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Cartography of the Mind: How Your Brain Maps Out Your Social Networks
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How does your brain map out social networks? Discover the neuroscience behind our mental maps of relationships, and why adaptation—not accuracy—matters most.
The Dual-Route Model: Bringing Conceptual Influences Back in Facial Trait Perception
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A dual-route model of facial trait perception integrating bottom-up perceptual cues and top-down conceptual knowledge to explain consensus and variability in social judgments.
news
Participant Recruitment - Couples’ Behaviors Study
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Study how couples coordinate their division of house chores, the emotions involved in this process, and how it shapes individual and relationship well-being! 
Talk at SANS 2025: Seeing Faces Visually and Conceptually
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Presented ‘Seeing Faces Visually and Conceptually’ in Symposium 3: Single-Neuron Mechanisms of Face Perception in the Human Medial Temporal Pole at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
Starting MS in Computer Science
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Excited to share that I’ll be starting my M.S. in Computer Science in September 2025.
Trainee Blitz Talk at SANS 2026
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Presented a trainee blitz talk at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
Seeking Postdoctoral Opportunities (2027 Start)
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I am actively seeking postdoctoral positions with a 2027 start date, with interests in person perception, social cognition, network science, social connection, and neuroimaging.
portfolio
Deep Learning Health Prediction
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Designing neural networks for biological age prediction achieving 4.09 years MAE, revealing psychological factors’ impact on aging
Information Spread on Social Media
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Analyzing 20M+ multilingual social media posts to track misinformation spread and predict viral content
NLP Workshop for Psychology Students
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Comprehensive educational resources teaching natural language processing techniques to psychology researchers
Time-Series Analysis of Cultural Sentiment
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Training language models on 3.5B tokens to analyze 70+ years of news and track moral attitudes across cultures
VisualGPT: Multimodal AI for User Perception
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Developing dual-route models that integrate language and vision to predict user impressions, achieving +20% accuracy improvement
publications
Contrasting the Effects of Mortality Salience and Future Time Limitation on Goal Prioritization in Older and Younger Adults
Published in Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 2019
Recommended citation: Fung, H. H, Chu, S. T. W., Jiang, D., Chen, A. X., & Ng, C. C. (2019). Contrasting the Effects of Mortality Salience and Future Time Limitation on Goal Prioritization in Older and Younger Adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz133
Three Ways that Ageing Affects Women Differently from Men: Menopause, Changes in Physical Appearance and Caregiving
Published in Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women, 2020
Recommended citation: Chen, A. X.*, Tsang, V. H. L.*, Wong, J. T. K.*, Fung, H. H., & Ayalon, L. (2020). Three Ways that Ageing Affects Women Differently from Men: Menopause, Changes in Physical Appearance and Caregiving. In Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women. doi:10.1017/9781108561716.012
Psychological factors substantially contribute to biological aging: Evidence from the aging rate in Chinese older adults
Published in Psychology and Aging, 2022
Recommended citation: Galkin, F., Kochetov, K., Koldasbayeva, D., Fung, H. H, Chen, A. X., & Zhavoronkov, A. (2022). Psychological factors substantially contribute to biological aging: Evidence from the aging rate in Chinese older adults. Psychology and Aging. doi:10.1037/pag0000696
Unraveling moral and emotional discourses on social media: a study of three cases
Published in Information, Communication & Society, 2023
Recommended citation: Chen, Y., Chen, A. X., Yu, H., & Sun, S. (2023) Unraveling moral and emotional discourses on social media: a study of three cases, Information, Communication & Society. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2023.2246551
Disentangling Stereotypes towards Older Age Groups: Evidence from Factorial Survey Experiments in China and the USA
Published in Gerontology, 2023
Recommended citation: Mai, C., Chen, D., Olivos, F., & Chen, A. X. (2023). Disentangling Stereotypes towards Older Age Groups: Evidence from Factorial Survey Experiments in China and the USA. Gerontology, 1–24. doi:10.1159/000534680
Moral attitudes towards effort and efficiency: A comparison between American and Chinese history
Published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024
Recommended citation: Chen, A. X., Sun, S., & Yu, H. (2024). Moral attitudes towards effort and efficiency: A comparison between American and Chinese history. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1–14. doi:10.1057/s41599-024-03603-3
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Age Bias in People’s Daily Across 72 Years
Published in , 2026
Recommended citation: Cao, J.*, Chen, A. X.*, Mai, C.*, & Fung, H. H. (submitted). Age Bias in People's Daily Across 72 Years. doi:10.31234/osf.io/2bf56
A dual-route model of face processing: Dissociating the perceptual and conceptual contributions
Published in , 2026
Recommended citation: Chen, A. X., Cao, R, Lin, C., Wang, S., & Yu, H. (in prep). A dual-route model of face processing: Dissociating the perceptual and conceptual contributions.
talks
Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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