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
🎉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
✈️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.
[Read more]
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 Scientific Data
Professor Sul's new paper was published in Scientific Data !!
Title: "The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries"
The 2024 Korean Psychological Association conference (Kyongju)
Our lab participated in the 2024 conference of KPA (The Korean Psychological Association) held in Gyeongju, Korea (August 15th, 2024~August 17th, 2024).
Yuri and Junho presented their research at the conference and both of them received awards!
Yuri won a Young Scholar Travel Award and Junho won a Poster Award (장려상).
List of Awardees: https://koreanpsychology.or.kr/KPA2024/notice/notice_view.html?no=293
Presentation title of Dr. kwon: “Does happiness promote utilitarian decisions in moral dilemmas? A neurocomputational investigation on the relationship between happiness and moral decision-making”
Poster title of Junho: “A Study of Preferences for Distributive Justice According to the Demographic Characteristics of Koreans”
Congratulation to Yuri and Junho. We are so proud of them!
The 2024 KSPPA conference (Korea University)
Professor Sul and lab members participated in the 2024 conference of KSPPA (Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association) held in Korea University, Seoul, Korea (May 18th, 2024).
As the academic chair for the conference, professor Sul presided in the symposium in which researchers from various academic fields shared their works about the pervasiveness and the impact of confirmation bias.
Dr. Wongyo Shin shared her data through Data Blitz and Woojin presented his work in the poster session.
Poster title:
Wongyo Shin: “What do happy people think about? The relationship between happiness and spontaneous thoughts about friend vs. money”
Woojin Jung: “Social Influence on Cue-induced Smoking Craving”
SANS 2024 (Toronto)
Our PI, Professor Sul, Yuri, and Junho participated in the 2024 conference of SANS(the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society) held in Toronto, Canada (April 10th, 2024, ~ April 13th, 2024).
Yuri and Junho presented posters on their recent work.
Poster title:
Junho Bang: “Structural variations in the midcingulo-insula network predict individual differences in social preferences and social network position in adolescence”
Yuri Kwon: “Does hedonic happiness promote utilitarianism in moral dilemmas? A neurocomputational investigation on the relationship between happiness and moral decision-making”
Undergraduate graduation: Sunghwan Park
Sunghwan have graduated with top honors and received bachelor's degree from the department of psychology, Pusan National University.
We sincerely congratulate his graduation and wish him all the best for his future endeavors! :)
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".