11/28- 11/29 Professor Jinhyung received an award from the Korean Society for Social and Personality Psychology and delivered a special lecture. Minji had a presentation ' 희망 = 역경+갈망+가능성: 새로운 희망 척도 개발을 위한 탐험적 연구 '

2025 /5 The effect of regulatory focus on the experience of authenticity: Testing state-trait consistency and content specific...

[May, 2025] We sincerely appreciate your wisdom and mentorship, Professor Jinhyung, which have greatly enriched our educational...

2025 /04 Kyungmin presented on " Revisiting Cultural Mismatch: Do First-Generation College Students Still Experience It?"

2025/02 Is Authenticity Changeable or Immutable? The Development of the Implicit Theories of Authenticity Scale and Its Implications for Perceptions of Self-Concepts and Sense of Fit among First-Generation College Students

2025/02 Congratulations on your graduation, Kyungmin & Jisang! :)

2025/2 Huge congrats on graduating with your master’s!

2025/2 Huge congrats on graduating with your master’s!

2024 / 12 Congratulations, Jisang!

2024 / 10 Jisang gave a presentation on how the incremental belief in authenticity is associated with perceptions of self-concepts and...

2024 / 09 이다예 박사과정생이 한국연구재단 박사과정생연구장려금지원사업에 선정되었습니다. Congratulations!

2024 / 05 Is the true self really central in the self? Testing the true-self-centrality idea through the traits dependency-centrality method Demian effect: Agentic changes of others are perceived as reflecting their true self

2024 / 05

2024 / 04 Kyungmin gave a presentation about the influence of agency on perceiving the true self in the face of others' change.

2024 / 02 Congratulations on your graduation, Hyunjin!

2024/2 Kyungmin gave a poster presentation, " Thine, agentic, own self: The role of agency in the evaluation of one’s true self " at 2025 SPSP Pre-conference

2024/02 Jinhyung has been selected as an awardee of 2024 APS Rising Star! Congrats! https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-a...

2023 / 12 Enjoy your break, everyone! :)

2023 / 11 Congratulations, Kyungmin!

[October, 2023] The presentation was about "search for meaning and time perception."

Prof. Jinhyung published a column for the Plato Foundation titled “Finding the True Self: Toward an Authentic Life,” discussing how we live in an age of authenticity where media and self-help messages urge people to discover who they truly are and make life choices aligned with that self. https://jigwan.org/29/?bmode=view&idx=16701315

[August, 2023] We all attended the IHR workshop and discussed the hope dissemination project. At the IHR workshop, Jinhyung presented on “The Essentialist Belief and True-Self-as-Guide Lay Belief.” Da Ye presented on how the True-Self-as-Guide lay belief relates to goal setting and progress. Hyunjin presented on cultural differences in the relationship between meaning search and happiness.

[June, 2023] Happy birthday, Da Ye! And congratulations on finishing the semester for all!

[June, 2023] The presentation was about "moral emotion regulation on authenticity."

[May, 2023] Congratulations! :D

[May, 2023] ASK lab (Jinhyung, Da Ye, Excel, Kyungmin, Jisang) attneded the KSPPA spring conference altogether, and Jinhyung and Da Ye delivered a presentation.

[May, 2023] Thank you Professor Jinhyung for your teachings and guidance in our learning journey!

A lab lunch in spring!

[February, 2023] Congratulations, Nayoung!

[February, 2023] We celebrated Jisang's birthday! :)

[December, 2022] Da Ye won the ISSEP Student Registration Awards, and Hyunjin won the Cleveland State University Registration Awards. Congratulations!

2023/2 Da Ye and Hyunjin presented posters at the SPSP Existential Psychology Preconference: Da Ye on “Exploring the Effects of Moral and Non-Moral Emotion Regulation on Authenticity,” and Hyunjin on “How Maximizers Search for Existential Meaning.”

[December, 2022] ASK lab members (Jinhyung, Da Ye, Hyunjin, Kyungmin, Excel, and Jisang), with our guests, had a lab dinner celebrating...

[January, 2023] Da Ye and her team (Eun Ji & Ga Young) won the 1st prize at KU Social Serviece Organization Research Contest for " Group writing intervention for parents of children with developmental disorders ." Congratulations!

[December, 2022] ​ Da Ye won a 3rd prize in the contest for Future Social and Personality Psychologists.

[December, 2022] We celebrated Kyungmin's birthday! Happy birthday!

[August, 2022] Jinhyung won Kim Jae-Il Early Career award at the 2022 Korean Psychological Association's 76th Annual Conference. ​ ​김진형...

2022/12 Exploring the effects of moral and non-moral emotion regulation on authenticity (Da Ye) How maximizers search for existential meaning (Hyunjin)

[October, 2022] Our website has just been opened! Welcome all. :)

Prof. Jinhyung published a column for the Plato Foundation titled “The Belief That We Can Decide Our Lives—Belief in Free Will, and Hope,” exploring the long-standing question of whether free will exists and why belief in free will matters for hope. https://jigwan.org/29/?bmode=view&idx=12856768

[August, 2022] As new graduate students, Da Ye, Kyungmin, and Excel joined the lab from this fall semester. Welcome!