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  1. How does money make life meaningful? Socioeconomic status, financial self-efficacy, and meaning in life

    Article • The Journal of Positive Psychology, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  2. Longitudinal examinations of changes in well-being during the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic: Testing the roles of extraversion and social distancing

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  3. Experiential appreciation as a pathway to meaning in life

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  4. True-self-as-guide lay theory endorsement across five countries

    Article • Self and Identity, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  5. Meaning-Making, Psychological Distress, and the Experience of Meaning in Life Following a Natural Disaster

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  6. The Illusion of Time: Testing the Bidirectional Relationship Between Belief in Free Will and Temporal Horizons

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, April 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  7. Is the Illusion of Authenticity Beneficial? Merely Perceiving Decisions as Guided by the True Self Enhances Decision Satisfaction

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, March 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  8. Understanding the Relationship Between Perceived Authenticity and Well-Being

    Article • Review of General Psychology, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  9. Approaching the True Self: Promotion Focus Predicts the Experience of Authenticity

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  10. Approaching the True Self: Promotion Focus Predicts the Experience of Authenticity

    Article • August 2018, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  11. Thinking about a new decade in life increases personal self-reflection: A replication and reinterpretation of Alter and Hershfield’s (2014) findings.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, June 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  12. Following one's true self and the sacredness of cultural values

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  13. Following one’s true self and the sacredness of cultural values

    Article • November 2017, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  14. Existential Ennui

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  15. The Reciprocal Relationship Between Perceptions of Moral Goodness and Knowledge of Others’ True Selves

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  16. Investing in the real me: Preference for experiential to material purchases driven by the motivation to search for true self-knowledge

    Article • Self and Identity, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  17. Companion Versus Comparison

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  18. On the neural implausibility of the modular mind: Evidence for distributed construction dissolves boundaries between perception, cognition, and emotion

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  19. Meaning of Life

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  20. Motivating the academic mind: High-level construal of academic goals enhances goal meaningfulness, motivation, and self-concordance

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  21. Parental bereavement and the loss of purpose in life as a function of interdependent self-construal

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  22. Happiness begets children? Evidence for a bi-directional link between well-being and number of children

    Article • The Journal of Positive Psychology, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  23. Pleasure now, meaning later: Temporal dynamics between pleasure and meaning

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  24. Positive and Existential Psychological Approaches to the Experience of Meaning in Life

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jinhyung Kim

  25. Knowing yourself by owning experiences: The motivated pursuit of true self-knowledge through experiential purchases

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Jinhyung Kim