Know Thyself

If (hu)man is the measure of all things, what is the measure of human?

Meta-Self Lab

School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University

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Welcome to the Meta-Self Lab!

The lab is led by Prof., Dr., Hu Chuan-Peng at the School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. We are interested in how human beings process self-related information, with a “3M” approach: meta-science, (cognitive) modeling, and (psychological) measurement. We are also trying to apply the “3M” approach to the mental health issues in the real world.

Openness, transparency, and reproducibility are core values in our research. We keep learning new methods and and adopting new practices to make our research as rigorous and robust as possible.

Equality is another core value of our lab. We are dedicated to fostering a culture where everyone involved is respected and every idea is valued.

Research Fields

Metascience

the use of scientific methodology to study science itself

Self-Cognition

A knowledge representation that contains knowledge about us

Modeling

a mathematical model that embodies a set of statistical assumptions concerning the generation of sample data

Team

Hu Chuan-Peng

the Principal Investigator of Chuanpeng Lab

Wanke Pan

Sep. 2023 ~ Now
Beneath the hanging rainbow in the sky, the joyful strong wind comes from the sea.

Dongxu Lv

Sep. 2024 ~ Now
Live my life to the fullest.

Siyu Chen

Sep. 2024 ~ Now
The unexamined life is not worth living.

Siyu Wu

Sep. 2024 ~ Now
Dance to work

Sun Xinru

Sep. 2024 ~ Now
Have the freedom and the courage to be yourself

Xueyang Zhu

Sep. 2024 ~ Now
feel something you obviously did

Zhenxin Cai

Sep. 2024 ~ Now
There is only one heroism in the world, to see the world as it is and to love it.

Hejia Sun

Sep. 2020 ~ Jun. 2024
I’m living in a fascinating planet.

Jiachen Liu

Jun. 2022 ~ Jun. 2024
The former advertising director, who loves digital,film and design, is now working hard for user research.

Shuting Sun

Sep. 2021 ~ Jun. 2024
Interested in differences between people and brain plasticity.Love exploring new things.

Jiaqi Wu

Sep. 2023 ~ Now
Keep it simple and stupid.

Ruizhe Zhang

Sep. 2023 ~ Now
The proactive person enjoys the world first.

Shanshan ZHU

Sep. 2023 ~ Now
Life is a wilderness, not a track

Zhipeng Qiu (Cesare)

Sep. 2023 ~ Now
Live in the moment.

Chennan Wu

Sep. 2019 ~ Jun. 2023
I’m a 2019 undergraduate student at School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, a time lag effect believer, a stable ISTJ. I approach life with an experiencial mindset.

Jiachen Ma

Sep. 2021 ~ Jun. 2023
a curious student, fascinated by how the mind works

Nan Wang

Sep. 2019 ~ Jun. 2023
to study language, mind, and cognition in its entirety

Yuanrui Zheng

Sep. 2019 ~ Jun. 2023
I don’t mind not knowing. It doesn’t scare me. - Richard Feynman

Yue Hu

Sep. 2022 ~ Jun. 2023
Current research: perceptual decision-making

Jiahui Wen

Sep. 2022 ~ Now
Take it easy and keep it going.

Helen (Zheng Liu)

Oct. 2020 ~ Jul. 2022
Laziness is the true mother of coding.

Chenghao Zhou

Nov. 2020 ~ Dec. 2022
Now studying cognitive psychology at NYU. Interested in decision making and human interaction.

Jixing Yin

Jan. 2016 ~ Dec. 2022
RA at West China Hospital of Sichuan University

Liuqing Tian

Jun. 2022 ~ Now
I am curious about new things. Reading books is my favourite activity.

Yikang Liu

Sep. 2022 ~ Now
I love cats

Yuqing Cai

Mar. 2018 ~ Dec. 2022
a doctoral student at Utrecht University, study visual perception, attention, and pupil measurement; also interested in socio-economic status and open science related research

Weibiao Liu

Jul. 2022 ~ Now
Grit is my trait！

Chengdong Xu

Jan. 2021 ~ May. 2022
RA at Beijing Normal University

YuKi (Mengzhen Hu)

Jun. 2022 ~ Now
>That just happened

Qinglan Liu

Sep. 2012 ~ Jun. 2020
Researcher of Beijing Youse Technology Co., Ltd

Yi Ding

Aug. 2015 ~ Sep. 2018
a doctoral student at Tohoku University, study self-evaluation, social cognition

Haoyuan Wang

Sep. 2017 ~ Now
Just want an easy life

Publications

Wanke Pan, Haiyang Geng, Lei Zhang, Alexander Fengler, Michael J. Frank, Ru-Yuan Zhang, Hu Chuan-Peng

February, 2025 In AMPPS

dockerHDDM: A User-Friendly Environment for Bayesian Hierarchical Drift-Diffusion Modeling

Drift-diffusion models (DDMs) are pivotal in understanding evidence-accumulation processes during decision-making across psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychiatry.

Zheng, Liu, Mengzhen Hu, Yuanrui Zheng, Jie Sui, Hu Chuan-Peng

January, 2025 In Behav. Res. Methods

A multiverse assessment of the reliability of the self-matching task as a measurement of the self-prioritization effect

The self-matching task (SMT) is widely used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying the self-prioritization effect (SPE), wherein performance is enhanced for self-associated stimuli compared to other-associated ones

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