Dr Tian XIE is an adjunct faculty of the Chinese PhD program in transpersonal psychology and recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award at Sofia. He is a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Social Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology and the Chinese Journal of Applied Psychology. He has authored over 90 publications, including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. He has practiced Chan/Zen meditation and Tai Chi since the early 2010s, and expanded his engagement to Confucian psychology and Daoism in the late 2010s.
University Email: tian.xie@sofia.edu
Program: PhD in Transpersonal Psychology (Chinese Language)
Education:
- Post-Doctoral Fellow of Western Philosophy, Wuhan University
- PhD in Psychology, Zhejiang University
- A. in Psychology, Yantai Normal University
Research & Training Interests:
Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology; Eastern contemplative practices (e.g., Zen, Daoism, Confucianism) as pathways to spirituality and enlightenment.
Publications:
Xie, T., & Tang, M. (2025). Global consciousness as a remedy for selective exposure to outgroup information. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28, e70038. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70038
Xie, T. and Wu, M. S. (2025) Navigating the complexities of morality and culture: a critical commentary on the special topics issue “culture and morality: the things we value”. Frontiers in Psychology. 16:1530299. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1530299
Dong, Z., & Xie, T*. (2024). Why do people love short-form videos? The motivations for using Chinese Tiktok (douyin) and implications for well-being. Current Psychology, 43, 22283–22296
Chan S.H., Qiu L. & Xie, T*. (2023). Understanding experiences in metaverse: How virtual nature impacts affect, pro-environmental attitudes, and intention to engage with physical nature. Computers in Human Behavior, 149, 107926.
Dong, Z., & Xie, T*. (2023). How to know who you are through your short video selfies? — Capturing personality via short video selfies. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1072344. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1072344
Xie, T., Tang, M. H., Zhang, R. J., & Liu, J. H. (2022). The active role of the internet and social media use in nonpharmaceutical and pharmaceutical preventive measures against COVID-19. Healthcare, 10(1), 113.
Xie, T., Chen, S., Wang, D., & Liu, J. H. (2021). Collective remembering of Confucianism in Chinese language textbooks: Official historical representations from 1949 to 2019. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 15, 1834490921993511.
Xie, T., Zhou, J., Liu, J. H., & Liao, C. (2021). How does a historical system of meaning weigh on the present? Social representations of Confucianism and their role in young Chinese lives in the People’s Republic of China. Psychology and Developing Societies, 33(1), 73–102. https://doi.org/10.1177/0971333621990452
