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Dr. Shuxian Jin is a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, where she joined the HONORLOGIC project on October 1, 2022, working with Professor Ayse Uskul. Her research examines how cultural settings, socio-ecological conditions, and patterns of interdependence shape cooperation, norms, and institutional choices across diverse societies.
Dr. Jin completed her academic training with a BSc in Human Resources Management from Capital University of Economics and Business (2012-2016), an MSc in Applied Psychology from Nankai University (2016-2018, cum laude), and a PhD in Social Psychology from VU Amsterdam (2018-2023), supervised by Prof. Daniel Balliet, Prof. Paul van Lange, and Dr. Giuliana Spadaro. Her doctoral work included co-developing the Cooperation Databank (CoDa), a machine-readable repository of cooperation research spanning six decades.
Her research program integrates meta-analytic approaches with cross-societal behavioral experiments, particularly focusing on Mediterranean societies to challenge traditional East-West cultural dichotomies. As coordinator of Work Packages 1 and 2 in the HONORLOGIC project, she investigates how honor influences social behaviors in contexts of shared or conflicting interests through economic game experiments across 13 different societies. Her methodological toolkit includes online and laboratory-based behavioral experiments, cross-societal surveys, and advanced meta-analytic techniques.
Dr. Jin's publication record demonstrates a consistent focus on cross-cultural cooperation research, with numerous high-impact meta-analyses examining how cultural factors, gender, social class, and institutional structures influence cooperative behavior. Her work has been published in top-tier journals including Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin, with several papers receiving significant attention in academic and policy circles.
She actively contributes to open science initiatives and research infrastructure development, particularly through her work on the Cooperation Databank. Her research bridges Eastern and Western academic traditions, bringing unique perspectives to cultural psychology while maintaining rigorous methodological standards across diverse cultural contexts.
