Minjae Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3631294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minjae Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minjae |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9401-2111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Breaching of the U.S. Capitol
Collective memories play important social roles for individuals within society. Although other types of memory content (e.g. autobiographical and associative memory) appear to guide decision-making in social and moral contexts, it is unclear how or whether collective memories are associated with third-person moral evaluations. Also, updating third-person moral evaluations can be impacted by broader narrative contexts. The primary goal of the pres…
Signaling Commitment via Insincere Conformity
I develop and test a theory to address instances of “visibly unpopular” norms—norms that are widely seen as neither collectively optimal nor enjoyable to conform with. Based on 76 interviews with Korean professionals engaging with a norm pertaining to excessive drinking at after-hours business gatherings ( hoesik)—widely recognized as undesirable and disapproved of by both individuals and groups—I find that conformity serves as an effective signa…
Why moderate voters choose extreme candidates
Representative democracy depends on elected officials reflecting voters’ policy preferences. Yet, US elected officials are more ideologically extreme than even the voters from their own party. This disparity is especially puzzling in light of recent studies reinforcing the view that voters are highly motivated by policy preferences and ideological fit when selecting among candidates. Using both agent-based computational models and an online vigne…
Monopolization of Local Politics and its Institutional Alternatives
이 연구의 목적은 기초의회를 중심으로 독점화된 지방정치를 문제화하고 선거제도와의 연관 속에서 그 원인과 대안을 살피는 데 있다. 한국의 지방정치에서 다양성과 경쟁의 부재는 매우 심각한 수준이다. 기초의회의 경우 2006년 중선거구제와 비례대표제의 도입에도 불구하고 거의 대부분 한두 정당에 의해 독점되어 있다. 이 연구는 무엇보다도 거대 정당에 유리한 지역구 위주의 선거제도에서 그 원인을 찾는다. 과도하게 높은 지역구 의석 비율, 상당히 적은 비례의석수, 2·3인 선거구 중심의 중선거구제 등은 지방자치의 취지에 역행하고 거대 양당의 압도적 지배와 소수정당의 배제를 야기하는 제도적 요인이다. 이 연구는 지방정치의 다양성 강화를 위해 지역구 위주에서 벗어나 비례의석 확대, 연동형 또는 완전 비례대표제 도입 등을 통한 비례대표제 강화를 제도적 대안으로 제시한다. 동시에 이러한 변화가 실질적 효력을 발휘…
When Truth Trumps Facts
This article presents results from a series of online surveys—conducted among American voters during and after the Trump administration—that show how voters from both parties provide explicit moral justification for politicians’ statements that flagrantly violate the norm of fact-grounding. Such justification is inconsistent with prevailing theory, whereby partisan voters’ tendency to mistake misinformation for fact is what drives their positive …
Collaborative Cheating in Hierarchical Teams
What facilitates collaborative cheating in hierarchical teams, and what are its outcomes for those engaged? In two preregistered studies ( N = 724), we investigated how subordinates are influenced by leaders signaling a willingness to engage in collaborative cheating, and how subordinates perceive such leaders. Participants performed a task in which they could either report their performance honestly, or cheat for financial gain. Each participant…
What Makes Weak Ties Strong
We raise two challenges concerning the validity of arguments underlying Granovetter's strength of weak ties (SWT) thesis: ( a) whether weak ties are actually bridges, i.e., they help reach more socially distant actors than strong ties, and ( b) whether weak ties transmit information effectively enough so that weak ties' alleged structural properties make them more useful than strong ties. In the course of reviewing subsequent research that has ma…
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being
This paper examined the associations among: (1) the perceived freedom to initiate and end interpersonal relationships ( relational mobility), (2) relationship quality, and (3) well-being. Across 38 nations, people in nations with higher relational mobility reported greater well-being, which was explained by higher-quality relationships with close others (Study 1A). This effect was replicated at the individual level, after controlling for extraver…
Parental Factors Related to Adolescent Girls’ Suicide Attempts
Adolescent suicide is a serious global health concern. Although familial transmission of suicidal behaviors has been identified in previous research, the effects of parental gender remain unknown. This study identified the influence of parental suicidal behaviors on suicide attempts among adolescent girls. We collected data through a cross-sectional, nationwide, population-based survey in South Korea and evaluated data from 890 adolescent girls (…
The Effect of Mind Subtraction Meditation Intervention on Smartphone Addiction and the Psychological Wellbeing among Adolescents
As the smartphone has become an indispensable device in modern lives, consequential psychosocial problems such as smartphone addiction have been getting attention worldwide, especially regarding adolescents. Based on its positive effect on young individuals' mental health, mind subtraction meditation has been widely applied to many school-based programs in South Korea. This study aims to identify the effects of a school program based on mind subt…
The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue
We develop and test a theory to address a puzzling pattern that has been discussed widely since the 2016 U.S. presidential election and reproduced here in a post-election survey: how can a constituency of voters find a candidate "authentically appealing" (i.e., view him positively as authentic) even though he is a "lying demagogue" (someone who deliberately tells lies and appeals to non-normative private prejudices)? Key to the theory are two poi…
