Department of Psychology Yale University 2 Hillhouse Ave. New Haven, CT, 06520 HYUNJIN SONG Curriculum Vitae 2012 Tel: (203) 898-4079 (USA) (82-18) 352-0758 (Korea) hyunjin.song@yale.edu EDUCATION ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation) Lab, Yale University (2009-2011) Post doctoral associate Advisor: John Bargh University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2003-2009) Ph.D. in Social Psychology Advisors: Norbert Schwarz, Stephen Garcia, Oscar Ybarra Dissertation title: The effects of processing fluency on judgment and processing style: Three essays on risk perception, effort prediction, and distortion detection Committee: Norbert Schwarz (Chair), Stephen Garcia, Richard Gonzales, and Katherine Burson Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea B.A. in psychology and philosophy 1997-2001 Exchange student in Union College, NY 1999-2000 RESEARCH INTERESTS Judgment and decision making, Embodied cognition, Emotion, Social cognition, Communication Influence of experiential information (feelings) on judgments, cognition, decision making, communication and perception: Processing fluency, metaphors, embodied cognition and emotion Health care decisions and consumer behaviors Social comparison and competition TEACHING INTERESTS Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Social Psychology, Research Methods, Social Cognition, Judgment and Decision Making, Emotion, Consumer Behavior, Organizational Behavior, Health Communication
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Introduction to psychology Graduate student instructor at Univ. of Michigan Taught two discussion sections of 30 undergraduates each during each semester. Created syllabus, devised course materials, planned and evaluated assignments, and assigned final grades Introduction to social psychology Graduate student instructor at Univ. of Michigan Taught two discussion sections of 30 undergraduates each. Created syllabus, devised course materials, planned and evaluated assignments, and assisted constructing exams. 2007 Winter, 2008 Fall 2006 Winter HONORS AND AWARDS Rackham One-term Dissertation Fellowship Rackham Graduate School, Univ. of Michigan Student Travel Award 10 th Annual meeting of Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Brickman Grant Department of Psychology, Univ. of Michigan Award for summer stipends for Ph.D. candidates in social psychology Rackham Conference Travel Grant Rackham Graduate School, Univ. of Michigan Judgment and decision making pre-conference travel scholarship 9 th Annual meeting of Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. ICOS doctoral student-faculty small grant for a project titled Ranking and competition in resource dilemma game Interdisciplinary Council of Organizational Studies, Univ. of Michigan Grant to support joint doctoral student/faculty member projects. Only three awards offered per year by ICOS, Univ. of Michigan Judgment and decision making pre-conference travel scholarship 8 th Annual meeting of Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009 2009 2008 2007, 2008 2008 2007 2007
Memphis, TN. The Samsung Scholarship (Total $76,000 stipend plus 4 years tuition) The Samsung Scholarship Foundation, Korea Awarded to about 10 Korean social sciences and humanities students nationwide per year to support studying abroad Honor roll Yonsei University, Korea 2003-2007 1998, 1999 PUBLICATIONS Song, H., & Vonasch, A., Meier, B. P., & Bargh, J. A. (2012). Brighten up: Smiles facilitate perceptual judgment of facial lightness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 450-452. Petrova, P. K., Schwarz, N., & Song, H. (In press). Fluency and social influence: Lessons from judgment and decision making. In D. Kenrick, N. Goldstein, & S. Braver (Eds.) Six Degrees of Social Influence: Science, Application, and the Psychology of Robert Cialdini. Oxford University Press. Huang, J., Song, H., & Bargh, J. A. (2011). Smooth trajectories travel further into the future: Fluency effects on prediction of future trends. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 506-508. Garcia, S. M., Song, H., & Tesser, A. (2010). Tainted recommendations: The social comparison bias. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 113(2), 97-101 Bargh, J. A., Wiliams, L. E., Huang, J. Y., Song, H., & Ackerman, J. M. (2010). From the physical to the psychological: Mundane physical experiences influence social judgment and interpersonal behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 267-268. Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2010). If it s easy to read, it s easy to do, pretty, good, and true. Psychologist 23(2), 108-111. Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2009). If it s difficult to pronounce, it must be risky: Fluency, familiarity, and risk perception. Psychological Science 20(2), 135-138. Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2009). Safe and easy or risky and burdensome? Fluency effects on risk perception and effort prediction, Advances in Consumer Research, XXXVI, 10-11. Schwarz, N., Song, H., & Xu, J. (2009). When thinking is difficult: Metacognitive experiences as information. In M. Wänke (Ed.), The Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior. New York, NY. Psychology Press. Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2008) If it s hard to read, it s hard to do: Processing fluency affects effort prediction and motivation. Psychological Science, 19(10), 986-988. Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2008). Fluency and the detection of misleading questions: Low processing fluency attenuates the Moses illusion. Social cognition, 26(6), 791-799.
