Prof. Dr. Jialin Ma | Educational Psychology | Best Researcher Award
Henan University | Best Researcher Award
Prof. Dr. Jialin Ma is a distinguished cognitive psychologist whose research explores the intricate mechanisms of action memory, face recognition, prosopagnosia, and cognitive processes underlying educational involution. His interdisciplinary approach combines behavioral analysis, eye-tracking, and event-related potentials (ERP) to uncover how individuals perceive, encode, and recall information. With a growing academic portfolio of 13 publications, 34 citations, and an h-index of 4, his works in leading journals such as Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processing, International Journal of Psychology, and Behavioral Sciences contribute significantly to the understanding of facial cognition and learning behavior. As an active educator and academic leader, he teaches courses in Educational Psychology and Cognitive Processes and Learning, while serving as an editor for Psychological Research and a council member of the Student Development Professional Committee of the Henan Education Association. Recognized with multiple accolades, including the Outstanding Mentor Award and Excellent Scientific Paper Award
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Featured Publications
Ma, J., Tang, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, X., Li, Y., & Hou, Y. (2025). Development and validation of the academic involution behavior scale for college students. Children and Youth Services Review, 159, 108652.
Zhang, R., Yang, B., Li, Y., & Ma, J. (2025). Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia tend to focus more evenly on facial features. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(9), Article 17470218251327141.
Bu, H., Wang, X., Lei, G., Ye, X., Zhang, F., Li, Y., & Ma, J. (2024). Enactment encoding promotes relative temporal order memory. Cognitive Processing, 25(11), Article 01206.
Ma, J., Huang, J., & Li, Y. (2024). The other‐ethnicity effect in facial recognition of Tibetan and Han individuals: Evidence from behavioural and eye‐movement data. International Journal of Psychology, 59(10), Article 13141.
Ma, J., Zhang, R., & Li, Y. (2023). Age weakens the other-race effect among Han subjects in recognizing own- and other-ethnicity faces. Behavioral Sciences, 13(8), 675.