Professor HUANG Yi

Yi received her PhD from NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). After graduation, she worked as postdoctoral research fellow at NUS and University of Pennsylvania, USA. Yi joined Lingnan University in August 2020. Her primary research interest lies in understanding the psychological and neural mechanisms of economic decision-making and social behaviors in young and older adults.

Research

• Decision-making
• Social psychology
• Successful aging
• Social neuroscience
• Neuroeconomics

Publications

Huang, Y., & Yu, R. (2025). The double-edged sword of stress: A systematic meta-analysis on how stress impacts creativity. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 106113.

Lei, W., Huang, Y., Peng, Y., Chen, G., Gong, K., Liu, K., Wu, D., Qin, C., Cheng, X., & Tian, M. (2025). Imbalanced goal-directed and habitual control in individuals with internet gaming disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions.

Huang, Y., Yang, Y., & Siu, O. L. (2025). Strategic mindset facilitates social feedback processing and self-concept adjustment. Cerebral Cortex, 35(3), bhaf061.

Stolle, C. M., Gula, B., Yu, R., & Huang, Y. (2024). The impact of diversity on group decision-making in the face of the free-rider problem. Judgment and Decision Making, 19, e4.

Huang, Y., Li, M., & Yu, R. (2023). Choice reminder modulates choice-induced preference change in older adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 78(1), 73-81.

Huang, Y., Pat, N., Kok, B. C., Chai, J., Feng, L., & Yu, R. (2023). Getting over past mistakes: prospective and retrospective regret in older adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 78(3), 469-478.

Huang, Y., Huang, X., Ebstein, R. P., & Yu, R. (2021). Intranasal oxytocin in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders: A multilevel meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 122, 18-27.

Liu, C., Huang, Y., Chen, L., & Yu, R. (2020). Lack of evidence for the effect of oxytocin on placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 89(3), 185-187.

Huang, Y., Yaple, Z. A., & Yu, R. (2020). Goal-oriented and habitual decisions: Neural signatures of model-based and model-free learning. Neuroimage, 215, 116834.

Huang, Y., Zhen, S., & Yu, R. (2019). Distinct neural patterns underlying ingroup and outgroup conformity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(11), 4758-4759.

Huang, Y., Yim, O. S., San Lai, P., Yu, R., Chew, S. H., Gwee, X., Nyunt, M. S. Z., Gao, Q., Ng, T. P., & Ebstein, R. P. (2019). Successful aging, cognitive function, socioeconomic status, and leukocyte telomere length. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 103, 180-187.

Huang, Y., & Yu, R. (2019). Common and distinct neural substrates of the money illusion in win and loss domains. Neuroimage, 184, 109-118.

Wang, S., Yu, R., Tyszka, J. M., Zhen, S., Kovach, C., Sun, S., Huang, Y., Hurlemann, R., Ross, I. B., & Chung, J. M. (2017). The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity. Nature communications, 8(1), 14821.

Huang, Y., Kendrick, K. M., & Yu, R. (2014a). Conformity to the opinions of other people lasts for no more than 3 days. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1388-1393.

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Teaching Subjects

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