NEWS & EVENTS

Updates

PUBLICATIONS

✨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

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4/5/2026

New article in Scientific Reports on early-stage orienting behavior and eye-tracking markers in ADHD

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LAB NEWS

3/1/2026

Our lab has moved to the Department of Data Science at Hanyang University, Seoul

2/20/2026

Congratulations to Sunghwan (M.A.), and Donggun and Hyewon (B.A.) on their degrees!

11/30/2025

Sunghwan wins the Top Award at the KSPPA Winter Conference!

TALKS | CONFERENCES

✈️5/27-5/30/2026

Our lab participated in the 2026 APS Annual Convention where Yuri, Junho, Woojin, and Donggun presented their research.
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1/29/2026

Our lab participated in the 2026 KSBNS Workshop, where Sunghwan presented his research.

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11/30/2025

Lab members - Sunghwan, Woojin, Taein - presented their research at the KSPPA Winter Conference.

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MEDIA

12/19/2025

Study on happiness and spontaneous thoughts about friends vs. money featured in Science Magazine.

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11/20/2025

Prof. Sunhae Sul featured in CHANNEL PNU’s Talkpedia, sharing insights on youth anxiety and navigating uncertainty.

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1/23/2024

Our research on hedonic editing and happiness featured in Psychology Today.

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The 2019 International Convention of Psychological Science (Paris)

Mar 7-9, 2019

PSNL members visited Paris, France, to participate the International Convention of Psychological Science(ICPS), which is hosted by APS. Numerous researches in diverse areas were introduced through symposias, posters, and keynotes. And they were all very interesting and innovative.

Also, Minhee, Seungmin, and Junho introduced their researches in poster sessions and communicated with other researchers from all over the world.

Participating the ICPS gave us the motivation to develop better researches and widened our perspective of how psychology can influence and change dimensions of society, including social, cognition, neuroscience, and etc.

We hope that someday, every one of us can introduce our own researches to audiences at the international conferences, like ICPS. :)

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PSNL members at Palais de Chaillot ;)

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Junho presented his poster

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Seungmin presenting her poster

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Minhee presented her poster :)

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Keynote addresses were very interesting!

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Seungmin Lee: The first master from our lab

Feb 22, 2019

Seungmin Lee has become the first student from our lab, to receive a masters degree.

On February 22, 2019, She has received a Master of Arts from the department of psychology, Pusan National University.

She will continue to pursue her education as a doctoral candidate in our lab.

We sincerely congratulate her on getting the degree and hope that she accomplishes a lot of great research! :)

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seungmin and professor Sul :)

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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.

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Yeongnam region Brainimaging Researchers :)

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Pusan National University members(PSNL and Professor Sungjun Joo).

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Poster Session

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Poster Session

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Presentation

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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!

 

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Lab members :)

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Seungmin presenting her poster.

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Junho presenting his poster.

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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 :)

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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!).

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Professor Sul is giving a lecture on fMRI.

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Participants are practicing SPM12 using actual fMRI data. 

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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

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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.

 

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Prof. Sul giving a talk.

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Seungmin presenting her poster

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PSNL members at the conference :)

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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

 

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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.

 

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Presentation

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PSNL members :)

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