Wei Wang

About

After graduation from Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (B.Med., 1989), China, and the University of Liège, Belgium (D.Sc., 1995), I successively joined the First University Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (Formerly Anhui Provincial Hospital, 1996-2004, as a senior Psychiatrist, and an Associate Professor of Neuropsychiatry) in Hefei, China, the Zhejiang University School of Medicine (June 2004-Oct 2019, as Full Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, and Chief Psychiatrist) in Hangzhou, China, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Nov 2019-, as Full Professor of Personality Psychology) in Trondheim, Norway, for personality bases of neuropsychiatric disorders. My research interests focus on personality traits and disorders, emotion components and disorders, dream experiences (nightmare and sexual dream) and disorders, and neurocognitive processes at cerebral and brainstem levels: which might be partly reflected by the following theses of my previous Ph.D./MD students.

The structures of antisocial personality trait and their relationships with parental bonding styles, Nov 2009 (R. Yu).

Personality and executive function bases of alexithymia and recognition of facial emotions in paranoid schizophrenia, Feb 2012 (S. Yu).

Neurophysiological mechanism of processing octave illusion in first-episode paranoid schizophrenia with auditory hallucinations, Mar 2013 (L. Zheng).

Cerebral information processing in treatment-resistant depression: effects of comorbidity and function of cognitive and emotional regulations, May 2013 (W. He).

Familial, personality and cerebral processing mechanisms behind the recognition of facial expressions of emotion, Jun 2014 (H. Chai).

Attentional deficits in medication-overuse headache: neurophysiological and behavioral evidence, Feb 2015 (J. Zhang).

Personality disorder functioning style correlates of consciousness: idiopathic nightmare, hypnotic susceptibility, and intervened panic disorder, Jun 2015 (W. Chen).

Personality and cortical mechanisms behind the Deutsch word illusion processing in schizophrenia and related personality disorders, Jun 2016 (Y. Xu).

Multi-channel physiological responses to external emotions and their transitions in bipolar I and II disorders, Feb 2019 (G. Ma).

Predicting personality disorder functioning styles by brief versions of personality trait measures: tests in healthy volunteers and personality disorder patients, May 2019 (H. Fan).

Anxiety features in bipolar I and II disorders: illness anxiety and body image concerns based on the implicit theory, May 2019 (B. Pan).

Cerebral activations of nightmare disorder patients in different conditions: from rest to task performing, from peace to emotional processing, May 2020 (C. Shen).

Potential indicators distinguishing between bipolar I and II disorders based on event-related potential and behavioral characteristics, Jul 2020 (B. Zhang).

Together with crew members, we have developed questionnaires such as the Functional and Emotional measure of Dysmenorrhea (Li L et al., Healthcare for Women International, 2012), the Nightmare Experience Questionnaire (Chen WZ et al., Journal of Psychiatry: Open Access, 2014), the Sexual Dream Experience Questionnaire (Chen WZ et al., Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2015), the Family Relationship Questionnaire (Chen LX et al., Bulletin of Menninger Clinic, 2015), and the Body Image Concerns Scale (He WX, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2017). We have also successfully selected some emotional materials loaded with one pure emotion, from the International Affective Picture System (Xu et al., Heliyon, 2017), the International Affective Digital Sounds (Wang JW et al. Current Psychiatry Research and Reviews, 2019), and from musical excerpts (Shen CC et al., Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2017), which might be used for scientific research and clinical interventions.

Publications

2025

Jakšić, Nenad; Filipčić, Ivona Šimunović; Šagud, Marina; Filipčić, Igor; Wang, Wei; Marčinko, Darko. (2025) Exploring Pathological Narcissism Within the ICD-11 Model of Personality Disorders Among Croatian Psychiatric Patients. Journal of Personality Disorders
Academic article
Mihanyar, Shabnam; Matusiak, Barbara Szybinska; Wang, Wei. (2025) Interior and exterior preferences in a study room and their correlations with personality. Acta Psychologica
Academic article

2024

Pan, Bing; Wang, Wei. (2024) Practical implications of ICD-11 personality disorder classifications. BMC Psychiatry
Academic literature review
Rubio-Valdehita, Susana; Díaz-Ramiro, Eva María; Rodríguez-López, Ana María; Wang, Wei. (2024) Burnout among Retail Workers in Spain: The Role of Gender, Personality and Psychosocial Risk Factors. Social Sciences
Academic article

