Heejung S Kim
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 122474 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Heejung S Kim |
| PRENOMES | Heejung S |
| SOBRENOME | Kim |
| ASSINATURA | KIM H S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5361-6368 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 457 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Do people think I'm late in life? An intersubjective approach to culture and the optimal timing of life
Eye‐Tracking Evidence of Cultural Compatibility in Digital Menu Perception Among South Asian Tourists in Korea
South Asia is an expanding source market for Korean tourism, yet cultural and religious food restrictions complicate menu choices. This study used an eye‐tracking experiment (20 Hindu, 20 non‐Hindu) in which participants viewed an English digital menu for a casual Korean restaurant featuring six dishes, each with a photo, brief ingredient note, and price. A primacy effect led to the longest fixations on Bibimbap, but among Hindus this attention d…
Perceived Value Fit and Customer Citizenship Behavior in Food Delivery Apps' Pro‐Environmental Initiatives
The environmental challenges in the food delivery industry have led many apps to adopt pro‐environmental initiatives. This study explores how customers' perceived value fit with sustainability efforts influences customer citizenship behavior, using an extended Theory of Planned Behavior framework. Data were collected via an online survey of 542 adults and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling. Results show that biosphe…
The Gastronomic Identity Shift
South Korea, a leading destination for international students, welcomed 208,962 students in 2024. Despite its academic opportunities, many face challenges in adapting due to shifts in gastronomic identity, unfamiliar ingredients, and cultural perceptions of food. This study explores how psychological factors influence the behavioral intention to adapt Korean food, filling a gap in research on the psychological mechanisms behind food adaptation. U…
Image Congruity and Perceived Value as Antecedents of Customers' Behavioral Intentions to Stay in B&B Accommodations
Unlike standardized hotels B&Bs not only provide customers with lodging services but also serve as a space for them to relax or to satisfy their pursuit of emotional experience, and so on. The present study was conducted to more fully understand B&Bs' psychological impact on their attitude and loyalty from the perspective of tourists' image congruity and perceived value. A valid sample of 609 respondents obtained by convenience sampling was analy…
A Comparison Study on Indonesia and South Korea Market in Purchasing Intention of Online Travel Agent
The use of Online Travel Agencies for flight and hotel booking is becoming more widely used and will be frequently utilized in the near future. However, at the current moment, the study of purchasing intention of OTAs is not widely investigated with various variables. This study will fill the theoretical and managerial gap as the uses of perceived benefit, perceived risk, online persuasion, and human sense all play a role in the customer attitude…
Exploring Visual Attention, Consumption Vision, and Attitude Toward Café Menus Using Eye‐Tracking Analysis
The global café industry has expanded rapidly, intensifying competition and underscoring the need to understand how menu design influences consumer behavior. This study investigates how different menu formats affect visual attention, consumption vision, and attitude toward menu items. A mixed‐method approach was employed, combining quantitative eye‐tracking experiments using the Tobii Pro Spectrum with a post‐experiment survey of 35 participants …
Generation Z's Michelin Choices
This study explored factors influencing customer satisfaction and visiting intention at Michelin‐starred restaurants in Thailand, key attractions for visitors. Using 11,887 Google Maps reviews, frequency and co‐occurrence analyses via KH Coder identified four clusters: Food Quality, Service and Ambiance, Value for Money, and Time Risk. EFA and linear regression with SPSS revealed that Food Quality positively affected satisfaction, while Service a…
Culture and the Social Clock
People typically hold personal views regarding the appropriate age ranges for significant life events, such as starting college, getting married, or having kids. Such socially prescribed timetables have been termed the social clock. In this paper, we investigate how and why the rigidity (or flexibility) of the social clock may vary across cultures. In three studies (two preregistered), participants from China and the United States were asked to p…
Tracing the roots
This study aims to examine the factors contributing to motivation and loyalty among scholars attending international academic conferences. Specifically, the study aims to understand what motivates scholars to participate actively in these events by investigating the interaction between academic skills, academic self-concept, support, motivation, and loyalty. Data were collected from 238 respondents to a structured questionnaire distributed at thr…
Unraveling the Nexus Between Environmental Presence and Customer Satisfaction
This study explores the ecological presence and awareness of eco‐hotel satisfaction. 7471 reviews from Ecuador and Indonesia eco‐hotels were analyzed based on mathematical equations and Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and regression analysis depicted differences in environmental awareness and satisfaction across cultures. The findings indicate that word count, perception, and green depth significantly impact sat…
Exploring Customers Experience and Satisfaction with Theme Hotels
There is a generalized global market trend that tourists and consumers tend to pursue “themed” experiences closely related to their preferences or specific purposes. In the accommodation sector, the concept of “themed” is reflected by various theme hotels such as green hotels, family hotels, E-sports hotels, etc. In the era of Web 2.0, online information has been testified to be one of the most effective data sources for understanding customers a…
