2026

2026.05. Dr. Park gave an invited talk at the Spring conference of the Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association at Seoul!

• The Psychology of Political Crisis: Vulnerability, Protective Factors, Relationships, and Health in the Aftermath of Democratic Threat

정치적 위기의 심리학: 민주주의 위협 이후의 취약성, 보호요인, 관계와 건강 

2026.05. Lab members will present two posters at the Spring conference of the Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association at Seoul!

• A Diachronic Word Embedding Analysis of Men’s Dating and Marriage Discourse Before and After “Dishwashing Theory”  (김유빈)

남성 중심 온라인 커뮤니티의 연애·결혼 담론은 어떻게 달라졌는가?: 설거지론 전후 시계열 워드 임베딩 분석

• Information Acquisition Pathway and Political Polarization During a Period of Political Turmoil: A Longitudinal Test of Group Identity-Related Psychological Mechanisms  (홍다한하늘, 박은언)

정치적 혼란기 정보 습득 경로와 정치적 양극화: :집단 정체성 관련 심리 기제의 종단적 검증

2026.04. Dr. Park (co-PI) with Dr. Choi (PI) received the A-RISE Borderless Education & Research Project award (₩20,000,000 ≈ $14,000) to develop a global course titled "Multimodal Inquiry into Global Social Issues: A Social and Health Psychology Perspective".

2025.03. Dr. Park has received Ajou University’s Excellence in Teaching Award (교육우수교수 선정)!

2026.02. Dr. Park presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in the United States on the impact of threats to democracy on health.

2025

2025.12. Dr. Park co-authored an article published in PNAS Nexus examining how trust in advisors affects PhD students’ motivation, health, and performance.

2025.12. Dr. Park gave an invited talk on the diverse impacts of social identity threat on health at... 

• The Annual Conference for the Korean Health Psychological Association 

• Ajou University Medical Center

2025.11. Lab members will present three posters at the Winter conference of the Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association at Busan!

• Shifting Moral Foundations in Political Turmoil: Comparative Study of Liberal and Conservatives (손세희, 송유진, Raha Shogi)

• The Influence of Political Group Malleability Beliefs on Political Psychology (강다현, 박은언, Caro Njie)

• The Impact of Political and Social Event on Men and Women in Their 20s and 30s: Focusing on the December 3 Martial Law Declaration, the Impeachment, and the 21st Presidential Election (서지예, 이혜연, 한예린)

2025.10. Dr. Park published an article in Self & Identity as a co-author that investigates the implications of felt understanding for psychological well-being!

2025.10. Dr. Park gave an invited talk on the diverse impacts of social identity threat at the Psychology Department’s lecture series at Seoul National University 

2025. 08.  Lab members presented two posters at the Annual Conference of Korean Psychological Association, Ilsan, Korea!

• Information Sources and Their Effects on Political Polarization and Health Outcomes: Focusing on the Martial Law Declaration, Impeachment, and Presidential Election in South Korea (박은언, 김환희, 배영주, 이혜연, 손세희, 송유진, 이세희, Valeria)

• The Impact of Prosociality and Political Inclinations on Health in a Time of Political Chaos: Focusing on the impeachment in 2017 and 2025 (손세희, 송유진, 이세희, Valeria, 김환희, 박은언, 배영주, 이혜연)

2025. 08.  Dr. Hyun Joon Park gave a talk at the Annual Conference of Korean Psychological Association about how threats to democracy lead to worse psychological and physical health outcomes!

2025.08. Dr. Park was awarded the Jae-Il Kim Early Career Award from the Korean Psychological Association, which recognizes the top paper by an early-career scholar across all areas of psychology.

2025.06. Dr. Park was awarded the Young Researchers Program grant (₩40,000,000 ≈ $28,000) from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) for 2025–2027. This grant is titled “Impact of Anxiety About Future Socioeconomic Status Decline on the Psychology, Health, and Political Orientation of Men in Their 20s and 30s: A Multilevel Analysis Using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), Text Mining, and Experimental Research.”

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