Dr. Muyu Lin is an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University. She received her dual bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Peking University in 2010, and completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the same institution in 2015. She conducted research as a visiting scholar at Boston University in the United States (2013–2014). From 2015 to 2019, she was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. From 2019 to 2023, she served as a research scientist at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. In 2024–2025, she held a professorship in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy at Humboldt University of Berlin. In June 2025, she joined the faculty at Peking University.
Dr. Lin’s research focuses on the mechanisms and interventions related to social difficulties and social impairments. Her work integrates emotional difficulties (such as social anxiety), social cognitive challenges (such as autism spectrum conditions), and interpersonal trauma (such as bullying experiences). She also explores factors from positive psychology and cross-cultural psychology, with a strong emphasis on evidence-based intervention science. Her research has been published in leading academic journals.
Dr. Lin is a registered psychologist (since 2017) and clinical supervisor (starting 2025) in the Clinical and Counseling Psychology Registration System (CCPRS) in the Chinese Psychological Society, China. She is also a member of the International Society for Autism Research and the Autism Research Association in Germany.
Her laboratory will officially launch in 2026 and welcomes highly motivated Ph.D. students, master's students, undergraduate researchers, lab rotation students, and interns. Students and collaborators with interdisciplinary backgrounds—such as computer science, life sciences, medicine, or philosophy—are especially encouraged to apply. Dr. Lin is actively seeking research collaborators and students who are committed to scientific integrity and passionate about improving the wellbeing of diverse populations. Prospective doctoral students are encouraged to get in touch before March of the application year.
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Lin. M.* Guendelman, S. ??puc, A., & Dziobek, I. (preprint). Implicit and Explicit Approach-Avoidance Tendencies towards Facial Expressions: The role of Autistic Traits. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4967411
Kirsch, S.*, Maier, S., Lin, M., Guendelman, S., Kaufmann, G., Dziobek, I., Tebartz van Elst, L. (2025). The Alexithymia Hypothesis of Autism Revisited: Alexithymia Modulates Social Brain Activity During Facial Affect Recognition in Autistic Adults. Biological Pszchiatrz: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
Saakyan, W., Norden, M., Herrmann, L., Kirsch, S., Lin, M., Guendelman, S., Dziobek, I., Drimalla, H. (2023). On Scalable and Interpretable Autism Detection from Social Interaction Behavior. ACII 2023 – 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. 979-8-3503-2743-4/23/$31.00 ?2023 IEEE
Bibi, A.*, Lin, M., Brailovskaia, J., & Margraf, J. (2023). Mental health of university students of Pakistan and Germany and the right to healthcare. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare.
Brailovskaia#, J. & Lin, M. #*, Scholten, S., Shao, M., Hu, S., Guo, W., Li, X., Wang, M., Zheng, Y., Margraf, J. (2022). A qualitative cross-cultural comparison of well-being constructs: The meaning of happiness, life satisfaction, and social support in German and Chinese students. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23(4), 1379-1402.
Sollmann, U., Chen, H., Wu, J., Wang,. Y., Lin, M., L., & Zhao, X. (2022). Mental State and Life Experience of Chinese Students in Germany: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Body, Mind & Culture, 9(3), 2345-5802.
Lin, M., Wen, X., Qian, M.*, He, D., & Zlomuzica, A. (2021). Self-focused attention vs. negative attentional bias during public speech task in socially anxious individuals. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 136, 103766.
Lin, M.*, Wolke, D., Schneider, S., & Margraf, J. (2020). Bullies get away with it, but not everywhere: Mental health sequelae of bullying in Chinese and German students. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(9), 702-718.
Lin, M.*, Wolke, D., Schneider, S., & Margraf, J. (2020). Bullying history and mental health in university students: The mediator roles of social support, resilience, and self-efficacy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 960.
Lin, M., Qian, M.*, He, D., Li, X. (2020). Avoidance of all feedback? Attention allocation during and after public speech in social anxiety. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 66, 101520.
Bibi, A.*, Lin, M., & Margraf, J. (2020). Salutogenic Constructs across Pakistan and Germany. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 20(1), 1-9.
Bibi, A.*, Lin, M., & Margraf, J. (2020). Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS‐21) across cultures. International Journal of Psychology 55 (6), 916-925
Chen, H., Rodriguez, M. A., Qian, M.*, Kishimoto, T., Lin, M., & Berger, T. (2020). Predictors of treatment outcomes and adherence in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety in China. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 1-13
Lin, M. *, Hirschfeld, G., & Margraf, J. (2019). Brief form of the perceived social support questionnaire (F-SozU K-6): validation, norms, and cross-cultural measurement Invariance in the USA, Germany, Russia, and China. Psychological Assessment, 31(5), 609–621.
Lin, M.*, Bieda, A., & Margraf, J. (2019) Short form of the sense of coherence scale (soc-l9) in the us, germany, and russia: psychometric properties and cross-cultural measurement invariance test. European journal of psychological assessment, 36(5), 796–804
Bieda, A.*, Hirschfeld, G., Brailovskaia, J., Sch?nfeld, P., Lin, M., & Margraf, J. (2019). Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Positive Mental Health: Investigating Reciprocal Effects over Four Years in a Chinese Student Sample. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 198-209.