Where you come from matters
The present research investigated to what extent two Western cultures, France and the United States, differed in making status-related judgements based on a person’s familial class background. Consistent with the eco-historical origins of French and American status beliefs, Study 1 ( N = 77) showed that French more than American participants perceived an unknown community member with higher (compared to lower) familial class background to have gr…
Beliefs and Social Norms as Precursors of Environmental Support
The present research investigates how the cultural value of collectivism interacts with socioeconomic status (SES) to influence the basis of action. Using a U.S. national sample ( N = 2,538), the research examines how these sociocultural factors jointly moderate the strength of two precursors of environmental support: beliefs about climate change and perceived descriptive norms. SES and collectivism interacted with climate change beliefs such tha…
Psychology and the Threat of Contagion
The widespread threat of contagious disease disrupts not only everyday life but also psychological experience. Building on findings regarding xenophobic responses to contagious diseases, this research investigates how perceived vulnerability to a disease moderates the psychological link between people’s xenophobic thoughts and support for ingroup-protective actions. Three datasets collected during the time of Ebola ( N = 867) and COVID-19 ( Ns = …
Swinging for the Fences Versus Advancing the Runner
This research investigated cross-cultural differences in strategic risky decisions in baseball—among professional baseball teams in North America and Japan (Study 1) and among baseball fans in the United States and Japan (Study 2—preregistered). Study 1 analyzed archival data from professional baseball leagues and demonstrated that outcomes reflecting high risk-high payoff strategies were more prevalent in North America, whereas outcomes reflecti…
Religiosity Moderates the Link Between Environmental Beliefs and Pro-Environmental Support
The current research examines differences in what motivates environmentally sustainable behavior between more and less religious people in the United States. We found that religiosity moderates the extent to which environmental beliefs predict pro-environmental support. Specifically, environmental beliefs predicted pro-environmental support less strongly among more religious people than less religious people (Studies 1 and 2). Using a correlation…
My emotions belong here and there
When immigrant minorities engage in a new cultural context, their patterns of emotional experience come to change - a process we coined emotional acculturation. To date, research on emotional acculturation focused on the antecedents and consequences of changes in minorities' fit with the new culture. Yet, most minorities also continue to engage in their heritage culture. Therefore, the current research investigated which personal and situational …
Applying the Modified Health Belief Model (HBM) to Korean Medical Tourism
The purpose of this study is to investigate how foreigners' health beliefs influence their visiting intentions to Korean medical tourism. This study used an online survey engine (docs.google.com/forms) to collect data from foreigners who are from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Mongolia, who are potential Korean medical tourists. Out of 213 questionnaires collected, 200 questionnaires (93.9%) were used for the statistical analysis. The Con…
Cruising in Asia
In the e-tourism era, online customer reviews with pictures, textual comments, etc. have become a significant information source affecting customers’ purchase intention and behavior. Big data analytics with text mining, semantic network analysis and factor analysis, and regression analysis were applied to help understand cruiser experience and its relationship to cruiser satisfaction in the Asian cruise market through online cruiser reviews. Rese…
Social class, control, and action
“Green to be seen” and “brown to keep down”
The effects of restaurant nutrition menu labelling on college students’ healthy eating behaviours
Objective According to the US Affordable Care Act, restaurant chains are required to provide energy (calorie) and other nutrition information on their menu. The current study examined the impact of menu labelling containing calorie information and recommended daily calorie intake, along with subjective nutrition knowledge, on intention to select lower-calorie foods prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Design Full factorial expe…
Incorporating the cultural diversity of family and close relationships into the study of health
Relationships are at the center of the human social environment, and their quality and longevity are now recognized to have particular relevance for health. The goal of this article is to bring attention to the role of culture in how relationships, particularly close relationships and family relationships, influence health. To this end, 2 contexts that are characterized by 2 distinct forms of cultural collectivism (East Asian and Latino) are spot…
Nature, Nurture, and Their Interplay
Cultural neuroscience research examines how psychological processes are affected by the interplay between culture and biological factors, including genetic influences, patterns of neural activation, and physiological processes. In this review, we present foundational and current empirical research in this area, and we also discuss theories that aim to explain how various aspects of the social environment are interpreted as meaningful in different…
Culture and social support
Social support is one of the most effective means by which people can cope with stressful events. Yet little research has examined whether there are cultural differences in how people utilize their social support networks. A review of studies on culture and social support presents evidence that Asians and Asian Americans are more reluctant to explicitly ask for support from close others than are European Americans because they are more concerned …
Culture and Social Support
