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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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  • Investigating Neural Substrates of Individual Independence and Interdependence Orientations via Efficiency-based Dynamic Functional Connectivity: A Machine Learning Approach

    Zhu, Y., Li, X., Sun, Y., Wang, H., Guo, H., Sui, J.
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 761-771
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  • Profile Pictures in the Digital World: Self-Photographs Predict Better Life Satisfaction

    Hung, K., Lee, N., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 12, 6667
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  • Virtual Reality in Neurorehabilitation: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses

    Voinescu, A., Sui, J., Stanton Fraser, D.
    Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 10, no. 7, 1478
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  • Individualized identification of first-episode bipolar disorder using machine learning and cognitive tests

    Sawalha, J., Cao, L., Chen, J., Selvitella, A., Liu, Y., Yang, C., Li, X., Zhang, X., Sun, J., Zhang, Y., Zhao, L., Cui, L., Zhang, Y., Sui, J., Greiner, R., Li, X. m., Greenshaw, A., Li, T., Cao, B.
    Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 282, pp. 662-668
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  • Self-Positivity or Self-Negativity as a Function of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Yankouskaya, A., Sui, J.
    Brain Sciences, vol. 11, no. 2, 264
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  • Self‐Referential Processing and Emotion Context Insensitivity in Major Depressive Disorder

    Mcivor, L., Sui, J., Malhotra, T., Drury, D., Kumar, S.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 311-329
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  • Seeking the “beauty center” in the brain: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies of beautiful human faces and visual art

    Hu, C., Huang, Y., Eickhoff, S., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 20, pp. 1200-1215
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  • Overlap in processing advantages for minimal ingroups and the self

    Enock, F., Hewstone, M. R., Lockwood, P., Sui, J.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 10, 18933
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  • Effect of acute citalopram on self-referential emotional processing and social cognition in healthy volunteers

    Hobbs, C., Murphy, S., Wright, L., Carson, J., Van Assche, I., O’Brien, J., Oyesanya, M., Sui, J., Munafò, M., Kessler, D., Harmer, C., Button, K.
    BJPsych Open, vol. 6, no. 6, e124
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  • Grey matter volume and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations predicts consumer ethnocentrism tendency

    Huang, J., Wan, X., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    Neuroscience Letters, vol. 732, 135053
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  • Enhanced memory-driven attentional capture in action video game players

    Zhang, B., Liu, S., Luo, Z., Huang, S., Sui, J.
    Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 107, 106271
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  • Neural responses to intention and benefit appraisal are critical in distinguishing gratitude and joy

    Liu, G., Cui, Z., Yu, H., Rotshtein, P., Zhao, F., Wang, H., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 10, 7864
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  • Good me bad me: Prioritization of the Good-Self during perceptual decision-making

    Hu, C., Lan, Y., Macrae, C. N., Sui, J.
    Collabra: Psychology, vol. 6, no. 1, 20
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  • Intertwining personal and reward relevance: evidence from the drift diffusion model

    Yankouskaya, A., Buhrle, R., Lugt, E., Stolte, M., Sui, J.
    Psychological Research, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 32-50
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  • Questionnaire Data From the Revision of a Chinese Version of Free Will and Determinism Plus Scale

    Liu, Q., Wang, F., Yan, W., Peng, K., Sui, J., Hu, C.
    Journal of Open Psychology Data, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1
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  • Parts of Me: Identity-Relevance Moderates Self-Prioritization

    Golubickis, M., Falben, J., Ho, N., Sui, J., Cunningham, W. A., Macrae, C. N.
    Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 77, 102848
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  • Self-prioritization and the attentional systems

    Sui, J., Rotsthein, P.
    Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 29, pp. 148-152
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  • Habit and identity: Behavioral, cognitive, affective, and motivational facets of an integrated self

    Verplanken, B., Sui, J.
    Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10, 1504
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  • Cultural orientation of self-bias in perceptual matching

    Jiang, M., Wong, S. K., Chung, H. K., Sun, Y., Hsiao, J. H., Sui, J., Humphreys, G. W.
    Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10, 1469
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  • The central locus of self-prioritisation

    Janczyk, M., Humphries, G. W., Sui, J.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 1068-1083
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  • Functional and structural basis of the color-flavor incongruency effect in visual search

    Huang, J., Wang, F., Sui, J., Wan, X.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 127, pp. 66-74
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  • Automatic prioritization of self-referential stimuli in working memory

    Yin, S., Sui, J., Chiu, Y., Chen, A., Egner, T.
    Psychological Science, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 415-423
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  • Self-Association and Attentional Processing Regarding Perceptually Salient Items

    Sel, A., Sui, J., Shepherd, J., Humphreys, G.
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology, vol. 10, pp. 735-746
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  • The loneliness of me: The assumption of social disinterest and its worrying consequences in autism

    Moseley, R., Sui, J.
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 42, e101
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  • Praising others differently: Neuroanatomical correlates to individual differences in trait gratitude and elevation

