Tsinghua News Network, April 18 (Reporter Tian Qu, Ziyue Xu, Photography Pai Li) On the occasion of welcoming the 113th anniversary of the university, on the morning of April 18, Tsinghua University held the establishment ceremony for the Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences in the rear hall of the Main Building. This is an important step for Tsinghua University in strengthening disciplinary development, and another key initiative focused on serving national strategies and advancing human development.

2024.04.23](info/1037/1782.htm "Tsinghua University Establishes Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences") - [Tsinghua Researcher Chao Xie’s Team Publishes New Study in Nature Mental Health Proposing a Hierarchical Neurocognitive Model for Mental Disorder Comorbidity

High levels of comorbidity in mental disorders represent a core challenge in modern psychiatry. Traditional diagnostic paradigms often struggle to explain the widespread symptom overlap and the developmental transitions between different mental disorders.While the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) has made strides in explaining behavioral comorbidity (such as the "p-factor"), it ...

2026.02.14](info/1037/1996.htm "Tsinghua Researcher Chao Xie’s Team Publishes New Study in Nature Mental Health Proposing a Hierarchical Neurocognitive Model for Mental Disorder Comorbidity")

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Announcements

Academic Events

2025.07

Chinese Psychological Society Committee of Positive Psychology and Tsinghua University's Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Positive Psychology Research Center 2025 Academic Annual Conference](info/1031/1801.htm "Chinese Psychological Society Committee of Positive Psychology and Tsinghua University's Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Positive Psychology Research Center 2025 Academic Annual Conference") - [03

2025.07

Tsinghua University Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences 2026 Doctoral Student Enrollment Guide](info/1031/1802.htm "Tsinghua University Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences 2026 Doctoral Student Enrollment Guide") - [09

2025.06

Tsinghua University Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences 2025 Frontier Student Salon Notice](info/1031/1800.htm "Tsinghua University Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences 2025 Frontier Student Salon Notice") - [16

2025.05

【Mind-Equipment Integration】Laboratory Empowerment Program Phase Two—Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)](info/1031/1799.htm "【Mind-Equipment Integration】Laboratory Empowerment Program Phase Two—Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)") - [21

2025.04

Conference Notice for the Symposium on Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture and Mental Health Education for School Principals](info/1031/1798.htm "Conference Notice for the Symposium on Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture and Mental Health Education for School Principals") - [13

2025.04

【Mind-Equipment Integration】Laboratory Empowerment Program Phase One—Near-Infrared Brain Functional Imaging System](info/1031/1797.htm "【Mind-Equipment Integration】Laboratory Empowerment Program Phase One—Near-Infrared Brain Functional Imaging System") _showDynClickBatch(['dynclicks_u11_1801','dynclicks_u11_1802','dynclicks_u11_1800','dynclicks_u11_1799','dynclicks_u11_1798','dynclicks_u11_1797'],[1801,1802,1800,1799,1798,1797],"wbnews", 2070476726)

[Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——Wan Xiaoang’s Research Group

June 12 (Thursday) afternoon 14:30

Room 1110, 11th floor, Lv Dalong Building](info/1032/1806.htm "Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——Wan Xiaoang’s Research Group") - [Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——WANG Fei’s Research Group

June 5 (Thursday) afternoon 15:30

Room 1103, 11th floor, Lv Dalong Building](info/1032/1814.htm "Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——WANG Fei’s Research Group") - [Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——WU Zhen's Research Group

May 29 (Thursday) afternoon 14:30

Room 1110, 11th floor, Lv Dalong Building](info/1032/1813.htm "Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——WU Zhen's Research Group") - [Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——MI Yuanyuan's Research Group

May 22 (Thursday) afternoon 14:30

Room 1110, 11th floor, Lv Dalong Building](info/1032/1812.htm "Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——MI Yuanyuan's Research Group") - Admission to International Master of Applied Psychology (IMAP) of Tsinghua University, Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, 2026 - [Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——LI Hong's Research Group

