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Overview

Joan Y. Chiao is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States, with a research focus encompassing psychology, health professions, and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including social psychology, general health professions, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and statistics and probability.

The research topics addressed by Joan Y. Chiao include cultural differences and values, community health and development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neuroscience related to education and cognitive function, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, educational and psychological assessments, and mental health treatment and access.

Among their recent publications is the paper titled "Cultural neuroscience and the research domain criteria: Implications for global mental health", published in 2020 in the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. This paper contributes to the intersection of neuroscience and global mental health frameworks.

Joan Y. Chiao frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Norihiro Sadato
  • Yoko Mano
  • Robert Turner
  • Zhang Li
  • Shu Li

The scholar's work is predominantly published in the venue Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Culture–gene coevolution of individualism–collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene

    Joan Y. Chiao;Katherine D. Blizinsky

  • Differential responses in the fusiform region to same-race and other-race faces.

    Alexandra J. Golby;John D. E. Gabrieli;Joan Y. Chiao;Jennifer L. Eberhardt

  • Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation.

    Vani A. Mathur;Tokiko Harada;Trixie Lipke;Joan Y. Chiao

  • Genetic determinants of financial risk taking.

    Camelia M. Kuhnen;Joan Y. Chiao

  • Neural basis of individualistic and collectivistic views of self

    Joan Y. Chiao;Tokiko Harada;Hidetsugu Komeda;Zhang Li

  • Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces

    Joan Y. Chiao;Tetsuya Iidaka;Heather L. Gordon;Junpei Nogawa

  • Dynamic cultural influences on neural representations of the self

    Joan Y. Chiao;Tokiko Harada;Hidetsugu Komeda;Zhang Li

  • The Seven Sins of Memory

    Daniel L. Schacter;Joan Y. Chiao;Jason P. Mitchell

  • Eye movements during emotion recognition in faces.

    M. W. Schurgin;J. Nelson;S. Iida;H. Ohira

  • Cultural neuroscience: Parsing universality and diversity across levels of analysis.

    Joan Y. Chiao;Nalini Ambady

  • Cultural neuroscience: a once and future discipline

    Joan Y Chiao

  • Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy

    Bobby Kyungbeom Cheon;Dong-Mi Im;Tokiko Harada;Ji-Sook Kim

  • An Event-related fMRI Study of Artificial Grammar Learning in a Balanced Chunk Strength Design

    Matthew D. Lieberman;Grace Y. Chang;Joan Chiao;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • Neural representations of social status hierarchy in human inferior parietal cortex.

    Joan Y. Chiao;Tokiko Harada;Emily R. Oby;Zhang Li

  • Neural basis of social status hierarchy across species.

    Joan Y Chiao

  • Neural Basis of Preference for Human Social Hierarchy versus Egalitarianism

    Joan Y. Chiao;Vani A. Mathur;Tokiko Harada;Trixie Lipke

  • The political gender gap: gender bias in facial inferences that predict voting behavior.

    Joan Y. Chiao;Nicholas E. Bowman;Harleen Gill;Harleen Gill

  • Look before you regulate: differential perceptual strategies underlying expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal.

    Genna M. Bebko;Steven L. Franconeri;Kevin N. Ochsner;Joan Y. Chiao

  • Intergroup Empathy: How Does Race Affect Empathic Neural Responses?

    Joan Y. Chiao;Vani A. Mathur

  • Cultural Neuroscience: Progress and Promise

    Joan Y Chiao;Bobby K Cheon;Narun Pornpattanangkul;Alissa J Mrazek

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuya Iidaka
Tetsuya Iidaka Nagoya University
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Shu-Chen Li
Shu-Chen Li TU Dresden
Steven Franconeri
Steven Franconeri Northwestern University
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Jennifer A. Richeson
Jennifer A. Richeson Yale University
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong

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