•Conducted quantitative research with human participants to investigate how personal traits and environments modulate empathy and altruistic behaviors.
•Presented research findings at Society for SocialNeuroscience (S4SN) and Society for Neuroscience (SFN) conferences.
•Performed quantitative behavioral and brain data analyses using SPSS, Matlab, Excel, and SPM.
Studies
1. Neural Basis of Individual Variability in Empathy.
Investigated the neural basis of individual variability in empathy by integrating the concepts of impaired empathy prevalently found among people high in narcissism and the neural marker indicating impaired empathy.
2. Neural Basis of Individual Variability in Perspective-taking.
focused on the neural basis of individual variability in perspective-taking by investigating how narcissism differentially modulates brain activities among people high in narcissism when they predict others' preferences on foods and movies.
3. The effect of subliminal priming on altruistic behavior.
Designed the research to investigate the effect of subliminal priming on altruistic behaviors by developing a program in which the watching eyes were presented to participants under a conscious threshold while they made choices whether to donate money or not.
4. People's belief changes in presidential candidates
Conducted a large-scale survey with 1350 participants investigating how people’s beliefs in presidential candidates changed throughout the 2013 Korea presidential election and finding out the underlying mechanism and personality that drove the changes.
