Junhua Dang

Professor, PhD supervisor

Main Research Areas

Self-Control, Judgment and Decision Making, Intergroup Relationships

Education and Working Experience

2009, Master degree in Psychology, Peking University, China

2018, Doctoral degree in Psychology, Lund University, Sweden

2018, Postdoc researcher, Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden

2021, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden

Editorship

1) Editorial Fellow on the Editorial Board of American Psychologist.

2) Consulting Editor on the Editorial Board of European Journal of Social Psychology

3) Associate Editor of BMC Psychology

4) Associate Editor of International Journal of Social Psychology

5) Guest Editor of 2019 Special Issue of Social Psychology

6) Guest Editor of 2023 Research Topic of Frontiers in Psychology

7) Guest Editor of 2022 Research Topic of Frontiers in Psychology

8) Guest Editor of 2021 Research Topic of Frontiers in Psychology

Fund

1) Principal Investigator, International Postdoc Fund from the Swedish Research Council (2018-06664, 3.15 million SEK)

2) Main Participant, General Project from the National Natural Science Foundation (31871098, 0.62 million RMB)

Award

2020, Distinguished young researcher in psychology, instituted by the Swedish National Committee for Psychology.

Representative Publications

1) Dang, J.*, King, M. K., & Inzlicht, M. (2020). Why are self-report and behavioral measures weakly correlated? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 267-269 (2021 Journal IF: 24.482; JCR-Q1).

2) Chen, C. & Dang, J.* (2022). The longitudinal relationship between parenting and self-control needs reconsideration. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Advance Online Publication (2021 Journal IF: 11.621; JCR-Q1)

3) Dang, J.*, & Jia, L.* (2023). Validity issues in measures of COVID-19 preventive behaviors. Journal of Global Health, 13, 03026 (2021 Journal IF: 7.664; JCR-Q1).

4) Dang, J.* (2017). Is there an alternative explanation to the evolutionary account for financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive individuals? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e25 (2021 Journal IF: 21.357; JCR-Q1)

5) Dang, J.*, & Xiao, S.* (2022). Collectivism reduced objective mobility trends to public areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 996036. (2021 Journal IF=6.461; JCR-Q1).

6) Dang. J.*, Barker, P., Baumert, A., Bentvelzen, M., Berkman, E., Buchholz, N., ... Zinkernagel, A. (2021). A multi-lab replication of the ego depletion effect. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 12, 14-24 (2021 Journal IF: 5.316; JCR-Q1; Scopus highly cited paper, top 1%).

7) Dang, J.*, Liu, X., Xiao, S.*, Mao, L.*, Chan, K., Li, C., Lin, M., Liu, Z., Luo, Y., Sun, Y., Wu, Y., & Schiöth, H. B. (2021). The beauty of the zero: Replications and extensions of the hidden-zero effect in delay discounting tasks. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 12, 544-549 (2021 Journal IF: 5.316; JCR-Q1)

8) Dang, J.* (2018). An updated meta-analysis of the ego depletion effect. Psychological Research, 82, 645-651 (ESI highly cited paper).

9) Dang, J.* (2016). Testing the role of glucose in self-control: A meta-analysis. Appetite, 107, 222-230 (2021 Journal IF: 5.016; JCR-Q1)

10) Dang, J.* (2016). Commentary: A multilab preregistered replication of the ego-depletion effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1155 (Scopus highly cited paper, top 1%)

11) Rukh, G., Dang, J., & Schiöth, H. B. (2020). Investigating causal association between personality, lifestyle, and job satisfaction using Mendelian randomization in data from UK biobank. Translational Psychiatry, 10, 11 (2021 Journal IF: 7.989; JCR-Q1)

Contact

Email：dangjunhua@gmail.com