Dr Young-Jin Hur

Biography

Young-Jin Hur, PhD, is Course Leader for the MSc Psychology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics (LSE), and University College London (UCL). His research examines the psychological and personal factors that shape fashion preferences; empirical aesthetics, including how people experience painting and music and what triggers feelings of the sublime and the beautiful; and individual differences more broadly. He is an associate editor of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (APA) and sits on the editorial board of Empirical Studies of the Arts (SAGE). Outside academia, he writes his classical music blog, Where Cherries Ripen.