2023

Zhang, Bingren; Pan, Bing; Chen, Jueying; Wang, Junjie; Zhu, Zhenyu; Lajunen, Timo Juhani. (2023) Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders. Brain Sciences
Academic article
Suetani, Shuichi; Wang, Wei. (2023) First episode psychosis and beyond: much progress made but much more needed. BMC Psychiatry
Editorial
Lajunen, Timo Juhani; Gaygısız, Esma; Wang, Wei. (2023) Students’ Emotions During Distance Education: The Role of Personality Factors and Sense of Coherence. Sage Open
Academic article
Harris, Keith M.; Wang, Lu; Mu, Guanglun M.; Lu, Yanxia; So, Cheryl; Zhang, Wei. (2023) Measuring the suicidal mind: The ‘open source’ Suicidality Scale, for adolescents and adults. PLOS ONE
Academic article
Šagud, Marina; Janović, Maja Bajs; Ćusa, Zrinka Vuksan; Jakšić, Nenad; Krakan, Lucija Bagarić; Begić, Dražen. (2023) Depression and stress levels in patients with different psychiatric disorders during concurrent early-phase COVID-19 pandemic and earthquake in Croatia. BMC Psychiatry
Academic article
Zhang, Bingren; Fan, Hongying; Wang, Wei. (2023) Social Elite in Imperial China: Their Destinies as Documented by the Historical Literature and Their Personality as Defined by the Contemporary Five‑Factor Model. Psychiatry International
Academic article

2022

Aluja, Anton; Garcia, Luis F; Rossier, Jérôme; Ostendorf, Fritz; Glicksohn, Joseph; Oumar, Barry. (2022) Dark triad traits, social position and personality: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Academic article
Jia, Yanli; Shao, Xu; Wang, Chu; Wang, Wei. (2022) Sexual dream experiencing and personality disorder functioning styles in frequent sexual dreamers. Psychiatria Danubina
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Shao, Xu; Jia, Yanli; Lajunen, Timo Juhani; Wang, Wei. (2022) Physiological changes to humor and their correlates with affective states: a preliminary study. Journal of Innovation in Psychology, Education and Didactics
Academic article
Lou, Lixia; Wang, Yijie; Zhang, Bingren; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Wei; Ye, Juan. (2022) Cerebral processing of emotions in phantom eye pain patients: An event related potential study. Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and Research
Academic article
Liu, Lingshan; Lv, Hongyuan; Lu, Yifan; Wang, Chu; Chai, Hao; Rimol, Lars Morten. (2022) Development of an Optimal Time for Learning Questionnaire in Chinese University Students. Journal of Innovation in Psychology, Education and Didactics
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Lu, Yifan; Lv, Hongyuan; Liu, Lingshan; Lajunen, Timo Juhani; Wang, Wei. (2022) Prevalence and Detailed Experience of Frequent Sexual Dream in Chinese University Students. Dreaming (New York, N.Y.)
Academic article
Wang, Wei; Ho, Roger C.. (2022) Editorial: Brain Activity Patterns During Dreams. Frontiers in Neuroscience
Editorial

2021

Jiang, Minggang; Xu, Shao ; Zhang, Yan; Yan, Yupeng; Yuanyuan, Hu; Hong, Chen. (2021) Family relationships and personality disorder functioning styles in paranoid schizophrenia. Personality and Individual Differences
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Xu, Jiayao; Wang, Mufan; Shao, Xu; Wang, Wei. (2021) Prevalence and Detailed Experience of Nightmare and Nightmare Disorder in Chinese University Students. Sage Open
Academic article
Prevolnik Rupel, Valentina; Jagger, Beth; Fialho, Luz Sousa; Chadderton, Lisa-Marie; Gintner, Timea; Arntz, Anroud. (2021) Standard set of patient-reported outcomes for personality disorder. Quality of Life Research
Academic article
Jia, Yanli; Shao, Xu; Shen, Chanchan; Wang, Wei. (2021) Development of a structure-validated hypersexuality scale in Chinese university students. BMC Psychiatry
Academic article
Kovács, Dora Csilla; Mészáros, Veronika; Tanyi, Zsuzsanna; Jakubovits, Edit; Smohai, Máté; Hübner, Andrea. (2021) Hungarian version of the family relationship questionnaire (Frq). Interpersona
Academic article

