Hyunji Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hyunji Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hyunji |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6438-6729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory
Construal-level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: Things perceived as less probable (likelihood) or further away from the here (spatial distance), now (temporal distance), or self (social distance) are thought about more abstractly. In this international multilab study, we tested four basic hypotheses derived from core assumptions of CLT and explore pote…
Expanding the Influencer Spectrum: How Influencer and Product Type Interact to Shape Purchase Intentions Through the Mediating Roles of Expectancy Violation, Source and Message Credibility
To address questions surrounding social media influencer effectiveness, this research examines how influencer type, human influencer (HIs) versus human-like virtual influencer (HVIs) versus cartoon-style virtual influencer (CVIs), and product congruence (human vs. virtually congruent) affects expectancy violation, source credibility, message credibility, and purchase intention. Across two experiments that leverage expectancy violation theory (EVT…
From Toddler to Teen: A Virtual Influencer’s Bit to Byte Growing-up Narrative Effect on Ad Engagement and Consumer Perceptions and Brand Choice Behavior
This research investigates parasocial interaction and consumer engagement with virtual influencers on social media, targeting Generation Z and Millennial consumers. Through a content analysis and two empirical studies, this research examines social media engagement behavior as well as the mechanisms underlying consumer involvement with a virtual influencer’s human-like narratives and their subsequent impact on brand engagement and consumer behavi…
Independent and Interdependent Self-Construal Revisited: Cultural Patterns and Psychological Correlates
This study examined the relationship between independent and interdependent self-construals, as measured by the Self-Construal Scale (SCS), to evaluate the independence of these constructs, and their associations with analytic-holistic thinking (Analysis-Holism Scale; AHS), Big Five personality traits, and subjective well-being across five cultural groups. Participants included 440 individuals from Korea ( n = 109), Canada ( n = 256; 90 European,…
Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study
From early on, infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS), and exposure to IDS has been correlated with language outcome measures such as vocabulary. The present multi-laboratory study explores this issue by investigating whether there is a link between early preference for IDS and later vocabulary size. Infants’ preference for IDS was tested as part of the ManyBabies 1 project, and follow-up CDI d…
Inferring mental representational structure of the self in time, space, and social dimensions via a modified redundancy gain paradigm
The ability to project oneself into an alternative situation is an essential human capacity. While research demonstrating that such abilities underlie human decision-making is abundant, the cognitive organization of the self across social, temporal, and spatial domains–constituting the basic materials for self-projection–is not clear. The current study introduces a new paradigm to gauge the representational overlaps among social (myself), tempora…
Autobiographical memory specificity in younger and older adults as a function of cue type
Autobiographical memory specificity commonly declines with age, but the role of emotion in modulating this deficit is unclear. Prior studies have typically used the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) paradigm and have asked younger and older participants to produce autobiographical memories in response to emotional and neutral cue words. However, these studies have often confounded cue valence with cue concreteness. To address this problem, in th…
Humility in context: Insights from eastern and western research
The Racialization Experiences of East Asian International Counseling Students
Counselor educators need to consider the unique racializing experiences of international students of color when providing social justice education. This study applied interpretative phenomenological analysis and interviewed eight East Asian international counseling students about their experiences of racialization. We identified five themes: assimilating into US racial discourses, re-constructing the racialized self, navigating race in interperso…
Mortality trends in people with disabilities before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Korea, 2017–2022
Objective: To investigate temporal trends in mortality rates and underlying causes of death in persons with disabilities before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods: Annual mortality rates and causes of death were analyzed using data covering the 2017-2022 period. Results: The mortality rate among people with disabilities increased from 2017 to 2022; the rate was five times higher during COVID-19 in this population…
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions
Caregivers' touches that occur alongside words and utterances could aid in the detection of word/utterance boundaries and the mapping of word forms to word meanings. We examined changes in caregivers' use of touches with their speech directed to infants using a multimodal cross‐sectional corpus of 35 Korean mother‐child dyads across three age groups of infants (8, 14, and 27 months). We tested the hypothesis that caregivers' frequency and use of …
Analysis on Cognitive Changes of Gardens between 2014 and 2018 by Big Data of Naver Channel
Background and objective This study analyzed the keywords related to ‘garden’ based on data in 2014 and 2018, which is before and after the enforcement of the ‘Act on the Creation and Furtherance of Arboretums and Gardens’ enacted in 2015, in order to identify the behavioral patterns and perception changes of Korean citizens about gardens. Methods The research scope was limited to Naver Blog, Café, and News created in 2014 and 2018, and a total o…
