2001 PhD, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Tianjin Normal University

1990 MA, Cognitive Psychology, Shanxi Normal University

1986 BA, Psychology, Shanxi Normal University

2007.8-Present  Professor(2010), Nankai University

2004.9-2007.6   Postdoctor, East China Normal University

1993.9-2000.6   Associate and Assistant Professor, Hainan Normal University

creativity, human computer interaction, efficient learning and adaptation

Cognitive Psychology

Educational Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Advanced Topics in Psychological Research

Advanced Topics in Applied Psychology 

Papers

1. Zu, C., Zhou, X.*,  Cui,Y. X., Liu,Y. F., Hu, Y. X., Li, D. Q., and Zeng, H. (2021). The impact of mortality salience on purchase intention and creativity evaluation on products during COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:601383

2. Hofreiter S. †, Zhou X. †, Tang M. *,Werner C.H. and Kaufman J.C. (2021). COVID-19 Lockdown and Creativity: Exploring the Role of Emotions and Motivation on Creative Activities From the Chinese and German Perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:617967

3. Zhai, H.K., Li, Q., Hu, Y.X., Cui, Y.X., Wei, X.W. and Zhou, X*. (2021) . Emotional Creativity Improves Posttraumatic Growth and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 600798

4. Cui,Y. X., Zhou, X.*, Zu C, Zhai, H. K., Bai, B.R., Xu, Y. M. and Li, D. (2020) Benevolent Creativity Buffers Anxiety Aroused by Mortality Salience: Terror Management in COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 601027

5. Zhou, X., Zhai, H. K., Delidabieke, B., Zeng, H.*, Cui Y. X. & Cao, X. (2019). Exposure to Ideas, Evaluation Apprehension, and Incubation Intervals in Collaborative Idea Generation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1459

6. Zu, C., Zeng, H., Zhou, X.* (2019). Computational simulation of team creativity: the benefit of member flow. Frontiers in Psychology, 10,188

7. Zhou, X., Zhang, Z.Y., Zeng H.(2018). Collective Intelligence and Influencing Factors in Long Term Cooperative learning Group. Studies of Psychology and Behavior,16(2),  231–237

8. Zhou, X., Zhang, Z.Y., Wang H. T., Zeng H.(2013). A Preliminary Construction of Team Creativity Scale for the Research Team in Institution of Higher Education. Studies of Psychology and Behavior,11(6),770-773

9. Zhou, X.,  He, J.and  Chen,K.(2012). Heuristic for Preschoolers: An Experimental Study of Traditional Anchoring Effect. 2nd International Conference on Applied Social Science, ICASS2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,  3, 464-469

10. Zeng, H., Zhou, X., Han, J.L. (2009). Employee Engageme...

1. Cultivation of Top Students' Cooperative Innovation Ability in Basic Disciplines, supported by The Teaching Reform Project of Teaching Supervisory Committee of Psychology in Higher Education Schools of Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No. 20221039)

2. Promotion Mechanism of Co-Creativity under Human-Computer Collaborative Intelligence, supported by The National Social Science Fund of China (19FSHB010)

3. Artificial Intelligence and the Development Strategy of Higher Education, Special Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Research on Engineering Science and Technology Talent Cultivation, granted by Chinese Ministry of Education(19JDGC003)

4. Promotion Mechanism of Students' Co-Creativity in Psychological Education of University, supported by The Major Social Science Project of Tianjin Municipal Education Commission of China (2018JWZD41)

5. Emergence and Utilization of the Collective Intelligence in Collaborative Innovation, supported by National Social Science Foundation of China（12BSH053）

6. Restrictive Factors and Countermeasures of R & D Team creativity, supported by TianJin Municipal’s Scientific and Technological Projects（11ZLZLZF03300）

7. Emotional Impact on Selective Attention of Efficient Learning, supported by The Key Issues of Ministry of Education of the National Education Science Plan of China（DBA090294）

8. Emotional Mechanism of Efficient Learning and Adolescents Academic Counseling, supported by Humanities and Social Sciences Project Fund of Chinese Ministry of Education（09YJAXLX011）

2021.12 17th Tianjin Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award（Third Prize）

2013.07 13th Tianjin Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award（Third Prize ）