2020

Shao, Xu; Wang, Chu; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Wei. (2020) Sexual dream and family relationships in frequent sexual dreamers and healthy volunteers. Medicine
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Shao, Xu; Jia, Yanli; Ho, Roger; Harris, Keith; Wang, Wei. (2020) Peripherally Physiological Responses to External Emotions and Their Transitions in Bipolar I Disorder With and Without Hypersexuality. Archives of Sexual Behavior
Academic article
Guo, Fanjia; Cai, Jingyi; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Jiawei; Jakšić, Nenad; Kövi, Zsuzsanna. (2020) Symptom continuum reported by affective disorder patients through a structure validated questionnaire. BMC Psychiatry
Academic article
Shao, Xu; Wang, Chu; Shen, Chanchan; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Wei. (2020) Nightmare experience and personality disorder functioning styles in healthy volunteers and nightmare disorder patients. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
Academic article
Wu, Yixiao; Dai, Yue; Jia, Yanli; Yu, Shuhang; Xu, Siyuan; Wang, Wei. (2020) Carotid artery plaques and unilateral spatial neglect in the elderly. Medicine
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Shao, Xu; Jia, Yanli; Zhang, Bingren; Shen, Chanchan; Wang, Wei. (2020) Inhibitory brainstem reflexes under external emotional-stimuli in schizoid and histrionic personality disorders. Personality and Individual Differences
Academic article
Kövi, Zsuzsanna; Mirnics, Zsuzsanna; Shen, Chanchan; Wang, Wei. (2020) Person-oriented approach in examining Chinese-Hungarian personality and affective disorder profiles. Psychiatria Danubina
Academic article

