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2025-03-14
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Tengfei Wang Ph.D.
Professor | Doctoral supervisor
  • 5-535, Hainayuan 3, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University
    • · Intelligence, Learning and Thinking
    • · Executive functions and Working memory
    • · Mind wandering
    • · Learning difficulties and Autism

Positions

2025.1 – present

2020.1  2024.12

Professor, Zhejiang University

Associate Professor, Zhejiang University

2016.9 – 2019.12

Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University

Education

2012.9 2016.8

Ph.D., Differential Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2009.9 – 2012.8

M.S., Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China

2005.9 2009.8

B.A., Psychology, Henan Normal University, China

Funded Research Grants

2024.9 – 2026.12


2022.1 2026.12

P.I.: Mind wandering in online learning: mechanisms and intervention

National Social Science Fund of China

Co-P.I.: Mechanism and Intervention of Executive Function Development in Children and Adolescents

Ministry of Science and Technology of China, China Brain Project

2021.1 2023.12

P.I.: The influence of inner speech on Autism children's executive functions: A mechanism and intervention study

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Department of Life Sciences

2020.1 2022.12

P.I.: The role of working memory and strategy use in the development of fluid intelligence: a longitudinal study of 6-12-year-old children

Ministry of Education of China, Department of Social Sciences

2020.1 2022.12

P.I.: Mind wandering in video learning

Zhejiang University, Academy of Social Sciences

2013.9 2015.8

 

P.I.: An account of the relationship among working memory, learning and fluid intelligence by means of the Fixed-Links Model

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Strategische Partnerschaften

Editorial Boards

2025.3 –  present

2021.9 –  present

Editorial board member, Intelligence

Editorial board member, Journal of Intelligence

2021.9 –  present

Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology

2022.1 –  present

Editorial board member, Chinese Journal of Applied Psychology

Publications (*Corresponding author)

1.       Li, C., Ren, X., Schweizer, K., & Wang, T.* (2022). Strategy use moderates the relation between working memory capacity and fluid intelligence: A combined approach. Intelligence, 91, 101627.

2.       Peng, P.*, Zhang, Z., Wang, W.*, Lee, K. J., Wang, T.*, Wang, C.*, Luo, J.. & Lin, J. Z. (2022). A meta-analytic review of cognition and reading difficulties: Individual differences, moderation, and language mediation mechanisms. Psychological Bulletin, 148, 227–272.

3.       Wang, Y., Lan, Z., Duan, I., Peng, P., Wang, W.*, & Wang, T.* (2022). A meta-analysis on the cognitive and linguistic correlates of reading skills among children with ASD. Reading and Writing, 1-28.

4.       Zhang, Q., Liang, Z., Zhang, T., Wang, C., & Wang, T. * (2022). Working memory capacity, mental rotation, and visual perspective taking: A study of the developmental cascade hypothesis. Memory & Cognition, 1-11.

5.       Schweizer, K.*, Wang, T., & Ren, X. (2022). On the detection of speededness in data despite selective responding using factor analysis. The Journal of Experimental Education, 90(2), 486-504.

6.       Wang, T.*, Li, C., Ren, X., & Schweizer, K. (2021). How executive processes explain the overlap between working memory capacity and fluid intelligence: A test of process overlap theory. Journal of Intelligence, 9(2), 1-13.

7.       Li, S., Ren, X.*, Schweizer, K., Brinthaupt, T. M., & Wang, T. (2021). Executive functions as predictors of critical thinking: Behavioral and neural evidence. Learning and Instruction, 71, 101376.

8.       Hao, X., Geng, F.*, Wang, T., Hu, Y., & Huang, K. (2021). Relations of creativity to the interplay between high-order cognitive functions: behavioral and neural evidence. Neuroscience, 473, 90-101.

9.       Wang, L., Geng, F.*, Hao, X., Shi, D., Wang, T., & Li, Y. (2021). Measuring coding ability in young children: relations to computational thinking, creative thinking, and working memory. Current Psychology, 1-12.

10.    Wang, T., Li, C., Wei, W.*, & Schweizer, K. (2020). An investigation on how inhibition in cognitive processing contributes to fluid reasoning. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 16(3), 176-185.

