Secretary General

Professor,
Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

E-mail: sunxiaomin@bnu.edu.cn

Education

Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Social and Organizational Psychology, 2008-2010

Beijing Normal University, Ph.D., Psychology, 2005

Background

Xiaomin Sun is a Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology in the Faculty of Psychology at Beijing Normal University. She currently severs as the Deputy Secretary General of Chinese Association of Social Psychology, Executive Director of the Division of Economic Psychology of Chinese Psychological Society.

Research Interests

  • Income inequality and relative deprivation

  • Consumer decision making

  • Judicial decision making

Recent Publications

Liu, Z., Sun, X.*, Bao, R., Ma, R. (2024). Why Do People Always Want More? Perceived Economic Inequality Leads People to be Greedy by Enhancing Relative Deprivation. British Journal of Psychology.

Jiang, X., Zhang, N., Sun, X.*, Liu, Z., Wang. Y. (2024). Being Pressed for Time Leads to Treating Others as Things: Exploring the Relationships among Time Scarcity, Agentic and Communal Orientation, and Objectification. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12729

Yuan, Y., Sun, X.* (2024). Can’t See the Forest for the Trees: Time Poverty Influences Construal Level and the Moderating Role of Autonomous versus Controlled Motivation. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12730

Zhao, Q., Ma, R., Liu, Z., Wang, T., Sun, X.*, van Prooijen, J., Dong, M., Yuan, Y. (2023). Why do we never have enough time? Economic inequality fuels the perception of time poverty by aggravating status anxiety. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12695

Jiang, X., Zhang, N., Sun, X.*, Yang, S., Dong, M., Yuan, Y., Lin, Y., Liu, Z., Zhu, Y., Zhao, Q. (2023). Rumor Type Matters: The Effect of Different Types of Rumors on Coping, Subjective Well-being, and Interpersonal Trust During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Stress and Health.

Yu, M., Sun, X.*, Xu, Y., Liu, Z., Wu, Y., Yang, S., & Luo, F. (2022). Mirror, mirror, on the social media… WeChat Moments usage and negative body image among female college students: Evidence from ecological momentary assessment data. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being.