Daniel DongWon Oh

Contact

ohd@berkeley.edu
Berkeley Way West Room 3428
Job title: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Psychology
Bio: 

Daniel DongWon Oh (Dan Oh) is an assistant professor at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley. Dan has received a PhD in Psychology at Princeton University in 2018. Before joining Berkeley, he worked at New York University and Columbia University as a postdoc, and the National University of Singapore as an assistant professor. 

Research interests: 

Social Cognition, Social Pereception, Individual differences, Stereotypes, Culture.

Role: 
Faculty
Full CV: 
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Primary Research Area: Social-Personality

*** Recruiting Psychology PhD students for the Fall 2027 addmissions cycle. ***

Research Description

I ask how people "read" each other: what it is about how we look, move, and speak that shapes social impressions, and when perceivers attend to the individual in front of them versus falling back on stereotypes. I study these processes as they unfold during naturalistic interaction, using computational and multimodal methods, and ask how they shift across contexts, from face-to-face to digitally mediated encounters, and across cultures that differ in values and communication styles. The goal is to understand the fundamental mechanisms of person perception and their implications for high-stakes social encounters, such as interracial interaction, job interviews, and patient-caregiver dynamics.

Selected Publications

Mao, A.*, Cao, R., Sun, S., Wang, S., & Oh, D.* (accepted). Physiological representation of social evaluation: Modeling human eye movements, pupillary, and neuronal responses to faces. Journal of Neuroscience. PDF

Oh, D.*, Moner, F., Tan, N., Hong, R., & Teo, M. H. (2026). Self-other mirroring in personality structure. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi:10.1177/19485506261435650 PDF

Oh, D.*, Martin, J. D., & Freeman, J. B. (2022). Personality across world regions predicts variability in the structure of face impressions. Psychological Science, 33(8), 1240-1256. doi:10.1177/ 09567976211072814 PDF

Todorov, A.*, & Oh, D.* (2021). The structure and perceptual basis of social judgments from faces. Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 63, pp. 189-245). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press. doi:10.1016/bs.aesp.2020.11.004 PDF

Oh, D.*, Shafir, E., & Todorov, A. (2020). Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 287–293. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0782-4 PDF

Teaching

2027/2028 Fall - PSYCH 290: Graduate Seminar on Social Cognition and Perception

2027/2028 Spring - PSYCH 160: Social Psychology