    Liu, G., Zeng, G., Wang, F., Rotsthein, P., Peng, K., Sui, J.
    Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 1225-1234
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  • Self-reference in action: Arm-movement responses are enhanced in perceptual matching

    Desebrock, C., Sui, J., Spence, C.
    Acta Psychologica, vol. 190, pp. 258-266
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  • Self and team prioritisation effects in perceptual matching:: Evidence for a shared representation

    Enock, F., Sui, J., Hewstone, M., Humphreys, G. W.
    Acta Neuropsychologica, vol. 182, pp. 107-118
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  • Self-bias modulates saccadic control

    Yankouskaya, A., Palmer, D., Stolte, M., Sui, J., Humphreys, G. W.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 2577-2585
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  • Aging enhances cognitive biases to friends but not the self

    Sui, J., Humphreys, G. W.
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 24, pp. 2021-2030
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  • An anterior-posterior axis within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex separates self and reward

    Yankouskaya, A., Humphreys, G., Stolte, M., Stokes, M., Moradi, Z., Sui, J.
    Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 1859-1868
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  • Self as Object: Emerging Trends in Self Research

    Sui, J., Gu, X.
    Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 643-653
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  • In-group relevance facilitates learning across existing and new associations

    Moradi, Z. Z., Sui, J., Hewstone, M., Humphreys, G. W.
    European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 763-774
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  • Self-prioritization and perceptual matching: The effects of temporal construal

    Golubickis, M., Falben, J. K., Sahraie, A., Visokomogilski, A., Cunningham, W. A., Sui, J., Macrae, C. N.
    Memory & Cognition, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 1223-1239
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  • The self survives extinction: Self-association biases attention in patients with visual extinction

    Sui, J., Humphreys, G. W.
    Cortex, vol. 95, pp. 248-256
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  • Dissociating Biases towards the Self and Positive Emotion

    Stolte, M., Humphreys, G., Yankouskaya, A., Sui, J.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 1011-1022
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  • The ubiquitous self: What the properties of self-bias tell us about the self

    Sui, J., Humphreys, G. W.
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1396, no. 1, pp. 222-235
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  • The Neural Basis of Independence Versus Interdependence Orientations: A Voxel-Based Morphometric Analysis of Brain Volume

    Wang, F., Peng, K., Chechlacz, M., Humphreys, G. W., Sui, J.
    Psychological Science, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 519-529
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  • Applications of Capacity Analysis into Social Cognition Domain

    Yankouskaya, A., Sui, J., Moradi, Z., Rotshtein, P., Humphreys, G.
    Systems Factorial Technology: A Theory Driven Methodology for the Identification of Perceptual and Cognitive Mechanisms. Little, D. R., Altieri, N., Fific, M., Yang, C. (eds.). Academic Press, pp. 381-400, 20 pages
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  • The interaction between social saliency and perceptual saliency

    Liu, M., Sui, J.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 2419-2430
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  • Introduction to special issue: Social attention in mind and brain

    Sui, J., Humphreys, G.
    Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 7, no. 1-4, pp. 1-4
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  • Dynamically orienting your own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention

    Liu, M., He, X., Rotsthein, P., Sui, J.
    Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 7, no. 1-4, pp. 37-44
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  • Dataset of embodied perspective enhances self and friend-biases in perceptual matching

    Sun, Y., Fuentes, L. J., Humphreys, G., Sui, J.
    Data in brief, vol. 8, pp. 1374-1376
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  • Try to see it my way: Embodied perspective enhances self and friend-biases in perceptual matching

    Sun, Y., Fuentes, L. J., Humphreys, G. W., Sui, J.
    Cognition, vol. 153, pp. 108-117
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  • Negative mood disrupts self- and reward-biases in perceptual matching

    Sui, J., Ohrling, E., Humphreys, G. W.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 1438–1448
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  • Self-Reference Acts as a Golden Thread in Binding

    Sui, J.
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 482-483
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  • The differential outcomes procedure can overcome self-bias in perceptual matching

    Fuentes, L. J., Sui, J., Estévez, A. F., Humphreys, G. W.
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 23, pp. 451-458
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  • The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex modulates dialectical self-thinking

    Wang, F., Peng, K., Bai, Y., Li, R., Zhu, Y., Sun, P., Guo, H., Yuan, C., Rotshtein, P., Sui, J.
    Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 7, pp. 1-9
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  • Distinct and common aspects of physical and psychological self-representation in the brain: A meta-analysis of self-bias in facial and self-referential judgements

    Hu, C., Di, X., Eickhoff, S. B., Zhang, M., Peng, K., Guo, H., Sui, J.
    Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 61, pp. 197-207
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  • Expanding and retracting from the self: Gains and costs in switching self-associations

    Wang, H., Humphreys, G., Sui, J.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 247-256
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  • Attentional control and the self: The Self-Attention Network (SAN)

    Humphreys, G. W., Sui, J.
    Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 7, no. 1-4, pp. 5-17
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