Finally out--first paper from my own shop: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Finding = How traits hang together in your own personality predicts how you see them hanging together in others (🇸🇬 + 🇺🇸 samples, preregistered). Here's more to come!

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be joining @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Psychology as an assistant professor in Fall 2026 🐻💙🐻💛 Deep thanks to my students and colleagues at NUS for four formative years, and to the advisors, family, and friends who've supported me throughout.

That’s a wrap! #spsp2026

Thanks for having me! #spsp2026 Advances in Cultural Psychology Preconference

Honored to be one of the finalists! My project for this award focuses on emotion overgeneralization in trustworthiness judgments, examining cross-cultural patterns in social perception. 🌏

Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2

Come and join us this Wednesday for the official launch of the centre!

The Straits Times did a nice piece on our centre (@cssh-nus.bsky.social), which will be officially launched this coming Wednesday, with @mmvty.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. Looking forward! www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pa...

Last day!

Today (Saturday, Feb 28) 2pm in E271 #spsp2026

Super excited to chair my first symposium with @dongwonoh.bsky.social at @spspnews.bsky.social this Saturday (2pm-3:10pm, E271)! We have talks from Abhinanda Dash, Ming Huang Teo, Bastian Weitz, and me. If you are in the Windy City and curious about social hierarchies, join us! #SPSP2026 🌬️ 🌬️ 🌬️

Thanks to everyone who helped make the culture pre-conference a “successful failure!” We didn’t make the main pre-conference time, but we had a packed house and a great time. #SPSP2026

*Correction: DongWon’s cultural psych preconfeference talk is on Wednesday, Feb 25 (not Tues, Feb 24)!

Hello Chicago! Oh Lab @ohlab.bsky.social at #SPSP2026 hailing from Singapore--8 presentations and 7 speakers across posters, talks, and a symposium. Come say hi! 👋

Now in press at SPPS. Ruled out perceiver effects, stereotypical trait structure, assumed similarity; tested generalizability; and added longitudinal data. Kudos to coauthors @finneazmoner.bsky.social, Natasha Tan, and others. First paper as PI! Latest preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

You can also try our free AI-face demo: facetest.psy.unsw.edu.au/aifaces.html

Link to full print: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My new research found when trying to distinguish real faces from AI-generated ones, people with average face-recognition ability performed at chance, and while super-recognisers performed better than other participants, it was only by a slim margin. Read more 🔗 www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Now in press at SPPS. Ruled out perceiver effects, stereotypical trait structure, assumed similarity; tested generalizability; and added longitudinal data. Kudos to coauthors @finneazmoner.bsky.social, Natasha Tan, and others. First paper as PI! Latest preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Big congratulations to Yuqing Shi @syuqing.bsky.social, a PhD student of mine, on receiving the Besample Dissertation Grant! Really exciting work on cross-cultural face perception. Can’t wait to see where this goes. besample.app/dissertation...

Thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone. Confucius said 40 is when all doubts fade. I still have plenty, but I trust myself enough to keep going anyway (:

Share your thoughts who is an Ai and who is wiser here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Can you pass the #WisdomTuringTest?

My colleague Falk Lieder and I are hiring a new post-doc at UCLA to join the #WiseJudgementConsortium. The ad is here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10650

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

📊 Key finding: Participants over-attributed AI generation, labeling nearly 60% of all images as synthetic—even though only half were. This "AI attribution bias" leads to: ✅ Higher accuracy detecting synthetic images ❌ Lower accuracy recognizing authentic images (5/)

“Detecting Synthetic, Doubting Authentic: AI Attribution Bias for Political Imagery” 📍 Full preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 Here’s what we found about how #GenAI is reshaping trust in political visuals during elections: (1/)

We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here 1/n guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

Thanks everyone for joining us and blessing us with sharp questions and engagement. Thank you Juliana, Angel, and Harry for your presentations! #sesp2025

I'll be presenting work led by Anqi Mao, a PhD student of mine, on improving human detection of AI-generated faces via training. This kicks off a new direction in our lab's research on social perception and interaction in digitally mediated contexts. More to come! @ohlab.bsky.social

Am I dreaming? Our symposium on AI disclosure, trust, and authenticity, my first-ever SESP submission, was accepted for #SESP2025 in Lisbon! (& my first time attending 🤩) Grateful to co-speakers Juliana Schroeder, Angel Hwang, and @harryyan.bsky.social who took a leap of faith and joined me on this.

👇Last chance to sign up!👇

Decision on your manuscript

For the first time, my trainees got their SPSP talks accepted--and 3 at once! Such a blessing. Congratulations to Finneaz Moner @firdausmoner.bsky.social [lab manager], Ming Huang (Ben) Teo [former lab manager)], and Joy Tong [PhD student]. Proud of their hard work. See you in Chicago! #SPSP2026

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

"The Architecture of Status Perception: Cues, Categories, and Consequences" Co-chairs: Finneaz Moner, @dongwonoh.bsky.social Speakers: Finneaz Moner, Ben (Ming Huang) Teo, Abhinanda Dash (w/ Kerri L Johnson & @thorabjorns.bsky.social), Bastian Weitz (w/ @freemanjb.bsky.social) Symposium Abstract:

For the first time, my trainees got their SPSP talks accepted--and 3 at once! Such a blessing. Congratulations to Finneaz Moner @firdausmoner.bsky.social [lab manager], Ming Huang (Ben) Teo [former lab manager)], and Joy Tong [PhD student]. Proud of their hard work. See you in Chicago! #SPSP2026

Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible.

The results open a path for new interventions that don’t just target stereotypes but also attempt to recalibrate biased visual perception directly, with the hopes of mitigating such high-stakes misjudgments under stress and uncertainty. (6/6)

While past work has generally assumed such weapon-identification biases involve an accurate perception of the object but then a racially biased impulse that is difficult to control, our findings suggest that part of the problem is a temporary visual distortion as well. (5/6)

These neural representational shifts predicted subjects' delays in recognizing these tools as tools, rather than weapons, suggesting an initial tendency to perceive them as weapons. (4/6)

Using neural decoding techniques, we find that when subjects saw a Black man’s face before an image of a tool, their brain’s object-processing regions shifted toward a weapon-like representation. (3/6)

Unarmed Black people in the US are 3X more likely than unarmed White people to be shot and killed by police. In many tragic cases, unarmed Black men were holding innocuous objects like a wrench, wallet, or cell phone when fatally shot by an officer. (2/6)

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)

::slowly stands while clapping::

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026! We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods. Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science. Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/... Lab info: www.svmlab.org

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Apparently that particular library ("the Rowdy") is designed to be a non-academic space for students to relax and socialize. umsu.unimelb.edu.au/things-to-do... And it goes way back: victoriancollections.net.au/items/583ccf... Pretty cool concept.

Is this peak Aussie? Found in a umelb bathroom: no slurs, no drawings. Just cheeky camaraderie and enthusiastic rsvp energy 🇦🇺 i’m oddly impressed

Interesting student policy you have there @unilibrary.bsky.social