Dr. Xin (Alice) Zhao is an Associate Professor in Department of Educational Psychology at East China Normal University . She is broadly interested in how children across cultures reason about and learn from the social world. Specifically, her current research centers around children's developing understanding of choice and constraints across cultures, as well as its implications on children's behavioral regulation and social evaluations. She received her B.S. from Tsinghua University in 2014 and then her PhD from Cornell University in 2019.

Wenzhuo Zhang earned her bachelor's degree in Special Education (psychology track) from East China Normal University and is currently a second-year master student in the Department of Educational Psychology. Her research interests focus on children’s achievement-related cognition and its impact on academic performance, while also examining how factors such as culture, family, and teachers shape children’s developmental processes. She hopes to help children gain a better understanding of themselves, enabling them to build confidence and find joy in both learning and daily life.

Yongyin Wu is a currently a second-year master student at the Department of Educational Psychology, East China Normal University. Her research focuses on children's moral cognitive development and their perceptions of success and failure. She believes that children live by their own set of rules, and she finds it truly fascinating to capture the world from a child’s perspective.

Ami is a currently a second-year master student at the Department of Educational Psychology, East China Normal University. She is interested in how children understand play and learning, and hopes that all children can learn joyfully, play happily, and enjoy a healthy and happy childhood.

Baoqi Guo is currently a first-year master student in Educational Psychology at East China Normal University. She received her bachelor's degree in Preschool Education from East China Normal University. Her research interests focus on children's socio-emotional development and the role of artificial intelligence in children's cognitive and social learning. She hopes to contribute to research that supports children's healthy development in the digital age.

Ziye Zhu is a currently a first-year master student majoring in Educational Psychology at ECNU. Her research interests focus on children's understanding and choices regarding effort and persistence, particularly how these develop through social interactions. She hopes to help children to discover their passions and find joy in them.

Haoyu Tsai is currently a first-year master student in the Department of Educational Psychology at East China Normal University. He is interested in children's understanding of effortful behavior in different situations. In his spare time, he enjoys playing football.

Zihong Wang is an undergraduate student in Preschool Education at East China Normal University. She is especially interested in how children develop socio-emotional competence and how they come to understand success and failure. For now, she is exploring research in these areas—hoping to better see the world through children’s eyes: curious, playful, and wonderfully unbounded.

Liu Yijing is an undergraduate student at East China Normal University, majoring in both psychology and computer science. She is interested in children's prosocial behaviors, their cognition of effort and achievement, and enjoys learning cutting-edge data analysis methods (such as computational modeling), hoping to use them to better answer research questions and understand how children grow and adapt to society.

Dandan Li is currently a Ph.D. student in University of Exeter. She is interested in the social cognitive development of children. She thinks that adults tend to view children and their behaviors from an adult perspective, and hopes that she can better understand children through studying educational psychology.

Ying Hu is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Her research focuses on children’s beliefs about achievement and effort, and how these beliefs shape their motivation and behavior in challenging situations. She is also interested in how environmental factors, such as social messages and culture, influence these beliefs and behaviors. Through this work, she hopes to identify ways to better support children in adapting to and thriving in a challenging world.

Zijia Li is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Zijia has a deep passion for children’s development in the early years and is curious about how they navigate the social world through play. Her PhD project explores how pretend play affords young children’s counterfactual reasoning and imagination about possibilities, and how parents may support the development of these skills.

Lu Zang is currently a PhD student at Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UCSB.

Jiajie Chen is currently a PhD student in psychology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on narrative interpretation and social cognition, and he is very interested in how children and adolescents develop social cognition and how they construct and adapt to real-world social networks.

Yuhang Shu is currently a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at University of Virginia.

Xingyue Han is currently a PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Central European University. Her research is centered around the question “what is considered fairness”. Currently, she conducts research on how people evaluate contribution in cooperation, from both cognitive and developmental perspectives. She loves hiking and occasionally partcipates in marathons.

Wenhui Wang is currently a master's student in Leipzig university, doing the master program "Child development and intervention". She is keen on child developmental psychology and wants to improve the way how parents and children get along to make children live healthier.

Xinyue Liu is an undergraduate in School of Psychology and Cognitive Science at East China Normal University. She is interested in the influence of parenting style on the formation of children’s personality and the negative impact from childhood trauma on children’s communication patterns. She wants to improve the upbringing of common families through studies to make children live a healthier life. In her spare time, she likes watching movies and listening to music.

Sixian Li is a master student at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University. She is interested in understanding how children make sense of the world and how they gradually develop their social skills through interactions with others.

Yichu Li is an undergraduate of Psychology at East China Normal University. She wants to know the influence of family environment and parental education on children's personality building and social ability, as well as the influence of childhood trauma on children's postnatal development. She likes reading and writing in her spare time.

Wenqing Wu is a master student in Mental Health Education at Beijing Normal University. During her undergraduate studies, she was interested in children’s prosocial behavior; in graduate school, she expanded this line of research to adolescence and became interested in how psychological education can be applied with flexibility and inclusiveness in practice. In her free time, she enjoys reading, films, and music.

Xiaoman Yu is a master student majoring in Industrial and organizational psychology at East China Normal University. Her current academic work centers around effective, healthy and sustainable career development with main attention to occupational interests, work recovery (e.g., cyberloafing) and passion. She is motivated to develop phenomenon-driven research questions and critique to the orgnizational literature.

Wenyu Zhang is currently a master student at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University. His current research focuses on investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms of creative thinking using cognitive-behavioral methods and multimodal neuroimaging techniques, with a particular emphasis on malevolent creativity. In addition, he is interested in the relationships among children’s personality, developmental environment, and future development. He hopes to better understand children’s inner worlds and help them grow up in a healthy and happy way through research.

Qinyuan Zhang is a master student majoring in developmental psychology program at Columbia University. She is interested in psychology and education and wants to explore the application of educational psychology during children's growth. She hopes that she can help children by using her knowledge and research conducted in the lab. In the future, she will devote herslef to resarch on children's social cognition.