11.    Wang, T., Zhang, Q.*, & Schweizer, K. (2020). Investigating the Item-position Effect in a Longitudinal Data with Special Emphasis on the Information provided by the Variance Parameter. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 62(3), 404-417.

12.    Zhang, J., Yin, H., & Wang, T.* (2020). Exploring the effects of professional learning communities on teacher’s self-efficacy and job satisfaction in Shanghai, China. Educational Studies, 1-18.

13.    Ren, X.*, Tong, Y., Peng, P., & Wang, T. (2020). Critical thinking predicts academic performance beyond general cognitive ability: Evidence from adults and children. Intelligence, 82, 101487.

14.    Zhou, H., Geng, F., Wang, T., Wang, C., Xie, Y., Hu, Y.*, & Chen, F. (2020). Training on Abacus-based Mental Calculation Enhances Resting State Functional Connectivity of Bilateral Superior Parietal Lobules. Neuroscience, 432, 115-125.

15.    Lee, S., Wang, T., & Ren, X.* (2020). Inner speech in the learning context and the prediction of students’ learning strategy and academic performance. Educational Psychology, 40(5), 535-549.

16.    Schweizer, K., Gold, A., Krampen, D., & Wang, T. (2020). On Modeling Missing Data of an Incomplete Design in the CFA Framework. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-13.

17.    Peng, P.*, Wang, T.*, Wang, C., & Lin, X. (2019). A meta-analysis on the relation between fluid intelligence and reading/mathematics: Effects of tasks, age, and social economics status. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 189-236.

18.    Wang, T., Schweizer, K., & Ren, X.* (2019). Executive control in learning: Evidence on the dissociation of associative learning and rule learning. Advances in Cognitive Psychology. 15(1), 220-230.

19.    Schweizer, K.*, Reiß, S., Ren, X., Wang, T., & Troche, S. J. (2019). Speed effect analysis using the CFA framework. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1-11.

20.    Ren, X.*, Wang, T., Sun, S., Deng, M., & Schweizer, K. (2018). Speeded testing in the assessment of intelligence gives rise to a speed factor. Intelligence, 66, 64-71.

21.    Wang, T.*, Ren, X., & Schweizer, K.* (2017). Learning and retrieval processes predict fluid intelligence over and above working memory. Intelligence, 61, 29-36.

22.    Ren, X., Gong, Q., Chu, P., & Wang, T.*. (2017). Impulsivity is not related to the ability and position components of intelligence: A comment on Lozano (2015). Personality and Individual differences, 104, 533–537.

23.    Ren, X., Wang, T.*, & Schweizer, K. (2017). Fixed-links modeling and its application in cognitive psychology research. Advances in Psychological Science, 25(10), 1675–1681.

24.    Zeller, F.*, Wang, T., Reiss, S., & Schweizer, K. (2017). Does the modality of measures influence the relationship among working memory, learning and fluid intelligence? Personality and Individual Differences, 105, 275–279.

25.    Ren, X.*, Schweizer, K., Wang, T., Gong, Q. (2017). On the relationship between executive functions of working memory and components derived from fluid intelligence measures. Acta Psychologica, 180, 79-87.

26.    Altmeyer, M.*, Wang, T., Schweizer, K. (2017). On the relatinship between the retrieval of information and learning: the influence of deep processing. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 59(3), 343-358.

27.    Wang, T., Ren, X., Schweizer, K., & Xu, F.* (2016). Schooling effects on intelligence development: Evidence based on national samples from urban and rural China. Educational Psychology, 36(5), 831-844.

28.    Ren, X.*, Wang, T., & Schweizer, K., Guo, J. (2016). Differential effects of executive processes on working memory: A combined approach. Journal of Individual Differences, 37, 239-249.

29.    Ren, X.*, Wang, T., & Jarrold, C. (2016). Individual differences in frequency of inner speech: Differential relations with cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1-12.

30.    Wang, T., Ren, X., Li, X., Schweizer, K.* (2015). The modeling of temporary storage and its effect on fluid intelligence: Evidence from both Brown-Peterson and complex span tasks. Intelligence, 49, 84–93.

