Bokyung Park

Biographic Data

ID3827072
NAMEBokyung Park
GIVEN NAMESBokyung
FAMILY NAMEPark
SIGNATUREPARK B
AFFILIATIONSBoston College
ORCID0000-0001-5079-1523
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Bridging concessional-loan and grant-linked aid for global health

    Open AccessKyoung Kyun Oh, Bokyung Park et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

  • Outgroup representation in close networks shows a nonlinear association with mental well-being

    Open AccessTrystan Loustau, Andrea Mah et al.ARTICLESelf and Identity2026

    Building on research linking social diversity to well-being, we examined how racial outgroup representation in individuals’ close social networks relates to mental well-being during two periods of heightened societal stress: the COVID-19 pandemic and a polarized election period. Across two large, nationally representative datasets (N = 4,955), we observed a curvilinear relationship: moderate racial outgroup representation was linked to the lowest…

  • Not That Important Why You Did It

    Open AccessBokyung Park, Swathi Vepachedu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2026References: 77

    People in interdependent cultures explain others’ behavior less through internal traits and more through external situations than those in independent cultures. Criminal justice research suggests that this should make people more lenient. They should blame less, punish less, support rehabilitation more, and perceive offenders to have less risk to re-offend. Yet, studies across cultures contradict this theoretical prediction. We address this contr…

  • A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation

    Open AccessJeanne Tsai, Daniel S Chen et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2025

    What affective states do people ideally want to feel and why? In Affect Valuation Theory, Tsai et al. (2006) proposed and observed that (a) how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and (b) cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data meta-analysis, we reexamined these two premises in a combined d…

  • The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being

    Open AccessBokyung Park, Minjae Kim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2022Cited by: 4References: 78

    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…

  • Culturally valued facial expressions enhance loan request success

    Open AccessBokyung Park, Alexander Genevsky et al.ARTICLEEmotion2019

    Why do people share resources with some strangers, but not others? This question becomes increasingly relevant as online platforms that promote lending world-wide proliferate (e.g., www.kiva.org). We predicted that lenders from nations that value excitement and other high-arousal positive states (HAP; e.g., United States) would loan more to borrowers who show excitement in their profile photos because the lenders perceive them to be more affiliat…

  • An association between biased impression updating and relationship facilitation

    Open AccessBokyung Park, L YoungARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2019Cited by: 5References: 52

  • Examining the Relationship between Life Satisfaction, Smartphone Addiction, and Maternal Parenting Behavior

    Open AccessSeung‐Min Song, Bokyung Park et al.ARTICLEChild Indicators Research2018References: 5