May 15 (Thursday) afternoon 13:00

Room 1110, 11th floor, Lv Dalong Building](info/1032/1815.htm "Academic Salon Preview in DPCS——LI Hong's Research Group") _showDynClickBatch(['dynclicks_u12_1806','dynclicks_u12_1814','dynclicks_u12_1813','dynclicks_u12_1812','dynclicks_u12_1956','dynclicks_u12_1815'],[1806,1814,1813,1812,1956,1815],"wbnews", 2070476726)

Research

[Research Output

2026.02.14

Tsinghua Researcher Chao Xie’s Team Publishes New Study in Nature Mental Health Proposing a Hierarchical Neurocognitive Model for Mental Disorder Comorbidity](info/1022/1995.htm "Tsinghua Researcher Chao Xie’s Team Publishes New Study in Nature Mental Health Proposing a Hierarchical Neurocognitive Model for Mental Disorder Comorbidity") - [Research Output

2026.02.11

Research by Professor Hong Li’s Team Reveals Post-Decision Asymmetric Memory in Maximizers](info/1022/1993.htm "Research by Professor Hong Li’s Team Reveals Post-Decision Asymmetric Memory in Maximizers") - [Research Output

2025.12.31

Liyuan Wang’s Research Group Jointly Publishes Multimodal and Multifunctional Human Physiological Signal Generation Framework in Nature Machine Intelligence](info/1022/1972.htm "Liyuan Wang’s Research Group Jointly Publishes Multimodal and Multifunctional Human Physiological Signal Generation Framework in Nature Machine Intelligence") - [Research Output

2025.12.26

Jia Liu’s Research Group Publishes Paper in Science Advances: "From Sensory to Perceptual Manifolds: The Twist of Neural Geometry"](info/1022/1968.htm "Jia Liu’s Research Group Publishes Paper in Science Advances: \"From Sensory to Perceptual Manifolds: The Twist of Neural Geometry\"") - [Research Output

2025.12.26

Yuanyuan Mi’s Research Group Jointly Publishes Paper at NeurIPS 2025, Proposing a Hierarchical Continuous Attractor Neural Network Model to Reveal the Dual Neuroplasticity Mechanisms of Sequential Dependence Effects](info/1022/1966.htm "Yuanyuan Mi’s Research Group Jointly Publishes Paper at NeurIPS 2025, Proposing a Hierarchical Continuous Attractor Neural Network Model to Reveal the Dual Neuroplasticity Mechanisms of Sequential Dependence Effects") - [Research Output

2025.11.05

Meihong Zheng's Research Group Publishes Paper in Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, Revealing the Link Between Emotion and the Sense of Passage of Time](info/1022/1963.htm "Meihong Zheng's Research Group Publishes Paper in Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, Revealing the Link Between Emotion and the Sense of Passage of Time") - [Research Output

2025.10.10

Fei Wang’s Research Group Publishes Paper in Translational Psychiatry Exploring the Impact of Drug Addiction on Self- and Mother-Prioritization Effects](info/1022/1962.htm "Fei Wang’s Research Group Publishes Paper in Translational Psychiatry Exploring the Impact of Drug Addiction on Self- and Mother-Prioritization Effects") - [Research Output

2025.01.17

Professor Peng Kaiping's Research Group Publishes Paper in Tourism Management: "Big Picture Predicts Destination Attractiveness: The Role of Physical Breadth and Contextual Breadth"](info/1022/1517.htm "Professor Peng Kaiping's Research Group Publishes Paper in Tourism Management: \"Big Picture Predicts Destination Attractiveness: The Role of Physical Breadth and Contextual Breadth\"")

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Faculty

Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Tsinghua University builds a high-level faculty team in psychology and cognitive science around two major directions: "Cognition and Intelligence" and "Social and Health," with nearly 50 faculty and staff members (including postdoctoral researchers).

