Mainly engaged in learning, creativity, social cognition and brain science research. Future research interests mainly focus on the creative brain mechanism and the interaction and transformation between consciousness and unconsciousness. Professor Zhang Qinglin and his team have achieved a series of research results. Up to 20 10, he has presided over 6 projects of the national natural science foundation, 3 projects of the national social science foundation, 4 major projects of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education and 6 other provincial and ministerial projects, and published nearly 450 papers, more than 30 monographs and more than 60 textbooks. Some achievements are at the leading level in China and recognized by international peers. Forty-five papers were included in the international SCI (scientific papers index), and 13 papers were included in the international SSCI (social science papers index). He won five second prizes and two third prizes for outstanding scientific research achievements in social sciences in Chongqing, the third prize for outstanding achievements in national education and scientific research/kloc-0, the third prize for outstanding teachers in Ceng Xianzi 1 999, and was named as an advanced individual of returned overseas Chinese and their relatives in China, an excellent teacher in Chongqing in 2000 and a national key discipline "Basic Psychology" in 2006. In 2002, he was approved as the first academic and technical leader of development and educational psychology in Chongqing, and in 2006, he became the academic leader of cognitive direction in the Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality Education.

Professor Zhang Qinglin went to the United States twice on 1999 and 200 1 to cooperate with Robert Jeffrey Sternberg, a professor at Yale University and a famous American psychologist, to study creative intelligence. His work attitude and achievements have also been affirmed and appreciated by Robert Jeffrey Sternberg.