Song, H., & Ybarra, O. (2008). But are you really happy?: The negativity effect in the inference of happiness and unhappiness, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 56-65. Cho, H., Schwarz, N., & Song, H. (2008). Images and preferences: A Feeling-as-information analysis. In M.Wedel, & R. Pieters. (Eds.), Visual marketing (pp. 259-275). Mahwah, NJ. Erlbaum. Schwarz, N., Xu, J., Song, H., Cho, H. (2008). From feelings to judgment: Constructing heuristics on the spot., Advances in Consumer Research, XXXV, 133-137. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW/PREPARATION Song, H., & Garcia, S. (under review). The hidden cost of achieving standards: Ranking, competition, and resource allocation decisions. Cherkasskiy, L., Song, H., Malahy, S., & Bargh, J. A. (under review). Hard on crime: Sitting on a hard chair lead to harsher punishment. Song, H., & Kim, J. (under preparation). If it s difficult to read, it doesn t hurt me: Processing fluency and emotional intensity. Glueckert, K, Song, H., & Bargh, J. A. (under preparation). Sticking together: Adhesive-object primes increase feelings of interpersonal closeness. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION Song, H., Vonasch, A., Meier, B., & Bargh, J. A. (2011. Oct.). Brighten up: Emotional expressions and perception of color brightness. Paper presented in A. Pocheptsova & D. Soman (chairs), Connecting the physical, conceptual and emotional: Understanding multi-sensory experiences in embodied cognition. Symposium conducted at the Annual North American Conference of the Association for Consumer Research, St. Louis, MO. Song, H., Vonasch, A., Meier, B., & Bargh, J. A. (2011. Jan.). Brighten up: Smiling faces appear brighter than frowning ones. Paper presented in H. Song & S. Lee (chairs), From the social to the physical world and back: bidirectional influences in grounded cognition. Symposium conducted at the 11 th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Jacksonville, FL. Cherkasskiy, L., Song, H., Malahy, S., & Bargh, J. A. (2011. Jan) Object hardness embodied as absence of empathy. Poster presented at the 11 th annual meeting of Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Judgment & Decision Making Preconference, Jacksonville, FL. Huang, J., Song, H. & Bargh, J. A. (2010. Oct.). Debiasing effect of fluency on linear trend prediction. Paper presented in E. C. Ince & D. V. Thompson (chairs), When is disfluency desirable? The effect of metacognitve effort on product evaluations and forecasting behavior. Symposium conducted at the Annual North American Conference of the Association for Consumer Research, Jacksonville, FL. Song, H., & Vonasch, A. (2010. May). Difficult conversation and unsmooth moments: Processing fluency affects perception of social interaction. Poster presented at the 22 th Annual meeting of the American
Psychological Association, Boston, MA. Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2009. Feb). Scared of being morally infected: Germ concerns lead to the avoidance of immoral people. Poster presented at 10 th annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Student Travel Award Song. H, & Schwarz, N. (2008. Oct.) Safe and easy or risky and burdensome? Fluency effects on risk perception and effort prediction. Paper presented in A. Labroo (chair), When the going gets tough: How metacognitive difficulty improves evaluation. Symposium conducted at the Annual North American Conference of the Association for Consumer Research, San Francisco, CA. Song. H., & Schwarz, N. (2008. Feb) If it s hard to pronounce, it must be risky: Processing fluency and risk perception. Competitive paper presented at the Annual Winter Conference of the Society for Consumer Psychology, New Orleans, LO. Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2008. Feb) If it s difficult to pronounce, it must be risky: Processing fluency affects risk perception via feelings of familiarity. Poster presented at the 9 th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. JDM pre-conference travel scholarship Song, H., & Garcia, S. (2008. Feb) The more you have, the more you lose: ranking and negotiation in multiparty ultimatum game. Poster presented at the 9 th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Schwarz, N. & Song, H. (2008. Feb) If it s easy to read, it s easy to do, good, and true. In E. Pronin (Chair), Fast and easy: Effects of psychological speed on judgment and decision making. Symposium conducted at the 9 th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Schwarz, N., Xu, J., Song, H., & Cho, H. (2007. Oct). From feelings to judgments: Constructing heuristics on the spot. Paper presented in A. Labroo & A. Mukhopadhyay (chair), On the metacognition of emotions: What I think about how I feel. Symposium conducted at the Annual North American Conference of the Association for Consumer Research, San Antonio, TX. Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2007. May) If it is hard to pronounce, it must be harmful: Processing fluency affects risk perception. Poster presented at the 19 th Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C. Song, H., & Garcia, S. (2007. Jan) Ranking and competition in resource allocation decision making, Judgment and decision making pre-conference. Poster presented at the 8 th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Memphis, TN. JDM pre-conference travel scholarship Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2007. Jan) If it s easy to read, it s easy to do; processing fluency affects the prediction of effort. Poster presented at the 8 th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. Song, H., & Schwarz, N. (2006. May) Low processing fluency attenuates the Moses Illusion. Poster
presented at the 18 th Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York City, NY. Song, H., & Ybarra, O. (2006. Jan) The negativity effect in the inference of happiness and unhappiness. Poster presented at the 7 th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Reviewer: Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of European Social Psychology, Social Psychological Personality Science, Journal of Consumer Research, Consciousness and Cognition, Journal of Happiness Studies, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Health Communication, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Association for Consumer Research 2009 Annual meeting competitive papers ASSOCIATION MEMEBERSHIPS Association for Psychological Science Society for Personality and Social Psychology Association for Consumer Research MEDIA COVERAGE Time.com (Jun 2008; Feb 2009), Scientific American (Feb 2009), ScienceDaily (Oct. 2008), The Boston Globe (Jan 2010), Reuters (Jun 2008)