NEWS & EVENTS
Updates
PUBLICATIONS
✨9/21/2026
Dr. Yuri Kwon and Woojin published a new paper in the Journal of Media Psychology on the role of online comments in shaping news selection.
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5/31/2026
Junho and Prof. Sul published a new paper in Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology on the relationship between risk-taking and social preferences.
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5/28/2026
Junho and Prof. Sul published a new paper in PNAS on adolescents’ brain and peer network
LAB NEWS
🍀9/3/2026
Social Mind Lab kicks off the 2026 fall semester with a lab gathering! [Read more]
🎉6/29/2026
Congratulations to Woojin on being awarded a Doctoral Fellowship from the NRF! [Read more]
🎉6/27/2026
Taein is admitted to the University of Michigan Ph.D. program. Congratulations! [Read more]
TALKS | CONFERENCES
9/19/2026
Lab members recently participated in a workshop celebrating the launch of SSK Project Phase 3, sharing key research findings and future plans.
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7/16/2026
Our lab hosted an invited lecture by Prof. Bo-yong Park (Korea University) on methods for connectome gradient analysis.
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7/15/2026
Our lab hosted the 2026 Summer Brain Imaging Data Analysis Workshop in collaboration with the HumAn Lab at Sungkyunkwan University.
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MEDIA
12/19/2025
Study on happiness and spontaneous thoughts about friends vs. money featured in Science Magazine.
11/20/2025
Prof. Sunhae Sul featured in CHANNEL PNU’s Talkpedia, sharing insights on youth anxiety and navigating uncertainty.
[Watch]
The 3rd Yeongnam Neuro-Cognitive Imaging Workshop (Busan)
Aug 24, 2018
PSNL and KBRI collaborated and held the '제 3회 영남권 뇌영상 연구자 워크샵(The 3rd Yeongnam Regional Neuro-Cognitive Imaging Workshop)' in Busan, South Korea.
The workshop involved the presentations and the poster session and through these schedules, we were able to look through researches from various fields.
All of us enjoyed sharing the knowledge and after workshop, we communicated with each other while having a dinner together.
Yeongnam region Brainimaging Researchers :)
Pusan National University members(PSNL and Professor Sungjun Joo).
Poster Session
Poster Session
Presentation
The 2018 Korean Psychological Association annual conference (Sejong University)
Aug 16 - 18, 2018
Our lab members have participated in 2018 Annual Conference of Korean Psychological Association. The main topic of the Conference was "AI and human". Besides the main topic, the conference provided great chances and opportunities for us to learn about various topics.
Seungmin and Junho presented their research through the poster. They received abundant feedbacks from other researchers, which were very helpful.
Overall, we were able learn and share our knowledge very much!
Lab members :)
Seungmin presenting her poster.
Junho presenting his poster.
Seungmin Lee successfully defends her thesis
Jun 19, 2018
Seungmin passed the academic thesis review on june 19, 2018!
She is on the track to become the first member in our lab to receive a master's degree. Her research focused on moral judgments. Specifically, she examined how group information affects people's moral judgment by dividing group information into transgressor's group membership and transgressed place.
We hope that she continues the great research, and eventually becomes a great researcher :)
An SPM12-based fMRI analysis workshop (PNU)
Jun 1~2, 2018
We hosted 'fMRI analysis using SPM12 Workshop' at PNU on June 1~ 2, 2018
The workshop focused on fMRI research methods, which included lectures from Professor Sul and her students, Minhee Yoo and Junho Bang, and exercises based on actual data. Participants were comprised of professors and students from various universities, including Seoul National University, Yonsei University, and Duksung Women University. Participants' majors also were very diverse; psychiatry, sociology, and etc.
After the first day of workshop, everybody got together for a dinner and discussed about not only fMRI analysis, but also about various topics including new research ideas and cowork opportunities.
The workshop was very productive, both formal and informal wise. And we hope to be a part of workshops that we are given an opportunity to participate! (Especially when it is about a brain imaging techniques!).
Professor Sul is giving a lecture on fMRI.
Participants are practicing SPM12 using actual fMRI data.
A research featured in ScienceDaily and MedicalXpress.
Sep 13, 2017
Prof. Sul's research was featured in Sciencedaily and Medicalxpress.
Sciencedaily : https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170913084448.htm
Medicalxpress : https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-09-teens-ability-intentions-linked-brain.html
PSNL at the 2017 Korean Psychological Association Annual Conference (Sejong University)
Aug 17~19, 2017
Our lab attended the 2017 Annual Conference of Korean Psychological Association!
Seungmin presented a poster on moral judgment.
Prof. Sul gave a talk at a symposium on the replication crisis of social psychology.
Prof. Sul giving a talk.
Seungmin presenting her poster
PSNL members at the conference :)
Paper published in Scientific Reports
Aug 17, 2017
Prof. Sul published a new paper in Scientific Reports.
"Medial prefrontal cortical thinning mediates shifts in other-regarding"
Link : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08692-6
Video : https://youtu.be/uLv5da5wvus
The Yeongnam Brain Imaging Workshop (DGMIF).
Aug 11, 2017.
'영남권 뇌영상 연구자 워크샵'(Southeastern region Brainimaging Researcher Workshop) was held at DGMIF(Daegu Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation).
Prof. Sul presented our recent work on developmental neuroscience.
Presentation
PSNL members :)
The 2017 KBRI Neuroethics Workshop (KBRI)
Jul 28, 2017
KBRI Neuroethics Workshop 2017 was held at KBRI(Korea Brain Research Institute).
People from various fields discussed neuroethcis issues.
It was great opportunity to learn about Neuroethics.
Woojin's pic :)