Youngki Hong
youngkihong.bsky.social
Youngki Hong
@youngkihong.bsky.social
Assistant professor of social psychology at CU Boulder

https://www.svmlab.org/
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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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🐶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...
October 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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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!
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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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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September 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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

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Assistant Professor
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September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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...
www.svmlab.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
🚨 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 🧵

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September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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
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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August 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🎉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-...
July 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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....
July 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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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 ...
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New paper out in JEP:G with Allison Auten and @kyleratner.bsky.social
youngkihong.com/uploads/jepg...
A thread 🧵
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July 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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In 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)
A high-dimensional model of social impressions
People form social impressions from visual cues such as faces, which are argued by various models to arise from some limited set of fixed dimensions (e.g., trustworthiness and dominance). We argue tha...
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June 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
Home
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June 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Job 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
April 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Very 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/...
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025
Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity...
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April 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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
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Excited 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
February 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Check 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
February 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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📢 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 🧪
February 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hi academic Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM