1. Skills
DATA SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Over 8 years working experience in data analysis, research design, and academic
writing furnished with three advanced degrees in mathematics and psychology;
Adept at advanced analytics including various data mining techniques, classification
and regression analysis, time series analysis, factor and cluster analysis, machine
learning, and psychometrics;
Proficiency in R, Mplus, and SPSS; Knowledge in Python and SAS; Working knowledge
in database, SQL, and communication protocols;
Highly competent in applying advanced analytics to inform strategy and decision
making, and in the translation of various goals into quantitative metrics; Extremely
strong communication skills with over 40 peer reviewed publications, numerous
presentations and years of teaching experience.
PEOPLE SKILLS
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills polished through 7 years of teaching in higher
education settings; High cultural competency with experience of living and working in
multiple societies, and traveling in more than 30 countries.
CHARACTER
Life-long, fast learner with a mastery of key topics and literature in behavioral
psychology, public health, and decision research; proficiency in reading and
synthesizing literature from other fields.
Conscientious and self-driven, capable to independently execute and follow through
large research projects; Can thrive under pressure environment.
Experience
RESEARCHER, DATA ANALYST
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND ACADEMIC PUBLICATION — SINCE 2008
Senior authored and coauthored over 40 peer-reviewed publications and book
chapters; More than 8 years of experience in collecting data, analyzing data and
interpreting statistical results in over 50 research projects; Research topics include
measurement and assessment of human attributes, comparisons of psychological
processes across cultures with subjects from US, Tibet, China, Iran, Pakistan, India,
and Malaysia; Designed behavioral experiments investigating decision processes;
Served as post hoc reviewers for academic journals; Attended and presented at over a
dozen conferences both home and abroad.
ZHUO JOB CHEN, PH.D. (ABD)
(423)304-2027 turquoisus@gmail.com 2250 Patterson St. Eugene OR, 97405

2. GRADUATE RESEARCH AND TEACHING FELLOW
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON — 2012-PRESENT
Conducting original psychology research: devising research designs, collecting data,
analyzing data, writing manuscripts for publication and presentation at national and
international conferences; Teaching undergraduate applied statistics, application of
SPSS, and research methods and writing. Class size is 18 per section, regularly
teaching 3 sections per term, and 4 terms each academic year.
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA — 2009–2011
Conducted original psychology research; Taught undergraduate courses: Introductory
Psychology, Statistics, SPSS, Tests and Measurement. These classes covered
fundamentals of applied statistics, research design, and academic writing. Class size
varied from 18 to 55.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR MEDICAL STUDIES
REGIONAL OBSTETRICAL CONSULTANT; CHATTANOOGA, TN — 2011
Managed and analyzed data for controlled medical studies. Wrote manuscripts for
publication and presentations.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA — 2009-2011
Assisted in teaching Introductory Psychology, serving 500 students per semester for 4
semesters; Taught SPSS software applications.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT IN WHOLE PERSON EDUCATION
BNU-HKBU UNITED INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE; ZHUHAI, CHINA — 2008-2009
Appraised educational objects of eight Whole Person Education (WPE) centers,
assessed teaching effects, and drafted phased objects; Structured courses and
supported the teaching process of various training sessions for partners from
government, corporations, and educational institutions; Coordinated WPE summer
programs, successfully led 12 students for a three-week voluntary program with street-
working, slum-living children in the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
MEDIA ASSISTANT
BEIJING OLYMPICS AND PARALYMPICS REGATTA EVENT; QINGDAO — 2008
Worked on and off shore assisting international reporters and journalists to successfully
cover the 2008 Olympics Sailing event.

3. Education
PH.D., PSYCHOLOGY (SOCIAL/PERSONALITY, QUANTITATIVE METHODS)
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 2012-2016
M.S., MATHEMATICS (STATISTICS, PROBABILITY THEORY)
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 2013-2015
M.S., PSYCHOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA 2009-2011
B.A., PHILOSOPHY
WUHAN UNIVERSITY 2004-2008
Publications
PERSONALITY AND VALUES
Zhang, Y., Chen, Z., Luan, M., & Li, H. (2016). Affect Intensity and risk preference in
life-saving decisions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
Chen, Z., Watson, P. J., Biderman, M. D., & Ghorbani, N. (2015). Investigating the
properties of the general factor (M) in bifactor models applied to Big Five or
HEXACO data in terms of method or meaning. Imagination, Cognition, and
Personality, 1-28.
Garcia, G. M., Watson, P. J., Cunningham, C., O’Leary, B., & Chen, Z. (2015).
Narcissism and anger: Self-esteem and contingencies of self-worth as
mediating self-structures. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal
Relationships, 9(1), 59-71.
Saucier, G., Kenner, J., Iurino, K., Bou Malham, P., Chen, Z., Thalmayer, A. G.,
Kemmelmeier, M., Tov, W., Boutti, R., Metaferia, H., Çankaya, B., Mastor, K. A.,
Hsu, K.-Y., Wu, R., Maniruzzaman, M., Rugira, J., Tsaousis, I., Sosnyuk, O.,
Regmi Adhikary, J., Skrzypińska, K., Poungpet, B., Maltby, J., Salanga, M. G.
C., Racca, A., Oshio, A., Italia, E., Kovaleva, A., Nakatsugawa, M., Morales-
Vives, F., Ruiz, V. M., Braun Gutierrez, R. A., Sarkar, A., Deo, T., Sambu, L.,
Huisa Veria, E., Ferreira Dela Coleta, M., Kiama, S. G., Hongladoram, S., Derry,
R., Zazueta Beltrán, H., Peng, T. K., Wilde, M., Ananda, A., Banerjee, S.,
Bayazit, M., Joo, S., Zhang, H., Orel, E., Bizumic, B., Shen-Miller, S., Watts, S.,
Pereira, M. E., Gore, E., Wilson, D., Pope, D., Gutema, B., Henry, H., Dacanay,
J. C., Dixon, J., Köbis, N., Luque, J., Hood, J., Chakravorty, D., Pal, A. M., Ong,
L., Leung, A., & Altschul, C. (2015). Cross-cultural differences in a global
‘Survey of World Views’. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 53-70.

4. MYSTICISM
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Aghababaei, N., Chen, Z. (2014). Transliminality and
mystical experience: Common Thread Hypothesis, religious commitment, and
psychological adjustment in Iran. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 6(4),
268-275.
Hood, R. W., Jr. & Chen, Z. (2014). Conversion and deconversion. In S. Bullivant & M.
Ruse (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, pp. 537-552. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Hood, R. W., Jr. & Chen, Z. (2013). Mystical, spiritual, and religious experiences. In R.
Paloutzian and C. Park (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and
Spirituality (2e), pp. 422-440. New York: Guilford.
Chen, Z., Zhang, Y., Hood, R. W., Jr., & Watson, P. (2012). Mysticism in Chinese
Christians and non-Christians: Measurement invariance of the Mysticism Scale
and implications for the mean differences. The International Journal for the
Psychology of Religion, 22, 155-168.
Hood, R. W., Jr. & Chen, Z. (2012). Social scientific study of Christian mysticism. In J.
Lamm (Ed.), Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism, pp. 557-591.
London: John Wiley & Sons.
Chen, Z., Qi, W., Hood, R. W., Jr. & Watson, P. J. (2011). Common Core Thesis and
qualitative and quantitative study of Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns. Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50(4), 654-670.
Chen, Z., Yang, L., Hood, R. W., Jr., & Watson, P. J. (2011). Mystical experience in
Tibetan Buddhists: Common core thesis revisited. Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion, 50(2), 328-338.
SELF-REGULATION, SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING, AND HEALTH
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Madani, M., & Chen, Z. (in press). Muslim Experiential
Religiousness: Spirituality relationships with psychological and religious
adjustment of Iran. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Tavakoli, F., & Chen, Z. (2016). Self-control within a Muslim
ideological surround: Empirical translation schemes and the adjustment of
Islamic seminarians in Iran. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.
Andrews, B., Watson, P. J., Chen, Z., & Morris, R. J. (in press). Postmodernism,
positive psychology, and posttraumatic growth within a Christian Ideological
Surround. The Journal of Positive Psychology.
Aghababaei, N., Sohrabi, F., Eskandari, H., Borjali, A., Farrokhi, N., & Chen, Z. (2016).
Predicting subjective well-being by religious and scientific attitudes with hope,
purpose in life and death anxiety as mediators. Personality and Individual
Differences, 90, 93-98.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Tavakoli, F., & Chen, Z. (2016). Self-control within a Muslim
ideological surround: Empirical translation schemes and the adjustment of
Islamic seminarians in Iran. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.

5. Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Fayaz, F., Chen, Z. (2015). Integrative self-knowledge and
marital satisfaction. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied,
149(1), 1-18.
Khan, Z., Watson, P. J., & Chen, Z. (2015). Meaning of animal sacrifice during Eid-ul-
Adha: Relationships with religious and psychological adjustment in Pakistan.
Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 37, 37-53.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Lotfi, S., Chen, Z. (2014). Moral affects, empathy, and
integrative self-knowledge in Iran. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 34(1),
39-56.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Farhadi, M., Chen, Z. (2014). A multi-process model of
self-regulation: Influences of mindfulness, integrative self-knowledge, and self-
control in Iran. International Journal of Psychology, 49(2), 115-122.
Khan, Z., Zia, A., Watson, P. J., Nielsen, M., Johnson, K., & Chen, Z. (2014). Stress and
psychological and social resources for coping in informal family caregivers of
cancer patients in Pakistan. Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, 16(11),
1070-1075.
Ghorbani, N., Chen, Z., Saeedi, Z., Behjati, Z., & Watson, P. J. (2013). Sakhtar ameli
megyas shafeghat khod dar Iran (Factorial structure of self-compassion scale in
Iran). Fasl name pajohesh haie karbordi, 4, 3, 29-41 (In Persian).
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Lotfi, S., Chen, Z. (2013). Shame and Guilt: Relationships
of test of self-conscious affect measures with psychological adjustment and
gender differences in Iran. Interpersona, 7(1), 97-109.
Khan, Z., Watson, P., & Chen, Z. (2013). Smoking, Muslim religious commitments, and
the experience and behavior of Ramadan in Pakistani men. Mental Health,
Religion and Culture, 16(7), 663-670.
Ghorbani, N. Tahbaza, S., Watson, P. J., & Chen, Z. (2012). Anger, defense
mechanisms, and integrative self-knowledge in Iranian coronary heart disease
and cancer patients. In J. Turner and A. Mitchell (Eds.), Social psychology: New
developments, pp. 75-88. New York: Nova Publisher.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Chen, Z., & Nourballa, F. (2012). Self-Compassion among
Iranian Muslims: Relationships with integrative self-knowledge, religious
orientation, and mental health. The International Journal for the Psychology of
Religion, 22, 106-118.
Khan, Z., Watson, P., & Chen, Z. (2012). Islamic religious coping, perceived Stress, and
mental well-being in Pakistanis. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 34(2),
137-147.
Khan, Z., Watson, P., Chen, Z., Iftikhar, A., & Jabeen, R. (2012). Pakistani religious
coping and the experience and behavior of Ramadan. Mental Health, Religion
and Culture, 15(4), 435-446.
Ghorbani, N., Mousavi, A., Watson, P. J., & Chen, Z. (2011). Integrative self-knowledge
and the harmony of purpose model in Iranian autoimmune patients. E-Journal of
Applied Psychology, 7(2), 1-8.

6. Khan, Z., Watson, P., & Chen, Z. (2011). Differentiating religious coping from Islamic
identification in patient and non-patient Pakistani Muslims. Mental Health,
Religion and Culture, 14(10), 1049-1062.
SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIOSITY
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Omidbagi, M., & Chen, Z. (in press). Muslim attachments
to God and the “Perfect Man” (Ensān-e Kāmel): Relationships with religious
orientation and psychological adjustment in Iran. Psychology of Religion and
Spirituality.
Khan, Z., Watson, P. J., Naqvi, A., Jahan, K., Chen, Z. (2015). Muslin experiential
religiousness in Pakistan: Meaning in life, general well-being and gender
differences. Mental Health, Religion, & Culture, 18(6), 482-491.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Ghranmayepour, S., Chen, Z. (2014a). Measuring Muslim
spirituality: Relationships of Muslim experiential religiousness with religious and
psychological adjustment in Iran. The Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 8(1),
77-94.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Ghranmayepour, S., Chen, Z. (2014b). Muslim Experiential
Religiousness: Relationships with attitude toward Islam, religious reflection, and
basic needs satisfaction in Iranians. Research in the Social Scientific Study of
Religion, 25, 53-72.
Kamble, S. V., Watson, P. J., Marigoudar S., & Chen, Z. (2014). Attitude toward
Hinduism, religious orientations, and psychological adjustment in India. Mental
Health, Religion and Culture, 17(2), 161-172.
Watson, P. J., Chen, Z. & Ghorbani, N. (2014). Extrinsic Cultural Religious Orientation:
Analysis of Iranian measures in the United States. Journal of Beliefs & Values,
35(1), 61-78.
Chen, Z, Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., & Aghababaei, N. (2013). Muslim Experiential
Religiousness and Muslim Attitudes toward Religion: Dissociation of experiential
and attitudinal aspects of religiosity in Iran. Studia Religiologica, 46(1), 41-50.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Geranmayepour, S., & Chen, Z. (2013). Analyzing the
spirituality of Muslim experiential religiousness: Relationships with psychological
measures of Islamic religiousness in Iran. Archive for the Psychology of Religion,
35, 233-258.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Saeedi, Z., Chen, Z., & Silver, C. (2012). Religious
problem-solving and the complexity of religious rationality within an Iranian
Muslim ideological surround. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51(4),
656-675.
Watson, P., Chen, Z. & Sisemore T. (2011). Grace and Christian psychology – Part 2:
Psychometric refinements and relationships with self-compassion, depression,
beliefs about sin, and religious orientation. Edification: The Transdisciplinary
Journal of Christian Psychology, 4(2), 64-72.