Professors
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors/Lecturers
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In Memoriam

[Research Interests

Brain imaging computational methods, precision diagnosis and targeted treatment of depression based on brain imaging, and integrated psychophysical intervention protocols for depression

Chaogan Yan

Professor](info/1008/1349.htm "Chaogan Yan")

[Research Interests

Emotion and Decision-Making、Health Psychology

Hong Li

Professor](info/1008/1345.htm "Hong Li")

[Research Interests

The cognitive neuroscience basis of artificial intelligence, visual intelligence.

Jia Liu

Professor](# "Jia Liu")

[Research Interests

Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Positive Psychology

Kaiping Peng

Professor](info/1008/1346.htm "Kaiping Peng")

[Research Interests

Clinical symptoms of mental disorders, cognition, neuro-immune-endocrine systems, oxidative stress, genetics, clinical pharmacology, electrophysiology, and imaging studies

Xiangyang Zhang

Professor](# "Xiangyang Zhang")

[Research Interests

The Formation and Development of Analogical Reasoning

Stella Christie

Professor](# "Stella Christie")

[Research Interests

Applied Cognition

Xiaoang Wan

Professor](info/1008/1348.htm "Xiaoang Wan")

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[Research Interests

Affective Computing, Multimodal Large Models

Sicheng Zhao

Associate Professor](# "Sicheng Zhao")

[Research Interests

Health Psychology

Jingyuan Liu

Associate Professor](info/1009/1360.htm "Jingyuan Liu")

[Research Interests

Computational Neuroscience

Yuanyuan Mi

Tenured Associate Professor](info/1009/1357.htm "Yuanyuan Mi")

[Research Interests

Dynamic Risk Prediction Model for Depression and Suicide AI-Empowered Mental Health

Wenting Mu

Associate Professor (Tenure Track)](info/1009/1354.htm "Wenting Mu")

[Research Interests

Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Social Psychology

Jing Qian

Associate Professor](info/1009/1351.htm "Jing Qian")

[Research Interests

The neural mechanisms of the self, the neural mechanisms of cultural thinking, personality neuroscience, neuromarketing

Fei Wang

Tenured Associate Professor](info/1009/1352.htm "Fei Wang")

[Research Interests

Development of social cognitive abilities, development of prosocial behavior, development of creativity

Zhen Wu

Tenured Associate Professor](info/1009/1358.htm "Zhen Wu")

[Research Interests

Affective Brain-Computer Interface、Physiological computing for psychological assessment

Dan Zhang

Tenured Associate Professor](info/1009/1355.htm "Dan Zhang")

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[Research Interests

Chao Xie

Assistant Professor](info/1010/1953.htm "Chao Xie")

[Research Interests

Kai Du

Assistant Professor](info/1010/1952.htm "Kai Du")

[Research Interests

Liyuan Wang

Assistant Professor](info/1010/1773.htm "Liyuan Wang")

[Research Interests

Zhi Lu

Assistant Professor, PI](info/1010/1774.htm "Zhi Lu")

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[Research Interests

Psychology of Language, Psychology of Thought, Linguistic Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science

Shushan Cai

Professor](# "Shushan Cai")

[Research Interests

Social Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Positive Psychology

Fumin Fan

Professor](# "Fumin Fan")

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[Research Interests

Roberts,Seth

Professor](# "Roberts,Seth")

[Research Interests

Li Chen

Professor](# "Li Chen")

[Research Interests

Lu Shen

Professor](# "Lu Shen")

[Research Interests

Guohua Sun](# "Guohua Sun")

[Research Interests

Yue Tang

Professor](# "Yue Tang")

[Research Interests

Tianmin Wu

Professor](# "Tianmin Wu")

[Research Interests

Yuanren Zhao

Professor](# "Yuanren Zhao")

[Research Interests

Xiangeng Zhou

Professor](# "Xiangeng Zhou")

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