DongWon OH | 오동원 | 吳東源

📊 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/)

Finally! Congrats, great to see this one out

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
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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

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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:

Congrats Joy Tong for her single-presenter talk acceptance at #SPSP2026: “Intrapersonal Factors Trump Contact Frequency in Cross-Racial Face Recognition.”

Network analysis shows that quality interactions (not mere exposure) are what matter for improving other-race recognition.

Congrats Finneaz @firdausmoner.bsky.social for his accepted symposium “The Architecture of Status Perception: Economic Status Stereotype Awareness Shapes Clothing-Based Competence Perceptions” at #SPSP2026!

He’ll present “Dressing the Part,” and Ming Huang (Ben) Teo will share “Empowering Attire."

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

Thanks Jeni for mention & repost !

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki

::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.

Colorado Social Vision & Mind Lab The Social Vision & Mind Lab (Director: Youngki Hong, Ph.D.) at the University of Colorado Boulder explores how people perceive and make sense of the physica...

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

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

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...

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What a milestone! Here’s more to come

Wow congratulations!

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.