Paper published in Scientific Reports

Prof. Sul and Seungmin (A graduate of our lab's master's program) published a new paper in Scientific Reports !!

"Motivational and behavioral mechanisms underlying generalized health risking behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in smokers"

Link : www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-81898-7

Our interns excells in undergraduate conference

Our lab RAs, Minyeong and Hyewon, presented their research poster in the academic conference for undergraduate students hosted by the Department of Psychology at Pusan National University (November 29th, 2024).

They won the first place and we are proud of them!

Poster title: “What promotes pro-environmental behavior? Integrating the role of personal and social motivations.

The 2024 KSPPA conference (Korea University)

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”

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"

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

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.