2025

H Kim (2025). A Neuroscientific Exploration of Empathy. 횡단인문학 제20호. (book)

Grossmann, I., Rudnev, M., Dorfman, A., Atari, M., Barr, K., Bencherifa, A., ... & Machery, E. (2025). Decision-making preferences for intuition, deliberation, friends or crowds in independent and interdependent societies. Proceedings B, 292(2052), 20251355. (pdf)

Porter, B., Barr, K., Bencherifa, A., Buckwalter, W., Deguchi, Y., Fabiano, E., ... & Machery, E. (2025). A puzzle about knowledge ascriptions. Noûs, 59(2), 392-408. (pdf)

Kim, J., & Kim, H. (2025). Neural Processes Linking Interoception to Moral Preferences Aligned with Group Consensus. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(23). (pdf)

Kim, K. I., Lee, J. H., Ahn, W. Y., & Kim, H. (2025). Social stress enhances intuitive prosocial behavior in males while disrupting self-reward processing: Evidence from behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging studies. NeuroImage, 121273. (pdf)

Kim, D., Kim, J., Kim, K. I., & Kim, H. (2025). Navigating leadership dilemmas: neural mechanisms balancing social approval and group performance. Cerebral Cortex, 35(5), bhaf108. (pdf)

Kim, J., Lee, M., Chae, J., Lim, G., Kim, M., & Kim, H. (2025). Exploring automatic approach-avoidance tendencies: the impact of self-relevant social feedback on behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1556034. (pdf)

Kim, Y., Kim, K. I., & Kim, H. (2025). Social Observation Differentially Affects Prosocial Learning of Selfish and Prosocial People. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1440302. (pdf)

2024

Kang, H., Kim, J., Kim, D., & Kim, H. (2024). Social status mediates the propagation of unfairness. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1253831. (pdf)

Park, S. E., Chung, J., Lee, J., Kim, M. J., Kim, J., Jeon, H. J., ... & Lee, S. A. (2024). Digital assessment of cognitive-affective biases related to mental health. PLOS Digital Health, 3(8), e0000595. (pdf)

Kim, M., Kim, K. I., & Kim, H. (2024). Self-interest overrides rank-reversal aversion in resource distribution. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 19704. (pdf)

Rudnev, M., Barrett, H. C., Buckwalter, W., Machery, E., Stich, S., Barr, K., ... & Grossmann, I. (2024). Dimensions of wisdom perception across twelve countries on five continents. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6375. (pdf)

Porter, B., Barr, K., Bencherifa, A., Buckwalter, W., Deguchi, Y., Fabiano, E., ... & Machery, E. (2024). A puzzle about knowledge ascriptions. Noûs. (pdf)

2023

Kim, D., Kim, J., & Kim, H. (2023). Distinctive roles of medial prefrontal cortex subregions in strategic conformity to social hierarchy. Journal of Neuroscience. (pdf)

Bero, J., Li, Y., Kumar, A., Humphries, C., Nag, S., Lee, H., ... & Lee, D. (2023). Coordinated anatomical and functional variability in the human brain during adolescence. Human Brain Mapping, 44(4), 1767-1778.

Kim, J., Moon, K., Kim, S., Kim, H., & Ko, Y. G. (2023). The relationship between mental representations of self and social evaluation: Examining the validity and usefulness of visual proxies of self-image. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 937905.

2022

Bero, J., Li, Y., Kumar, A., Humphries, C., Nag, S., Lee, H., ... & Lee, D. (2022). Coordinated anatomical and functional variability in the human brain during adolescence. Human Brain Mapping.

Holbrook, C., Yoon, L., Fessler, D. M. T., Moser, C., Delgado, S. J., Kim, H. (2022). Moral parochialism and causal appraisal of transgressive harm in Seoul and Los Angeles. Scientific reports, 12, 14227.