Faking It Is Hard to Do
Recent research suggests that many norms may be upheld by closet deviants who engage in enforcement so as to hide their deviance. But various empirical accounts indicate that audiences are often quite sensitive to this ulterior motive. Our theory and experimental evidence identify when inferences of ulterior motive are drawn and clarify the implications of such inferences. Our main test pivots on two contextual factors: (1) the extent to which in…
Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture
We develop and test the idea that public appreciation for authentic lowbrow culture affords an effective way for certain elites to address feelings of authenticity-insecurity arising from "high status denigration" (Hahl and Zuckerman 2014). This argument, which builds on recent sociological research on the "search for authenticity" (e.g., Grazian 2005) and on Bourdieu's (1993) notion of artistic "disinterestedness," is validated through experimen…
Strength matters
The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue
We develop and test a theory to address a puzzling pattern that has been discussed widely since the 2016 U.S. presidential election and reproduced here in a post-election survey: how can a constituency of voters find a candidate "authentically appealing" (i.e., view him positively as authentic) even though he is a "lying demagogue" (someone who deliberately tells lies and appeals to non-normative private prejudices)? Key to the theory are two poi…
Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture
We develop and test the idea that public appreciation for authentic lowbrow culture affords an effective way for certain elites to address feelings of authenticity-insecurity arising from "high status denigration" (Hahl and Zuckerman 2014). This argument, which builds on recent sociological research on the "search for authenticity" (e.g., Grazian 2005) and on Bourdieu's (1993) notion of artistic "disinterestedness," is validated through experimen…
What Makes Weak Ties Strong
We raise two challenges concerning the validity of arguments underlying Granovetter's strength of weak ties (SWT) thesis: ( a) whether weak ties are actually bridges, i.e., they help reach more socially distant actors than strong ties, and ( b) whether weak ties transmit information effectively enough so that weak ties' alleged structural properties make them more useful than strong ties. In the course of reviewing subsequent research that has ma…
Strength matters
Faking It Is Hard to Do
Recent research suggests that many norms may be upheld by closet deviants who engage in enforcement so as to hide their deviance. But various empirical accounts indicate that audiences are often quite sensitive to this ulterior motive. Our theory and experimental evidence identify when inferences of ulterior motive are drawn and clarify the implications of such inferences. Our main test pivots on two contextual factors: (1) the extent to which in…
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being
This paper examined the associations among: (1) the perceived freedom to initiate and end interpersonal relationships ( relational mobility), (2) relationship quality, and (3) well-being. Across 38 nations, people in nations with higher relational mobility reported greater well-being, which was explained by higher-quality relationships with close others (Study 1A). This effect was replicated at the individual level, after controlling for extraver…
Signaling Commitment via Insincere Conformity
I develop and test a theory to address instances of “visibly unpopular” norms—norms that are widely seen as neither collectively optimal nor enjoyable to conform with. Based on 76 interviews with Korean professionals engaging with a norm pertaining to excessive drinking at after-hours business gatherings ( hoesik)—widely recognized as undesirable and disapproved of by both individuals and groups—I find that conformity serves as an effective signa…
When Truth Trumps Facts
This article presents results from a series of online surveys—conducted among American voters during and after the Trump administration—that show how voters from both parties provide explicit moral justification for politicians’ statements that flagrantly violate the norm of fact-grounding. Such justification is inconsistent with prevailing theory, whereby partisan voters’ tendency to mistake misinformation for fact is what drives their positive …
Faking It Is Hard to Do
Recent research suggests that many norms may be upheld by closet deviants who engage in enforcement so as to hide their deviance. But various empirical accounts indicate that audiences are often quite sensitive to this ulterior motive. Our theory and experimental evidence identify when inferences of ulterior motive are drawn and clarify the implications of such inferences. Our main test pivots on two contextual factors: (1) the extent to which in…
Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture
We develop and test the idea that public appreciation for authentic lowbrow culture affords an effective way for certain elites to address feelings of authenticity-insecurity arising from "high status denigration" (Hahl and Zuckerman 2014). This argument, which builds on recent sociological research on the "search for authenticity" (e.g., Grazian 2005) and on Bourdieu's (1993) notion of artistic "disinterestedness," is validated through experimen…
