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Overview

Shihui Han is affiliated with Peking University in China, focusing primarily on the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work explores a range of topics such as the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, cultural differences and values, action observation and synchronization, neural and behavioral psychology studies, face recognition and perception, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and death anxiety and social exclusion.

Frequent publication venues for Shihui Han include:

  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Neuroscience Bulletin

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, notably Tianyu Gao, Yuqing Zhou, Chenyu Pang, Grit Hein, and Michele J. Gelfand.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Shihui Han are:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Are women more empathetic than men? Questionnaire and EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability, 2023, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict, 2020, eLife
  • Inter-group conflict affects inter-brain synchrony during synchronized movements, 2021, NeuroImage

Shihui Han has also contributed to academic literature as an author of a book published by Cambridge University Press, entitled Culture, Mind, and Brain (2020).

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Do you feel my pain? Racial group membership modulates empathic neural responses.

    Xiaojing Xu;Xiangyu Zuo;Xiaoying Wang;Shihui Han

  • Neural basis of cultural influence on self-representation.

    Ying Zhu;Li Zhang;Jin Fan;Shihui Han

  • Culture-sensitive neural substrates of human cognition: A transcultural neuroimaging approach

    Shihui Han;Georg Northoff

  • Temporal dynamic of neural mechanisms involved in empathy for pain: an event-related brain potential study.

    Yan Fan;Shihui Han

  • A Cultural Neuroscience Approach to the Biosocial Nature of the Human Brain

    Shihui Han;Georg Northoff;Kai Vogeley;Bruce E. Wexler

  • Attention and reality constraints on the neural processes of empathy for pain.

    Xiaosi Gu;Shihui Han

  • Empathy for the social suffering of friends and strangers recruits distinct patterns of brain activation

    Meghan L. Meyer;Carrie L. Masten;Yina Ma;Chenbo Wang

  • GENDER DIFFERENCE IN EMPATHY FOR PAIN: AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

    Shihui Han;Yan Fan;Lihua Mao

  • Self-construal priming modulates neural substrates of self-awareness.

    Jie Sui;Shihui Han

  • Why we respond faster to the self than to others? An implicit positive association theory of self-advantage during implicit face recognition

    Yina Ma;Shihui Han

  • Manipulations of cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships reduce the racial bias in empathic neural responses

    Feng Sheng;Shihui Han;Shihui Han

  • Hemispheric asymmetry in global/local processing: effects of stimulus position and spatial frequency.

    Shihui Han;Janelle A. Weaver;Scott O. Murray;Xiaojian Kang

  • Dynamic bicultural brains: fMRI study of their flexible neural representation of self and significant others in response to culture primes

    Sik Hung Ng;Shihui Han;Lihua Mao;Julian C. L. Lai

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity Predicts Impulsivity in Economic Decision-Making

    Nan Li;Ning Ma;Ying Liu;Xiao-Song He

  • Cultural differences in human brain activity: A quantitative meta-analysis

    Shihui Han;Shihui Han;Yina Ma

  • How culture gets embrained: Cultural differences in event-related potentials of social norm violations.

    Yan Mu;Shinobu Kitayama;Shihui Han;Michele J. Gelfand

  • Self-face recognition in attended and unattended conditions: an event-related brain potential study.

    Jie Sui;Ying Zhu;Shihui Han

  • Neurocognitive Basis of Racial Ingroup Bias in Empathy

    Shihui Han

  • Self-construal priming modulates visual activity underlying global/local perception

    Zhicheng Lin;Yan Lin;Shihui Han;Shihui Han

  • Sociocultural patterning of neural activity during self-reflection

    Yina Ma;Dan Bang;Chenbo Wang;Micah Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff University of Ottawa
David L. Woods
David L. Woods University of California, Davis
Yi Rao
Yi Rao Peking University
Jie Sui
Jie Sui University of Bath
Xiaosi Gu
Xiaosi Gu Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tatia M.C. Lee
Tatia M.C. Lee University of Hong Kong
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London

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