Is It Polite to Hiss: Nonverbal Sound Objects as Markers of (Im)politeness in Korean
This paper explores the politeness-related functions of an ingressive hissing-like sound that occurs frequently in Korean and which is typically transcribed as ssup . This nonverbal sound is produced by drawing air alongside the tongue or between the teeth and may appear either before the production of a turn, or during turn production. Previous studies have shown that Korean speakers produce more frequent hisses when addressing status superiors.…
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics
Whereas previous research on metapragmatic talk has tended to focus on what people say about politeness, the current paper additionally explores how people talk about politeness. More specifically, we extend our analysis to the embodied resources, including gestures and nonverbal behaviour, that people use when enacting politeness talk. The data comes from two semi-structured interviews that we conducted with South Korean participants, both of wh…
Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding of mann…
Beyond politeness markers: Multiple morphological and lexical differences index deferential meanings in Korean
Covid-19 Worries and Behavior Changes in Older and Younger Men and Women
Interventions are needed to increase COVID-19 behavior changes in older men. These results also highlight the importance of understanding emotional responses to COVID-19, as these are predictive of their behavioral responses
An integrated model of social psychological and personality psychological perspectives on personality and wellbeing
Extraversion and life satisfaction: A cross‐cultural examination of student and nationally representative samples
OBJECTIVE: Previous research on Extraversion and life satisfaction suggests that extraverted individuals are more satisfied with their lives. However, existing studies provide inflated effect sizes, as they were based on simple correlations. In five studies, the authors provide better estimates of the relationship between Extraversion and life satisfaction. METHOD: The current study examined student and nationally representative samples from Cana…
The Interrelations Between Social Class, Personal Relative Deprivation, and Prosociality
We propose that personal relative deprivation (PRD)—the belief that one is worse off than similar others—plays a key role in the link between social class and prosociality. Across multiple samples and measures (total N = 2,233), people higher in PRD were less inclined to help others. When considered in isolation, neither objective nor subjective socioeconomic status (SES) was meaningfully associated with prosociality. However, because people who …
The Role of Positive Self-Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well-Being
Past studies have shown that North Americans have higher well-being compared with East Asians. Objective living conditions (e.g., wealth, education, personal and political freedom) have been found to substantially contribute to North Americans’ higher well-being. One other possible explanation is that North American culture fosters positive evaluations of the self to enhance self-esteem and to feel positive emotions, which may lead North American…
Developmental Trajectories of Sympathy, Moral Emotion Attributions, and Moral Reasoning: The Role of Parental Support
We examined the role of parental support to children's sympathy, moral emotion attribution, and moral reasoning trajectories in a three‐wave longitudinal study of Swiss children at 6 years of age ( N = 175; Time 1), 7 years of age (Time 2), and 9 years of age (Time 3). Sympathy was assessed with self‐report measures. Moral emotion attributions and moral reasoning were measured with children's responses to hypothetical moral transgressions. Parent…
Cultural differences in self- and other-evaluations and well-being: A study of European and Asian Canadians
Anusic, Schimmack, Pinkus, and Lockwood (2009) developed the halo-alpha-beta (HAB) model to separate halo variance from variance due to valid personality traits and other sources of measurement error in self-ratings of personality. The authors used a twin-HAB model of self-ratings and ratings of a partner (friend or dating partner) to test several hypotheses about culture, evaluative biases in self- and other-perceptions, and well-being. Particip…
Effect of lavender oil on motor function and dopamine receptor expression in the olfactory bulb of mice
Covid-19 Worries and Behavior Changes in Older and Younger Men and Women
Interventions are needed to increase COVID-19 behavior changes in older men. These results also highlight the importance of understanding emotional responses to COVID-19, as these are predictive of their behavioral responses
Developmental Trajectories of Sympathy, Moral Emotion Attributions, and Moral Reasoning: The Role of Parental Support
We examined the role of parental support to children's sympathy, moral emotion attribution, and moral reasoning trajectories in a three‐wave longitudinal study of Swiss children at 6 years of age ( N = 175; Time 1), 7 years of age (Time 2), and 9 years of age (Time 3). Sympathy was assessed with self‐report measures. Moral emotion attributions and moral reasoning were measured with children's responses to hypothetical moral transgressions. Parent…
Cultural differences in self- and other-evaluations and well-being: A study of European and Asian Canadians
Anusic, Schimmack, Pinkus, and Lockwood (2009) developed the halo-alpha-beta (HAB) model to separate halo variance from variance due to valid personality traits and other sources of measurement error in self-ratings of personality. The authors used a twin-HAB model of self-ratings and ratings of a partner (friend or dating partner) to test several hypotheses about culture, evaluative biases in self- and other-perceptions, and well-being. Particip…
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics
