PEOPLE
Director

DongWon Oh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore. DongWon has received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University, and did his postdoc at New
York University and Columbia University. DongWon’s interested in how biases acquired from social contexts play out in perceptions. DongWon is also interested in how the process of perception can be altered by perceivers’ and targets’
action.
Graduate Student
There is currently no graduate students in the lab. The MAP lab is admitting graduate students in the upcoming semester (2023/2024 academic year).
Research Assistant

Michael Runquan Yu is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychology at the Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Department of Psychology at the University of Macau. His current research interests are focused on human behavioral and neural responses in social scenarios, particularly in the area of human social interaction with regards to emotions, personality traits, and physiological responses. In his leisure time, Runquan enjoys playing the drums and guitar as well as listening to rock music.
Lab Alumni

Semester 2 of 2022/23 academic year
Sih-Zau Leong was an RA when she was a Year 3 National University of Singapore undergraduate majoring in Psychology and minoring in Philosophy. Her interests lie in learning about social cognition, personality and its relationship with deviant behaviour, and psychology in a clinical context. She also enjoys learning about and advocating for mental health and aspires to be a clinical psychologist in the future.

Semester 2 of 2022/23 academic year
Darren Chan was an RA when he was a Year 3 National University of Singapore undergraduate majoring in Psychology. Darren is interested in multi-modal person perception and how identity cues, emotion cues and impression cues influence facial perception and impression formation. Darren is also passionate about mental health and enjoys learning about therapeutic techniques and mental disorders.

Semester 2 of 2022/23 academic year
Justina Tan was an RA when she was a Year 2 undergraduate at the National University of Singapore majoring in psychology and social work. Her research interests include the study of the interconnections between experiences, personalities, social perceptions, and life outcomes. Outside of her research interests, Justina aspires to enter the clinical psychology field with a special focus on incorporating themes of ecological systems thinking from social work.
Collaborators
University of Washington St Louis, Department of Radiology
National University of Singapore, Department of Psychology
National University of Singapore, NUS Business School
National University of Singapore, Department of Psychology
Princeton University, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Future Lab members
Want to join our team?
If you are interested in joining the lab or collaboration, contact DongWon directly at doh [at] nus [dot] edu [dot] sg.