Prof. Huazhan Yin has made remarkable and sustained contributions to psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with extensive publications exploring time perception, emotional processing, and mental health. His research encompasses diverse yet interconnected topics such as self-esteem and emotion regulation, childhood maltreatment and subjective well-being, parental phubbing and social anxiety, parental burnout, school bullying among left-behind children, loneliness, social anxiety, sleep quality, and the neural correlates of internet and social media addiction. He has examined mechanisms linking psychological suzhi, self-control, gratitude, and family cohesion to adolescent well-being, as well as emotional neglect, posttraumatic growth, and suicidal ideation. His studies delve deeply into how acute alcohol use, emotion intensity, and negative motivation dimensions influence duration perception, attention control, and working memory. He has also conducted meta-analyses on the impact of emotions on time perception and explored brain imaging correlates within the default-mode network and sensory/somatomotor networks. His investigations extend into developmental and educational psychology, addressing academic stress, peer relationships, and prosocial behavior among adolescents. Complementary to these, Yin Huazhan’s earlier works on audiovisual temporal recalibration, unconscious error detection, joke comprehension, and the modulation of timing by attention reflect his profound grasp of temporal cognition and neural mechanisms underlying perception. In Chinese academic journals, his prolific publications cover emotion, cognition, and temporal information processing, including topics like time segmentation, memory load effects, fear and pain perception, empathy, time perception in ADHD and dyslexia, and psychological mechanisms of timing interruptions. Across his career, Yin Huazhan has established himself as a leading voice in psychological science, advancing understanding of how emotional, cognitive, and neural systems interact to shape human perception, well-being, and adaptive behavior.
Featured Publications:
(2025). Beyond arousal and valence: A meta-analysis on the effect of survival relevance on duration estimation. [Journal name unavailable]. Review, Open Access.
(2025). Psychological distress and turnover intention among Chinese nurses: A moderated mediation model of job satisfaction and social support. BMC Nursing. Open Access.
Li, J. L., Tang, F. G., Yin, H. Z., & Liu, S. L. (2025). The relationship between parental phubbing and social anxiety in emerging adulthood students: A serial mediation model. BMC Psychology.
(2025). Preliminary development and evaluation of the Chinese self-conscious emotions nonverbal behavior expression stimulus set, and its application in research. Acta Psychologica Sinica. Open Access.