Wang Zhidan
学前教育Early Childhood Education
1.Cognitive Development
2.Social Learning/Imitation
3.Early Diagnosis and Intervention of Children with Autism
zwang19@jsnu.edu.cn
- 20142016Ph. D in Developmental Psychology, Georgia State University, USA
- 20112014Master of Arts in Psychology, Georgia State University, USA
- 20042008Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Qinghai Normal University, China
- 20162019Lecturer, Jiangsu Normal University
- 2019PresentAssociate Professor, Jiangsu Normal University
1. Academic Editor, PloS ONE, since 2018
2. Editorial Board Member, Acta Psychologica, since 2020
3. Member of the Board of Directors, Xuzhou Autism Research Society, 2019-2023
4. Ad Hoc Reviewer: Psychology Research and Behavior Management; SAGE Open; Frontiers in Psychology; Psychological Report; Routledge
2020–The third place of the 16th Jiangsu social science research award
2020–The best undergraduate thesis mentor, Jiangsu Normal University
2019– The first place of micro-class teaching award, Jiangsu Province
2019–The Excellent Internship Mentor, Jiangsu Normal University,
2017–The 2nd Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, International Travel Award
2017 –The 2017 Annual Meeting of Jiangsu Psychological Society, Young Psychologist Award
2015–Leszek Wegrzyn Scholarship, GSU
2015–Dissertation Stipend Award, GSU
2014–Travel Scholarship for Introduction to Computational Thinking Workshop, Bolivar, MO
2013–Cognitive Developmental Society, Student Travel Award
2013–Society for Research in Child Development, Student Travel Award
1. Wang, Z., Fong, F., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2021). Enhancing same-gender imitation by highlighting gender norms in Chinese preschool children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. doi: org/10.1111/bjdp.12356
2. Wang, L., Wang, Z*., & Wang, H. (2021). The motor disorder of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and its Neural Mechanism. Advances in Psychological Science.
3. Xie L., Wang, Z*., Zhou, Y., & Fong, F. (2020). Relationship between SES and preschoolers’ sociality: The mediating effect of household screen media experience. Early Children Development and Care. doi: org/10.1080/03004430.2020.1838498
4. Wang, Z*., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2020). Imitation in Chinese preschool children: Influence of prior self-experience and pedagogical cues on the imitation of novel acts in a non-Western culture. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:662.
5. Wei, Y., Wang, Z*., Kang, Q., & Zhou, R. (2020). A clinical study on deficits of imitation in patients with autism spectrum disorder. Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. 35, , 1086−1090.
6. Zhu, X., Wang, Z*., Zhou, R., & Zhou, A. (2020). Socioeconomic status influences children’s imitation of object categorization rule. Psychological Research, 13, 16−24.
7. Wang, L., Wang, Z*., & Wang, C. (2020). Early abnormal brain structural development and its neural mechanisms of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Modern Special Education, 3, 55−61.
8. Wang, Z*., Zhu, X., Fong, F., Meng J., & Wang, H. (2020). Over-imitation of children with cochlear implants or hearing aids in comparison with children with normal-hearing. Infant and Young Children. 33, 84−92.
9. Wang, Z*., He, X., Wang, H., & Zhou, A. (2019). A comparison of overimitation in children with hearing impairments and normal-hearing children. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 27, 1092−1097.
10. Wei, Y., Wang, Z*., & Liu, W. (2019). Analysis of the hot topics in the educational research of Autistic children in China. Journal of Modern Special Education, 2, 31−36.
11. Wang, Z*., Williamson, R. A., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2018). Preschool physics: Using the invisible property of weight in causal reasoning tasks. PloS ONE, 13(3): e0192054
12. Wang, Z., Bu, M., Li, Y., & Wang, H*. (2018). Task-specific variables influence preschool children’s faithful versus selective imitation. Social Behavior and Personality, 46, 1409−1420.
13. Wang, Z., Zhou, A*., Zhang, R., Bu, M., Li, Y., Wang, H., & Williamson, R. A. (2018). A cross-cultural comparison between American and Chinese children's inductive reasoning about weight. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 12, 1381−1389.
14. Zheng, M., Han, Z., & Wang, Z. (2018). An experimental study of the effect of social communication on preschoolers’ learning by imitation. Chinese Journal of Special Education, 5, 80−85.
15. Wang, Z*., & Wang, H. (2017). A comparison of English and Mandarin-speaking preschool children’s imitation of motion events. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1081.
16. Zheng, M., Han, Z., & Wang, Z. (2016). Efficiency or fidelity first: A discussion of preschool children’s imitative learning mechanism. Advances in Psychological Science, 24(5), 716−724.
17. Wang, Z*., Meltzoff, A. N., & Williamson, R. A. (2015). Social learning promotes understanding of the physical world: Preschool children’s imitation of weight sorting. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 136, 82−91.
18.Wang, Z*., Williamson, R. A., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2015). Imitation as a mechanism in cognitive development: A cross-cultural investigation of 4-year-old children’s rule learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 562.