Jing Qian

Dr. Qian is trained in Cognitive Psychology, with an emphasis on mathematical models of memory and cognition. She has worked on the intersection between economics, psychology and marketing. In her doctoral thesis, she developed a general mathematical model of contextual judgment, which have been applied to both consumer price perception in marketing and wage satisfaction in labor economics. During her two-year postdoctoral research at Max Planck Institute in Berlin, she worked closely with cognitive scientists, psychologists, economists, biologists, engineers, and sociologists in a truly inter-disciplinary environment, on the understanding of rationality and human decision making. These experiences formed her academic identity of addressing research questions with multi-disciplinary insights as well as unconventional quantitative rigor. In 2008-2009, she joined the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia University, working with Prof. Eric Johnson in the department of marketing and Prof. Elke Weber in the department of Management. They worked on understanding the cognitive mechanisms that influence decision making, especially those fundamental to Behavioral Economics. In measuring Crystalized and Fluid Intelligence, they created a diverse repertoire containing classical neuropsychological tests and cognitive games. Dr. Qian joined the Psychology Department at Tsinghua University as an assistant professor in 2009. Her current research focuses on dynamic decision making in groups and social cognition.

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

• Psychology of judgement and decision making
• Human factors in information processing and decision strategies
• Statistics, psychometrics, and quantitative modeling
• Mathematical models of economic and social judgement
• Marketing management and consumer behavior, Neuroeconomics

Honors And Awards

• Poster Prize in Bounded Rationality Summer School, Berlin, Germany, August 2004.
• Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellow, October 2001 – July 2004.
• Overseas Reasearch Scheme Award, October 2001 – July 2004.
• Grindley Grant for conference attendance at Psychonomics and JDM Annual Meetings (awarded by Experimental Psychology Society), November 2003.

Companies

• Associate Professor Tsinghua University (2016)
• Assistant Professor Tsinghua University (2009)
• research scientist Columbia Business School (2008 — 2010)
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for Human Development (2005 — 2007)
• Ph.D. University of Warwick (2001 — 2005)

Education

• Postdoctoral research MPI (2005 — 2007)
• Ph.D. University of Warwick (2001 — 2005)
• Bei Da Fu Zhong (1995 — 1997)