Strength matters
The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue
We develop and test a theory to address a puzzling pattern that has been discussed widely since the 2016 U.S. presidential election and reproduced here in a post-election survey: how can a constituency of voters find a candidate "authentically appealing" (i.e., view him positively as authentic) even though he is a "lying demagogue" (someone who deliberately tells lies and appeals to non-normative private prejudices)? Key to the theory are two poi…
The Effect of Mind Subtraction Meditation Intervention on Smartphone Addiction and the Psychological Wellbeing among Adolescents
As the smartphone has become an indispensable device in modern lives, consequential psychosocial problems such as smartphone addiction have been getting attention worldwide, especially regarding adolescents. Based on its positive effect on young individuals' mental health, mind subtraction meditation has been widely applied to many school-based programs in South Korea. This study aims to identify the effects of a school program based on mind subt…
Parental Factors Related to Adolescent Girls’ Suicide Attempts
Adolescent suicide is a serious global health concern. Although familial transmission of suicidal behaviors has been identified in previous research, the effects of parental gender remain unknown. This study identified the influence of parental suicidal behaviors on suicide attempts among adolescent girls. We collected data through a cross-sectional, nationwide, population-based survey in South Korea and evaluated data from 890 adolescent girls (…
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being
This paper examined the associations among: (1) the perceived freedom to initiate and end interpersonal relationships ( relational mobility), (2) relationship quality, and (3) well-being. Across 38 nations, people in nations with higher relational mobility reported greater well-being, which was explained by higher-quality relationships with close others (Study 1A). This effect was replicated at the individual level, after controlling for extraver…
Collaborative Cheating in Hierarchical Teams
What facilitates collaborative cheating in hierarchical teams, and what are its outcomes for those engaged? In two preregistered studies ( N = 724), we investigated how subordinates are influenced by leaders signaling a willingness to engage in collaborative cheating, and how subordinates perceive such leaders. Participants performed a task in which they could either report their performance honestly, or cheat for financial gain. Each participant…
What Makes Weak Ties Strong
We raise two challenges concerning the validity of arguments underlying Granovetter's strength of weak ties (SWT) thesis: ( a) whether weak ties are actually bridges, i.e., they help reach more socially distant actors than strong ties, and ( b) whether weak ties transmit information effectively enough so that weak ties' alleged structural properties make them more useful than strong ties. In the course of reviewing subsequent research that has ma…
Monopolization of Local Politics and its Institutional Alternatives
이 연구의 목적은 기초의회를 중심으로 독점화된 지방정치를 문제화하고 선거제도와의 연관 속에서 그 원인과 대안을 살피는 데 있다. 한국의 지방정치에서 다양성과 경쟁의 부재는 매우 심각한 수준이다. 기초의회의 경우 2006년 중선거구제와 비례대표제의 도입에도 불구하고 거의 대부분 한두 정당에 의해 독점되어 있다. 이 연구는 무엇보다도 거대 정당에 유리한 지역구 위주의 선거제도에서 그 원인을 찾는다. 과도하게 높은 지역구 의석 비율, 상당히 적은 비례의석수, 2·3인 선거구 중심의 중선거구제 등은 지방자치의 취지에 역행하고 거대 양당의 압도적 지배와 소수정당의 배제를 야기하는 제도적 요인이다. 이 연구는 지방정치의 다양성 강화를 위해 지역구 위주에서 벗어나 비례의석 확대, 연동형 또는 완전 비례대표제 도입 등을 통한 비례대표제 강화를 제도적 대안으로 제시한다. 동시에 이러한 변화가 실질적 효력을 발휘…
When Truth Trumps Facts
This article presents results from a series of online surveys—conducted among American voters during and after the Trump administration—that show how voters from both parties provide explicit moral justification for politicians’ statements that flagrantly violate the norm of fact-grounding. Such justification is inconsistent with prevailing theory, whereby partisan voters’ tendency to mistake misinformation for fact is what drives their positive …
Breaching of the U.S. Capitol
Collective memories play important social roles for individuals within society. Although other types of memory content (e.g. autobiographical and associative memory) appear to guide decision-making in social and moral contexts, it is unclear how or whether collective memories are associated with third-person moral evaluations. Also, updating third-person moral evaluations can be impacted by broader narrative contexts. The primary goal of the pres…
Signaling Commitment via Insincere Conformity
I develop and test a theory to address instances of “visibly unpopular” norms—norms that are widely seen as neither collectively optimal nor enjoyable to conform with. Based on 76 interviews with Korean professionals engaging with a norm pertaining to excessive drinking at after-hours business gatherings ( hoesik)—widely recognized as undesirable and disapproved of by both individuals and groups—I find that conformity serves as an effective signa…
Why moderate voters choose extreme candidates
Representative democracy depends on elected officials reflecting voters’ policy preferences. Yet, US elected officials are more ideologically extreme than even the voters from their own party. This disparity is especially puzzling in light of recent studies reinforcing the view that voters are highly motivated by policy preferences and ideological fit when selecting among candidates. Using both agent-based computational models and an online vigne…
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