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 2023 Asian Advanced Workshop (Tokyo)
Dec 16-17, 2023.
Professor Sul and Junho participated in the "Asian Advanced WS on Social Decision Making and Collective Intelligence", Which was held in Tokyo, Japan.
They met with researchers from East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore, and shared their perspectives regarding the topic of decision-making.
The 2023 winter KSPPA conference (CNU)
Nov 17, 2023.
Our lab participated in the 2023 winter conference of Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association, held at Chungnam National University, South Korea.
Junho presented his research "The relationship between social brain structure, empathy, social preferences for distribution justice and social network position in adolescence (청소년기 사회적 뇌의 구조적 차이와 공감, 분배 정의 선호 및 사회 관계망 내 역할 사이의 관계)" at the Future Social and Personality Psychologist of the Year Competition.
He proudly won the first place in this competition.
Congratulation to Junho and We are so proud of him!
An invited talk at the International Conference cum Workshop (Lingnan University)
Nov 8-10, 2023.
Professor Sul participated in the international conference in Lingnan university.
She was the speaker in the invited talk, where she presented the "Neural predictors of positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being".
Paper published in Scientific Reports
Prof. Sul and Won-Gyo published a new paper in Scientific Reports !!
"Perceived financial well-being and its association with frontostriatal functional connectivity, real-life anticipatory experiences, and everyday happiness"
The 2023 lab picnic
On October 27, 2023.
PSNL held a workshop in Busan, South Korea.
We started by taking a walk along the trekking course by "Igidae (이기대 수변공원)". We enjoyed informal discussions about our lab, research, and many other topics.
After that, We had a lunch together and finished our workshop by introducing each members' own research at the cafe.
It was a great time to share good ideas with each other.
All the members' research was interesting, and We're looking forward for them to be published in papers!
Paper published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Prof. Sul, Mijin and Sunghyun published a new paper in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience!!
"Corticolimbic Structural Connectivity Encapsulates Real-World Emotional Reactivity and Happiness"
Link: https://academic.oup.com/scan/advance-article/doi/10.1093/scan/nsad056/7316661
Paper published in Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology
Prof. Sul and Junho published a new paper in Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology !!
"정치 성향과 공리주의 성향, 뉴미디어 이용이 코로나19 방역 정책에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향"
The 26th KSBNS annual meeting (BEXCO)
Sep 6-8, 2023
Our lab director, Professor Sul, and members participated in the 26th annual Meeting of the KSBNS(Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences).
Junho and Won-gyo shared their research in the poster session.
Professor Sul presented the research "Social brain, social preferences, and peer relationships of adolescents" in the symposium.
We had a chance to learn about the brain in the perspective of multiple disciplines, and share our knowledge of social neuroscience with scholars from various fields.
Professor Sul in the symposium session.
Won-gyo is presenting her research with other scholars.
Junho smiling in front of his poster :)
Professor Sul and Junho smiling :)
Paper published in Frontiers in Psychology
Prof. Sul and Won-Gyo published a new paper in Frontiers in Psychology !!
"Individual differences in gaze-cuing effect are associated with facial emotion recognition and social conformity"
2023 KSAH analysis workshop (Busan)
On July 12~13, 2023.
Our lab and Yonsei Social Networks & Neuroscience lab(YSNNL) held Anlaysis Workshop in Busan, South Korea.
On the first day, Kiho Sung, a PhD candidate at YSNNL have introduced and demonstrated how to do Social Networking Analysis using the Pajek. Next day, Junho Bang, our lab member, introduced and demonstrated how to analyze fMRI data using the SPM12.
Both lecturers were very dexterous in sharing novel techniques to the audience, and all of us enjoyed sharing the knowledge and in a get-together time after the workshop.
We hope that opportunities like these would continue and expand in the future.
Kiho introduced Social Networking Analysis.
Junho introduced how to use the SPM12.
we had a great time :)