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JeongJin Kim

JeongJin Kim

Assistant Professor

JeongJin Kim.

Dr. Kim is accepting applications for new graduate students in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Ph.D. program.


  • Industrial-Organizational

  • Person–situation interactions

  • Job attitudes and affect/emotions

  • Employee performance behaviors


  • Ph.D., George Mason University

I am broadly interested in the cognitive, affective, and social processes that influence individuals’ performance and well-being. Specifically, my research primarily focuses on these three interconnected areas: (1) person–situation interactions, with a particular emphasis on situation (e.g., situational strength and substance characteristics), (2) job attitudes and affect/emotions (e.g., job boredom and work engagement), and (3) employee performance behaviors (e.g., task performance, counterproductive work behaviors, and organizational citizenship behaviors).


  • Son, M., Kim, J., Dalal, R. S. Sohn, J., Nguyen, L. K., & Maguire, L. (2026). Connecting the dots: Rectifying the disconnect between the situational strength and situational substance literatures. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070261490220 

  • Ponce, L. P., Kaplan, S. A., Dalal, R. S., Kim, J., Moon, N. A., & Aitken, J. A. (2026). Incremental advantage of extraversion and neuroticism facets in predicting state work engagement. Journal of Business and Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-026-10147-7

  • Ponce, L. P., Kim, J., Kaplan, S. A., & Fyffe, S. (2026). Measure-shortening techniques: A how-to guide for within-person personality research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2026.2718954

  • Kim, J., Son, M., Dalal, R. S., Baines, J. I., Bui, T. N., Tsai, H., Aranda, N., & Kaplan, S. A. (2026). Contextualizing personality–job performance relationships: A cultural tightness–looseness-based meta-analysis. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 75(4), e70126. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70126

  • Kim, J., Dalal, R. S., Aitken, J. A., Kaplan, S. A., Baines, J. I., Zhu, Z., & Hassani, J. (2026). Good versus bad situational strength? The relationship of within-person situational strength shift and stability with affect and job performance. Current Psychology, 45, 1111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-026-09670-w

  • Aitken, J. A., Zhu, Z., Baines, J. I., Kim, J., Kaplan, S. A., Dalal, R. S., Hassani, J., & Gibson, J. L. (2025). Emotion regulation at work: A micro-randomized trial comparing three cognitive reappraisal interventions. Occupational Health Science, 9, 991–1021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-025-00232-3

  • Aitken, J. A., Dalal, R. S., Kim, J., & Zhu, Z. (2025). The self-regulation of counterproductive work behavior: A conceptual replication of Aitken et al. (2024). Current Psychology, 44, 15510–15514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08136-9

  • Kim, J., Kaplan, S. A., Aitken, J. A., & Ponce, L. P. (2025). An examination of the daily relationship between job boredom and later burnout and turnover intentions along with mitigating strategies. Current Psychology, 44, 8807–8822. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07788-x

  • Zhu, Z., Aitken, J. A., Kim, J., Baines, J. I., Kaplan, S. A., Dalal, R. S., & Hassani, J. (2025). The emotion regulation intervention in the workplace: An ecological momentary approach and its impact on employee job performance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98, e70020. http://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70020

  • Kim, J., Kaplan, S. A., Aitken, J. A., & Ponce, L. P. (2024). Within-person dynamics of job boredom and counterproductive work behavior: A latent change score modeling approach. Affective Science, 5, 273–279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00256-y

  • Kim, J., Son, M., & Dalal, R. S. (2024). Situational strength. Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, [Launch Date: October 24, 2024]. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199828340-0327

  • Park, J., Woo, S. E., & Kim, J. (2024). Attitudes toward artificial intelligence application at work: Scale development and validation. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97(3), 920–951. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12502

  • Kim, J., Park, J., Sohn, Y. W., & Lim, J. I. (2021). Perceived overqualification, boredom, and extra-role behaviors: Testing a moderated mediation model. Journal of Career Development, 48(4), 400–414. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845319853879