Are Asians and Asian Americans more or less likely to seek social support for dealing with stress than European Americans? On the one hand, the collectivist orientation of Asian countries might favor the sharing of stressful problems; on the other hand, efforts to maintain group harmony might discourage such efforts. In 2 studies, Koreans (Study 1) and Asians and Asian Americans in the United States (Study 2) reported using social support less fo…
Express Yourself
Whereas self-expression is valued in the United States, it is not privileged with such a cultural emphasis in East Asia. Four studies demonstrate the psychological implications of this cultural difference. Studies 1 and 2 found that European Americans value self-expression more than East Asians/East Asian Americans. Studies 3 and 4 examined the roles of expression in preference judgments. In Study 3, the expression of choice led European American…
Incorporating the cultural diversity of family and close relationships into the study of health
Relationships are at the center of the human social environment, and their quality and longevity are now recognized to have particular relevance for health. The goal of this article is to bring attention to the role of culture in how relationships, particularly close relationships and family relationships, influence health. To this end, 2 contexts that are characterized by 2 distinct forms of cultural collectivism (East Asian and Latino) are spot…
We talk, therefore we think? A cultural analysis of the effect of talking on thinking
The Western assumption that talking is connected to thinking is not shared in the East. The research examines how the actual psychology of individuals reflects these different cultural assumptions. In Study 1, Asian Americans and European Americans thought aloud while solving reasoning problems. Talking impaired Asian Americans' performance but not that of European Americans. Study 2 showed that participants' beliefs about talking and thinking ar…
Choice and self-expression
Three studies examined whether the tendency to seek variety in choices depends in part on cultural assumptions of choice and uniqueness. Study 1 showed that people from different cultures where different assumptions of choice and uniqueness dominate show different levels of variety in their choice rule use. Study 2 primed participants with magazine ads highlighting different representations of uniqueness dominant in individualist versus collectiv…
Is There an "I" in "Team"? The Role of the Self in Group-Serving Judgments
Why do people make judgments that favor their groups, attributing outcomes to internal factors to a greater extent when their group succeeds than when their group fails? The present research demonstrates that group-serving judgments serve a self-protective function. In Study 1, participants in team sports competitions made more internal team attributions after experiencing victory than defeat; this group-serving bias was eliminated among those wh…
Social class, control, and action
At the intersection of culture and religion
Religion helps people maintain a sense of control, particularly secondary control-acceptance of and adjustment to difficult situations--and contributes to strengthening social relationships in a religious community. However, little is known about how culture may influence these effects. The current research examined the interaction of culture and religion on secondary control and social affiliation, comparing people from individualistic cultures …
Cultural Differences in Motivation for Seeking Social Support and the Emotional Consequences of Receiving Support
Previous research suggests that the benefits of different types of social support depend on cultural background. However, cultural variations in the underlying motivations for seeking social support and the emotional implications of receiving support have not yet been clearly explored. We hypothesized and found that European Americans emphasized the motivation for self-esteem as a factor in deciding to seek explicit social support (e.g., advice, …
Religion and Well-being
Research suggests that religiosity, or the importance of religion in one's life, may be related to well-being, but little is known about how culture and genes may play a role in this relationship. Given that religion in a North American cultural context tends to emphasize social affiliation less than in an East Asian cultural context and that some people may be genetically predisposed to be more socially sensitive than others, the way religion is…
Culture and gender inequality
Previous research linking perceptions of gender inequality and psychological well-being were considered in light of the proposition that people from different cultures differ in their beliefs about how justifiable gender inequality is, and this research investigated these differences and their psychological consequences using cross-cultural comparisons. The results show that Hong Kong Chinese women saw gender inequality as less unjust (Study 1) a…
Intersubjective Norms
Peer-reviewed
Culture, Interpersonal Stress, and Psychological Distress
The present study examined cultural differences in interpersonal stress experiences in Japan and the United States. Japanese and U.S. students completed a questionnaire that included measures of interpersonal stressors, the behavior inhibition system (BIS), and psychological distress. As hypothesized, frequency of interpersonal friction was higher in Japan than in the United States, whereas frequency of interpersonal conflict did not differ acros…
Cruising in Asia
In the e-tourism era, online customer reviews with pictures, textual comments, etc. have become a significant information source affecting customers’ purchase intention and behavior. Big data analytics with text mining, semantic network analysis and factor analysis, and regression analysis were applied to help understand cruiser experience and its relationship to cruiser satisfaction in the Asian cruise market through online cruiser reviews. Rese…
Nature, Nurture, and Their Interplay
Cultural neuroscience research examines how psychological processes are affected by the interplay between culture and biological factors, including genetic influences, patterns of neural activation, and physiological processes. In this review, we present foundational and current empirical research in this area, and we also discuss theories that aim to explain how various aspects of the social environment are interpreted as meaningful in different…
Culture and the cognitive and neuroendocrine responses to speech
The present research investigated cultural differences in the psychological and biological effects of verbalization of thoughts. Three studies tested how verbalization of thoughts requires a different amount of effort for people from cultures with different assumptions about speech and examined implications for the cognitive performance and stress hormone response to the task. The results showed that verbalization impaired East Asians/East Asian …
We talk, therefore we think? A cultural analysis of the effect of talking on thinking
The Western assumption that talking is connected to thinking is not shared in the East. The research examines how the actual psychology of individuals reflects these different cultural assumptions. In Study 1, Asian Americans and European Americans thought aloud while solving reasoning problems. Talking impaired Asian Americans' performance but not that of European Americans. Study 2 showed that participants' beliefs about talking and thinking ar…
Choice and self-expression
Three studies examined whether the tendency to seek variety in choices depends in part on cultural assumptions of choice and uniqueness. Study 1 showed that people from different cultures where different assumptions of choice and uniqueness dominate show different levels of variety in their choice rule use. Study 2 primed participants with magazine ads highlighting different representations of uniqueness dominant in individualist versus collectiv…
Culture and Social Support
Are Asians and Asian Americans more or less likely to seek social support for dealing with stress than European Americans? On the one hand, the collectivist orientation of Asian countries might favor the sharing of stressful problems; on the other hand, efforts to maintain group harmony might discourage such efforts. In 2 studies, Koreans (Study 1) and Asians and Asian Americans in the United States (Study 2) reported using social support less fo…
Is There an "I" in "Team"? The Role of the Self in Group-Serving Judgments
Why do people make judgments that favor their groups, attributing outcomes to internal factors to a greater extent when their group succeeds than when their group fails? The present research demonstrates that group-serving judgments serve a self-protective function. In Study 1, participants in team sports competitions made more internal team attributions after experiencing victory than defeat; this group-serving bias was eliminated among those wh…
Pursuit of Comfort and Pursuit of Harmony
This research examined whether people from collectivistic cultures are less likely to seek social support than are people from individualistic cultures because they are more cautious about potentially disturbing their social network. Study 1 found that Asian Americans from a more collectivistic culture sought social support less and found support seeking to be less effective than European Americans from a more individualistic culture. Study 2 fou…
Cultural Differences in the Impact of Social Support on Psychological and Biological Stress Responses
Social support is believed to be a universally valuable resource for combating stress, yet Asians and Asian Americans report that social support is not helpful to them, resist seeking it, and are underrepresented among recipients of supportive services. We distinguish between explicit social support (seeking and using advice and emotional solace) and implicit social support (focusing on valued social groups) and show that Asians and Asian America…
The Group as a Resource
Self-affirmation theory proposes that people can respond to threats to the self by affirming alternative sources of self-integrity, resulting in greater openness to self-threatening information. The present research examines this at a group level by investigating whether a group affirmation (affirming an important group value) increases acceptance of threatening group information among sports teams and fans. In Study 1, athletes exhibited a group…
Express Yourself
Whereas self-expression is valued in the United States, it is not privileged with such a cultural emphasis in East Asia. Four studies demonstrate the psychological implications of this cultural difference. Studies 1 and 2 found that European Americans value self-expression more than East Asians/East Asian Americans. Studies 3 and 4 examined the roles of expression in preference judgments. In Study 3, the expression of choice led European American…
Culture and social support
Social support is one of the most effective means by which people can cope with stressful events. Yet little research has examined whether there are cultural differences in how people utilize their social support networks. A review of studies on culture and social support presents evidence that Asians and Asian Americans are more reluctant to explicitly ask for support from close others than are European Americans because they are more concerned …
Culture and the cognitive and neuroendocrine responses to speech
The present research investigated cultural differences in the psychological and biological effects of verbalization of thoughts. Three studies tested how verbalization of thoughts requires a different amount of effort for people from cultures with different assumptions about speech and examined implications for the cognitive performance and stress hormone response to the task. The results showed that verbalization impaired East Asians/East Asian …
The irony of cultural psychology research
Where Do My Emotions Belong? A Study of Immigrants’ Emotional Acculturation
The emotional experiences of people who live together tend to be similar; this is true not only for dyads and groups but also for cultures. It raises the question of whether immigrants’ emotions become more similar to host culture patterns of emotional experience; do emotions acculturate? Two studies, on Korean immigrants in the United States (Study 1) and on Turkish immigrants in Belgium (Study 2), measured emotional experiences of immigrants an…
