Zi Ye graduated with a Research Master in Social Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) in 2020. Currently, he works as a PhD candidate with Eric van Dijk (promoter) and Gert-Jan Lelieveld in the unit of Social, Economic, and Organisational Psychology.

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Zi Ye graduated with a Research Master in Social Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) in 2020. Currently, he works as a PhD candidate with Eric van Dijk (promoter) and Gert-Jan Lelieveld in the unit of Social, Economic, and Organisational Psychology. 

Research

In his PhD study, Zi Ye aims to explore how people perceive others who use emotion deception strategies during economic games, such as negotiation or trust games. He will also study whether, how, and why people choose to strategically use emotion deceptions during these economic games. More broadly, he is interested in the perception and use of emotion deceptions in interpersonal and intergroup processes

Teaching

He participates in supervising Master theses. 

Grants

‘Germ and/or Prosociality? The Moderation of Facemask Wearing on Outgroup Bias in Economic Trust.
KLI PhD Seed Money fund (€2.773,-; 2021-2022

Awards

He was awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship Council and started his PhD research at Leiden University in September 2020.

Publications

• Long F., Ye, Z., Liu G. (2022). Intergroup threat, knowledge of the outgroup, and willingness to purchase ingroup and outgroup products: The mediating role of intergroup emotions. Journal of European Social Psychology. (accepted)
• Ye, Z., Long, F., Gao, J., Zheng, H., & Meng, X. (2022). How epidemic information and policy information impact anti-infection behaviors: a cross-cultural study under social influence framing. The Journal of Social Psychology, 1-14.
• Dong, M., Spadaro, G., Yuan, S., Song, Y., Ye, Z., & Ren, X. (2021). Self-interest bias in the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-cultural comparison between the United States and China. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(7), 663-679.
• Hou, J., & Ye, Z. (2019). Sex differences in facial and vocal attractiveness among college students in China. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1166.

Publications