Lixian Cui

Lixian Cui is an Associate Professor of Psychology, and a Global Network Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He holds a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, a M.S. from Sun Yat-sen University, and a B.S. from Southwest China Normal University (now Southwest University).

Professor Cui’s research focuses on child and adolescent social and emotional development in various contexts, with a focus on emotion socialization in familial, school, peer, and cultural contexts. Particularly, Cui is interested in studying affective dynamics during social interactions by integrating behavioral and physiological measures of stress and emotion (e.g., emotion expression, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, cardiac output, skin conductance, heart rate, cortisol). Bridging research and practice, Cui is also heavily involved in developing, implementing, and evaluating social and emotional intervention programs. His work has appeared in prestigious scientific journals such as Biological Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Development and Psychopathology, Developmental Science, Emotion, Journal of Family Psychology, Parenting: Science and Practice, and Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Cui is currently an Associate Editor for Journal of Research on Adolescence and Assistant Editor for Journal of Adolescence. He has been hoc reviewer for American Psychologist, Child Development, Child Development Perspectives, Developmental Science, Development and Psychopathology, Biological Psychology, Developmental Psychobiology, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, among others. He is a member of Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), and International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Cui's work has been funded by Cyrus Tang Foundation, Save the Children (China), Pujiang Talents Program of Shanghai, Society for Research on Adolescence, among others. He won the "Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Adolescence in the Majority World Award" from SRA in 2023.

Websites: https://adrlab.weebly.com

https://chinesefamilieslab.weebly.com

Select Publications

• Cui, L., Sun, Q., Way, N., Waters, T. E. A., Li, X., Zhang, C., Zhang, G., Chen, X., Okazaki, S., & Yoshikawa, H. (2023). Prospective within-family bidirectional effects between parental emotion socialization practices and Chinese adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment. Development and Psychopathology, 35(4), 1956–1967. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942200061X
• Cui, L., Tang, G., & Huang, M. (2022). Expressive suppression, Confucian Zhong Yong thinking, and psychosocial adjustment among Chinese young adults. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 25(4), 715–730. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12529
• Cui, L., Sun, Q., Yu, F., Xu, J., & Wang, H. (2021). Exploring emotional dynamic within-person concordance across laboratory tasks: Moderation of between-person SES and sexual orientation. Biological Psychology, 161, 108055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108055
• Cui, L., Zhang, X., & Han, Z, R. (2021). Perceived child difficultness, emotion dysregulation, and emotion-related parenting among Chinese parents. Family Process, 60(4), 1403–1417. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12638 
• Cui, L., Criss, M. M., Ratliff, E., Wu, Z., Houltberg, B. J., Silk, J. S., & Morris, A. S. (2020). Longitudinal links between maternal and peer emotion socialization and adolescent girls’ socioemotional adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 56(3), 595-607. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000861 

Education

• PhD, Human Development
  Oklahoma State University
• MS, Applied Psychology
  Sun Yat-sen University
• BS, Psychology
  Southwest Normal University