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publications
Improving spatial abilities through mindfulness
Published in Consciousness and Cognition, 2010
A brief mindfulness exercise emphasizing a holistic and open ending perspective was found related to improvement of students' performance on the classic mental rotation task.
Recommended citation: Geng, L., Zhang, L., & Zhang, D. (2011). "Improving spatial abilities through mindfulness: Effects on the mental rotation task." Consciousness and Cognition, 20(3), 801 - 806. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.02.004 http://diheng.github.io/files/mindfulness.pdf
Identity Formation as a Mediator between Early Separation From Parents and Adolescence Mental Health Issues
Published in Unpublished manuscript, 2014
Unpublished master thesis on adolescence mental health issues related to early separation from parents.
Recommended citation: Zhang, D. (2014). Identity Formation as a Mediator between Early Separation From Parents and Adolescence Mental Health Issues http://diheng.github.io/files/Diheng_Zhang_master_thesis.pdf
Comorbid interpretation and expectancy bias in social anxiety and alcohol use
Published in Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 2018
Recommended citation: Chow, P. I., Portnow, S., Zhang, D., Salemink, E., Wiers, R. W., & Teachman, B. A. (2018). Comorbid interpretation and expectancy bias in social anxiety and alcohol use. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 31(6), 669-685.
Recommended citation: Chow, P. I., Portnow, S., Zhang, D., Salemink, E., Wiers, R. W., & Teachman, B. A. (2018). Comorbid interpretation and expectancy bias in social anxiety and alcohol use. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 31(6), 669-685.
talks
Excessive Thinking as a Cultural Idiom Used by Chinese to Explain Relatives’ Psychiatric Etiology
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A Comparison of Nomothetic and Individualized Alpha Frequency Approaches
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You can download the poster here.
teaching
Data Management and Analysis with R
Workshop, University of Virginia, Department of Psychology, 2017
This was a five-sessions workshop delivered to the summer research assistants of the Program of Anxiety, Cognition and Treatment Lab as part of their trainings. The workshop covered basic R and Rstudio usage, important R packages like dplyr, and basic concepts of data management and manipulation. RAs were asked to write their own R script to clean and calculate the D score of an Implicit Association Test study with the dataset from the Project Implicit Mental Health study site as their final assignment.
Complementary materials for learning R - PSY 430
Course, University of Arizona, Department of Psychology, 2020
This post is meant to be a supplementary document for a course that I taught in 2020 Spring, PSY 430 Advanced Psychological Measurement and Statistics, in which students are expected to learn R along the discussion of statistic, research methods and psychological measurement.