Dr. Hyunji Kim

Applied Social Psychology and Consumer Research

Department of Psychology
University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7
A-1010 Vienna

Phone: +43-1-4277-47355

Email: hyunji.kim@univie.ac.at

Appointments only by arrangement.

After completing my PhD on "Construal level theory and economic decision making: Psychological distance as a de-biasing tool" in 2014, I worked on a three-year research project on social comparison and antecedents/consequents of personal relative deprivation. Since I joined the SoKo lab in 2017, my research interests shifted towards more basic social cognition, investigating immediate and extended self-representations and its consequences in decision making. Overall, I have various research interests ranging from basic underlying mechanisms to its affective and cognitive consequences in decision making situations.

Current position

University Assistant (Post-Doc), University of Vienna, Austria

Education

2010 Jan – 2014 Jan
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK

2006 Sep – 2008 Sep
Master of Science (with distinction) in Cognitive Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

2000 – 2006
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

2000 – 2006
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

2004 – 2005
Exchange semester at Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

1998 – 2000
Kwonsun High School (Equivalent to A level in the UK), Suwon, South Korea

Selected publications

  • Kim, H., & Florack, A. (2021). Immediate self-information is prioritized over expanded self-information across temporal, social, spatial, and probability domains. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(9), 1615–1630. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211004208
  • Kim, H., & Florack, A. (2021). When social interaction backfires: Frequent social interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with decreased well-being and higher panic buying. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 668272. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.668272
  • Kim, H., Callan, M. J., Gheorghiu, A. I., & Matthews, W. J. (2017). Social comparison, personal relative deprivation, and materialism. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(2), 373–392. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12176
  • Callan, M. J., Kim, H., Gheorghiu, A. I., & Matthews, W. J. (2017). The interrelations between social class, personal relative deprivation, and prosociality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(6), 660–669. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616673877
  • Kim, H., Schnall, S., & White, M. P. (2013). Similar psychological distance reduces temporal discounting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(8), 1005–1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213488214