JIANHONG ZHU

Last Updated :2025/05/14

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
E-mail
zjre6hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
I am interested in how decisions based on personal preferences and those based on monetary rewards interact with each other. I explore these decision-making processes using computational models such as reinforcement learning to understand them mathematically, and examine them in conjunction with physiological data such as brain activity. Additionally, I investigate how these decision-making processes relate to the formation of preferences, with a focus on understanding the mechanisms behind preference formation.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Hiroshima University
  • Hiroshima University

Research Fields

  • Social sciences;Psychology;Experimental psychology

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • The Japanese Psychological Association
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  • Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology.
  • The japanese society for cognitive psychology

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, The Frontiers of Psychology
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Introductory Psychology Laboratory Project I
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Introductory Psychology Laboratory Project II
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Seminar in Psychological Research Methods
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Seminar in Psychological Readings I
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Seminar in Psychological Readings II
  7. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Seminar in Psychological Readings III
  8. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Seminar in Psychological Readings IV
  9. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Psychological Experiments
  10. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Advanced Laboratory Project in Cognitive Psychology I
  11. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Advanced Laboratory Project in Cognitive Psychology II
  12. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  13. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Seminar on Methods of Research in Psychology A
  14. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Seminar on Methods of Research in Psychology B
  15. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Advanced Seminar on Methods of Research in Psychology A
  16. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Advanced Seminar on Methods of Research in Psychology B
  17. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Academic writing in psychology A
  18. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Academic writing in psychology B
  19. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Advanced academic writing in psychology A
  20. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Advanced academic writing in psychology B
  21. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Lecture on Psychology C
  22. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Lecture on Psychology D
  23. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Seminar on Psychology I
  24. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Seminar on Psychology II
  25. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Seminar on Psychology III
  26. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Seminar on Psychology IV
  27. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Advanced Seminar on Psychology I
  28. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Advanced Seminar on Psychology II
  29. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Advanced Seminar on Psychology III
  30. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Advanced Seminar on Psychology IV
  31. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Study
  32. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Study

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, The more random people's preference judgments are, the more they explore in gambling tasks, BMC PSYCHOLOGY, 12(1), 20241220
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  2. ★, Internally formed preferences for options only influence initial decisions in gambling tasks, while the gambling outcomes do not alter these preferences, Journal of Gambling Studies, 20240626
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  3. ★, Externally Provided Rewards Increase Internal Preference, but Not as Much as Preferred Ones Without Extrinsic Rewards, Computational Brain & Behavior, 20240221
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  4. Association between long-range temporal correlations in intrinsic EEG activity and subjective sense of identity, Scientific Reports, 20210111
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  5. ★, Computational modeling of choice-induced preference change: A Reinforcement-Learning-based approach, PLOS ONE, 20210107
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  6. Resting-state theta/beta ratio is associated with distraction but not with reappraisal, Biological Psychology, 202009
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Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Relationship between anomalous subjective recall in depersonalization and long-range temporal correlates in resting-state EEG., Kazuki Yamamoto, Jianhong Zhu, Tatsuru Honda, Jun Hashimoto, Mayo Anno, Tsuyoshi Kawahara, Shi Zhiying, Kana Nakamura, Genki Yasui, Keishi Shimada, Yue Liu, Takashi Nakao, The 14th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC2023), 2023/08/09, Without Invitation, English
  2. The Relationship Between Indecisiveness and Network Integration in Scalp Resting-State EEG, Zhu, J., Hashimoto, J., Honda, T., Yamamoto, K., Matsuguma, M., Nakagawa, R., Anno, M., Kashihara, S., Kawahara, T., Iwasa, Y., Kobayashi, R., & Nakao, T., The 20th World Congress of Psychophysiology, 2021/09/07, Without Invitation, English
  3. Relationship between voluntary/involuntary positive autobiographical memory and EEG power spectra., Hashimoto, J., Kobayashi, R., Kashihara, S., Hiramoto, R., Haraguchi, Y., Honda, T., Ishida, N., Okazaki, A., Kishimoto, K., Nakano, H., Horinouchi, H., Zhu, J.,...Nakao, T., The 32nd International Conference of Psychology, 2021/07/18, Without Invitation, English
  4. Value learned through externally guided decision-making affects internally guided decision-making, Zhu, J., Katahira, K., Hiragawa, M., Nakao, T., The 32nd International Conference of Psychology, 2021/07/18, Without Invitation, English
  5. The relationship between time perspective and the mood repair effect of positive autobiographical memory., Hashimoto, J., Kobayashi, R., Kashihara, S., Hiramoto, R., Haraguchi, Y., Honda, T., Ishida, N., Okazaki, A., Kishimoto, K., Nakano, H., Horinouchi, H., Zhu, J.,...Nakao, T., 58th Conference of Taiwanese Psychological Association, 2019/11/02, Without Invitation, English
  6. Does value learned through externally guided decision-making influence internal criteria?, Zhu, J., Katahira, K., Hirakawa, M., Nakao, T., 58th Conference of Taiwanese Psychological Association, 2019/11/02, Without Invitation, English
  7. Long range temporal correlation in the resting brain and embodied sense of ownership, Hiramoto, R., Hashimoto, J., Kobayashi, R., Kashihara, S., Haraguchi, Y., Ishida, N., Okazaki, A., Kishimoto, K., Nakano, H., Horinouchi, H., Honda, T., Zhu, J., Sun, Y., Yamamoto, K., Nakagawa, R., Nakao, T., The 21st conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP2019), 2019/09/25, Without Invitation, English
  8. Does the degree of positivity of autobiographical memories cause a difference in the mood repair effect between voluntary and involuntary retrieval in depressed people?, Hashimoto, J., Kobayashi, R., Kashihara, S., Hiramoto, R., Haraguchi, Y., Ishida, N., Okazaki, A., Kishimoto, K., Nakano, H., Horinouchi, H., Honda, T., Zhu, J., Sun, Y., Yamamoto, K., Nakao, T., Kanayama, N., Miyatani, M., The 21st conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP2019), 2019/09/25, Without Invitation, English
  9. The impact of stubbornness on internally- and externally- guided decision-making., Zhu, J., Hashimoto, J., Katahira, K., Hirakawa, M., & Nakao, T., The 21st conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP2019), 2019/09/25, Without Invitation, English