Thank you for visiting my website! My name is Hu Young (that’s my first name and ‘Jeong’ is my last name).

I am a social and political psychologist studying how oppressed and marginalized people around the world understand power, violence, and resistance. Broadly, my research addresses three central questions:

1. How do victims of collective violence make sense of their experiences, and how do such beliefs shape intergroup dynamics?
2. How do racially minoritized communities perceive power, and how do these perceptions predict resistance against racism?
3. How do racially minoritized people’s construals of systemic and historical oppression shape their policy attitudes and political engagement?

I explore these questions through critical and decolonial approaches, employing both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

I received my Ph.D. in social psychology from Clark University, where I was mentored by Dr. Johanna Ray Vollhardt. I am currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, working with Drs. Gerald Higginbotham, Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, and Sophie Trawalter.