NEWS & EVENTS

Updates

PUBLICATIONS

2/24/2026

New article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience on prosocial behavior and well-being

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2/2/2026

Woojin and Prof. Sul publish new paper in Addictive Behaviors on social influence on smoking craving

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11/20/2025

New paper in Communications Psychology shows that happier individuals generate more spontaneous thoughts about relationships than money

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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

1/29/2026

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

11/30/2025

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

8/23/2025

Lab members participated in the 2025 Korean Psychological Association Conference, with presentations by Yuri, Taein, and Junho

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 lab participated in the 2024 KSPPA conference, where Prof. Sunhae Sul moderated a junior-researcher program.

Our lab participated in the 2024 conference of KSPPA (Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association), which was held in Korea University in Seoul, Korea (November 30th, 2024).

As the academic chair for the conference, professor Sul moderated a program in which many junior researchers, including professors and graduate students, presented their research.

In our lab, Sunghwan presented his research in the poster session for the first time, and received a lot of attention from other students.

Poster title: “The effects of political orientation on social discounting for ingroup vs. outgroup members”

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Prof. Sunhae Sul published a Scientific Data paper.

Professor Sul's new paper was published in Scientific Data !!

Title: "The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries"

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03865-1

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The lab participated in the 2024 Korean Psychological Association conference, where Yuri Kwon and Junho Bang received awards.

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!

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Prof. Sunhae Sul and lab members participated in the 2024 KSPPA conference in Seoul.

Professor Sul and lab members participated in the 2024 conference of KSPPA (Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association) held in 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”

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The lab attended SANS 2024 in Toronto, where Yuri Kwon and Junho Bang presented posters.

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”

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Sunghwan Park graduated with top honors from PNU’s Department of Psychology.

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! :)

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Prof. Sunhae Sul published a Science Advances paper.

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

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The lab wrapped up 2023 with a year-end gathering and shared New Year’s resolutions.

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.

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Prof. Sunhae Sul and Junho Bang participated in the Asian Advanced Workshop on Social Decision Making and Collective Intelligence in 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.

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The lab participated in the 2023 winter KSPPA conference, where Junho Bang presented his research.

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!

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