Yoon Hyuk Jeong

Research

Cultural Perspectives on Career Decisions and Workplace Behaviors

I examine how national, regional, and organizational cultures shape career decisions and workplace behaviors.

My work combines large-scale archival and field data with randomized experiments and quasi-experiments.

Research interests

  • National and Organizational Culture
  • Career Decisions
  • Social Comparison
  • Role Modeling
  • Multilevel Research
  • Randomized Experiments
  • Quasi-Experiments
  • Big Data and Archival Data

Working Papers

From Constraint to Catalyst: How Sensitivity to Social Norms Across Cultural Tightness-Looseness Shapes Media-Based Entrepreneurial Role Modeling

Jeong, Y. H., & Mussweiler, T.

Under review at Organization Science

  • Finalist, Best Paper Award in Entrepreneurial Cognition, MOC Division, Academy of Management, 2026
  • Research Grant, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC)
  • International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), 2026
  • Academy of Management, 2025
  • Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, 2025

Organizational Gender Composition and the Relational Roots of Employee Voice Climate

Jeong, Y. H., Lee, S. Y., & Kesebir, S.

Working paper

  • Nominee, Carolyn B. Dexter Award, Academy of Management, 2026
  • Finalist, Best Paper with International Implications, OB Division, Academy of Management, 2026
  • Best Paper Proceedings, OB Division, Academy of Management, 2026
  • International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), 2026
  • Organization Science Winter Conference, 2026

Registered Report: Moral Judgments of Viral Partisan Transgressions

Jeong, Y. H., Mattavelli, S., & Effron, D. A.

Under review at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Setting an Inspirational Example: How Being a Role Model Fosters Prosocial Orientation at Work

Jeong, Y. H., & Mussweiler, T.

Working paper

  • Academy of Management, 2025

Selected Research in Progress

How Organizational Culture Shapes Employee Attitudes Toward Organizational Pay Gaps

Jeong, Y. H., & Mussweiler, T.

Data collection

How Social Comparison Culture Shapes Time Orientation and Career Decisions

Jeong, Y. H., & Mussweiler, T.

Data collection

How Aging Disproportionately Harms Working Women: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Legal Age Reform

Jeong, Y. H.

Data collection

Mapping Dynamic Changes and the Influence of Social Comparison Culture

Jeong, Y. H., & Mussweiler, T.

Data collection

Other Publications

Jeong, Y. H., Lee, S. Y., & Kesebir, S. (2026). Organizational Gender Composition and the Relational Roots of Employee Voice Climate. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2026(1).

Forthcoming

Jeong, Y. H., & Mussweiler, T. (2025). Someone to Look Up to: How Being a Role Model Fosters Prosociality. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1), 15763.

DOI

Qiu, J., Jeong, Y. H., Rose, M., Rosendahl Huber, L., Baruffaldi, S. H., Lianidou, T., Wasti, S. N., Dominick, P. G., Mussweiler, T., & Ku, G. (2025). Advancing the Understandings of Role Models in the Workplace and Society. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1), 15739.

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Jeong, Y. H., Healy, L. C., & McEwan, D. (2023). The Application of Goal Setting Theory to Goal Setting Interventions in Sport: A Systematic Review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 16(1), 474–499.

The second most-read article of all timeDOI

Boat, R., Williamson, O., Read, J., Jeong, Y. H., & Cooper, S. B. (2021). Self-Control Exertion and Caffeine Mouth Rinsing: Effects on Cycling Time-Trial Performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 53, 101877.

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