31.    Wang, T., Ren, X., & Schweizer, K.* (2015). The contribution of temporary storage and executive processes to category learning. Acta psychologica, 160, 88–94.

32.    Ren, X., Schweizer, K., Wang, T., & Xu, F.* (2015). The prediction of students’ academic performance with fluid intelligence in giving special consideration to the contribution of learning. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 11, 97–105.

33.    Schweizer, K.*, Ren, X., Wang, T., & Zeller, F. (2015). Does the constraint of factor loadings impair model fit and accuracy in parameter estimation? International Journal of Statistics and Probability, 4, 40–50.

34.    Schweizer, K.*, Ren, X., & Wang, T. (2015). A comparison of confirmatory factor analysis of binary data on the basis of tetrachoric correlations and of probability-based covariances: a simulation study. In R. E. Millsap, D. M. Bolt, L. A. van der Ark, & W.-C. Wang (Eds.), Quantitative Psychology Research (pp. 273–292). Heidelberg: Springer.

35.    Ren, X., Wang, T., Altmeyer, M., & Schweizer, K.* (2014). A learning-based account of fluid intelligence from the perspective of the position effect. Learning and Individual Difference, 31, 30–35.

36.    Xu, F., Han, Y.*, Sabbagh, M., Wang, T., Ren X., Li C. (2014). Developmental differences in the structure of executive function in middle childhood and adolescence. Plos One, 8, 1–9.

37.    Wang, T., Ren, X., Altmeyer, M., & Schweizer, K.* (2013). An account of the relationship between fluid intelligence and complex learning in considering storage capacity and executive attention. Intelligence, 41, 537–545.

38.   Wang, T., Li, C., Xu, F.*, Guo, X., & Luo, X. (2011). The roles of working memory and learning in the development of fluid intelligence. Psychological Development and Education, 27, 337–343.

39.   Li, C., Luo, X., Wang, T., Xu, F.* (2011). Gender difference on the Raven Progressive Matrices. Advances in Psychological Science, 19, 1076–1082.

Presentations

1.       Wang, T. & Shi, J. (2022). Mind wandering in learning. Invited talk at the 4th International Conference of Chinese Applied Psychology, Wuhan, China.

2.       Wang, T., Ren, X., & Schweizer, K. (2019). Executive control in learning: Evidence on the dissociation of associative learning and rule learning. Poster presented at the 31th APS conference, Washington D.C., USA.

3.       Wang, T., Ren, X., & Schweizer, K. (2017). On the relationship between executive functions and the basic ability and the item-position components of fluid intelligence measures. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research, Montreal, Canada.

4.       Wang, T., Schweizer, K., & Ren, X. (2014). The contribution of temporary storage to fluid intelligence: Evidence from both Brown-Peterson and Complex Span tasks. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research, Graz, Austria.

5.       Wang, T. (2014). Modeling cognitive processes by means of the Fixed-Links Model. Invited talk at the Department of Psychology of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

6.       Wang, T., Schweizer, K., & Ren, X. (2013). The construct validity of the Exchange Test as a working memory measure. Oral presentation at the 12th European Conference on Psychological Assessment, San Sebastian, Spain.

7.       Xu, F., Wang, T. (2011). Schooling effects on reasoning development: rural and urban difference. Oral presentation at Annual Meeting on Development Psychology, Dalian, China.

8.       Wang, T., Xu, F. (2010). The relationship between associative learning, working memory and reasoning. Oral presentation at the 13th National Congress of Psychology, Shanghai, China.

Guest Reviewer

Acta Psychologica; Child Development; Current Psychology; Educational Studies; eLife; Frontiers in Psychology; High Ability Studies; International Journal of Behavioral Development; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Intelligence; Learning and Individual Differences; Personality and Individual Differences; Psychology of Sport and Exercise; Scientific Reports; Teaching and Teacher Education.

Professional Memberships

International Society for Intelligence Research

Association for Psychological Science

European Association of Psychological Assessment

Chinese Psychological Society

Teaching Experience: Zhejiang University

Introduction to Psychology

Cognitive Sciences

Psychometrics

School Psychology

Developmental Psychology (Seminars)

Academic Writing in English

Research Methods of Social Sciences

Structural Equation Modelling and Its Applications


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