DongWon Oh is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a 2024 APS (Association for Psychological Science) Rising Star and a 2024 SESP (Society of Experimental Social Psychology) Fellow. He directs MAP Lab (Multi-Sociocontextual Action and Perception Lab), and is affiliated with the Centre for Computational Social
Science and Humanities at NUS. Prior to his present role, he was a PhD student at Princeton (advisor: Alex Todorov) and then a postdoc at New York University and Columbia University (PI: Jon Freeman).
DongWon studies how subjective human perceptions of the social world emerge, influenced by stereotypes, acquired knowledge, and cultural context. DongWon's investigation employs various methodologies including experiments, data-driven computational modeling, multivariate analysis, and eye-tracking. His work spans from decoding implicit social evaluations to understanding individual variations in person perception and exploring the dynamic nature of impression formation.
DongWon studies how subjective human perceptions of the social world emerge, influenced by stereotypes, acquired knowledge, and cultural context. DongWon's investigation employs various methodologies including experiments, data-driven computational modeling, multivariate analysis, and eye-tracking. His work spans from decoding implicit social evaluations to understanding individual variations in person perception and exploring the dynamic nature of impression formation.