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Youngki Hong
@youngkihong.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of social psychology at CU Boulder https://www.svmlab.org/
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Aug 28
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.
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d
🐶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.

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Gabriel Fajardo @gabefajardo.bsky.social · 6d
I’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!
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Fig. 1. a. Visual and auditory regions of interest (ROIs). b. Responses in a combination of visual (e.g., early dorsal visual stream; Fig. 1a, middle panel) and auditory regions were used to predict responses in the rest of the brain using MVPN. c. In order to identify brain regions that combine responses from auditory and visual regions, we identified voxels where predictions generated using the combined patterns from auditory regions and one set of visual regions jointly (as shown in Fig. 1b) are significantly more accurate than predictions generated using only auditory regions or only that set of visual regions.
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 19d
New 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...

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

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#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · 28d
I'm also recruiting a postdoc!

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Aug 28
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.
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · 28d
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
Colorado Social Vision & Mind Lab
The Social Vision & Mind Lab (Director: Youngki Hong, Ph.D.) at the University of Colorado Boulder explores how people perceive and make sense of the physica...
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Sep 1
Together, 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.

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Sep 1
Study 3: We used OpenFace to test whether people were just matching based on trustworthiness. Even after accounting for perceived trustworthiness, ingroup faces were objectively more similar to their creators, confirming a role for self-image.

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Sep 1
Study 2: Ingroup faces resembled their creators. An independent sample could match ingroup faces to photographs of the people who generated them better than chance, suggesting self-image guided the visual representations.

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Sep 1
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.

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Sep 1
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.

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Sep 1
🚨 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

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Ava Ma de Sousa @avamadesousa.bsky.social · Aug 28
So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in
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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...
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Aug 28
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.
Postdoctoral Associate
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · Jul 15
🎉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

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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Jul 14
The 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....
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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jul 3
Excited 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...
Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications
Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
Overall 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)
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
In Study 3, we merely assigned participants to groups without the competitive framing. Sound symbolism effects on group perception reemerged. However, sound–shape congruence rates were still lower than in the no-group condition in Study 1. (6/7)
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
What do we mean by reversal? Some participants matched Bouba/Maluma with the sharp shape and Kiki/Takete with the round shape (the reverse of the expected mapping). Those same participants then rated round-sounding groups as more dominant, confident, and sociable than sharp-sounding groups. (5/7)
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
In Study 2, participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups (Bouba vs. Kiki) and completed a resource competition task. Participants rated their own group more favorably, regardless of the name. Sound symbolism effects were absent or reversed. (4/7)
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
In Study 1, for example, participants rated groups with round-sounding names (Bouba, Maluma) as more trustworthy and caring. Groups with sharp-sounding names (Kiki, Takete) were rated as more dominant and extraverted. (3/7)
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
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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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
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)
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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jul 11
New paper out in JEP:G with Allison Auten and @kyleratner.bsky.social
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