Dr. R. (Rui) Sun
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
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Profile
I am now a postdoc researcher at Department of Social Psychology, UvA, working with Dr. Disa Sauter.
Before coming to UvA, I completed my PhD in social psychology with Dr. Alex Kogan at University of Cambridge (Jan 2018), my MRes of Cognitive Neuroscience with Dr. Sarah White at University College London (Sep 2013), and my BS in Psychology with Prof. Shihui Han at Peking University (July 2012).
I am now working on the positive emotion experience across cultures.
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Research Interests
My research interests include: Wellbeing, Emotion, Culture, Prosociality, Social Media, Social Class
I use both quantitative methods (big data analysis, questionnaire, online and lab experiments, experience sampling method on smart phones) and qualitative method (such as theme coding interviews, content analysis) to research on these topics. I am specifically interested in applying computational methods in studying human wellbeing and emotions across different social classes and cultures.
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Publications
2021
- Kamiloglu, R. G., Cong, Y., Sun, R., & Sauter, D. A. (Accepted/In press). Emotions Across Cultures. In L. Al-Shawaf, & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions Oxford University Press. https://osf.io/9e3sn/
- Sun, R., & Sauter, D. A. (Accepted/In press). Sustained stress reduces the age advantages in emotional experience of older adults. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h2fsq
- Sun, R., Hou, W. K., Hui, B. P. H., Siu, N. Y. F., Engels, T. F. S., & Sauter, D. A. (2021). Perception and evaluation of 23 positive emotions in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.579474
2020
Cordaro, D. T., Sun, R., Kamble, S., Hodder, N., Monroy, M., Cowen, A., Bai, Y., & Keltner, D. (2020). The recognition of 18 Facial-Bodily Expressions Across Nine Cultures. Emotion, 20(7), 1292-1300. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000576 [details]- Sauter, D. A., Crasborn, O., Engels, T., Kamiloğlu, R. G., Sun, R., Eisner, F., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Human emotional vocalisations can develop in the absence of auditory learning. Emotion, 20(8), 1435-1445. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000654 [details]
- Sun, R., Vuillier, L., Deakin, J., & Kogan, A. (2020). Oxytocin Increases Emotional Theory of Mind, But Only for Low Socioeconomic Status Individuals. Heliyon, 6(3), [e03540]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03540 [details]
2019
- Pavarini, G., Sun, R., Mahmoud, M., Cross, I., Schnall, S., Fischer, A., Deakin, J., Ziauddeen, H., Kogan, A., & Vuillier, L. (2019). The role of oxytocin in the facial mimicry of affiliative vs. non-affiliative emotions. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 109, [104377]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104377 [details]
- Sun, R. (2019). Socioeconomic Status Predicts Who Initiates and Who Awaits Social Connections. Manuscript in preparation.
- Sun, R., Vuillier, L., Hui, B. P. H., & Kogan, A. (2019). Caring helps: Trait empathy is related to better coping strategies and differs in the poor versus the rich. PLoS ONE, 14(3), [e0213142]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213142 [details]
2018
- Cordaro, D. T., Sun, R., Keltner, D., Kamble, S., Huddar, N., & McNeill, G. (2018). Universals and cultural variations in 22 emotional expressions across five cultures. Emotion, 18(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000302 [details]
2018
- Vuillier, L., Wood Brooks, A., Gruber, J., Sun, R., Norton, M. I., Samson, M. J., Simon-Thomas, E., Piff, P., Fan, S., Quoidbach, J., Gorintin, C., Fleming, P., Bejar, A., & Keltner, D. (2018). Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness. (Harvard Business School working paper; No. 18-083). Harvard Business School. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-083_f3507e25-1e7c-4840-a97c-6e893c0a98fe.pdf [details]
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Cordaro, D. T., Sun, R., Kamble, S., Hodder, N., Monroy, M., Cowen, A., Bai, Y., & Keltner, D. (2020). The recognition of 18 Facial-Bodily Expressions Across Nine Cultures. Emotion, 20(7), 1292-1300.