Qinyu Xiao, B.A. M.Phil.

Universitätsstrasse 7 (NIG)

1010 Vienna 

Room: D0608

qinyu.xiao@univie.ac.at


CV

Qinyu is a University Assistant (Praedoc) and Ph.D. candidate with the Social and Economic Psychology Group. He completed his bachelor’s (with majors in psychology and philosophy) and master’s (with a specialisation in social psychology) studies in Hong Kong before coming to Vienna for his Ph.D. in August 2022. He studies cooperation in social dilemmas, intergroup conflicts, and social institutions, with surveys, behavioural experiments, and modelling approaches and insights from a wide range of disciplines including behavioural economics, social psychology, and evolutionary anthropology. He advocates for transparent, replicable, and generalisable science.

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Publications

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Xiao Q, Columbus S, Böhm R. Self-serving intergroup aggression escalates and prevails over parochial cooperation. Evolution and Human Behavior. 2026;47(1). Epub 2026. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106801

Xiao Q. The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2025;4. doi: 10.1038/s44159-025-00498-y

Devolder K, Rottman J, Xiao Q, Kahane G, Caviola L, Yip L et al. Will human-animal chimeras cause moral confusion? Exploring public attitudes. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 2025;22:733-744. doi: 10.1007/s11673-024-10413-4

Hall B, Schmidt K, Wagge J, Lewis SC, Weissgerber SC, Kiunke F et al. Registered Replication Report: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri et al. (2015). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2024 Oct 1;7(4). doi: 10.1177/25152459241267902

Kasper M, Böhm R, Xiao Q, Columbus S. Individuals benefit individual out-group members rather than harm in-group members. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023 Mar 21;120(12):e2301107120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2301107120

Jin H, Wang Q, Yang YF, Zhang H, Gao M, Jin S et al. The Chinese Open Science Network (COSN): Building an Open Science Community From Scratch. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2023 Mar;6(1):1-17. Epub 2023 Jan 1. doi: 10.1177/25152459221144986

Buchanan EM, Lewis SC, Paris B, Forscher PS, Pavlacic JM, Beshears JE et al. The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data. 2023 Feb;10(1):87. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration. Erratum: A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2022) 119 (e2111091119) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111091119). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2022 Sept 6;119(36):e2213828119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2213828119

Wang K, Goldenberg A, Dorison CA, Miller JK, Uusberg A, Lerner JS et al. Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour. 2022 Aug 24;6(9):1318-1319. Epub 2022 Aug 24. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01441-4

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