Dr. Xiaofei Xie is now a professor at School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University，China. She has been focusing on decision making, risk analysis for nearly 20 years. At present, she leads the Risk Perception and Decision Making Lab of Peking University, supervising over 20 students and fellows. In recent years, she is mainly interested in altruistic behaviors, maximization, and self-other differences in decision making.
List of Publications
Papers in recent years
Li, H., Yang, Y., Cui, T., & Xie, X.* (2024). You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 115, 104642.
Li, H., Xie, X.*, Zou, Y., & Wang, T. (2024). “Take action, buddy!”: Self–other differences in passive risk-taking for health and safety. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 110, 104542.
Wang, T., Shen, S., Cheng, Z., & Xie, X.* (2024). From surviving to thriving: How preferences shift in helping resource allocation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 30(4), 571–585.
Lou, Y., Wang, T., Li, H., Hu, T., & Xie, X.* (2023). Blame others but hurt yourself: Blaming or sympathetic attitudes toward victims of COVID-19 and how it alters one’s health status. Psychology & Health, 39(13), 1877–1898.
Li, H., & Xie, X.* (2023). Absolute outcome or relative standing? The difference between making decisions for the self and other. Current Psychology, 42, 26065–26078.
Li, H., He, X., Hu, T.-Y., & Xie, X.* (2023). Past lesson works: SARS memory moderates the relationship between media use and protective behavior during COVID-19 pandemic in China. Journal of Health Psychology, 28(3), 203–215.
Wang, H., & Xie, X.* (2023). The bright side of dispositional greed: Empathy for pain. Current Psychology, 42(9), 7012-7019.
Zhu, M., Wang, J., Xie, X.* (2022). Maximize when valuable: The domain specificity of maximizing decision-making style, Judgment and Decision Making, 17(3), 574-597.
Chen, Z., Zhu, M., Zheng, L., & Xie, X.* (2022). Personal wisdom and quality of life among Chinese older adults. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(7), 1646–1658
Jimenez, W. P., Hu, X., Garden, R., & Xie, X. (2022). Toward a More PERMA(nent) Conceptualization of Worker Well-Being? A Cross-Cultural Study of the Workplace PERMA Profiler. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 21(2), 94-100.
Wang, Y., & Xie, X.* (2021). Halfway to My Request Is Not Halfway to My Heart: Underestimating Appreciation for Partial Help. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(10), 1466–1479.
Jia, H., Zhong, R., & Xie, X.* (2021). Helping others makes me fit better: Effects of helping behavior by newcomers and coworker-attributed motives on newcomers’ adjustment. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36, 401–416.
Li, H., Yang, Y., Liu, D., & Xie, X.* (2021). Risk preferences in self-other decisions: The effect of payoff allocation framing. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34, 247–260.
Zhang, H., Wang, H., Sun, J., & Xie, X.* (2021). Adding insult to injury: Perceived inequity modulates pain perception. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(2), 194–204.
Wang, Y., Ge, J., Zhang, H., Wang, H., Xie, X.* (2020). Altruistic behaviors relieve physical pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 950-958.
Li, H., Song, Y., & Xie, X.* (2020). Altruistic or Selfish? Responses When Safety is Threatened Depend on Childhood Socioeconomic Status. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 1001-1016.
Miao, P., Chen, S., Li, J., & Xie, X.* (2020). Decreasing Consumers’ Risk Perception of Food Additives by Knowledge Enhancement in China. Food Quality and Preference, 79, article 103781.
Miao, P., Li, X., & Xie, X.* (2020). Hard to Bear: State Boredom Increases Financial Risk Taking. Social Psychology, 51(3), 157-170.
Li, W., Wang, H., Xie, X., & Li, J. (2019). Neural mediation of greed personality trait on economic risk-taking. eLife, 8
Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Li, J., & Xie, X.* (2019). Light in darkness: Low self-control promotes altruism in crises. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 41, 201–213.
Lu, J., & Xie, X.* (2019). Self–other differences in change predictions. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 18, 291–300.
Zhu, D.*, Li, X., Yang, S., & Xie, X.* (2019). More accurate or less accurate: How does maximization orientation affect task completion prediction? Personality and Individual Differences, 137, 173-183.