Youngki Hong

Assistant Professor

University of Colorado Boulder

About Me

Youngki Hong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder and the director of the Social Vision & Mind Lab. His research examines how people perceive others and process social information. Integrating theories and methods from social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and machine learning, his work focuses on three core areas: (1) stereotyping and prejudice, (2) low-level visual processes in person perception, and (3) interventions to reduce bias and discrimination.

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Interests

Social Cognition
Person Perception
Cognitive Neuroscience
Machine Learning

Education

Postdoctoral training
Columbia University
PhD Social Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara
BS Psychology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
BA Statistics
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Publications

Hong, Y., Auten, A. R., & Ratner, K. G. (in press). Group Bouba-Kiki effects: The interplay of social categorization, competition, and sound symbolism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Hong, Y., & Freeman, J. B. (2024). Shifts in facial impression structures across group boundaries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(6), 619-629. [pdf]

Hong, Y., Maitner, A. T., & Ratner, K. G. (2024). Psychological effects of anti-Arab politics on American and Arab peoples’ views of each other. PLoS ONE, 19(5): e0301282.[pdf]

Hong, Y., Chua, C-W., & Freeman, J. B. (2024). Reducing facial stereotype bias in consequential social judgments: Intervention success with White male faces. Psychological Science, 35(1), 21-33. [pdf]

Hong, Y., Reed, M., & Ratner, K. G. (2023). Facial stereotypes of competence (not trustworthiness and dominance) most resemble facial stereotypes of group membership. Social Cognition, 41(6), 562-578. [pdf]

Hong, Y., Mayes, M. S., Munasinghe, A. P., & Ratner, K. G. (2022). Scrutinizing whether mere group membership influences the N170 response to faces: Results from two preregistered ERP studies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(11), 1999-2015. [pdf]

Hong, Y., & Ratner, K. G. (2021). Minimal but not meaningless: Seemingly arbitrary category labels can imply more than group membership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(3), 576-600. [pdf]

Welborn, B. L., & Hong, Y., & Ratner, K. G. (2020). Exposure to negative stereotypes influences the representations of monetary incentives in the nucleus accumbens. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(3), 347-358. [pdf]

Hu, C., …, Hong, Y., …, & IJzerman, H. (2019). Data from the Human Penguin Project: A cross-national dataset testing principles from social thermoregulation theory. Scientific Data, 6(1), 32. [pdf]

Ratner, K. G., Kaczmarek, A. R., & Hong, Y. (2018). Can over-the-counter pain medications influence our thoughts and emotions? Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5(1), 82-89. [pdf]

IJzerman, H., …, Hong, Y., …, & Lindenberg, S. M. (2018). The human penguin project: Complex social integration buffers human core temperatures from cold climates. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 37. [pdf]

IJzerman, H., …, Hong, Y., …, & Lindenberg, S. M. (2017). Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. [pdf]