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Heejung Kim
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materStanford University (Ph.D., 2001)
Stanford University (Master of Arts)
University of Southern California (Bachelor of Arts)
Ewha Womans University (Bachelor of Arts)
Scientific career
FieldsSocial Psychology
InstitutionsHarvey Mudd & University of Southern California
ThesisSpeech and silence: a cultural analysis of the effect of talking on psychology (2001)
Doctoral advisorHazel Rose Markus

Heejung Kim is a South Korean psychologist and a professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] Her research focuses on how culture influences humans' thought process.[2][3] She is co-editor of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Review.[4][2]

Career

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Kim received her first Bachelors of Arts degree in French Literature from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.[5][6] She earned a second Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Southern California.[3][5] She completed her Masters of Arts and PhD program in Social Psychology at Stanford University in 2001.[7][1] In 2002, she began working at Harvey Mudd College as an assistant professor of Humanities and Social Sciences.[8] In 2003, she accepted the position of assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she currently works as a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.[1][6] Kim directs the Cultural Psychology Lab at UCSB where she investigates how one's culture can shape psychological processes, decision making, religion, biology, and interpersonal communication.[9] She is a collaborator for the UCLA Social Neuroscience Lab.[6]

Kim has worked for several publications. She worked as an associate editor for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB),[10][2] and was on the editorial board of Psychological Science in 2011.[11] From 2012 to 2014, she was the associate editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP).[12][13][14] Kim is currently a consulting editor for the Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes Section in JPSP. From 2018 to 2021, Kim will be holding the role of co-editor at Personality and Social Psychology Review with her UCSB colleague, professor David Sherman.[15]

Kim has held multiple positions at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology such as being a symposium reviewer for the Convention: Program Committee in 2011 and an adjunct member of the fellows committee in 2015.[16] Since 2016, Kim has been a member of the Summer Institute for Social Psychology and Personality and was recently promoted to co-chair of this committee in 2019.[17][16] She was also a mentor for the 2016 Summer Program for Undergraduate Research.[18]

Research

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Kim has authored and co-authored more than 90 scientific publications which appeared in multiple renowned journals such as the JPSP, Psychological Science, PSPB, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[19]

Her research mostly focuses on a cultural explanation for human behaviors. One of her studies explores how cultural preferences toward uniqueness and conformity differ between East Asians and Americans.[20] Another study discusses the cultural differences between Asians and Asian Americans group and European Americans group in how each sought and used social support.[21] Her most recent publication focuses on a sociocultural approach to understand the motivations behind pro-environmental actions.[22]

Research in news

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Kim's research has been quoted in multiple mainstream and scientific outlets, including Psychology Today,[23] Yahoo News,[24] Wired Magazine,[25] and Psych Central.[26]

Her work on the oxytocin receptor gene OXTR has been covered by Ed Yong in Discover magazine.[27][28] Previous research had shown that people with certain versions of the OXTR gene are more social and more likely to seek social support during times of stress; however, Kim's work suggests that this effect may be culturally specific.[27] In her work, Americans showed this pattern, but in Koreans the "social" version of the OXTR gene was not associated with social support seeking (and the pattern suggested less social support seeking in distressed Koreans with this version of OXTR). Koreans tend to have concerns about overburdening friends and family with their problems and thus are less likely to seek social support during stress, whereas Americans are more likely to seek social support. Kim suggests that instead this version of OXTR may be related to adherence to social norms.[27]

Grants and awards

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The National Science Foundation has granted Kim and her co-researchers over a million dollars in research funding. Funded projects include: Sociocultural Determinants of Human Motives, Oxytocin and Socio-Emotional Sensitivity: Mechanisms of Gene-Culture Interaction, RAPID: The Psychology of Fear: Cultural Orientation and Response to Ebola Threat, Culture, Social Support, and Managing Stress, and DHB: Collaborative Research: Cultural and Genetic Basis of Social Support Use.[29][30][31][32][33]

