General

I am a social psychologist with an interest in understanding the ecocultural context of human behavior. How similarly or differently do people from different cultures interact with other social agents? Why do different ecocultural systems socialize their members differently about norms and scripts that regulate social interaction and cooperation? These questions drive my research agenda. To investigate the complex exchange between ecocultural environments, human groups, and individual persons, I advocate an interactionist approach that considers cultural variations to be results of adaptions to macro, meso, and micro environments.


Contact Information

Yiming Jing, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

No. 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100101

Email: jingym@psych.ac.cn


Research Areas

Cultural variation and its sources; cooperation and trust; psychology of international relations.


Education


09/2009- 05/2015   Ph.D. in Social Psychology. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, USA.                             
09/2006-07/2009    M.S. in Personality and Social Psychology. Department of Psychology, Peking University, China.
09/2002-07/2006    B.S. in Geographic Information System. Department of Urban and Resources, Nanjing University, China.

Experience

Chinese Association of Social Psychology, Board Member (2022-current).

Chinese Psychological Society, the Committee on Social Psychology, Member (2022-current).

Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Editorial Board Memeber (2018-current).


Work Experience

08/2021-Present    Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

08/2017-07/2021    Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

01/2016-07/2017   Part Time Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzhou University, China.

08/2015-07/2017   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for U.S.-China Issues, University of Oklahoma, USA.

Publications

Representative Publications:

(All co-first authors are marked with a superscript "#"; corresponding authors and co-corresponding authors are marked with a superscript "*")


Jing, Y.*, Cai, H.*, Bond, M. H., Li, Y., Stivers, A. W., & Tan, Q. (2020). Levels of interpersonal trust across different types of environment: The micro-macro interplay between relational distance and human ecology. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(7), 1438–1457.


Wang, Y.#, Jing, Y.#, Zhang, Z.*, Lin, C.*, & Valadez, E. (2017). How dispositional social risk-seeking promotes trusting strangers: Evidence based on brain potentials and neural oscillations, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(8), 1150-1163.


Wang, Y.#, Zhang, Z., Jing, Y.#, Valadez, E., & Simons, R. F.* (2016). How do we trust strangers? The neural correlates of decision making and outcome evaluation of generalized trust. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(10), 1666-1676.


Jing, Y.*, Gries, P. H.*, Li, Y., Stivers, A. W., Mifune, N., Kuhlman, M. D., Bai, L. (2017). War or peace? How the subjective perception of great power interdependence shapes preemptive defensive aggression. Frontiers in Psychology, 8.


Jing, Y.*, Bond, M. H. (2015). Sources for trusting most people: How national goals for socializing children promote the contributions made by trust of the in-group and the out-group to non-specific trust, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46(2), 191-210.

Honors & Distinctions

Awardee of the Young Academic Leader Program of Beijing Social Science Foundation (2021)