Gaoxiaoxue

2013.09 - 2019.01     Peking University, Beijing, China

      Ph.D,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

2017.09 - 2017.12    Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

      Visiting student, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

2009.09 – 2013.07   Shandong University, Jinan, China

      Bachelor of Science in biology

2019.06    Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

2017.07   The 2017 Neuroeconomics Summer School

2019.01 - 2021.04   East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Zijiang Young Scholar,School of Psychology and Cognitive Science

2019.01 - 2021.04   Peking University, Beijing, China

    Postdoctoral Fellow,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

The neurocognitive bases of social emotions: gratitude, guilt, indebtedness etc.

The neurocognitive bases of social behaviors/social decision-making: inequity aversion, reciprocity, group-based decision-making, framing effect etc.

2020.01 - 2022.12  PI, Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China

“The neurocognitive bases underlying the influences of gratitude and indebtedness on beneficiary’s reciprocal behaviors: The perspective of individual difference”,

31900798,￥250,000)

2019.05 - 2020.12  PI, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (First class)

                                 “The neurocognitive bases underlying advantageous and disadvantageous

                                  inequity aversion”, 2019M650008,￥80,000)

Publications (* Equal contribution, ^# Corresponding author):

Ou, J., Wu, Y., Hu, Y., Gao, X., Li, H., Tobler, P.N. (2021). Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(12), e2021745118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021745118

Hu, Y., Pereira, A., Gao, X., Campos, B., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., . . . Dreher, J.-C. (2020). Right Temporoparietal Junction Underlies Avoidance of Moral Transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Neuroscience, JN-RM-1237-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1237-20.2020

Xiong, W.*, Gao, X.*^#, He, Z., Yu, H., Liu, H., & Zhou, X^#. (2020). Affective evaluation of others' altruistic decisions under risk and ambiguity. NeuroImage, 218, 116996. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116996

Gao, X.*, Yu, H.*, Saez, I., Blue, P., Zhu, L., Hsu, M., & Zhou, X^#. (2018). Distinguishing neural correlates of context-dependent advantageous- and disadvantageous-inequity aversion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(33): E7680-E7689. doi:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802523115.

Yu, H.*, Gao, X.*, Zhou, Y., & Zhou, X^#. (2018). Decomposing gratitude: representation and integration of cognitive antecedents of gratitude in the brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(21): 4886-4898. doi:https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2944-17.2018

Liu, J., Gong, P., Gao, X., & Zhou, X^#. (2017). The association between well-being and the COMT gene: Dispositional gratitude and forgiveness as mediators. Journal of Affective Disorders, 214: 115-121. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.03.005

Gao, X.*, Liu, J.*, Gong, P., Wang, J., Fang, W., Yan, H., . . . Zhou, X^#. (2017). Identifying new susceptibility genes on dopaminergic and serotonergic pathways for the framing effect in decision-making. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(9): 1534-1544. https://doi.org/doi:10.1093/scan/nsx062

Yu, H., Cai, Q., Shen, B., Gao, X., & Zhou, X^#. (2017). Neural substrates and social consequences of interpersonal gratitude: Intention matters. Emotion, 17(4): 589-601. https://doi.org/doi:10.1037/emo0000258

Gao, X.*, Gong, P.*, Liu, J.*, Hu, J., Li, Y., Yu, H., Gong, X., Xiang, Y., Jiang, C., & Zhou, X^# (2016). COMT Val158Met polymorphism modulates the susceptibility to framing in decision-making: OFC-amygdala functional connectivity as a mediator. Human Brain Mapping, 37: 1880-1892. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23142 (Cover article)

高晓雪, 刘金婷, 龚平原, 周晓林 (2016). 认知、情绪与社会行为的遗传基础及其神经相关物. 中国科学技术协会. 2014～2015心理学学科发展报告.中国科学技术出版社: 71-94.