// khyang-lab.org

MI & ME Unit

Media Intelligence & Media Engineering Unit

khyang-lab:~$ initializing mi-me-unit...
> loading: social_science.mod
> loading: artificial_intelligence.mod
> loading: mascots (mimiku, memeron).mod
khyang-lab:~$ ready.
khyang-lab:~$ whoami
> where social science meets the command line_

Our multidisciplinary research team is committed to understanding the complex nature of social dynamics and human behavior. We create synergy between state-of-the-art computational methods and well-established social science theories.

$  tail -f news.log
2026-06 · ICA 2026 — Cape Town presentation scheduled 2026-05 · New collaboration launched: Navigating the Symbiotic Frontier — Joint Project on AI with Markus Bohlmann (U. Münster) 2026-04 · CogSci 2026 poster accepted — Rio de Janeiro! 2026-04 · 🎉 Thrilled to announce that Mimiku has successfully performed her role as an accurate alarm this morning! 2026-04 · MI & ME Unit website launched 2026-06 · ICA 2026 — Cape Town presentation scheduled 2026-05 · New collaboration launched: Navigating the Symbiotic Frontier — Joint Project on AI with Markus Bohlmann (U. Münster) 2026-04 · CogSci 2026 poster accepted — Rio de Janeiro! 2026-04 · 🎉 Thrilled to announce that Mimiku has successfully performed her role as an accurate alarm this morning! 2026-04 · MI & ME Unit website launched
JOUR Social Psychology · 2026 doi↗

How Do We Utilize Others’ Opinions? An Investigation of the Discrepancy Between Decisions for Self and Others

consumer-behavior online-reviews self-other-decision-making gift-giving behavioral-experiments online-ratings decision-making
CONF CogSci 2026 · 2026

Geeks are different: Exploring the relationship between engineering knowledge and categorization patterns

categorization cognition engineering-knowledge industrialization item-response-theory Bayesian-model survey
PREP PsyArXiv · 2026 doi↗

From Inner Diversity to Outer Crowds: How Instructions Reshape Error Structure Before Aggregation

collective-intelligence crowd-wisdom error-structure aggregation experimental-design
$ cat quote.txt
> Theory is when you know everything, but nothing works.
> Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why.
> In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
> ...
> Nothing works, and nobody knows why.
> — Anonymous