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Biography

Dr. Yeonjeong (YJ) Kim is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business. She teaches Business Ethics and Global Citizenship. 

Before joining Duquesne University, she worked at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management as a Postdoctoral Associate.  

Dr. Kim's research focuses on three broad topics: moral character & business ethics, conflict management & team performance, and employee selection. Dr. Kim’s research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Personality, and Group & Organization Management. 

She has received awards from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), and the Society for Business Ethics (SBE). 

Education

  • Ph.D., Organizational Behavior & Theory, Carnegie Mellon University
  • M.A., Organizational Behavior & Theory, Carnegie Mellon University
  • M.S., Statistics, Yonsei University, South Korea
  • M.A., Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation, Yonsei University, South Korea

School

  • Outstanding Research Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology 
  • Outstanding Article Award, International Association for Conflict Management
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award, Yonsei University
Articles in Journals

Helzer, E. G., Cohen, T. R., Kim, Y., Iorio, A., & Aven, B. (2024). Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence. Journal of Personality, 92, 649-925.

Kim, Y., Cohen, T. R., & Panter, A. T. (2023). Workplace mistreatment and employee deviance: An investigation of the reciprocal relationship between hostile work environments and harmful work behaviors. Group & Organization Management, 48, 1173-1202. 

Helzer, E. G., Cohen, T. R., & Kim, Y. (2023). The character lens: A person-centered perspective on moral recognition and ethical decision-making. Journal of Business Ethics, 182, 483-500.

Lee, M., Kim, Y., & Chesters, J. (2022). Does acquisition of formal citizenship have an impact on immigrant adolescents’ perception of racial inequality and discrimination?. Multicultural Education Review, 14, 153-176.

Olivola, C. Y., Kim, Y., Merzel, A., Kareev, Y., Avrahami, J., & Ritov, I. (2020). Cooperation and coordination across cultures and contexts: Individual, sociocultural, and contextual factors jointly influence strategic decision making in the volunteer’s dilemma game. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33, 93-118.

Hannikainen, I. R., Machery, E., Rose, D., Stich, S., … Kim, Y., … & Zhu, J. (2019). For whom does determinism undermine moral responsibility? Surveying the conditions for free will across cultures. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2428.

Lee, M., Kim, Y., & Madyun, N. (2018). Do relational and structural characteristics of negative school environments independently predict immigrant adolescents’ academic achievement? Social Psychology of Education, 21, 539-563.

Cohen, T. R., Kim, Y., Jordan, K. P., & Panter, A. T. (2016). Guilt proneness is a marker of integrity and employment suitability. Personality and Individual Differences, 92, 109-112.

Kim, Y., & Cohen, T. R. (2015). Moral character and workplace deviance: Recent research and current trends. Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 134-138.

Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L. A., & Kim, Y. (2014). Moral character in the workplace. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 943-963. 

Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L. A., & Kim, Y. (2013). Agreement and similarity in self-other perceptions of moral character. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 816-830.

Kim, Y., Lee, G., Kang, S., & Jeong, S. (2009). An investigation of the effect of anchor test length and non-equivalency of equating groups on equating. Journal of Educational Evaluation, 22, 1133-1160.

Kim, Y., Park, I., & Lee, G. (2008). Sample size and test length effects on conditional standard error of measurement in Item Response Theory and Generalizability Theory using simulation techniques. Journal of Educational Evaluation, 21, 201-218.