Kim, K. I., Jung, W. H., Woo, C. W., & Kim, H. (2022). Neural signatures of individual variability in context-dependent perception of ambiguous facial expression. NeuroImage, 119355. (pdf)

Lim, G., & Kim, H. (2022). Distinctive roles of mPFC subregions in forming impressions and guiding social interaction based on others’ social behaviour. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(12), 1118-1130.. (pdf)

Kim, H., (2022). Reward-Punishment Processing and Learning. In: Della Sala, S. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 3. Elsevier, pp. 460–466. (pdf)

Chae, J., Kim, K., Kim, Y., Lim, G., Kim, D., & Kim, H. (2022). Ingroup favoritism overrides fairness when resources are limited. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-11. (pdf)

Park, G., Kim, H., Mermillod, M., & Thayer, J. F. (2022). The Modulation of Cardiac Vagal Tone on Attentional Orienting of Fair-Related Faces: Low HRV is Associated with Faster Attentional Engagement to Fair-Relevant Stimuli. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-15. ( pdf )

2021

Kim, D., Kim, J., & Kim, H. (2021). Increased Conformity to Social Hierarchy Under Public Eyes. Frontiers in Psychology, 2818. ( pdf )

Kim, J., & Kim, H. (2021). Neural representation in MPFC reveals hidden selfish motivation in white lies. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(27), 5937-5946. ( pdf )

Lee, H. S., Kim, S., Kim, H. J., & Ko, Y. G. (2021). Encoding differences in posed negative emotional expressions between prosocials and proselfs. Current Psychology, 40(2), 719-730. ( pdf )

Yoon, L., Kim, K., Jung, D., & Kim, H. (2021). Roles of the MPFC and Insula in Impression Management under Social Observation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. ( pdf )

Kim, E. Y., Sul, S., Lee, M. W., Lim, K. O., Shin, N. Y., Kim, S. N., ... & Kim, H. (2021). Effects of Oxytocin on Social Comparisons in Intergroup Situations. Brain Sciences, 11(9), 1227. ( pdf )

2020

Kim, H. (2020). Stability or Plasticity?–A Hierarchical Allostatic Regulation Model of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Function for Social Valuation. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 281. ( pdf )

Rose, D. et al. (2020). The Ship of Theseus Puzzle. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Volume 3, 3, 158.

Moon, K., Kim, S., Kim, J., Kim, H., & Ko, Y. G. (2020). The Mirror of Mind: Visualizing Mental Representations of Self Through Reverse Correlation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1149.

Jung, W. H., & Kim, H. (2020). Intrinsic Functional and Structural Brain Connectivity in Humans Predicts Individual Social Comparison ( pdf )

Cho, I., Song, H.-j., Kim, H., & Sul, S. (2020). Older adults consider others’ intentions less but allocentric outcomes more than young adults during an ultimatum game. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000577

Shin, W., Woo, C., Jung, W. H., Kim, H., Lee, T. Y., Decety, J., & Kwon, J. S. (2020). The neurobehavioral mechanisms underlying attitudes toward people with mental or physical illness. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.571225

2019

Cova F et al. (2019) De Pulchritudine non est Disputandum? A cross‐cultural investigation of the alleged intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgment. Mind & Language, 34 (3), 317-338 ( pdf ).

Rose D et al. (2019). Nothing at stake in knowledge. Noûs 53 (1), 224-247. ( pdf )

Hannikainen IR et al. (2019). For whom does determinism undermine moral responsibility? SurveyFor whom does determinism undermine moral responsibility? Surveying the conditions for free will across cultures. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 2428. ( pdf )

Lee YS, Song HS, Kim H, Chae Y. (2019). Altruistic decisions are influenced by the allocation of monetary incentives in a pain-sharing game. PloS one, 14(3). ( pdf )

2018

Lee, H., Kim, S., Kim, H. Y, Ko.. Currrent Psychology (2018). Encoding differences in posed negative emotional expressions between prosocials and proselfs. ( pdf )

Yoon, L., Somerville, L.H., Kim, H. (2018). Development of MPFC function mediates shifts in self-protective behavior provoked by social feedback. Nature Communications. ( pdf ) (*selected as Editors' Highlights) 

Lee, MW, Sul, SH, Kim, H. (2018). Social Observation Increases Deontological Judgments in Moral Dilemmas. Evolution and Human Behavior.  ( pdf )

Jung, DH, Sul, SH, Lee, MW, Kim, H. (2018). Social Observation Increases Functional Segregation between MPFC Subregions Predicting Prosocial Consumer Decisions. Scientific Reports. ( pdf )

Park J, Kim H, Sohn JW, Choi JR, Kim SP. (2018). EEG beta oscillations in the temporoparietal area related to the accuracy in estimating others’ preference. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ( pdf )

