Bobby K Cheon
Biographic Data
| ID | 77768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bobby K Cheon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bobby K |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheon |
| SIGNATURE | CHEON B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6815-619X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A daily gratitude listing intervention is associated with selection of smaller food portion sizes
Disentangling consequences of self-perceived weight from excess adiposity in metabolically healthy overweight/obesity
Self-perceived weight alone may not contribute to long-term metabolic dysfunction over-and-above physiological strain of excess adiposity among those living with overweight/obesity. However, future research on determinants of MHOv/Ob phenotypes should examine the role of other weight-related psychosocial factors such as weight stigma
Contributions of subjective status to eating behaviors, obesity, and metabolic health across development
Lower subjective status is associated with reduced satiation and satiety among children and adolescents: A laboratory study
Examining the moderation of the relationship between socio-economic status and consumption intentions by food information labels
Ethical and epistemic costs of a lack of geographical and cultural diversity in developmental science
Increasing geographical and cultural diversity in research participation has been a key priority for psychological researchers. In this article, we track changes in participant diversity in developmental science over the past decade. These analyses reveal surprisingly modest shifts in global diversity of research participants over time, calling into question the generalizability of our empirical foundation. We provide examples from the study of e…
The neural mechanism of resilience-based intervention enhancing Aids orphans’ psychosocial resources: Preliminary findings
Satiety insecurity: A potential mediator between food insecurity and selection of larger portion sizes
Lower subjective social status is associated with reduced satiety in children
Perceived inequality in society may not motivate increased food intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage
Taken together with prior research on the effects of subjective socioeconomic disadvantage on increased energy intake, these findings suggest that perceptions of inequality in one's society may be insufficient to stimulate heightened energy intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage or inadequacy
Implicit satiety goals and food-related expectations predict portion size in older adults: Findings from the BAMMBE cohort
Transiting Out of Full-Time National Service: A Qualitative Study of Barriers and Motivators of Weight Change in Young Adult Men in Singapore
Higher prevalence of obesity in men compared with women, particularly among those 18 to 40 years of age, has been observed in Singapore. We explored young men’s perceptions of weight change after transiting out of National Service (NS) over a 12-month period and sought to understand the underlying drivers. In-depth interviews, guided by the Health Belief Model (HBM), were conducted with young men 12 months after they had completed full-time NS. S…
The Effects of Acute Social Media Exposure on Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Behavior of Male and Female Students
Introduction: Experimental research has examined the effect of social media on body dissatisfaction, but little attention has been given to the impact on eating behavior. Across two studies, we tested the causal relationship between acute social media use, body dissatisfaction and eating behavior. Methods: In Study 1, 80 female participants (age: M = 20.75 years; BMI: M = 21.3) viewed their own Facebook account or a news website before completing…
Snack intake mediates the relationship between social exclusion and body mass index
Subjective socioeconomic disadvantage is indirectly associated with food portion selection through perceived disruption of personal resources during a nationwide Covid-19 stay-at-home order
Satiety insecurity mediates the relationship between food insecurity and portion size
Influence of Essentialist Beliefs on Judgments of Food and Food Processing
Implicit Satiety Goals and Food-Related Expectations Predict Portion Size in Older Adults: Findings from the BAMMBE Cohort
The obesogenic properties of social inequality: Perceived socioeconomic disadvantage stimulates appetite and energy intake
How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples
Conclusions about human behavior are primarily based upon observations from western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) samples, especially from the United States. One consequence may be the promotion of assumptions that research findings from these populations are more generalizable to humankind than findings from non-WEIRD populations. We tested this with an archival study comparing the extent to which titles of over 5,000 p…
Aversive Response Towards Culture Fusion Is Moderated by the Source of Foreign Cultural Inflow
Culture fusion reflects blending of elements from distinct cultures that produces a novel, hybrid cultural representation. Prior research among participants in the USA revealed that fusion of cultural elements from the USA and China could be perceived as contamination of one’s local culture and evokes disgust. It remains unknown whether this aversion to culture fusion generalizes to other samples and is contingent on perceivers’ attitudes toward …
Preschoolers exhibit conformity to computer-simulated food portion selection behaviors of remote peers
Avoiding hunger or attaining fullness? Implicit goals of satiety guide portion selection and food intake patterns
Using remote peers’ influence to promote healthy food choices among preschoolers
Prior studies have demonstrated that social norms or cues of others' eating behaviors serve as powerful guides for one's own eating behaviors. Yet it remains underexplored whether young children are susceptible to social pressure by remote peers when faced with a conflict between what they prefer and the healthy choices of a group majority. Here we examined whether preschool-aged children conformed to healthy food choices of remote peers. Followi…