Whereas previous research on metapragmatic talk has tended to focus on what people say about politeness, the current paper additionally explores how people talk about politeness. More specifically, we extend our analysis to the embodied resources, including gestures and nonverbal behaviour, that people use when enacting politeness talk. The data comes from two semi-structured interviews that we conducted with South Korean participants, both of wh…
Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding of mann…
Beyond politeness markers: Multiple morphological and lexical differences index deferential meanings in Korean
An integrated model of social psychological and personality psychological perspectives on personality and wellbeing
The Role of Positive Self-Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well-Being
Past studies have shown that North Americans have higher well-being compared with East Asians. Objective living conditions (e.g., wealth, education, personal and political freedom) have been found to substantially contribute to North Americans’ higher well-being. One other possible explanation is that North American culture fosters positive evaluations of the self to enhance self-esteem and to feel positive emotions, which may lead North American…
The Racialization Experiences of East Asian International Counseling Students
Counselor educators need to consider the unique racializing experiences of international students of color when providing social justice education. This study applied interpretative phenomenological analysis and interviewed eight East Asian international counseling students about their experiences of racialization. We identified five themes: assimilating into US racial discourses, re-constructing the racialized self, navigating race in interperso…
Effect of lavender oil on motor function and dopamine receptor expression in the olfactory bulb of mice
Cultural differences in self- and other-evaluations and well-being: A study of European and Asian Canadians
Anusic, Schimmack, Pinkus, and Lockwood (2009) developed the halo-alpha-beta (HAB) model to separate halo variance from variance due to valid personality traits and other sources of measurement error in self-ratings of personality. The authors used a twin-HAB model of self-ratings and ratings of a partner (friend or dating partner) to test several hypotheses about culture, evaluative biases in self- and other-perceptions, and well-being. Particip…
Developmental Trajectories of Sympathy, Moral Emotion Attributions, and Moral Reasoning: The Role of Parental Support
We examined the role of parental support to children's sympathy, moral emotion attribution, and moral reasoning trajectories in a three‐wave longitudinal study of Swiss children at 6 years of age ( N = 175; Time 1), 7 years of age (Time 2), and 9 years of age (Time 3). Sympathy was assessed with self‐report measures. Moral emotion attributions and moral reasoning were measured with children's responses to hypothetical moral transgressions. Parent…
The Role of Positive Self-Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well-Being
Past studies have shown that North Americans have higher well-being compared with East Asians. Objective living conditions (e.g., wealth, education, personal and political freedom) have been found to substantially contribute to North Americans’ higher well-being. One other possible explanation is that North American culture fosters positive evaluations of the self to enhance self-esteem and to feel positive emotions, which may lead North American…
The Interrelations Between Social Class, Personal Relative Deprivation, and Prosociality
We propose that personal relative deprivation (PRD)—the belief that one is worse off than similar others—plays a key role in the link between social class and prosociality. Across multiple samples and measures (total N = 2,233), people higher in PRD were less inclined to help others. When considered in isolation, neither objective nor subjective socioeconomic status (SES) was meaningfully associated with prosociality. However, because people who …
Extraversion and life satisfaction: A cross‐cultural examination of student and nationally representative samples
OBJECTIVE: Previous research on Extraversion and life satisfaction suggests that extraverted individuals are more satisfied with their lives. However, existing studies provide inflated effect sizes, as they were based on simple correlations. In five studies, the authors provide better estimates of the relationship between Extraversion and life satisfaction. METHOD: The current study examined student and nationally representative samples from Cana…
Covid-19 Worries and Behavior Changes in Older and Younger Men and Women
Interventions are needed to increase COVID-19 behavior changes in older men. These results also highlight the importance of understanding emotional responses to COVID-19, as these are predictive of their behavioral responses
An integrated model of social psychological and personality psychological perspectives on personality and wellbeing
Beyond politeness markers: Multiple morphological and lexical differences index deferential meanings in Korean
Analysis on Cognitive Changes of Gardens between 2014 and 2018 by Big Data of Naver Channel
Background and objective This study analyzed the keywords related to ‘garden’ based on data in 2014 and 2018, which is before and after the enforcement of the ‘Act on the Creation and Furtherance of Arboretums and Gardens’ enacted in 2015, in order to identify the behavioral patterns and perception changes of Korean citizens about gardens. Methods The research scope was limited to Naver Blog, Café, and News created in 2014 and 2018, and a total o…
Is It Polite to Hiss: Nonverbal Sound Objects as Markers of (Im)politeness in Korean
This paper explores the politeness-related functions of an ingressive hissing-like sound that occurs frequently in Korean and which is typically transcribed as ssup . This nonverbal sound is produced by drawing air alongside the tongue or between the teeth and may appear either before the production of a turn, or during turn production. Previous studies have shown that Korean speakers produce more frequent hisses when addressing status superiors.…
