Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

* Corresponding author; Ɨ Co-first author

2026

  1. Li, G., Gu, C., Cheng, Z., Lv, K., Xu, J., Huang, K., Xu, S., Wang, Y., & Sun, Y.* (2026). Neuroticism and adolescent depression in China: A chain mediation model of interpersonal sensitivity and loneliness. BMC Psychology, 14.

2025

  1. Lian, W., Zhu, X., Xu, T., Fan, L., & Sun, Y.* (2025). Emotional granularity and cognitive reappraisal affect social anxiety and interpersonal relationships in adolescents: A Bayesian network analysis. Depression and Anxiety, 2025(1), 8658973.
  2. Depression in left-behind adolescents from single-parent families: A nomogram based on multidimensional risk factors. (2025). Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 19(1).
  3. Xie, W., Sun, Y.*, Xiang, C., Hu, S., & Lv, K. (2025). Mitigation of problem behaviors among migrant children in China: A chain mediation model. Social Behavior and Personality, 53(3), e13377.
  4. Sun, Y., Lv, K., Xie, W., & Wang, Y. (2025). The effectiveness of brief mindfulness training in reducing test anxiety among high school students. BMC Psychology, 13, 205.
  5. Lv, K.Ɨ, Xu, S.Ɨ, Sun, Y.Ɨ, Zhou, R., Xu, H., He, J., et al. (2025). How individual BMI affected general cognitive ability in young adults: A moderated chain mediation model. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1559582.
  6. Huang, R.Ɨ, Yuan, Y.Ɨ, Shen, H.Ɨ, Sun, Y.Ɨ, Wang, Z., Qiu, H., et al. (2025). Exploring the predictive role of personal identity in trait anxiety: Network and Bayesian evidence from Chinese college students. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 1459306.

2024

  1. Xu, S.Ɨ, Lv, K.Ɨ, Sun, Y.Ɨ, Chen, T., He, J., Xu, J., & Xu, H. (2024). Altered structural node of default mode network mediated general cognitive ability in young adults with obesity. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 135, 111132.
  2. Xu, J., Sun, Y., Zhu, X., Pan, S., Tong, Z., & Jiang, K. (2024). Tactile discrimination as a diagnostic indicator of cognitive decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A narrative review. Heliyon, 10.
  3. Huang, J., Yang, Z., Wang, Q., Liu, J., Xie, W., & Sun, Y.* (2024). The relationship between family cohesion and bedtime procrastination among Chinese college students: The chain mediating effect of coping styles and mobile phone addiction. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 250.

2022

  1. Yan, W., Ruan, Q., Fu, X., & Sun, Y.* (2022). Perceived emotions and AU combinations in ambiguous facial expressions. Pattern Recognition Letters, 164, 74–80.

2021

  1. Wang, Y., Chen, Y., Sun, Y., Zhang, K., Wang, N., Sun, Y., Lin, X., Wang, J., & Luo, F. (2021). Gender differences in the benefits of meditation training on attentional blink. Current Psychology.
  2. Xie, W., & Sun, Y.* (2021). Big data for precise intervention mechanism of public health events. Chinese Medicine and Society, 34, 119–123.

2020

  1. Wu, D., Zhang, P., Li, C., Liu, N., Jia, W., Chen, G., Ren, W., Sun, Y., & Xiao, W. (2020). Perceptual learning at higher trained cutoff spatial frequencies induces larger visual improvements. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 265.

2019

  1. Zhou, X., Fu, Q., Rose, M., & Sun, Y. (2019). Which matters more in incidental category learning: Edge-based versus surface-based features. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 183.

2017

  1. Wei, X., Sun, Y., & Luo, F. (2017). Impaired spinal glucocorticoid receptor signaling contributes to the attenuating effect of depression on mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia in rats with neuropathic pain. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 11, 145a.

2012

  1. Sun, Y., Chen, S., & Zhang, J. (2012). On the effect of the lack of the auditory channel and the use of sign language on the time-space metaphor in deaf students. Chinese Journal of Special Education, 10, 20–26.

Conference Presentations

  1. Sun, Y. (2025). The mind by the numbers: Exploring the indispensable role of statistics in psychological research. Oral, International Workshop on Statistics, Chonnam National University, South Korea.
  2. Sun, Y., Lv, K., Xie, W., & Hu, K. (Dec 2024). A near-infrared hyperscan study of the effects of mechanical massage combined with mindfulness on group creativity. Oral, 17th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2024), Bangkok, Thailand.
  3. Sun, Y., Lv, K., Xie, W., & Hu, K. (Jul 2024). Does less knowledge lead to more bias? Investigating metacognition’s role in self-assessment. Poster, ASSC 27, Tokyo, Japan.
  4. Sun, Y., & Fu, Q. (Jun 2019). Unconscious perceptual sequence learning revealed by a breaking continuous flash suppression paradigm. Poster, ASSC 23, London, Canada.
  5. Sun, Y., & Fu, Q. (Jun 2018). Subliminal perceptual sequence learning leads to feature-based information but not to abstract-based. Poster, ASSC 22, Krakow, Poland.
  6. Sun, Y., Fu, Q., & Sun, Y. (Jun 2017). Perceptual sequence learning without awareness. Poster, ASSC 21, Beijing, China.

Books & Others

  1. Deputy Editor-in-Chief, “Be the Master of Your Emotions” book series
  2. Computer software copyright: iRest Smart Learning Platform (second author)
  3. Registered works: Mindfulness Walking Training Program for Type 2 Diabetes Patients (textual work, second author); Mindfulness Meditation Audio Program v1 (audio work, second author)
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