2017

H Kim (2017). A Journey into the Secret of Altruist's Brain. galmaenamu. ( Book )

J Kim, H Kim, E Kang (2017). impaired Feedback Processing for symbolic reward in individuals with internet game Overuse. Frontiers in psychiatry 8, 195 ( pdf )

SM Kim, YJ Kwon, SY Jung, MJ Kim, YS Cho, HT Kim, KC Nam, H Kim, KH Choi, JS Choi (2017). Development of the Korean Facial Emotion Stimuli: Korea University Facial Expression Collection 2nd Edition. Frontiers in psychology 8, 769 ( pdf )

Rose et al. (2017). Nothing at Stake in Knowledge. Noûs  ( pdf )

Rose et al. (2017). Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 6 (3), 193-203

Machery et al. (2017). The Gettier Intuition from South America to Asia. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 34 (3), 517-541

Kim J, Kim H, Hee-Youn Cho, HY, Jeong H, & Kang E. (2017). Neuroanatomical Correlates of Personality Traits for Internet Gaming Overuse: a VBM study. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 36(1), 109-135

2016

T Kameda, K Inukai, S Higuchi, A Ogawa, H Kim, T Matsuda, M Sakagami (2016). Rawlsian maximin rule operates as a common cognitive anchor in distributive justice and risky decisions. PNAS, 201602641. ( pdf )

H Kim, H Kim, S Han (2016). I CAN stand this, but WE CAN’T: discontinuity between choices for self vs. group modulated by group competition during the ultimatum game. 인지과학 27 (3), 407-420. ( pdf )

CH Lee, J Ryu, SH Lee, H Kim, I Lee (2016). Functional cross‐hemispheric shift between object‐place paired associate memory and spatial memory in the human hippocampus. Hippocampus 26 (8), 1061-1077. ( pdf )

SA Kim, H Kim, SH Kim (2016). Reappraisal modulates attentional bias to angry faces. Frontiers in Psychology 7. ( pdf )

2015

Sul S, Tobler PN, Hein G, Leiberg S, Jung D, Fehr H, Kim H (2015). Spatial gradient in value representation along the medial prefrontal cortex reflects individual differences in prosociality. PNAS, 112(25), 7851-7856. ( pdf )

Kim SH, Yoon H, Kim H, Hamann S. (2015). Individual differences in sensitivity to reward and punishment and neural activity during reward and avoidance learning. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.,10(9), 1219-1227. ( pdf )

2014

Kim, EY, Sul, SH, Yoo, H, Kim, H, & Song, HJ. (2014). The relationship between mothers’ altruism in the reinforcement learning task and their children’s empathy. The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology, 19(2), 117-136.
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Lee, MW, Sul, SH, & Kim, H. (2014). The impact of moral decision style on impression formation. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology. 28(2), 201-223.
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Sul, SH, Lee, MW, & Kim, H. (2014). Measuring individual differences in altruism with altruistic learning task. Korean Journal of Psychology: General. 33(2), 467-489.
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2013

Kang, PW,* Lee, JB,* Sul, SH, & Kim, H. (2013). Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activity predicts the accuracy in estimating others’ preferences. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
*These authors contributed equally to this study
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Kang, PW, Lee, YS, Choi, I, & Kim, H. (2013). Neural evidence for individual and cultural variability in the social comparison.  Journal of Neuroscience. 33(41), 16200-16208.
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Han, HJ, Lee, KH, Kim, HT, Kim, H. (2013). Distinctive Amygdala Subregions involved in Emotion-modulated Stroop Interference. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience. 9(5), 689-698.
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Kang, OS, Kim, SY, Jahng, GH, Kim, H., Kim, JW, Chung, SY, Kim, JW, Park, HJ, Lee, H, Chae, Y. Neural Substrates of Acupuncture in the Modulation of Cravings for Smoking-related Visual Cues: an fMRI Study. Psychopharmacology. 

