University of California, Irvine Department of Psychological Science 4201 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Irvine, CA 92697-7085
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My research interests broadly span prosociality, ecology, and NLP. Ultimately, I aim to find out how we understand our surrounding environments and how these perceptions affect our values and behaviors.
Current questions include:
| PhD in Social and Personality Psychology University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA Advisor: Dr. Oliver Sng **** M.A. in Cultural and Social Psychology Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Advisor: Dr. Eunsoo Choi
B.A. in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude (Double Major in Education Culture) Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea | 2023-Present 2021-2023 2015-2021 | | --- | --- |
| Lee, H., Kim, S., & Choi, E. (2025). Claims of Reverse Gender Discrimination by Young Men in South Korea: The Role of Competitive and Common Victimhood. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. (in press)
Hur, Y., Lee, H., Kim, S., Park, S.W. (2024). Digital New SAC Camp : Examining the Effectiveness of SW·AI Education Programs for First and Second Year High School Students. Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education, 28(2). 149-158. Choi, Y.J., Han, Y., Kwon, H.E., Yang, S.J., Lee, H. (2022). EEG Response Study on the Effect of Video Content Composition on Emotional Improvement According to Audience’s Mental Health. Korean Journal of Communication Studies, 30(1), 173-207. | 2025
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| Sng. O., Lee, H., ****Ko, A., Singhal, I., & Spitz, S. (under review). Age is not a number: goal information overrides age stereotyping and perception, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Lee, H., Sng, O, & Radošić, N. (in prep). Speaking Faster to Survive: Living in High-Mortality Ecologies Is Associated with Faster Communication Speed
Lee, H., Fan, Q., Murray, D. E., & Sng, O. (in prep). Why Help Others, Anonymously: The Adaptive Function of Anonymous Prosociality in Competitive Environments.
Lee, H., & Sng, O. (in prep). Benefits of Hyper-Prosociality. **** Lee, H., ****Kim, T., & Choi, E. (in prep). Developing and Validating Korean Self-Conscious Emotion Dictionaries.
| Lee, H., Kim, E., Lee, D., & Choi, E. (in prep). Endure Until It Vanishes Away: A Master Narrative of Coping Demonstrated among Korean Adults. |
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| Lee, H., Radošić, N., & Sng, O. (2025, February). Speaking Faster to Survive: Living in High Mortality Ecologies is Associated with Faster Communication Speed and Conciseness. Human Evolution and Behavior Society, Atlantic City, NJ (Presentation) **** Lee, H., Fan, Q., Koffler, C., Sng, O., & Murray, D. E. (2025, February). Why Help Others, Anonymously: The Adaptive Function of Anonymous Prosociality in Competitive Environments. The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver, CO (Poster) **** Kim, T., Lee, H., & Choi, E. (2024, February). Developing and Validating a Korean Self-Conscious Emotion Dictionary. The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA (Poster) **** Lee, H., Chung, S., Kim, J., & Choi, E. (2023, February). E-Petition and Persuasion: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Effects of Shame and Guilt Expressions. The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA (Poster) **** Lee, H. & Choi, E. (2022, December). Claims of Reverse Gender Discrimination by Young Men in South Korea: The Role of Competitive and Common Victimhood. Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association, Online (Presentation) **** Lee, H. & Choi, E. (2022, August). E-Petition and Persuasion: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Effects of Shame and Guilt Expressions. Korean Psychological Association, Online (Poster) Lee, H. & Kim, E., Lee, D., & Choi, E. (2022, August) A Qualitative Study on Korean Adults’ Coping Narratives. Korean Psychological Association, Online (Poster) **** Lee, H., Kim, S., Choi, E. (2022, February). Regrets Over ‘Me’ versus Regrets Over ‘Us’: The Influence of Culture on Action versus Inaction Regrets. The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA (Poster) Osawa, A., Lee, H., Suzuki, N. (2021, August). The Three Ps of Sustainable Peace between Korea and Japan, Japan-Korea Student Summit 2021, Online (Presentation) Kang, D., Kwon, S., Kim, S., Park, S., Park, J., Yoo., J., Lee., H., Jeong, Y., Choi, G. (2018, October)., The Effect of Self-Discrepancy on Self-Disclosure of Instagram Users, Unity of Mind Analyst, Seoul, South Korea (Poster) | 2025 2025 2024 2023 2022 2022 2022 2022 2021 2018 | | --- | --- |
| AGS Conference Travel Grants ($250)
Henry P. David Grant for Research in Human Reproductive Behavior & Population Studies ($1,000)
KU 2023 Project BK21 FOUR Research Idea Contest ($1,500)
KU 2022 Project BK21 FOUR Research Idea Contest ($1,150)
KU Academic Research Society Support Program ($900)
KU 2021 Project BK21 FOUR Research Idea Contest ($750)
Korean Student Aid Foundation Arts & Humanities 100 Year Scholarship ($17,000)
Academic Excellence Scholarship ($450)
Academic Excellence Scholarship ($900) | 2025
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| 2nd Prize, 2023 Project BK21 FOUR Research Idea Contest, Korea University 2nd Prize, 2022 Project BK21 FOUR Research Idea Contest, Korea University 3rd Prize, Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association 2nd Prize, Human Rights Paper Contest, Korea University 3rd Prize, 2021 Project BK21 FOUR Research Idea Contest, Korea University **** Best Presentation Award, Japan-Korea Student Summit 2021 Summa Cum Laude, Sogang University Academic Excellence Award: Top 1%, Sogang University | 2024 2023 2022 2022 2021 2021 2021 2015 | | --- | --- |
| R SPSS Jamovi Webscraping
| Natural Language Processing | Advanced |
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