Kim is the recipient of the 2002 Dissertation Award given by the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP).[34] In 2013, her University of California, Santa Barbara advisee, Joni Sasaki, also won the SESP Dissertation Award, making it the second time in 41 years that both mentor and advisee were awarded this prestigious title.[34][35] Kim was described as one of the Revolutionary Minds in science by Seed Magazine (August 2008) and was a top-cited assistant professor in Social Psychology (Dialogue, Fall, 2007).[36][37][7] Kim became an SPSP fellow in 2012.[38]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Heejung Kim | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UCSB". www.psych.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "New PSPR Editors". Society for Personality and Social Psychology. October 5, 2017. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Heejung Kim". Social Psychology Network. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  4. ^ "Personality and Social Psychology Review". SAGE Publications Inc. October 28, 2015. Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Kim, H. (June 2010). Culture and self-expression Archived 23 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Psychological Science Agenda
  6. ^ a b c "Members | UCLA Social Neuroscience Lab". UCLA Social Neuroscience Lab. Archived from the original on June 22, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  7. ^ a b Phillips, Nia (Fall 2007). "Citation Counts, Prestige Measurement, and Graduate Training in Social Psychology" (PDF). Dialogue: The Official Newsletter of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. 22 (2): 24–27. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  8. ^ Ringen, Randy; Austin, Jim (October 26, 2001). "The Changing of the Guard at Harvey Mudd". Science Magazine. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  9. ^ "Welcome to the UCSB Cultural Psychology Laboratory". UCSB Cultural Psychology Lab. Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  10. ^ Cornelissen, Gert; Dewitte, Siegfried; Warlop, Luk (April 25, 2011). "Are Social Value Orientations Expressed Automatically? Decision Making in the Dictator Game". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 37 (8): 1080–1090. doi:10.1177/0146167211405996. PMID 21518808. S2CID 14268850.
  11. ^ "Psychological Science Editorial Board". Association for Psychological Science. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  12. ^ Editorial Board list retrieved from Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(1) on November 5, 2019.
  13. ^ Editorial Board list retrieved from Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(1) on November 5, 2019.
  14. ^ Editorial Board list retrieved from Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(1) on November 5, 2019.
  15. ^ "Editorial Board: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes Section". American Psychological Association. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Leadership Directory". Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Archived from the original on November 8, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  17. ^ "SPSP Board of Directors Meeting Minutes" (PDF). Society of Experimental Social Psychology. January 31, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  18. ^ "SPUR Participants and Mentors Describe Their Experiences". Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  19. ^ "Heejung Kim - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  20. ^ Kim, Heejung; Markus, Hazel Rose (1999). "Deviance or uniqueness, harmony or conformity? A cultural analysis". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 77 (4): 785–800. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.4.785. ISSN 0022-3514. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  21. ^ Kim, Heejung S.; Sherman, David K.; Taylor, Shelley E. (2008). "Culture and social support". American Psychologist. 63 (6): 518–526. doi:10.1037/0003-066x. ISSN 1935-990X. PMID 18793039. S2CID 5181497. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  22. ^ Eom, Kimin; Papadakis, Viki; Sherman, David K.; Kim, Heejung S. (2019). "The Psychology of Proenvironmental Support: In Search of Global Solutions for a Global Problem". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 28 (5): 490–495. doi:10.1177/0963721419854099. ISSN 0963-7214. S2CID 198637582.
  23. ^ Kenrick, Douglas (January 26, 2018). "Does thinking out loud help your performance, or hinder it?". Psychology Today. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  24. ^ Newton, Kamilah (August 21, 2019). "Parents file lawsuit against school where teachers colored 13-year-old's haircut with Sharpie: "He felt extremely degraded"". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  25. ^ Dobbs, David (September 14, 2010). "The depression map: genes, culture, serotonin, and a side of pathogens". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on April 30, 2018. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  26. ^ Nauert, Rick (August 8, 2018). "Cultural differences impact gene-environment interactions". Psych Central. Archived from the original on November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  27. ^ a b c Yong, Ed (August 16, 2010). "Genes and culture: OXTR gene influences social behaviour differently in Americans and Koreans". Discover. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  28. ^ Yong, Ed (November 29, 2010). "The dark side of oxytocin, much more than just a "love hormone"". Discover. Archived from the original on September 2, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  29. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1823824 - Sociocultural Determinants of Human Motives". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  30. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1124552 - Oxytocin and Socio-Emotional Sensitivity: Mechanisms of Gene-Culture Interaction". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  31. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1516476 - RAPID: The Psychology of Fear: Cultural Orientation and Response to Ebola Threat". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  32. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0338631 - Culture, Social Support, and Managing Stress". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  33. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0729532 - DHB:Collaborative Research: Cultural and Genetic Basis of Social Support Use". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  34. ^ a b "Dissertation Award Recipients". Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  35. ^ "The GradPost at UC Santa Barbara - Gradpost Headlines". graduatepost.squarespace.com. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  36. ^ "Archives § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM". www.seedmagazine.com. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  37. ^ "Revolutionary Minds - flyover". www.artsjournal.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  38. ^ "Fellowship | SPSP". spsp.org. Archived from the original on July 25, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
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