Haiyan Wu, PhD

I'm a psychologist and neuroscientist.

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I completed my Ph.D at the IDG / McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Beijing Normal University. Then I became a faculty in Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I currently work as a visiting associate in Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, USA. 

 

I am interested in exploring the mechanisms that describe and/or affect behavioral and neuronal responses during empathy and decision making (especially moral and immoral decisions) in social interaction. In my research, I use diverse methods (Mturk, psychophysiological recordings, mouse tracking, and fMRI) to find answers to these questions:

• How do people make positive and negative empathetic responses to others?

• How can we profile and measure aspects of social inference, decision making and strategic interactions in different individuals?

• What is the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in social emotion and decision making?

• How do reward and punishment system interact during moral decision making?