Current Lab Members
Lab Director |
Dr. Jiyoung Park is an Associate Professor in the School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences at KAIST and Director of the Culture and Affective Neuroscience Lab (CANLab). Dr. Park received her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from Seoul National University, Korea and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After completing a postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan in 2013, she then received Psychology and Medicine postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, funded by National Institute of Health (NIH). Prior to joining KAIST in 2023, Dr. Park was an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her overarching research goals are to understand how socio-cultural environments shape emotional processing and what implications these processes have on health and well-being.
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Graduate Students |
Baekho Kim is an integrated MS/PhD program student in Brain-Cognitive Science at the KAIST. He received his B.S. in School of Transdisciplinary Studies from KAIST, with the Affective Science as a detailed major. Baekho wants to apply neuroscience tools to design psychological research. He is interested in the different ways people express, and differentiate their emotions. Furthermore, in addition to using traditional emotional words, he wants to deal with the process of communicating emotions in various literary and non-verbal ways as a science interest.
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Ga-eun Ahn is a Master’s student in the School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences at KAIST. Ga-eun received her B.A. in Psychology from Sungshin Women’s University in 2024. Her research focuses on understanding how people learn emotion and emotion regulation through social interaction. She seeks to understand which emotions and emotion regulation strategies are adaptive and how individuals employ these strategies with biological real-time interaction. She hopes the implications of her research will enhance adaptive interpersonal communications and contribute to our understanding of the mortality risk factor. Now, she is dedicating herself to expanding her horizons and gaining a deeper insight into acquiring knowledge that enhances social interaction and well-being. Outside of her academic pursuits, she enjoys reading, painting, and exploring new activities with friends, valuing the diverse emotional experiences these activities provide.
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