Yena Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6449597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yena Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yena |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8822-4169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What does true devotion look like
Devotion is associated with showing commitment to what individuals choose. But is perceived devotion influenced by how individuals react to what they did not choose? Two experiments (N = 1,000) indicate that rejecting alternatives is a key behavioral cue for assessing devotion. Study 1 documents the basic effect: individuals who reject alternatives were seen as more devoted than individuals who accept or are ambiguous toward alternatives. The res…
Unintended positive behavioral changes during self-report and wearable data collection on digital media use in young adults
People value the pursuit of potential-realization more than belonging, happiness, and status
Stranger in a strange land
What leads people to contribute to public life, to strengthen social cohesion, and work to better society? We investigated how co-curricular aspects of college life relate to social cognitive processes foundational for civic virtues and contribute to their development. We examined one widespread type of co-curricular college experience—studying abroad. When studying abroad, students encounter different social norms and cultures and often interact…
Going beyond ourselves
605 adults), we found converging evidence that self-transcendent experiences, specifically awe and flow, enabled the expression of wisdom, as captured by wise reasoning and epistemic humility measures. Study 1 found that dispositionally awe- and flow-prone people have stronger wise reasoning and epistemic humility abilities, over and above dispositional happiness. Consistent with Study 1, Study 2 found that, across diverse recalled experiences, i…
The Emotional Expressions and Emotion Perception in Nonhuman Primates
The expression of emotions and their recognition in conspecifics are pivotal to social life. As Darwin postulated in his pioneering book The expression of the emotions in man and animals, many morphological features and functions of emotional expressions characterized in humans are homologous to those of other animals. Intriguingly, despite this early work, scientists have been skeptical about the feasibility of studying emotions in nonhumans and…
Bared‐teeth displays in bonobos ( Pan paniscus )
Facial expressions are key to navigating social group life. The Power Asymmetry Hypothesis of Motivational Emancipation predicts that the type of social organization shapes the meaning of communicative displays in relation to an individual's dominance rank. The bared‐teeth (BT) display represents one of the most widely observed communicative signals across primate species. Studies in macaques indicate that the BT display in despotic species is of…
Domestic politics and requests for Unesco’s international assistance program
Recently, the world has witnessed increased participation from nondemocratic countries in international cultural institutions, such as UNESCO’s International Assistance (IA) program. This study poses the question of why several authoritarian countries request IA programs more frequently than others do. In addition to economic and international factors, we argue that differences in domestic institutions within autocracies influence the decision-ma…
Domestic politics and requests for Unesco’s international assistance program
Recently, the world has witnessed increased participation from nondemocratic countries in international cultural institutions, such as UNESCO’s International Assistance (IA) program. This study poses the question of why several authoritarian countries request IA programs more frequently than others do. In addition to economic and international factors, we argue that differences in domestic institutions within autocracies influence the decision-ma…
The Emotional Expressions and Emotion Perception in Nonhuman Primates
The expression of emotions and their recognition in conspecifics are pivotal to social life. As Darwin postulated in his pioneering book The expression of the emotions in man and animals, many morphological features and functions of emotional expressions characterized in humans are homologous to those of other animals. Intriguingly, despite this early work, scientists have been skeptical about the feasibility of studying emotions in nonhumans and…
Bared‐teeth displays in bonobos ( Pan paniscus )
Facial expressions are key to navigating social group life. The Power Asymmetry Hypothesis of Motivational Emancipation predicts that the type of social organization shapes the meaning of communicative displays in relation to an individual's dominance rank. The bared‐teeth (BT) display represents one of the most widely observed communicative signals across primate species. Studies in macaques indicate that the BT display in despotic species is of…
Domestic politics and requests for Unesco’s international assistance program
Recently, the world has witnessed increased participation from nondemocratic countries in international cultural institutions, such as UNESCO’s International Assistance (IA) program. This study poses the question of why several authoritarian countries request IA programs more frequently than others do. In addition to economic and international factors, we argue that differences in domestic institutions within autocracies influence the decision-ma…
Stranger in a strange land
What leads people to contribute to public life, to strengthen social cohesion, and work to better society? We investigated how co-curricular aspects of college life relate to social cognitive processes foundational for civic virtues and contribute to their development. We examined one widespread type of co-curricular college experience—studying abroad. When studying abroad, students encounter different social norms and cultures and often interact…
Going beyond ourselves
605 adults), we found converging evidence that self-transcendent experiences, specifically awe and flow, enabled the expression of wisdom, as captured by wise reasoning and epistemic humility measures. Study 1 found that dispositionally awe- and flow-prone people have stronger wise reasoning and epistemic humility abilities, over and above dispositional happiness. Consistent with Study 1, Study 2 found that, across diverse recalled experiences, i…
Unintended positive behavioral changes during self-report and wearable data collection on digital media use in young adults
People value the pursuit of potential-realization more than belonging, happiness, and status
What does true devotion look like
Devotion is associated with showing commitment to what individuals choose. But is perceived devotion influenced by how individuals react to what they did not choose? Two experiments (N = 1,000) indicate that rejecting alternatives is a key behavioral cue for assessing devotion. Study 1 documents the basic effect: individuals who reject alternatives were seen as more devoted than individuals who accept or are ambiguous toward alternatives. The res…
Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (2 works) · Humility (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (2 works)