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Dr Yin WU

Dr Yin WU

Associate Professor

Biography

Dr Wu is associate professor of psychology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his PhD degree from University of Cambridge. His research interests are cognitive neuroscience and decision neuroscience, with a focus on the role of hormones in human social cognition and decision-making. For example, his key research questions include how testosterone influences economic decision-making such as risk choice. How does testosterone influence social preference such as altruist behavior? To address these questions, Dr. Wu combines behavioral experiments with brain imaging and hormone measurement. His research findings have been published in leading journals such as PNAS, Proceedings of Royal Society B: Biological Science, Psychoneuroendocrinology and Hormones and Behavior. Dr. Wu has been awarded research grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China and Alexander von Humboldt research foundation.

Dr Wu is looking for PhD students, postdocs and RAs. For those interested, please send him a CV via email.

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Cambridge
 

Professional Qualifications

  • Member, Society for Neuroeconomics 
  • Member, International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology

Research Interests

  • Hormones and behavior
  • Decision neuroscience
  • Social cognition

Grants (selected)

Testosterone and social behavior (funded by Guangdong Natural Science Fund, 2023)

The role of testosterone in economic decision-making: behavioral and neuroimaging studies (funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2019) 

 

Publications (selected)

Ou, J.#, Wu, Y.#*, Hu, Y., Gao, X., Li, H.*, & Tobler, P. N. (2021). Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(12), e2021745118.

Wu, Y.*, Zhang, Y., Ou, J., Hu, Y., & Zilioli, S.* (2020). Exogenous testosterone increases the audience effect in healthy males: evidence for the social status hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1931), 20200976.

Wu, Y.*, Shen, B., Liao, J., Li, Y., Zilioli, S., & Li, H. (2020). Single dose testosterone administration increases impulsivity in the intertemporal choice task among healthy males. Hormones and Behavior, 118(November 2019), 104634.

Wu, Y.*, Liao, J., Zilioli, S., Wu, Y., Deng, H., Li, H., & Tobler, P. N. (2019). Testosterone administration increases social discounting in healthy males. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 108(February), 127–134.

Wu, Y.*, Clark, L., Zilioli, S., Eisenegger, C., Gillan, C. M., Deng, H., & Li, H. (2018). Single dose testosterone administration modulates emotional reactivity and counterfactual choice in healthy males. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90(August 2017), 127–133.

 

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