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Professor Jie Sui

Professor Jie Sui
Professor Jie Sui
Professor Jie Sui

Chair In Psychology

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Email Address
jie.sui@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272479
Office Address

School of Psychology
William Guild Building (Room S03)
King's College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FX

School/Department
School of Psychology

Internal Memberships

  • Chair of the Psychology Ethics Committee
  • School REF Output Group
  • School Research Committee
  • University Ethics Advisory Group
  • University Promotion Committee
Research

Current Research

  • Self
  • Cultural brain
  • Healthy ageing
  • Social interactions in VR
  • Behaviour change

We welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in these research areas.

Funding and Grants

  • 2025-2026. Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship: 'Tracing the neural representation of dynamic selves'.
  • 2020-2024. PI. The Leverhulme Trust. 'The ubiquitous self: Testing the enhanced binding account'. 
  • 2017-2020. PI. ARUK. 'Self-representation as a probe for mild Alzheimer’s dementia'.

Funded doctoral projects in our lab:

  • Neural plasticity and self-reference in the ageing brain
  • Computational and neural mechanisms of trust updating in children
  • Investigating the role of sense of agency in episodic memory formation and retrieval
  • Self-relevance supporting multisensory integration in the ageing brain
  • Future self and temporal discounting in behaviour change
  • AI-based approach to predicting changes in self-perception and the relationship to cognitive decline
  • Together and apart: How cognitive and affective self-processing shape real-world outcomes

       Supported by BBSRC EastBio, the Leverhulme Trust, CSC, and ESRC SGSSS.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Level 4: The Social Self
  • Level 1, Level 4, MSc, MRes: Ethics
  • Level 3: tutorials on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Methodology B
Publications

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  • Happy Me: Asymmetric Bidirectional Links Between the Self and Positivity Underpin Biased Processing

    Lee, N. A., Martin, D., Sui, J.
    British Journal of Psychology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Computational Decoding of Social Identity Effects on Memory Encoding: Continuous Brain-Behavior Prediction from EEG Connectivity

    Lu, Z., Yi, D., Sui, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals

    Scheller, M., Tünnermann, J., Fredriksson, K., Fang, H., Sui, J.
    eLife, vol. 2026, 100932
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Neural Compensation in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Preserves Self-Prioritization in Aging: A Computational Approach

    Zhang, Y., Sun, Y., Wang, H., Pan, W., Wang, F., Sui, J.
    Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 46, no. 1, e0487252025
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Amygdala-Putamen Connectivity Links Gratitude to Greater Well-Being

    Liu, G., Yang, Y., Wang, F., Kong, F., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 166-176
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Exploring the malleability of self-bias in social contexts: Effects of interpersonal relationship, group membership, and social presence

    Chu, M., He, X., Sui, J.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 154, no. 12, pp. 3372–3391
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The social self: Categorisation of family members examined through the self-bias effect in new mothers

    Jiang, M., Sui, J.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 78, no. 12, pp. 2816 - 2828
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Comprehensive Dataset for Investigating the Structure of Self-Bias

    Qi, Y., Zou, F., Chau, X. Y., Zhou, M., Wang, F., Sui, J.
    Scientific Data, vol. 12, 1755
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • AI and Machine Learning Terminology in Medicine, Psychology, and Social Sciences: Tutorial and Practical Recommendations

    Cao, B., Greiner, R., Greenshaw, A., Sui, J.
    Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 27, e66100
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Perceived neurotype of the other may affect self/other-representation in autistic people

    Moseley, R., Hung, K., Sui, J.
    Neurodiversity , vol. 3, 27546330251339560
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Digital Selfie Editing Shows Sex Specific Associations Between Processing Biases and Life Satisfaction

    Hung, K., Feldborg, M., Moseley, R., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 14235
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • A multiverse assessment of the reliability of the self-matching task as a measurement of the self-prioritization effect

    Liu, Z., Hu, M., Zheng, Y., Sui, J., Chuan-Peng, H.
    Behavior Research Methods, vol. 57, no. 1, 37
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Causal Roles of Ventral and Dorsal Neural Systems for Automatic and Control Self-Reference Processing: A Function Lesion Mapping Study

    Sui, J., Rotshtein, P., Lu, Z., Chechlacz, M.
    Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 13, no. 14, 4170
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Prospective prediction of anxiety onset in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA): A machine learning study

    Li, Y., Song, Y., Sui, J., Greiner, R., Li, X. m., Greenshaw, A. J., Liu, Y. S., Cao, B.
    Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 357, pp. 148-155
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Future Self-Identification is Influenced by the Vividness, Similarity, and Positivity of a Future Self Construct

    Feldborg, M., Sui, J.
    Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 6313
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience

    Scheller, M., Fang, H., Sui, J.
    British Journal of Psychology, vol. 115, no. 2, pp. 185-205
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Temporal properties of self-prioritization

    Lu, Z., He, X., Yi, D., Sui, J.
    Entropy, vol. 26, no. 3, 242
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Evolution in the health ecosystem: Cutting-edge technologies and important issues for improved health and mental health in the ongoing COVID-19 recovery

    Greenshaw, A. J., Noble, J. M., Kuriansky, J., Sui, J., Cao, B., Li, T., Torous, J., Greiner, R.
    Resilient Health: Leveraging Technology and Social Innovations to Transform Healthcare for COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond. Elsevier, pp. 361-372, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Associations between differential aging and lifestyle, environment, current, and future health conditions: Findings from Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

    Song, Y., Liu, Y. S., Talarico, F., Zhang, Y., Hayward, J., Wang, M., Stroulia, E., Dixon, R. A., Greiner, R., Li, X., Greenshaw, A., Sui, J., Cao, B.
    Gerontology, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 1394-1403
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • To see or not to see: The parallel processing of self-relevance and facial expressions

    Liu, T., Sui, J., Hildebrandt, A.
    Cognitive research: principles and implications, vol. 8, 70
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Accentuate the positive: Evidence that context dependent self-reference drives self-bias

    Lee, N. A., Martin, D., Sui, J.
    Cognition, vol. 240, 105600
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Prediction of depression onset risk among middle-aged and elderly adults using machine learning and Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging cohort

    Song, Y., Qian, L., Sui, J., Greiner, R., Li, X. m., Greenshaw, A., Liu, Y. S., Cao, B.
    Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 339, pp. 52-57
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Decoding individual differences in self-prioritization from the resting-state functional connectome

    Zhang, Y., Wang, F., Sui, J.
    Neuroimage, vol. 276, 120205
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Domain-adapted driving scene understanding with uncertainty-aware and diversified generative adversarial networks

    Hua, Y., Sui, J., Fang, H., Hu, C., Yi, D.
    CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Self-processing in relation to emotion and reward processing in depression

    Hobbs, C., Sui, J., Kessler, D., Munafò, M. R., Button, K. S.
    Psychological Medicine, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1-13
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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