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.
✨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
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.
11/20/2025
Prof. Sunhae Sul featured in CHANNEL PNU’s Talkpedia, sharing insights on youth anxiety and navigating uncertainty.
Paper published in Science Advances
Professor Sul's new paper was published in Science Advanced !!
"Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries"
Link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778
2023 year-end dinner
Dec 22, 2023.
Our lab had the year-end gathering to have a dinner.
We reflected on 2023 and shared our new year's resolutions to each other.
We sincerely hope that our members achieve their wishes and resolutions in the upcoming 2024.
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 :)