NEWS & EVENTS
Recent News
2/24/26
Prof. Sul has published a new article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Title of the article: “How helping others helps us: neural mechanisms linking prosocial behavior to psychological and physical wellbeing"
2/20/26
Congratulation to Sunghwan Park for receiving master’s degree from the department of psychology, Pusan National University.
Also, congratulations to Donggun Lee and Hyewon Lee for their bachelor’s degree as well!
Woojin and Prof. Sul published a new paper in Addictive Behaviors!!
“Social norms modulate asymmetric effects of group opinions on cue-induced smoking craving"
Our lab participated in 2026 Workshop of the Higher-Level Cognition Section (also called Neurosplash) of The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences (KSBNS), held at Cheongpung Resort in Jecheon, Korea (January 28–29, 2026).
Sunghwan presented his study in the poster session.
Poster title: “Brain’s functional connectome patterns during naturalistic movie-watching predict real-life political judgments and decisions”
Our lab enjoyed engaging with a wide range of research topics during the poster session and had a great time networking with members from other labs.
The paper “Happier individuals generate more spontaneous thoughts about friends and value relationships over money,” authored by Prof. Sunhae Sul and Won-Gyo Shin (A postdoctoral alumnus of our lab), was featured in Science Magazine.
The study highlights the cognitive and social foundations of happiness by showing that happier people more frequently generate spontaneous thoughts about friends and social relationships rather than material reward.
The full article is available at:
https://scienmag.com/happier-people-think-more-about-friends-not-money/