Hongbo Yu
psyhongbo.bsky.social
Hongbo Yu
@psyhongbo.bsky.social
Asst Prof @UCSB interested in morality, emotion and brain
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So 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...
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August 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I’m honored to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure @ucsb.

To mark this, our lab, the Yu Emotion Science (YES) lab releases its official logo (credit: @avamadesousa.bsky.social )
July 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We are strong together💪 Chinese students and scholars at SANS2025 #SANS2025 @sansmeeting.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
First 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

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April 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae (Harvard) and in collaboration with Dr. Fan Yang (UChicago) explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
On the Perception of Moral Standing to Blame
Abstract. Is everyone equally justified in blaming another’s moral transgression? Across five studies (four pre-registered; total N = 1,316 American participants), we investigated the perception of mo...
direct.mit.edu
January 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Now out in @science.org: misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Doing this work was way harder than it had to be, thanks to Big Tech. I want to highlight our lead analyst @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social for his heroic perseverance to bring you this paper 🧵
December 2, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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#SANS2025 will feature two debates! First Damien Fair will debate @thaliawheatley.bsky.social about the usefulness of large consortia vs. small bespoke studies, then @mohammadatari.bsky.social will debate @markthornton.bsky.social about caution vs. acceleration in applying AI to social neuroscience!
November 19, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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⏳ Time’s almost up! Just 14 hours left to submit your abstract to #SAS2025! Don’t miss your chance to share your research and connect with fellow affective scientists. Deadline: 11:59 PM Baker Island Time (UTC-12)! Submit now! #AffectiveScience
November 15, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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I'm recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-... Apps due Nov 17!
Joining the Lab — Crockett Lab
www.crockettlab.org
November 14, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...
Social Injustice and Social Change (UCSB) - Recruiting Ph.D. Students
sisc.psych.ucsb.edu
November 13, 2024 at 11:53 PM
🚨 New job🚨 The Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at UCSB is hiring a new Director for the Brain Imaging Center! Join us in beautiful SB 🏝️ and intellectually stimulating and collegial department (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) t.co/FOC7OxWT12
https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858
t.co
November 14, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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New preprint on prejudice and state centralization: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our team of historians, psychologists, and anthropologists analyzed 90 historical societies and Chinese records from 206 BCE - 1911 CE

In both studies, we find a link btw group prejudice and historical state centralization
November 11, 2024 at 3:34 PM