Xiaoxue GAO is a principal investigator (PI) in the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science at East China Normal University. Her lab is dedicated to social cognitive neuroscience research, combining behavioral tests, computational modeling, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the psychological, computational and neural mechanisms underlying the generation and abnormalities of social emotions (e.g., gratitude, guilt, etc.) and related social decision-making (e.g., help-seeking decisions, inequity aversion) in humans. Her work has been published in high-profile academic journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Psychology, and PNAS. She has received the Young Achievement Award of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education, the "Innovation Award" from the Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience, been selected as a keynote speaker at the 26th National Academic Congress of Psychology, named an APS Rising Star, selected for the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology, and serves as the principal investigator of the General Program and Youth Program (Class C) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She is currently serving as Associate Editor for Journal of Psychological Science.