Cai, D., Zhu, M., Lin, M.*, Zhang, X. C., & Margraf, J. (2017). The bidirectional relationship between positive mental health and social rhythm in college students: a three-year longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1119.
Chen, S., Yao, N., Qian, M.*, & Lin, M. (2016). Attention biases in high social anxiety using a flanker task. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 51, 27-34
Wang, X., Qian, M.*, Yu, H., Sun, Y., Li, S., Yang, P., Lin, M., Yao, N., & Zhang, X. (2016). Social anxiety and interpretation bias: effect of positive priming. Psychological reports, 119(2), 539-556.
Lin, M., Hofmann, S.G., Qian, M.*, Kind, S., & Yu, H. (2015). Attention allocation in social anxiety during a speech task. Cognition and Emotion, 30(6), 1122-1136.
Lin, M., Hofmann, S.G., Qian, M.*, & Li, S. (2015). Enhanced association between perceptual stimuli and trauma-related information in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 202–207.
Hofmann, S.G.*, Petrocchi, N., Steinberg, J., Lin, M., Arimitsu, K., Kind, S., Mendes, A., & Stangier, U. (2015). Loving-kindness meditation: targeting positive affect in mood disorders. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2015, 1-11.
Yu, H., Li, S., Qian, M.*, Yang, P., Wang, X., Lin, M., & Yao, N. (2014). Time-course of attentional bias for positive social words in individuals with high and low social anxiety. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 42, 479–490.
Hofmann, S.G.*, Brager, D., Lin, M., Shangguan, F., & Petrocchi, N. (2014). The quality of empirically supported treatment studies. Clinical Psychologist, 67, 4-13
陳慧菁, 林沐雨, 錢銘怡*(2023).自我聚焦對社交焦慮個體外部注意與狀態(tài)焦慮的作用——來自眼動與生理指標(biāo)的證據(jù)(Effects of self-focus on external attention and state anxiety in social anxiety: evidence from eye-movement and physiological measures).北京大學(xué)學(xué)報(自然科學(xué)版), 59(1), 170-178. (CSCD, 北大核心)
林沐雨, 王凝, 錢銘怡*, 趙晨穎, 徐凱文, & 官銳圓. (2016). 女大學(xué)生中共情對自我中心和利他行為關(guān)系的調(diào)節(jié)作用(The moderate effect of empathy on the relationship between altruism and egocentrism in female university students). 心理科學(xué), 39(4), 977-984.
楊鵬, 蔣婧琪, 李松蔚, 姚泥沙, 余紅玉, 王小玲, 林沐雨 & 錢銘怡* (2015). 社交焦慮大學(xué)生對正性評價解釋偏向的初步探究(Preliminary study on interpretative bias of positive evaluation in socially anxious college students). 中國心理衛(wèi)生雜志, 29(12), 933-938. (北大核心)
姚泥沙, 李松蔚, 錢銘怡*, 余紅玉, 林沐雨, 王小玲, & 楊鵬. (2013). 高社交焦慮個體對正性面孔的情緒啟動效應(yīng)(Affective priming effect of positive faces in high social anxiety individuals). 心理科學(xué), 36(5), 1106-1109. (CSSCI, CSCD, 北大核心)
余紅玉, 李松蔚, 錢銘怡*, 王小玲, 楊鵬, 林沐雨, 姚泥沙 & 陳斯琪. (2013). 注意偏向假說及其在社交焦慮群體中的應(yīng)用(Hypotheses of attentional bias and applications to socially anxious individuals). 中國臨床心理學(xué)雜志, 21(3), 446-449. (CSCD)
姚泥沙, 李松蔚, 錢銘怡*, 余紅玉, 王小玲, 林沐雨, & 趙欣(2012). 社交焦慮個體對正性面孔刺激的解釋偏差(Interpretation biases for positive facial stimuli in social anxiety). 心理科學(xué), 35(6), 1294-1297. (CSSCI, CSCD, 北大核心)
姚泥沙, 李松蔚, 錢銘怡*, 余紅玉, 林沐雨, 王小玲, & 楊鵬. (2012). 高社交焦慮個體對正性面孔的解釋偏差(Interpretative biases for positive faces in high socially anxious individuals). 中國心理衛(wèi)生雜志, 26(9), 680-685. (北大核心)
王雨吟, 高雋, 林沐雨, 錢銘怡*, 李松蔚, 鄧晶, ... & 何琴. (2010). 地震對重災(zāi)區(qū)與一般災(zāi)區(qū)高中生的心理沖擊(Psycho stress difference between worst-hit area and slight-hit area after Sichuan earthquake). 中國心理衛(wèi)生雜志, 24(6), 467-468. (北大核心)
楊凡, 林沐雨, & 錢銘怡*. (2010). 地震后青少年社會支持與創(chuàng)傷后成長關(guān)系的研究(A study of the relationship between posttraumatic growth and social support in children and adolescents following Wenchuan earthquake). 中國臨床心理學(xué)雜志, (5), 614-617. (CSCD)