Lin Xiao, Ph.D.Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Lin Xiao is a postdoctoral research associate in the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
Research Interests
Emotion, affective decision-making and the underlying cognitive processes (risk & uncertainty) in eating, smoking and drinking behaviors and the environmental influence.Education
Ph.D. Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 2008
M.S. Biostatistics, University of Southern California, 2008
Selected Publications
Xiao, L., Bechara, A., Palmer, H.P., Trinidad, R.D., Wei, Y., Jia, Y., Anderson, C.A. . Parent–child engagement in decision-making and the development of adolescent affective decision capacity and binge-drinking. Personality and individual differences. 2011. 51(3): 285-292.
Xiao, L., Bechara, A., Palmer, P., Grenard, J.L., Stacy, A.W., Wei, Y., Jia, Y., Johnson, C.A.. Affective decision-making predictive of Chinese adolescents’ drinking Behaviors: a longitudinal study. Journal of International Neuropsychologcial Society. 2009 Jul;15(4):547-557.
Xiao, L., Bechara, A., Cen, S., Grenard, L.J., Stacy, W. A., Gallaher, P., Wei, W., Jia, Y., Johnson, C.A.. Affective decision-making deficits, linked to a dysfunctional ventromedial prefrontal cortex, revealed in 10th grade Chinese adolescent smokers, Nicotine Research & Tobacco, 2008, 10(6): 1085-1097.
Johnson, C.A., Xiao, L., Palmer, P., Sun, P., Wang, Q., Wei, Y., Jia Y., Grenard L.J., Stacy, W.A., and Bechara, A. Affective decision-making deficits, linked to a dysfunctional ventromedial prefrontal cortex, revealed in 10th grade Chinese adolescent Binge Drinkers, Neuropsychologia , 2008, 46, 714-726.
He X, Xiao L, Sui N. Effects of SCH23390 and spiperone administered into medial striatum and intermediate medial mesopallium on rewarding effects of morphine in day-old chicks. European Journal of Pharmacology, 2010, 627 (1-3): 136-141.
Johnson, C.A., Cen S., Gallaher, P., Palmer P., Xiao L., Ritt-Olson, A., and Unger, J.B.. Why Smoking Prevention Programs Sometimes Fail. Does Effectiveness Depend on Sociocultural Context and Individual Characteristics? Caner Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2007 Jun;16(6):1043-1049.
Sun P, Guo, Q., Gong J, Ma, H., Palmer, P., Zhou, C., Unger B.J, Li Y, Sussman S, Ritt-Olson A, Xiao, L., Johnson, C.A.. Morbidity between Depression and Smoking Moderates the Effect of a Smoking Prevention Program among Boys in China. Nicotine Research & Tobacco, 2007 Nov;9 Suppl 4:S599-609.
Zheng X, Li Y, Luo X, Xiao L, Wang D, Liu J, Yang X, Sui N. Social crowding sensitizes high-responding rats to psychomotor stimulant effects of morphine. Pharmacol Biochem Behav, 2004, 79: 213-218.
2011 Claremont Graduate University 
School of Community & Global Health 