Dr. Muyu Lin is a Research 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), and was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015. From 2015 to 2019, she 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, including Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Happiness Studies, and Psychological Assessment.
Dr. Lin is a certified psychological counselor (since 2017) and a registered clinical supervisor (starting 2025) with the Chinese Psychological Society. 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, 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 May of the application year.
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Lin. M.* Guendelman, S. Țăpuc, 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., Schönfeld, 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
陈慧菁, 林沐雨, 钱铭怡*(2023).自我聚焦对社交焦虑个体外部注意与状态焦虑的作用——来自眼动与生理指标的证据(Effects of self-focus on external attention and state anxiety in social anxiety: evidence from eye-movement and physiological measures).北京大学学报(自然科学版), 59(1), 170-178. (CSCD, 北大核心)
林沐雨, 王凝, 钱铭怡*, 赵晨颖, 徐凯文, & 官锐圆. (2016). 女大学生中共情对自我中心和利他行为关系的调节作用(The moderate effect of empathy on the relationship between altruism and egocentrism in female university students). 心理科学, 39(4), 977-984.
杨鹏, 蒋婧琪, 李松蔚, 姚泥沙, 余红玉, 王小玲, 林沐雨 & 钱铭怡* (2015). 社交焦虑大学生对正性评价解释偏向的初步探究(Preliminary study on interpretative bias of positive evaluation in socially anxious college students). 中国心理卫生杂志, 29(12), 933-938. (北大核心)
姚泥沙, 李松蔚, 钱铭怡*, 余红玉, 林沐雨, 王小玲, & 杨鹏. (2013). 高社交焦虑个体对正性面孔的情绪启动效应(Affective priming effect of positive faces in high social anxiety individuals). 心理科学, 36(5), 1106-1109. (CSSCI, CSCD, 北大核心)
余红玉, 李松蔚, 钱铭怡*, 王小玲, 杨鹏, 林沐雨, 姚泥沙 & 陈斯琪. (2013). 注意偏向假说及其在社交焦虑群体中的应用(Hypotheses of attentional bias and applications to socially anxious individuals). 中国临床心理学杂志, 21(3), 446-449. (CSCD)
姚泥沙, 李松蔚, 钱铭怡*, 余红玉, 王小玲, 林沐雨, & 赵欣(2012). 社交焦虑个体对正性面孔刺激的解释偏差(Interpretation biases for positive facial stimuli in social anxiety). 心理科学, 35(6), 1294-1297. (CSSCI, CSCD, 北大核心)
姚泥沙, 李松蔚, 钱铭怡*, 余红玉, 林沐雨, 王小玲, & 杨鹏. (2012). 高社交焦虑个体对正性面孔的解释偏差(Interpretative biases for positive faces in high socially anxious individuals). 中国心理卫生杂志, 26(9), 680-685. (北大核心)
王雨吟, 高隽, 林沐雨, 钱铭怡*, 李松蔚, 邓晶, ... & 何琴. (2010). 地震对重灾区与一般灾区高中生的心理冲击(Psycho stress difference between worst-hit area and slight-hit area after Sichuan earthquake). 中国心理卫生杂志, 24(6), 467-468. (北大核心)
杨凡, 林沐雨, & 钱铭怡*. (2010). 地震后青少年社会支持与创伤后成长关系的研究(A study of the relationship between posttraumatic growth and social support in children and adolescents following Wenchuan earthquake). 中国临床心理学杂志, (5), 614-617. (CSCD)