Published in Machine Learning with Applications, 2025
Integrated machine learning and structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore how mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and rumination jointly predict mental health and well-being in university students.
Published in Contemporary School Psychology, 2025
A multilevel analysis of 2,121 high-school students revealed that mindfulness-based programs promote self-compassion, with stronger effects in classrooms showing lower baseline self-regulation.
Recommended citation: Razza, R. A., Liu, Q., Feng, R., Hao, X., Kirkman, K. A., & Merrin, G. J. (2025). Cultivating adolescents’ self-compassion through mindfulness: The role of self-regulation at both the individual- and classroom-level. Contemporary School Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40688-025-00548-5
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Published in Mindfulness, 2024
Validated a 15-item, three-factor Mindful Student Questionnaire (MSQ) among 2,910 Chinese adolescents, showing strong reliability and convergent/predictive validity.
Recommended citation: Wang, Q., Wu, Y., Feng, R., Hao, X., Felver, J.C., Zhang, Y., & Razza, R. (2024). Adaptation and Validation of the Mindful Student Questionnaire in Chinese. Mindfulness, 15, 359–371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02299-x
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Published in Learning and Motivation (under review), 2025
Behavioral paradigm probing how reward uncertainty drives helplessness and alters task-switching flexibility over time.
Recommended citation: Feng, R., Hao, X., & Verhaeghen, P. (under review). When control slips away: Temporal dynamics of learned helplessness and cognitive flexibility under reward uncertainty. Learning and Motivation.
Published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (under review), 2025
Systematic review of neuroimaging evidence (fMRI/sMRI/EEG/PET) on mind–body interventions in healthy older adults and MCI.
Recommended citation: Hao, X., Feng, R., Guimarães, A. L., Verhaeghen, P., Lin, F. V., & Turnbull, A. (under review). Mind–body interventions induce brain changes in aging: A systematic review of structural and functional neuroimaging findings. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NMWB6
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Published in , 2025
Longitudinal task-fMRI across K–2 examining dorsal/ventral trajectories for magnitude vs. symbol recognition.
Recommended citation: Hao, X., Vinci-Booher, S., & Price, G. R. (under review). Symbolic and non-symbolic number processing in ventral and dorsal cortices: A longitudinal study from kindergarten to second grade.