XT (Xiao Tian) Wang is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Dakota

X.T. (Xiao-Tian) Wang

王晓田

Tel: (605) 677-5183 / 677-5351

PREOFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor (tenured), Psychology Department, University of South Dakota, USA,

2003 – Present (Associate Professor, 1998-2003, Assistant Professor, 1993 to 1998)

Visiting Professor, GuangHua School of Management, Peking University, China, 2007, 2004

Visiting Scientist, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, 2004 (summer)

Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Peking University, China, 2003 (summer)

Visiting Scholar, Department of Management, School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2000 to 2001

Visiting Scientist, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, 1998 – 1999

EDUCATION

BS in experimental medicine from Beijing Medical University in 1982

MS in pathology and physiology from Jinan University in 1985,

MA in experimental psychology in 1991

Ph.D in cognitive psychology in 1993 from New Mexico State University

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Board Member Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2001- present

Peer Expert Referee Chinese Natural Science Foundation, 2004-present

Expert Reviewer Acta Paychologica Sinica, 2006-present

Guest Editor Journal of Bioeconomics on Evolutionary Psychology, Ecological Rationality and Economics, 2001-2002.

BBS (Behavioral and Brain Sciences) Associate, 1999-present

NSF Review Panelist for the HSD (Human and Social Dynamics) competition, 2007

Review Panelist IACMR (International Association for Chinese Management research) 2006, 2006 conferences

Committee Chair for the Postdoctoral Award Competition, Human Behavioral and Evolution Society, June, 2007

Session Chair, Human Behavioral and Evolution Society meeting, July, 2004

Committee Chair: The Poster Award Committee, Human Behavioral and Evolution Society annual conference, July, 2004

Faculty sponsor, Poster presentation at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, 2003, March.

Guest Editor, Journal of Bioeconomics for two special issues on Bioeconomics, Law, and Evolutionary Psychology, 2001-2002.

Co-organizer, Bioeconomics and Evolutionary Psychology Workshop for the European Public Choice Society, Paris, April, 2001.

Review and Screening Board member, Marco Polo International Internship Project, March, 2001.

Program-Chair, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June, 1994

Director of Village Star program (an assistantship program for improving elementary education in rural China)

Reviewer,

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Behavioural Processes, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Current Anthropology, Ethology and Sociobiology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Bioeconomics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Social Psychology, Marco Polo International Internship Program, Memory and Cognition, Motivation and Emotion, Nuffield Foundation, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Psychological Science, Risk Analysis, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The American Statistician, Thinking and Reasoning, US National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, US National Science Foundation

RESEARCH INTERESTS

¨ Human decision making and decision biases in social, organizational, political

and cultural contexts

¨ Risk perception, and risk management

¨ Probability judgment and moral reasoning

¨ Evolutionary, ecological and social rationality of decision making under risk

¨ Framing and cue use in risky choices

¨ Modeling decision making in terms of risk distributions and reference points

¨ Managerial decision making and social networking

¨ Group decision-making and economic games

¨ Brain and somatic mechanisms of risky decision making

GRANT ACTIVITIES

Principal Investigator

National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9876527

James McDonnell Foundation, Grant 99-55 EE-GLO-04

Research Incentive Award, USD Office of Research.

Governor's Faculty Awards, Board of Regents, State of South Dakota

Direct Allocation Grant, Hong Kong Research Grant Council

MacArthur Foundation, Risk Research Sub-grant FP-19307433049

Co-Investigator

Chinese Natural Science Foundation, NSFC 70371003.

Chinese Natural Science Foundation, Summer Research Exchange Fund

Chinese National Natural Science Foundation Grant G0106

PUBLICATIONS

Professor Wang’s research has been published in various journals including

Acta Psychologica Sinica (心理学报)

American Behavioral Scientist

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Brain Behavior and Evolution

Child Development

Chinese Psychological Science (心理科学)

Cognition

Cognition and Emotion

Communication Quarterly

Ethology and Sociobiology

Evolution and Human Behavior

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Journal of Bioeconomics

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal (Journal of Psychology, Russian Acad Sci)

Psychological Science

HONORS AND RECOGNITION

He is the winner of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society’s 1992 Young Investigator Award and the Southwestern Psychological Association’s 1993 Graduate Paper Competition Award. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and was a guest editor for the Journal of Bioeconomics.

He has been selected by the Cambridge International Biographical Center as one of the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21^st Century. His biography has been included in the Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who Among American Teachers, and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

Professor Wang’s research can be found in scientific journals as well as in popular print (e.g., Science News) and online media (e.g., Yahoo News, Science Daily, and Wikipedia).