Jung, DH, Sul, SH, & Kim, H. (2013). Dissociable neural processes underlying risky decisions for self versus other. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 7:15.
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2012

Lee SH, Chang DS, Kang OS, Kim HH, Kim H, Lee H, Park HJ, Chae Y. (2012). Do not judge according to appearance: Patients’ preference of a doctor’s face does not influence their assessment of the patient-doctor relationship Acupuncture in Medicine, 30(4), 261-265.
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Kang OS, Chang DS, Jahng GH, Kim SY, Kim H, Kim JW, Chung SY, Yang SI, Park HJ, Lee H, Chae Y. (2012). Individual differences in smoking-related cue reactivity in smokers: An eye-tracking and fMRI study. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 38(2), 285–293.
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Chang DS, Kang OS, Kim HH, Kim HS, Kim H, Lee HJ, Park HJ, Chae Y. (2012). Pre-existing beliefs and expectations influence judgments of novel health information. Journal of Health Psychology, 17(5), 753-763.
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Kim H, Choi MJ, Jang IJ. (2012). Lateral OFC Activity Predicts Decision Bias due to First Impression during Ultimatum Games. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(2), 428-439.
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2011

Lee YS, Kim H. (2011). Social Comparison Influences Risky Financial Decisions. Korean Journal of Consumer and Advertising Psychology, 12(3), 477-501.
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Kim H, Shimojo S, O’Doherty JP. (2011). Overlapping responses for the expectation of juice and money rewards in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 21(4), 769-776.
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2010

Sung YS, Cho KJ, Kim DY, Kim H. (2010). Difference in visual attention during the assessment of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness, Korean Journal of the Science of Emotion and Sensibility, 13(3), 533-540.
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Lee YS, Kim H. (2010). Trustful faces in investment decisions: separate impacts of eyes, nose, and mouth, Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 24(2), 117-131.
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Lee YS, Jang JS, Jung HJ, Kim H. (2010). The effect of the presentation order of facial trustworthiness and prior repayment ratio of trustees on the investment behaviors during trust games, Korean Journal of Consumer and Advertising Psychology, 11(2), 1-24.
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Kim W, Sung YS, Kim H. (2010). Functionally distinctive neural circuitries involved uniquely in encoding facial attractiveness and facial happiness, The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 22(1), 109-128.
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Mattes K, Spezio ML, Kim H, Todorov A, Adolphs R, Alvarez RM. (2010). Predicting Election Outcomes from Positive and Negative Trait Assessments of Candidate Images, Political Psychology, 31(1), 41-58.
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Kim W, Sung YS, Kim H. (2010). The effect of elements of humor formation and repetition on humor response, Korean Journal of Consumer and Advertising Psychology, 10(4), 633-662.
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2009

Chae Y, Lee H, Kim H, Kim CH, Chang DI, Kim KM, Park HJ. (2009). Parsing brain activity associated with acupuncture treatment in Parkinson's diseases. Movement Disorders. 24(12), 1794-1802.
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Sung YS, Kim H, Kim W, Kim BK. (2009). Neural network correlation for the effect of humor sensitivity and repetition, Korean Journal of Consumer and Advertising Psychology, 10(2), 275-298.
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Kim H. (2009). Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Research. Communications of the Korean Instititute of Information Scientists and Engineers, 27(4), 19-24.
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2008

Chae Y, Lee H, Kim H, Sohn H, Park JH, and Park HJ. (2008). The neural substrates of verum acupuncture compared to non-penetrating placebo needle: An fMRI study. Neuroscience Letters. 450, 80-84.
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Spezio ML, Rangel A, Alvarez RM, O'Doherty JP, Mattes K, Todorov A, Kim, H, and Adolphs, R. (2008). A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance of election outcomes. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 3(4), 344-352.
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Sung YS, Kim H, Lee HJ, Park, JS, Kim HJ, Kim BK. (2008). The Psychological Mechanism of Epistemic Curiosity: a comparative study of two curiosity gratification types, Korean Journal of Consumer and Advertising Psychology, 9(2), 305-332.
 

2007

Kim H, Adolphs R, O'Doherty JP, and Shimojo S. (2007). Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 104, 18253-18258. 
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O’Doherty JP, Hampton A, and Kim H. (2007). Model-based fMRI and its application to reward-learning and decision making. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1104, 35-53.    
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2006

Kim H, Shimojo S, and O’Doherty JP. (2006). Is avoiding an aversive outcome rewarding? Neural substrates of avoidance learning in the human brain. PloS Biology, 4, e233.
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