Academic Committee
Ellen Langer
Dr. Ellen Langer is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University where she was the first woman to be tenured in the department. She has been described as the “mother of mindfulness” and has written extensively on the illusion of control, mindful aging, stress, decision-making, and health. She is the founder of The Langer Mindfulness Institute and consults with organizations to foster mindful leadership, innovation, strategy and work/life integration.
Ma Shufeng
Dr. Ma Shufeng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Educational Psychology at East China Normal University. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research centers on children’s cognitive, social and language development in classroom contexts, specifically as children participate in collaborative group or learn through interactive instructional methods.
Zhao Xin
Dr. Xin (Alice) Zhao is an Assistant Professor(Chenhui Scholar) in Department of Educational Psychology at East China Normal University . She is broadly interested in how children across cultures reason about and learn from the social world. Specifically, her current research centers around children's developing understanding of choice and constraints across cultures, as well as its implications on children's behavioral regulation and social evaluations. She received her B.S. from Tsinghua University in 2014 and then her PhD from Cornell University in 2019.
Geoff Bird
Dr. Geoff Bird began by studying imitation and its neural mechanisms while completing a PhD at University College London. After this, he moved to the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, also at UCL, to investigate various aspects of social cognition in adults with autism spectrum disorder.
In 2017, he moved to the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, wherehe hope to continue the research on social cognition, interoception, and related topics.
