崔丽弦 Lixuan 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.