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  1. Who Follows Their True Self, and Who Doesn’t? Culture Matters, and Beliefs Explain Why

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, April 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Mina Jyung, Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  2. Meaning-augmentation motive: Valuing meaning in life facilitates preference for experiential over material purchases

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  3. Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon: Long‐Term Orientation Predicts Preference for Meaningful Over Pleasurable Activities

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  4. Interpersonal mattering and the experience of meaning in life

    Article • The Journal of Positive Psychology, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  5. Liking Predicts Judgments of Authenticity in Real-Time Interactions More Robustly Than Personality States or Affect

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  6. Implicit Theories of Happiness: When Happiness Is Viewed as Changeable, Happy People Are Perceived Much More Positively Than Unhappy People

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  7. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  8. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  9. Experiential appreciation as a pathway to meaning in life

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

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

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  11. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  12. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  13. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  14. Broadening the Structure of Meaning in Life: Experiential Appreciation as an Indicator of Existential Meaning

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

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

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

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

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

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

    Article • August 2018, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  18. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

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

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

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

    Article • November 2017, Center for Open Science

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  21. Existential Ennui

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  22. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  23. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  24. Companion Versus Comparison

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  25. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  26. Meaning of Life

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  27. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  28. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

  29. 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, Dr. Jinhyung Kim

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

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

    Dr Jinhyung Kim, Dr. Jinhyung Kim