Journal publications

Jakšić, Nenad; Filipčić, Ivona Šimunović; Šagud, Marina; Filipčić, Igor; Wang, Wei; Marčinko, Darko. (2025) Exploring Pathological Narcissism Within the ICD-11 Model of Personality Disorders Among Croatian Psychiatric Patients. Journal of Personality Disorders
Academic article
Mihanyar, Shabnam; Matusiak, Barbara Szybinska; Wang, Wei. (2025) Interior and exterior preferences in a study room and their correlations with personality. Acta Psychologica
Academic article
Pan, Bing; Wang, Wei. (2024) Practical implications of ICD-11 personality disorder classifications. BMC Psychiatry
Academic literature review
Rubio-Valdehita, Susana; Díaz-Ramiro, Eva María; Rodríguez-López, Ana María; Wang, Wei. (2024) Burnout among Retail Workers in Spain: The Role of Gender, Personality and Psychosocial Risk Factors. Social Sciences
Academic article
Zhang, Bingren; Pan, Bing; Chen, Jueying; Wang, Junjie; Zhu, Zhenyu; Lajunen, Timo Juhani. (2023) Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders. Brain Sciences
Academic article
Suetani, Shuichi; Wang, Wei. (2023) First episode psychosis and beyond: much progress made but much more needed. BMC Psychiatry
Editorial
Lajunen, Timo Juhani; Gaygısız, Esma; Wang, Wei. (2023) Students’ Emotions During Distance Education: The Role of Personality Factors and Sense of Coherence. Sage Open
Academic article
Harris, Keith M.; Wang, Lu; Mu, Guanglun M.; Lu, Yanxia; So, Cheryl; Zhang, Wei. (2023) Measuring the suicidal mind: The ‘open source’ Suicidality Scale, for adolescents and adults. PLOS ONE
Academic article
Šagud, Marina; Janović, Maja Bajs; Ćusa, Zrinka Vuksan; Jakšić, Nenad; Krakan, Lucija Bagarić; Begić, Dražen. (2023) Depression and stress levels in patients with different psychiatric disorders during concurrent early-phase COVID-19 pandemic and earthquake in Croatia. BMC Psychiatry
Academic article
Zhang, Bingren; Fan, Hongying; Wang, Wei. (2023) Social Elite in Imperial China: Their Destinies as Documented by the Historical Literature and Their Personality as Defined by the Contemporary Five‑Factor Model. Psychiatry International
Academic article
Aluja, Anton; Garcia, Luis F; Rossier, Jérôme; Ostendorf, Fritz; Glicksohn, Joseph; Oumar, Barry. (2022) Dark triad traits, social position and personality: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Academic article
Jia, Yanli; Shao, Xu; Wang, Chu; Wang, Wei. (2022) Sexual dream experiencing and personality disorder functioning styles in frequent sexual dreamers. Psychiatria Danubina
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Shao, Xu; Jia, Yanli; Lajunen, Timo Juhani; Wang, Wei. (2022) Physiological changes to humor and their correlates with affective states: a preliminary study. Journal of Innovation in Psychology, Education and Didactics
Academic article
Lou, Lixia; Wang, Yijie; Zhang, Bingren; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Wei; Ye, Juan. (2022) Cerebral processing of emotions in phantom eye pain patients: An event related potential study. Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and Research
Academic article
Liu, Lingshan; Lv, Hongyuan; Lu, Yifan; Wang, Chu; Chai, Hao; Rimol, Lars Morten. (2022) Development of an Optimal Time for Learning Questionnaire in Chinese University Students. Journal of Innovation in Psychology, Education and Didactics
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Lu, Yifan; Lv, Hongyuan; Liu, Lingshan; Lajunen, Timo Juhani; Wang, Wei. (2022) Prevalence and Detailed Experience of Frequent Sexual Dream in Chinese University Students. Dreaming (New York, N.Y.)
Academic article
Wang, Wei; Ho, Roger C.. (2022) Editorial: Brain Activity Patterns During Dreams. Frontiers in Neuroscience
Editorial
Jiang, Minggang; Xu, Shao ; Zhang, Yan; Yan, Yupeng; Yuanyuan, Hu; Hong, Chen. (2021) Family relationships and personality disorder functioning styles in paranoid schizophrenia. Personality and Individual Differences
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Xu, Jiayao; Wang, Mufan; Shao, Xu; Wang, Wei. (2021) Prevalence and Detailed Experience of Nightmare and Nightmare Disorder in Chinese University Students. Sage Open
Academic article
Prevolnik Rupel, Valentina; Jagger, Beth; Fialho, Luz Sousa; Chadderton, Lisa-Marie; Gintner, Timea; Arntz, Anroud. (2021) Standard set of patient-reported outcomes for personality disorder. Quality of Life Research
Academic article
Jia, Yanli; Shao, Xu; Shen, Chanchan; Wang, Wei. (2021) Development of a structure-validated hypersexuality scale in Chinese university students. BMC Psychiatry
Academic article
Kovács, Dora Csilla; Mészáros, Veronika; Tanyi, Zsuzsanna; Jakubovits, Edit; Smohai, Máté; Hübner, Andrea. (2021) Hungarian version of the family relationship questionnaire (Frq). Interpersona
Academic article
Shao, Xu; Wang, Chu; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Wei. (2020) Sexual dream and family relationships in frequent sexual dreamers and healthy volunteers. Medicine
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Shao, Xu; Jia, Yanli; Ho, Roger; Harris, Keith; Wang, Wei. (2020) Peripherally Physiological Responses to External Emotions and Their Transitions in Bipolar I Disorder With and Without Hypersexuality. Archives of Sexual Behavior
Academic article
Guo, Fanjia; Cai, Jingyi; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Jiawei; Jakšić, Nenad; Kövi, Zsuzsanna. (2020) Symptom continuum reported by affective disorder patients through a structure validated questionnaire. BMC Psychiatry
Academic article
Shao, Xu; Wang, Chu; Shen, Chanchan; Jia, Yanli; Wang, Wei. (2020) Nightmare experience and personality disorder functioning styles in healthy volunteers and nightmare disorder patients. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
Academic article
Wu, Yixiao; Dai, Yue; Jia, Yanli; Yu, Shuhang; Xu, Siyuan; Wang, Wei. (2020) Carotid artery plaques and unilateral spatial neglect in the elderly. Medicine
Academic article
Wang, Chu; Shao, Xu; Jia, Yanli; Zhang, Bingren; Shen, Chanchan; Wang, Wei. (2020) Inhibitory brainstem reflexes under external emotional-stimuli in schizoid and histrionic personality disorders. Personality and Individual Differences
Academic article
Kövi, Zsuzsanna; Mirnics, Zsuzsanna; Shen, Chanchan; Wang, Wei. (2020) Person-oriented approach in examining Chinese-Hungarian personality and affective disorder profiles. Psychiatria Danubina
Academic article

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