Makes the Choice? The Influence of Choice Freedom on Children’s Prosocial Behavior. Poster Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2023) Hu, Y., She, Y., & Zhao, X. Children consider changes in performance over time when reasoning about academic achievements. Poster Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2023) Li, D., Zang, L., & Zhao, X. Children Consider the Beneficiary’s Preference in Evaluations of Socially Mindful Actions. Poster Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2023) Wang, Y., & Zhao, X. Children Consider Prosocial and Reputational Motivations in Evaluations of Socially Mindful Actions. Poster Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2023) Zhao, X. Children’s Beliefs and Evaluations About Overcoming Constraints in Academic Achievement and their Relationship to Persistence. Individual Talk, Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2023) Zhao, X., Yang, X., & Yuhang Shu. Children Consider Constraints and performance over time in Intuitive Theories of Achievement, Individual Talk, Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2021) Zhao, X. & Yang, X. Children’s Understanding of Rule Creation and its Relation to Daily Social Behaviors, Poster Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2021) Zhao, X.,& Kushnir, T. She Helped Even Though She Wanted to Play: Children Consider Psychological Cost in Social Evaluations. Poster Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development 2019 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2019) Zhao, X., Zhao, X., Gweon, H., & Kushnir, T. Leaving Choice for Others: Children’s Evaluation of Considerate Actions. Individual Talk, Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP 2018) Zhao, X., Zhao,X., Gweon, H., & Kushnir, T. Leaving Choice for Others: Children’s Understanding of Social Mindfulness. Poster Presentation, 2017 Bienniel Meetings of Cognitive Development Society (CDS 2017) Zhao, X., Shtulman, A., & Kushnir, T. Differentiating Immoral Actions from Impossible Actions: Children’s Beliefs about Choosing to Perform Deviant Actions. Poster Presentation, 2017 Bienniel Meetings of Cognitive Development Society (CDS 2017) Zhao, X., Kang, C., Wente, A.O., Gopnik, A., Zhu,L., & Kushnir, T. The Relationship Between Inhibitory Control and Free Will Beliefs in 4-to 8-year-olds across Three Cultures. Individual talk, Society for Philosophy and Psyhology (SPP 2017) Zhao, X., Kushnir, T. How U.S. and Chinese children talk about moral, conventional and personal choice. Poster presentation, The 23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology 2016 Zhao, X., Kushnir, T. Children’s awareness of authority to change rules in various social contexts. Poster presentation, 2016 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) Zhao, X., Kushnir, T. Children’s awareness of authority to change rules in various social contexts. Individual talk, 2016 Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2016) Self-Control and Conceptions of Free Will, Desire and Normative Constraint: A Cross-Cultural Developmental Investigation. 2015 Philosophy and Science of Self-Control Conference (PSSC 2015) Zhao, X., Kushnir, T. How children and parents talk about moral, conventional and personal choice. Poster presentation, Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (CDS 2015) Wente, A. O., Bridgers, S., Zhao, X., Li, J., Lin, Z., Seiver, E., Zhu, L., Gopnik, A. Physical causal reasoning in Chinese and American 4-and 6-year-olds, Society for Research in Child Development 2015 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2015) Wente, A. O., Bridgers, S., Zhao, X., Gopnik, A., Zhu, L., Seiver, E. Cultural variability in young children’s folk intuitions about free will. Poster presentation, 2014 Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014) Wente, A. O., Bridgers, S., Zhao, X., Gopnik, A., Zhu, L., Seiver, E. Do you have to eat the cookie or could you choose not to? The development of U.S. and Chinese children’s beliefs about free will. Poster presentation, Eighth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (CDS 2013)

学术兼职

Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Reviewer, Educaonal Psychology Reviewer, Child Development