Cultural Differences in Perceptual Strategies Underlying Emotion Regulation
Cultural norms for the experience, expression, and regulation of emotion vary widely between individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Collectivistic cultures value conformity, social harmony, and social status hierarchies, which demand sensitivity and focus to broader social contexts, such that attention is directed to contextual emotion information to effectively function within constrained social roles and suppress incongruent personal emot…
Personal relative deprivation increases self-selected portion sizes and food intake
Cultural Neuroscience: Progress and Promise
The nature and origin of human diversity has been a source of intellectual curiosity since the beginning of human history. Contemporary advances in cultural and biological sciences provide unique opportunities for the emerging field of cultural neuroscience. Research in cultural neuroscience examines how cultural and genetic diversity shape the human mind, brain, and behavior across multiple time scales: situation, ontogeny, and phylogeny. Recent…
Disgust Associated With Culture Mixing: Why and Who
Humans possess evolved mechanisms to detect and reject contamination by potentially harmful foreign substances. These mechanisms may also function in the rejection of violations in the social order. Here, we propose that the disgust evaluation system may also be sensitive to culture mixing, especially when elements of own and foreign cultures occupy the same space at the same time (culture fusion). Across four studies, we observe support for this…
Avoiding hunger or attaining fullness? Implicit goals of satiety guide portion selection and food intake patterns
When exercise does not pay: Counterproductive effects of impending exercise on energy intake among restrained eaters
Cultural Variation in Implicit Mental Illness Stigma
Culture shapes how individuals perceive and respond to others with mental illness. Prior studies have suggested that Asians and Asian Americans typically endorse greater stigma of mental illness compared to Westerners (White Europeans and Americans). However, whether these differences in stigma arise from cultural variations in automatic affective reactions or deliberative concerns of the appropriateness of one’s reactions to mental illness remai…
Using remote peers’ influence to promote healthy food choices among preschoolers
Prior studies have demonstrated that social norms or cues of others' eating behaviors serve as powerful guides for one's own eating behaviors. Yet it remains underexplored whether young children are susceptible to social pressure by remote peers when faced with a conflict between what they prefer and the healthy choices of a group majority. Here we examined whether preschool-aged children conformed to healthy food choices of remote peers. Followi…
Contributions of subjective status to eating behaviors, obesity, and metabolic health across development
Ethical and epistemic costs of a lack of geographical and cultural diversity in developmental science
Increasing geographical and cultural diversity in research participation has been a key priority for psychological researchers. In this article, we track changes in participant diversity in developmental science over the past decade. These analyses reveal surprisingly modest shifts in global diversity of research participants over time, calling into question the generalizability of our empirical foundation. We provide examples from the study of e…
Implicit satiety goals and food-related expectations predict portion size in older adults: Findings from the BAMMBE cohort
Preschoolers exhibit conformity to computer-simulated food portion selection behaviors of remote peers
Lower subjective status is associated with reduced satiation and satiety among children and adolescents: A laboratory study
Examining the moderation of the relationship between socio-economic status and consumption intentions by food information labels
Subjective socioeconomic disadvantage is indirectly associated with food portion selection through perceived disruption of personal resources during a nationwide Covid-19 stay-at-home order
Aversive Response Towards Culture Fusion Is Moderated by the Source of Foreign Cultural Inflow
Culture fusion reflects blending of elements from distinct cultures that produces a novel, hybrid cultural representation. Prior research among participants in the USA revealed that fusion of cultural elements from the USA and China could be perceived as contamination of one’s local culture and evokes disgust. It remains unknown whether this aversion to culture fusion generalizes to other samples and is contingent on perceivers’ attitudes toward …
Cultural Differences in Perceptual Strategies Underlying Emotion Regulation
Cultural norms for the experience, expression, and regulation of emotion vary widely between individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Collectivistic cultures value conformity, social harmony, and social status hierarchies, which demand sensitivity and focus to broader social contexts, such that attention is directed to contextual emotion information to effectively function within constrained social roles and suppress incongruent personal emot…
Cultural Variation in Implicit Mental Illness Stigma
Culture shapes how individuals perceive and respond to others with mental illness. Prior studies have suggested that Asians and Asian Americans typically endorse greater stigma of mental illness compared to Westerners (White Europeans and Americans). However, whether these differences in stigma arise from cultural variations in automatic affective reactions or deliberative concerns of the appropriateness of one’s reactions to mental illness remai…
Cultural Neuroscience: Progress and Promise
The nature and origin of human diversity has been a source of intellectual curiosity since the beginning of human history. Contemporary advances in cultural and biological sciences provide unique opportunities for the emerging field of cultural neuroscience. Research in cultural neuroscience examines how cultural and genetic diversity shape the human mind, brain, and behavior across multiple time scales: situation, ontogeny, and phylogeny. Recent…
Disgust Associated With Culture Mixing: Why and Who