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics
Whereas previous research on metapragmatic talk has tended to focus on what people say about politeness, the current paper additionally explores how people talk about politeness. More specifically, we extend our analysis to the embodied resources, including gestures and nonverbal behaviour, that people use when enacting politeness talk. The data comes from two semi-structured interviews that we conducted with South Korean participants, both of wh…
Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding of mann…
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions
Caregivers' touches that occur alongside words and utterances could aid in the detection of word/utterance boundaries and the mapping of word forms to word meanings. We examined changes in caregivers' use of touches with their speech directed to infants using a multimodal cross‐sectional corpus of 35 Korean mother‐child dyads across three age groups of infants (8, 14, and 27 months). We tested the hypothesis that caregivers' frequency and use of …
Mortality trends in people with disabilities before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Korea, 2017–2022
Objective: To investigate temporal trends in mortality rates and underlying causes of death in persons with disabilities before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods: Annual mortality rates and causes of death were analyzed using data covering the 2017-2022 period. Results: The mortality rate among people with disabilities increased from 2017 to 2022; the rate was five times higher during COVID-19 in this population…
Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study
From early on, infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS), and exposure to IDS has been correlated with language outcome measures such as vocabulary. The present multi-laboratory study explores this issue by investigating whether there is a link between early preference for IDS and later vocabulary size. Infants’ preference for IDS was tested as part of the ManyBabies 1 project, and follow-up CDI d…
Inferring mental representational structure of the self in time, space, and social dimensions via a modified redundancy gain paradigm
The ability to project oneself into an alternative situation is an essential human capacity. While research demonstrating that such abilities underlie human decision-making is abundant, the cognitive organization of the self across social, temporal, and spatial domains–constituting the basic materials for self-projection–is not clear. The current study introduces a new paradigm to gauge the representational overlaps among social (myself), tempora…
Autobiographical memory specificity in younger and older adults as a function of cue type
Autobiographical memory specificity commonly declines with age, but the role of emotion in modulating this deficit is unclear. Prior studies have typically used the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) paradigm and have asked younger and older participants to produce autobiographical memories in response to emotional and neutral cue words. However, these studies have often confounded cue valence with cue concreteness. To address this problem, in th…
Humility in context: Insights from eastern and western research
The Racialization Experiences of East Asian International Counseling Students
Counselor educators need to consider the unique racializing experiences of international students of color when providing social justice education. This study applied interpretative phenomenological analysis and interviewed eight East Asian international counseling students about their experiences of racialization. We identified five themes: assimilating into US racial discourses, re-constructing the racialized self, navigating race in interperso…
Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory
Construal-level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: Things perceived as less probable (likelihood) or further away from the here (spatial distance), now (temporal distance), or self (social distance) are thought about more abstractly. In this international multilab study, we tested four basic hypotheses derived from core assumptions of CLT and explore pote…
Expanding the Influencer Spectrum: How Influencer and Product Type Interact to Shape Purchase Intentions Through the Mediating Roles of Expectancy Violation, Source and Message Credibility
To address questions surrounding social media influencer effectiveness, this research examines how influencer type, human influencer (HIs) versus human-like virtual influencer (HVIs) versus cartoon-style virtual influencer (CVIs), and product congruence (human vs. virtually congruent) affects expectancy violation, source credibility, message credibility, and purchase intention. Across two experiments that leverage expectancy violation theory (EVT…
From Toddler to Teen: A Virtual Influencer’s Bit to Byte Growing-up Narrative Effect on Ad Engagement and Consumer Perceptions and Brand Choice Behavior
This research investigates parasocial interaction and consumer engagement with virtual influencers on social media, targeting Generation Z and Millennial consumers. Through a content analysis and two empirical studies, this research examines social media engagement behavior as well as the mechanisms underlying consumer involvement with a virtual influencer’s human-like narratives and their subsequent impact on brand engagement and consumer behavi…
Independent and Interdependent Self-Construal Revisited: Cultural Patterns and Psychological Correlates
This study examined the relationship between independent and interdependent self-construals, as measured by the Self-Construal Scale (SCS), to evaluate the independence of these constructs, and their associations with analytic-holistic thinking (Analysis-Holism Scale; AHS), Big Five personality traits, and subjective well-being across five cultural groups. Participants included 440 individuals from Korea ( n = 109), Canada ( n = 256; 90 European,…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Personality (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works)