Ph.D. 1996 (Psychology), East China Normal University;

M.A. 1992 (Psychology), Liaoning Normal University;

B.A. 1989 (Psychology), Liaoning Normal University.

Special Issues of Emotion and Memory (Masters level)

Emotional Psychology (Undergraduate level)

1. Peibing Liu, Zhaonian Hu, Renlai Zhou*(2026). Modulating inhibitory control in test-anxious individuals via tDCS: An ERP study. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 195(2026) 185-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2026.01.055.

2. Fangfang Long, Weiyi Zhou, Ting Zhang, Ziyuan Zhang, Renlai Zhou*(2023) . Effects of working memory training on different goals of cognitive reappraisal. Emotion. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001253.

3. Cenlou Hu, Jintao Song, Yan Hong, Renlai Zhou*(2023).  Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence for the attention capture and suppression failure of irrelevant singleton in test anxiety. Journal of Psychiatric Research 161 (2023) 386–392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.03.044.

4. Qiong Huang, Lulu Hou, Wenpei Zhang, Renlai Zhou*(2022). The dysregulation of top-down control in individuals with high test anxiety: A resting state fMRI study. Journal of Psychiatric Research 151 (2022) 649–656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.05.023. 

5. Jintao Song, Lei Chang, Renlai Zhou *(2021). Effect of Test Anxiety on Visual Working Memory Capacity Using Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Psychophysiology. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13965. 

6. Hua Wei, Renlai Zhou* (2020). High working memory load impairs selective attention: EEG signatures. Psychophysiology. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13643.

7. Deng, Y., Li, S., Zhou, R*., & Walter, M. (2018). Motivation but not valence modulates neuroticism dependent cingulate cortex and insula activity. Human Brain Mapping (2). DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23942.

8. Hou Luolu, Chen Lirong, Zhou Renlai* (2020). Altered reward processing in women with premenstrual syndrome: Evidence from ERPs and time-frequency analysis. Acta Psychologica Sinica, Vol. 52(6). 2020: 742-757. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2020.00742.

9. Peng Wanqing, Luo Wei, Zhou Renlai* (2019). HRV evidence for the improvement of emotion regulation in university students with depression tendency by working memory training. Acta Psychologica Sinica. Vol. 51 (6): 1-14. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2019.001.

10. Zhang Wenpei, Shen Qunlun, Song Jintao, Zhou Renlai* (2019). Classification of test-anxious individuals using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs): The effectiveness of machine learning algorithms. Acta Psychologica Sinica. Vol. 51, (10): 1116-1127. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2019.01116.