Gene–Culture Interaction
Research has demonstrated that certain genotypes are expressed phenotypically in different forms depending on the social environment. To examine sensitivity to cultural norms regarding emotion regulation, we explored the expression of the oxytocin receptor polymorphism ( OXTR) rs53576, a gene previously related to socioemotional sensitivity, in conjunction with cultural norms. Emotional suppression is normative in East Asian cultures but not in A…
Culture and gender inequality
Previous research linking perceptions of gender inequality and psychological well-being were considered in light of the proposition that people from different cultures differ in their beliefs about how justifiable gender inequality is, and this research investigated these differences and their psychological consequences using cross-cultural comparisons. The results show that Hong Kong Chinese women saw gender inequality as less unjust (Study 1) a…
At the intersection of culture and religion
Religion helps people maintain a sense of control, particularly secondary control-acceptance of and adjustment to difficult situations--and contributes to strengthening social relationships in a religious community. However, little is known about how culture may influence these effects. The current research examined the interaction of culture and religion on secondary control and social affiliation, comparing people from individualistic cultures …
Religion and Well-being
Research suggests that religiosity, or the importance of religion in one's life, may be related to well-being, but little is known about how culture and genes may play a role in this relationship. Given that religion in a North American cultural context tends to emphasize social affiliation less than in an East Asian cultural context and that some people may be genetically predisposed to be more socially sensitive than others, the way religion is…
Culture, Interpersonal Stress, and Psychological Distress
The present study examined cultural differences in interpersonal stress experiences in Japan and the United States. Japanese and U.S. students completed a questionnaire that included measures of interpersonal stressors, the behavior inhibition system (BIS), and psychological distress. As hypothesized, frequency of interpersonal friction was higher in Japan than in the United States, whereas frequency of interpersonal conflict did not differ acros…
Cultural Differences in the Link Between Supportive Relationships and Proinflammatory Cytokines
Research suggests that inflammation may partially mediate the link between supportiveness of social relationships and physical health. However, cultural differences between Asians and European Americans in the nature of relationships and in seeking social support suggest that there may be cultural differences in the relation between supportive relationships and proinflammatory activity. One hundred and twenty-one young adult participants complete…
Are You Feeling What I’m Feeling? Emotional Similarity Buffers Stress
We examine the idea that it is beneficial for people in threatening situations to affiliate with others who are experiencing similar, relative to dissimilar, emotions. Pairs of participants waited together and then engaged in a laboratory stressor (i.e., giving a speech). We created an index of each pair’s emotional similarity using participants’ emotional states. We also measured how threatening participants perceived the speech task to be (i.e.…
Metabolic syndrome related health inequalities in Korean elderly
While the prevalence of metabolic syndrome is increasing, little is presently known about this syndrome in Korean elderly. This study aimed to group metabolic risk factors and to examine the associations between groups of health living conditions and metabolic syndrome using data from the Korean National Health Examination and Nutritional Assessment (KNHANES). A total of 1,435 subjects aged over 65 years old with both biochemical and dietary data…
Intersubjective Norms
Peer-reviewed
Fear of Ebola
In response to the Ebola scare in 2014, many people evinced strong fear and xenophobia. The present study, informed by the pathogen-prevalence hypothesis, tested the influence of individualism and collectivism on xenophobic response to the threat of Ebola. A nationally representative sample of 1,000 Americans completed a survey, indicating their perceptions of their vulnerability to Ebola, ability to protect themselves from Ebola (protection effi…
Cultural Variability in the Link Between Environmental Concern and Support for Environmental Action
Research on sustainability behaviors has been based on the assumption that increasing personal concerns about the environment will increase proenvironmental action. We tested whether this assumption is more applicable to individualistic cultures than to collectivistic cultures. In Study 1, we compared 47 countries ( N = 57,268) and found that they varied considerably in the degree to which environmental concern predicted support for proenvironmen…
“Green to be seen” and “brown to keep down”
The effects of restaurant nutrition menu labelling on college students’ healthy eating behaviours
Objective According to the US Affordable Care Act, restaurant chains are required to provide energy (calorie) and other nutrition information on their menu. The current study examined the impact of menu labelling containing calorie information and recommended daily calorie intake, along with subjective nutrition knowledge, on intention to select lower-calorie foods prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Design Full factorial expe…
Psychology (40 obras) · Social Psychology (32 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (27 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Developmental psychology (13 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (13 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Collectivism (8 obras) · Individualism (8 obras)