7. DYNAMICS OF FAITH AND REASON
Tekke, M., Watson, P. J., İsmail, N. A., & Chen, Z. (2015). Muslim religious openness
and Ilm: Relationships with Islamic religious reflection, religious schema, and
religious commitments in Malaysia. Archive for Psychology of Religion, 37,
295-320.
Watson, P. J., Chen, Z., Ghorbani, N., & Vartanian, M. (2015). Religious Openness
Hypothesis: I. Religious reflection, schemas, and orientations within religious
fundamentalist and Biblical foundationalist ideological surrounds. Journal of
Psychology and Christianity, 34(2), 99-113.
Watson, P. J., Ghorbani, N., Vartanian, M., & Chen, Z. (2015). Religious Openness
Hypothesis: II. Religious reflection, mystical experience, and religious
orientations of Christians in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Journal of Psychology
and Christianity, 34(2), 114-124.
Watson, P. J., Chen, Z, Morris, R., & Stephensen, E. (2015). Religious Openness
Hypothesis: III. Defense against secularism within fundamentalist and Biblical
foundationalist ideological surrounds. Journal of Psychology and Christianity,
34(2), 125-140.
Kamble, S. V., Watson, P. J., Marigoudar S., & Chen, Z. (2014). Varieties of openness
and religious commitment in India: Relationships of attitudes toward Hinduism,
Hindu religious reflection, and religious schema. Archive for the Psychology of
Religion, 36, 172-198.
Watson, P. J., Chen, Z., & Morris, R. (2014). Varieties of quest and the Religious
Openness Hypothesis within religious fundamentalist and biblical foundationalist
ideological surrounds. Religions, 5, 1-20.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Chen, Z., & Dover, H. (2013). Varieties of openness in
Tehran and Qom: Psychological and religious parallels of faith and intellect
oriented Islamic religious reflection. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 16(2),
123-137.
Watson, P., Chen, Z. & Hood, R. W. (2011). Biblical foundationalism and religious
reflection: Polarization of faith and intellect oriented epistemologies within a
Christian ideological surround. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 39(2),
111-121.
INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Chen, Z. (Feb 2016). Toward a universal structure of human values: Lesson from Ism
structures in China and Taiwan. Fuller University.
Chen, Z. (2015). Psychological study of sacredness. International Association for
Psychology of Religion Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
Saucier, G. & Chen, Z. (2015). Belief in spirits or belief in institutions? Toward placing
varieties of religiousness in a cross-culturally applicable model. International
Association for Psychology of Religion Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

8. Biderman, M., McAbee, S., & Chen, Z. (2015). Assessing the evaluative content of
personality questionnaires using bifactor models. Association for Research in
Personality Biennial Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Chen, Z. (2014). Sacredness and its correlates. 2014 Society for Scientific Study of
Religion Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
Chen, Z., Watson, P. J., & Biderman, M. D. (2014). Assessing the "I" as well as the
"me": A general factor estimated from personality data as a substantive process
of the self. The 17th European Conference on Personality, Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Saucier, G., Thalmayer, A., Bou Malham, P., Chen, Z., Iurino, K. (2014) Personality and
the "value" component in evaluation. 17th European Conference on Personality,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
Saucier, G. & Chen, Z. (2014). Isms Dimensions: Applying an Integrative Model of
Belief-System Components to Political Psychology. The 37th Annual Scientific
Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Rome, Italy.
Saucier, G. & Chen, Z. (2014). Cross-cultural differences and measurement of
invariance of ISMs in a “Global Survey of World Views.” The 22nd International
Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Reims, France.
Biderman, M., Cunningham, C., Nguyen, N., & Chen, Z. (2013). Method factors,
bifactors, and item valence of the Big Five personality measurement. The 28th
Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
Houston, TX.
Chen, Z., Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Saeedi, Z. & Silver, C. (2012). Religious problem-
solving and the complexity of religious rationality within an Iranian Muslim
ideological surround. The 10th Annual Mid-Year Conference of APA Division 36,
Loyola, MD.
Chen, Z. (2011). Dissolution of self and experience of unity in Chinese Pure Land and
Chan Buddhists. Research Day of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Chen, Z. (2010). Transformation and tradition: Bifactor and higher-order Big-5
personality model in Germany and the US. 2010 Society for Scientific Study of
Religion Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

9. References
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Psychology
Ralph-Hood@utc.edu (423)425-4274
Paul J. Watson, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology
Paul-Watson@utc.edu (423)425-4291
Azim Shariff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology
shariff@uoregon.edu (541)222-9354
Gerard Saucier, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology
gsaucier@uoregon.edu (541)346-4927
David Levin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics
dlevin@uoregon.edu (541) 346-4705
Christopher Sinclair, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics
csinclai@uoregon.edu (541) 346-4701