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
4/5/2026
New article in Scientific Reports on early-stage orienting behavior and eye-tracking markers in ADHD
LAB NEWS
🎉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]
3/1/2026
Our lab has moved to the Department of Data Science at Hanyang University, Seoul
TALKS | CONFERENCES
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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✈️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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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.
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The 2019 fall KSPPA conference (SWU)
Dec 7, 2019
PSNL members participated in the 2019 fall conference of Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association.
Junho and Woojin shared their research through an oral presentation .
The conference covered various topics in social psychology.
We were able to learn about ongoing researches conducted by fellow researchers all over the South Korea, Japan, and the world, and have productive discussion with them!
Woojin presenting his research :)
Junho smiling :)
Seungmin is married!!!
Nov 17, 2019
Hello~
This time, we want to share a blissful news from our lab.
Seungmin Lee, the Ph,D candidate in PSNL, got married on Nov. 17th.
Numerous guests, including her family and friends, members of PSNL, and other graduate students came and congratulated her marriage.
Our future cannot always be filled with happiness and joyful things. However, we believe that Seungmin and her husband will rely on each other and live happily after.
We wish this couple and their future the best :)
The 5th Yeongnam Neuro-Cognitive Imaging Workshop (UNIST).
Aug 27, 2019
PSNL participated in the 5th Yeongnam Regional Neuro-Cognitive Imaging Workshop at UNIST.
At this workshop, Junho presented his research through a data blitz, as well as poster and received numerous feedbacks.
This workshop is where all neuroscience researchers in Yeongnam region gather and share their research through a presentation and discussion. We hope that such opportunities continue.
The number of neuro-cognitive researchers in Yeongnam regions are progressively incrementing!
Junho presenting his research :)
The 2019 Korean Psychological Association annual conference (Sejong University)
Aug 22-24, 2019
We participated in 2019 annual conference of Korean Psychological Association.
Like usual, our members participated in the poster presentation.
- Woojin Jung: “What makes minorities to speak out? Differentiating the effects of power and status.”
- Junho Bang: “Social value orientation modulates the effects of pleasure and meaning during charitable donation.”
Professor Sul was very busy in this conference, participating in various symposiums as both a host and a discussant.
The conference included variety of interesting topics, such as gambling, game addiction, and group decision making, etc. Through these presentations, we were able to expand our understanding of novel topics.
We can't wait to see what KPA will show us in 2020, and what we will be presenting there!
PSNL members :)
Woojin successfully presented his poster.
Junho checking his poster.
Prof. Sul is awarded the Young Investigator Award (PNU).
May 14, 2019
Great news! :)
On May 14th, our lab director, professor Sul has been awarded ‘Young Investigator Award’, presented by Pusan National University.
We believe the best is yet to come, for professor Sul and our lab!
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. :)
PSNL members at Palais de Chaillot ;)
Junho presented his poster
Seungmin presenting her poster
Minhee presented her poster :)
Keynote addresses were very interesting!
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! :)
seungmin and professor Sul :)
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 :)