The Experimental Social and Behavioral Research Center of Jiangsu Province was established in 2015. The current director is Professor Zhou Renlai. It is composed of a diverse faculty with three professors, eight associate professors and three assistant professors and lecturers. It has post-doctoral researchers and graduate students from a number of different disciplines who are interested in addressing the overarching question of why humans behave the way they do in dynamic, real-world environments.

Specifically, the center’s research areas include reward and value-based decision making, emotion and memory, dehumanization, spatial cognition, social well-being, psychotherapy, environmental psychology and human-computer interface. To explore topics in these areas, the center builds on theories, concepts and approaches from a variety of traditional disciplines including Psychology, Economics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Science and Sociology. It also uses a wide array of techniques to study behavior and brain function, including computational modeling, functional brain imaging and EEG, Neuro-pharmacology, psychophysics, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation and lesion approaches.

Contact

rlzhou@nju.edu.cn