Youngki Hong
Assistant professor of social psychology at CU Boulder
svmlab.org
- Reposted by Youngki HongWhy do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Youngki HongHow physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world Perspective by Shari Liu, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Joseph Outa & Minjae J. Kim Web: go.nature.com/3Xwo40J PDF: rdcu.be/eSMfa
- Reposted by Youngki Hong🐶Now out at JNB🐶 We examine the prevalence and psychological correlates of lay beliefs in physiognomy - the idea that a person's character is reflected in their facial appearance. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Youngki HongI’m excited to share my 1st first-authored paper, “Distinct portions of superior temporal sulcus combine auditory representations with different visual streams” (with @mtfang.bsky.social and @steanze.bsky.social ), now out in The Journal of Neuroscience! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Youngki HongNew findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)
- Reposted by Youngki HongUniversity of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n
- I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science. Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/... Lab info: www.svmlab.org
- I'm also recruiting a postdoc! bsky.app/profile/youn...
- Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026! We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods. Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
- 🚨 New paper out! 🚨 Excited to share that our work showing that the self plays an important role in how we visualize novel ingroup members is now out in Self and Identity! With @kyleratner.bsky.social A thread 🧵 youngkihong.com/uploads/PSAI...
- We asked: How do people visualize others in new groups, even with no shared history or traits? Using the minimal group paradigm + reverse correlation methods, we tested if self-image and self-esteem shape mental representations of ingroup faces. (1/5)
- Study 1: People with higher self-esteem generated ingroup faces that were perceived as more trustworthy to others. Self-evaluation shaped how “us” looked even in novel group settings. (2/5)
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View full threadTogether, these studies support a simple idea: The self is a representational base. When imagining what “us” looks like, people lean on who they are and how they see themselves. (5/5)
- Reposted by Youngki HongSo excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in @commspsychol.nature.com 🎉 In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (1/4)
- Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026! We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods. Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
- Reposted by Youngki Hong🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉 Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social and Jas Cloutier! @apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
- Reposted by Youngki HongThe June 2025 special issue of Social Cognition -- Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1 -- was guest edited by Jimmy Calanchini, Juliane Degner, and Colin Smith, with support from Bertram Gawronski. The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....
- Reposted by Youngki HongExcited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New paper out in JEP:G with Allison Auten and @kyleratner.bsky.social youngkihong.com/uploads/jepg... A thread 🧵
- The Bouba–Kiki effect is a well-documented phenomenon in sound symbolism. People reliably associate round-sounding words like “Bouba” with round shapes and sharp-sounding words like “Kiki” with angular shapes. We asked: What happens when those sounds are used as group names? (1/7)
- Across three studies, we found that sound symbolism can influence perceptions of novel groups. But categorization into groups and intergroup competition can diminish, override, or even reverse these effects. (2/7)
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View full threadOverall takeaway: Sound symbolism can shape trait inferences about groups. But when groups are self-relevant and competitive, these effects can weaken or even reverse. This research suggests that phonemic cues are not inert; they interact with intergroup processes in meaningful ways. (7/7)
- Reposted by Youngki HongIn a TiCS paper, @chujunlin.bsky.social & I propose a high-dimensional model of social impressions. Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift. shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)
- Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at @colorado.edu as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study social cognition, focusing on the cognitive and neural bases of stereotyping and bias interventions.
- I’ll be recruiting graduate students and a postdoc to join in Fall 2026. More details coming soon—stay tuned!
- Reposted by Youngki HongJob alert 🚨 We’re hiring a full-time research staff assistant at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The position will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive & neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI & natural language processing. Link: freemanlab.org/ra2025
- Reposted by Youngki HongVery proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Youngki HongFirst article in TICS led by excellent YES Lab member and graduate student @avamadesousa.bsky.social Commentary on a recent cross-cultural work on conceptual representation of social relationships by @bruceyinwang.bsky.social kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
- Reposted by Youngki HongExcited to be chairing my first ever symposium today at #SPSP2025! We have a great lineup including Suraiya Allidina, @kyleratner.bsky.social, and @leorhackel.bsky.social. Come check it out! @spspnews.bsky.social
- Reposted by Youngki HongCheck out the lab's presentations at #SPSP2025! cc @gabefajardo.bsky.social, @youngkihong.bsky.social, @samklein.bsky.social, Maryam Bin Meshar, John Andrew Chwe, Bastian Weitz
- Reposted by Youngki Hong📢 New Publication! Over 5 days of learning about ingroup and outgroup members, we found that contact eliminated racial bias in recall of person-knowledge Open access link below #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪
