Speaker
Leehyun Yoon
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Dallas
Biography
My research field is developmental social affective neuroscience, and my research focuses on how people at different developmental stages and with different mental health conditions update self-views and maintain a positive (but not too positive) sense of self when faced with ups and downs in social and performance outcomes. More broadly, my research aims to understand how and why self-related processing, thought patterns (e.g., rumination, pessimism, attribution), and social behaviors change across development and how such development is affected by common mental health problems such as depression.