Humans possess evolved mechanisms to detect and reject contamination by potentially harmful foreign substances. These mechanisms may also function in the rejection of violations in the social order. Here, we propose that the disgust evaluation system may also be sensitive to culture mixing, especially when elements of own and foreign cultures occupy the same space at the same time (culture fusion). Across four studies, we observe support for this…
Personal relative deprivation increases self-selected portion sizes and food intake
When exercise does not pay: Counterproductive effects of impending exercise on energy intake among restrained eaters
Preschoolers exhibit conformity to computer-simulated food portion selection behaviors of remote peers
Avoiding hunger or attaining fullness? Implicit goals of satiety guide portion selection and food intake patterns
Using remote peers’ influence to promote healthy food choices among preschoolers
Prior studies have demonstrated that social norms or cues of others' eating behaviors serve as powerful guides for one's own eating behaviors. Yet it remains underexplored whether young children are susceptible to social pressure by remote peers when faced with a conflict between what they prefer and the healthy choices of a group majority. Here we examined whether preschool-aged children conformed to healthy food choices of remote peers. Followi…
Cultural Differences in Perceptual Strategies Underlying Emotion Regulation
Cultural norms for the experience, expression, and regulation of emotion vary widely between individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Collectivistic cultures value conformity, social harmony, and social status hierarchies, which demand sensitivity and focus to broader social contexts, such that attention is directed to contextual emotion information to effectively function within constrained social roles and suppress incongruent personal emot…
How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples
Conclusions about human behavior are primarily based upon observations from western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) samples, especially from the United States. One consequence may be the promotion of assumptions that research findings from these populations are more generalizable to humankind than findings from non-WEIRD populations. We tested this with an archival study comparing the extent to which titles of over 5,000 p…
Aversive Response Towards Culture Fusion Is Moderated by the Source of Foreign Cultural Inflow
Culture fusion reflects blending of elements from distinct cultures that produces a novel, hybrid cultural representation. Prior research among participants in the USA revealed that fusion of cultural elements from the USA and China could be perceived as contamination of one’s local culture and evokes disgust. It remains unknown whether this aversion to culture fusion generalizes to other samples and is contingent on perceivers’ attitudes toward …
The obesogenic properties of social inequality: Perceived socioeconomic disadvantage stimulates appetite and energy intake
Transiting Out of Full-Time National Service: A Qualitative Study of Barriers and Motivators of Weight Change in Young Adult Men in Singapore
Higher prevalence of obesity in men compared with women, particularly among those 18 to 40 years of age, has been observed in Singapore. We explored young men’s perceptions of weight change after transiting out of National Service (NS) over a 12-month period and sought to understand the underlying drivers. In-depth interviews, guided by the Health Belief Model (HBM), were conducted with young men 12 months after they had completed full-time NS. S…
The Effects of Acute Social Media Exposure on Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Behavior of Male and Female Students
Introduction: Experimental research has examined the effect of social media on body dissatisfaction, but little attention has been given to the impact on eating behavior. Across two studies, we tested the causal relationship between acute social media use, body dissatisfaction and eating behavior. Methods: In Study 1, 80 female participants (age: M = 20.75 years; BMI: M = 21.3) viewed their own Facebook account or a news website before completing…
Snack intake mediates the relationship between social exclusion and body mass index
Subjective socioeconomic disadvantage is indirectly associated with food portion selection through perceived disruption of personal resources during a nationwide Covid-19 stay-at-home order
Satiety insecurity mediates the relationship between food insecurity and portion size
Influence of Essentialist Beliefs on Judgments of Food and Food Processing
Implicit Satiety Goals and Food-Related Expectations Predict Portion Size in Older Adults: Findings from the BAMMBE Cohort
Perceived inequality in society may not motivate increased food intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage
Taken together with prior research on the effects of subjective socioeconomic disadvantage on increased energy intake, these findings suggest that perceptions of inequality in one's society may be insufficient to stimulate heightened energy intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage or inadequacy
Implicit satiety goals and food-related expectations predict portion size in older adults: Findings from the BAMMBE cohort
The neural mechanism of resilience-based intervention enhancing Aids orphans’ psychosocial resources: Preliminary findings
Satiety insecurity: A potential mediator between food insecurity and selection of larger portion sizes
Lower subjective social status is associated with reduced satiety in children
Disentangling consequences of self-perceived weight from excess adiposity in metabolically healthy overweight/obesity
Self-perceived weight alone may not contribute to long-term metabolic dysfunction over-and-above physiological strain of excess adiposity among those living with overweight/obesity. However, future research on determinants of MHOv/Ob phenotypes should examine the role of other weight-related psychosocial factors such as weight stigma
Psychology (26 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 works) · Internal Medicine (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works)