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The School of Psychology

Professor Jie Sui

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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  • 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
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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
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  • 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
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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
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  • Temporal properties of self-prioritization

    Lu, Z., He, X., Yi, D., Sui, J.
    Entropy, vol. 26, no. 3, 242
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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
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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
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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
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  • 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
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  • Decoding individual differences in self-prioritization from the resting-state functional connectome

    Zhang, Y., Wang, F., Sui, J.
    Neuroimage, vol. 276, 120205
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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
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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
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  • The relationship between self, value-based reward, and emotion prioritisation effects

    Yankouskaya, A., Lovett, G., Sui, J.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 942-960
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  • Relationship between change in social evaluation learning and mood in early antidepressant treatment: A prospective cohort study in primary care

    Hobbs, C., Beck, M., Denham, F., Pettitt, L., Faraway, J., Munafò, M. R., Sui, J., Kessler, D., Button, K. S.
    Journal of Psychopharmacology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 303-312
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  • Electrophysiological correlates of self-prioritization

    Sui, J., He, X., Golubickis, M., Svensson, S. L., Neil Macrae, C.
    Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 108, pp. 103475
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  • Sleep-deprived new mothers gave their infants a higher priority than themselves

    Hoegholt, N. F., Buus, S., Stevner, A. B. A., Sui, J., Vuust, P., Kringelbach, M. L.
    Acta Paediatrica, vol. 112, no. 1, pp. 93-99
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  • On screen experiment showed that becoming a parent for the first time shifted people's priorities from themselves to their infant at 1 year of age

    Hoegholt, N. F., Buus, S., Fernandes, H. M., Sui, J., Vuust, P., Kringelbach, M. L.
    Acta Paediatrica, vol. 112, no. 1, pp. 85-92
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  • Visuospatial perception is not affected by self-related information

    Ten Brink, A. F., de Haan, R., Amelink, D. R., Holweg, A. N., Sui, J., Bultitude, J. H.
    Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 107, 103451
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  • Individual Differences in Self- and Value-Based Reward Processing

    Sui, J., Cao, B., Song, Y., Greenshaw, A.
    Current Research in Behavioral Science, vol. 4, 100095
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  • Trait dialectical thinking is associated with the strength of functional coupling between the dACC and the default mode network

    Wang, F., Chen, D., Sui, J.
    Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 22, pp. 1021-1029
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  • Social relevance modulates multisensory integration

    Scheller, M., Sui, J.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 1022-1038
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  • The Power of the Self: Anchoring Information Processing Across Contexts

    Scheller, M., Sui, J.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 1001-1021
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  • Depression screening using a non-verbal self-association task: A machine-learning based pilot study

    Liu, Y. S., Song, Y., Lee, N. A., Bennett, D. M., Button, K. S., Greenshaw, A., Cao, B., Sui, J.
    Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 310, pp. 87-95
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  • Dynamic neural network approach to human emotion: an analysis based on sliding time windows

    Wang, J., Shi, G., Ma, N., Sun, Y., Li, X., Sui, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • IEEE ICCI*CC Series in Year 20: Latest Advances in Cognitive Computing (Plenary Panel Report-II)

    Kinsner, W., Zhu, H., Baciu, G., Luo, G., Rubio, F., Sui, J., Huang, R., Hiraishi, H., Peng, J., Chen, L.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Neural Connectivity Underlying Reward and Emotion-Related Processing: Evidence From a Large-Scale Network Analysis

    Yankouskaya, A., Denholm-Smith, T., Yi, D., Greenshaw, A., Cao, B., Sui, J.
    Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, vol. 16, 833625
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  • Self-prioritization is supported by interactions between large-scale brain networks

    Yankouskaya, A., Sui, J.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1244-1261
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  • The roles of the LpSTS and DLPFC in self-prioritization: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

    Liang, Q., Zhang, B., Fu, S., Sui, J., Wang, F.
    Human Brain Mapping, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1381-1393
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  • Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect

    Jiang, M., Sui, J.
    Behavioral Sciences, vol. 12, no. 2, 45
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  • Self-related objects increase alertness and orient attention through top-down saliency

    Li, B., Hu, W., Hunt, A., Sui, J.
    Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 408-417
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  • Levels of Self-representation and Their Sociocognitive Correlates in Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adults

    Moseley, R. L., Liu, C. H., Gregory, N. J., Smith, P., Baron-Cohen, S., Sui, J.
    Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, vol. 52, pp. 3246–3259
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  • Perceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task

    Feldborg, M., Lee, N. A., Hung, K., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 22, e12096
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  • Application of a Brain-Inspired Deep Imitation Learning Algorithm in Autonomous Driving

    Ahmedov, H. B., Yi, D., Sui, J.
    Software Impacts, vol. 10, 100165
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  • The divided brain: Functional brain asymmetry underlying self-construal

    Shi, G., Li, X., Zhu, Y., Shang, R., Sun, Y., Guo, H., Sui, J.
    Neuroimage, vol. 240, 118382
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  • Self research: A new pathway to precision psychiatry

    Sui, J., Greenshaw, A., Macrae, C., Cao, B.
    Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 293, pp. 276-278
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  • Neurostructural correlation of dispositional self-compassion

    Guan, F., Liu, G., Pedersen, W., Chen, O., Zhao, S., Sui, J., Peng, K.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 160, 107978
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  • A pre-existing self-referential anchor is not necessary for self prioritisation

    Lee, N. A., Martin, D., Sui, J.
    Acta Psychologica, vol. 219, 103362
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