Publications
*Corresponding author, + Co-first author
2025
Choi, H. & Choi, E.* (2025). Unraveling why happiness levels vary across cultures: Mechanisms underlying East-West Differences. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Lee, H., Kim, S., & Choi, E.* (2025). Claims of reverse gender discrimination by young men in South Korea: The role of competitive and common victimhood. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251341808
Gobel, M. S.+, Choi, E.+, & Uchida, Y. (2025). Entrusted power enhances psychological other‐orientation and altruistic behavioural tendencies. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2), e12857.
Kim, G., & Choi, E.* (2025). Pace of Life Is Faster for a Bored Person: Exploring the Relationship Between Trait Boredom and Fast Life History Strategy. Evolutionary Psychology, 23(1), 14747049241310772.
2024
Ro, J. H., Namkoong, J. E., Leonhardt, J. M., & Choi, E*. (2024). Examining the Nuances of Consumer Racial Bias: An Analysis of Positive Consumer Response to Racial Representation on Instagram. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-18.
Kim, G., Ong, J., & Choi, E.* (in press). Brief report: The role of mind-wandering (spontaneous vs. deliberate) in directing job boredom towards job satisfaction and counterproductive work behavior. Current Psychology.
Schindler, S., Schuster, C., Olsson, M. I., Froehlich, L., Hübner, A. K., Block, K., ... & Martiny, S. E. (2024). Policy as normative influence? On the relationship between parental leave policy and social norms in gender division of childcare across 48 countries. British journal of social psychology.
김은지, 한주연, 박준하, 도승이, 최은수 (in press). 만 2세 이하 자녀를 둔 취업모의 육아지원 서비스 이용 과정. 한국심리학회지: 문화및사회문제.
2023
Cha, H., Uchida, Y., & Choi, E.* (2023). Gender differences in the perception of legitimacy and status in a leadership role. Frontiers in Psychology.
김은지, 박연주, 최은수* (2023). 가정-일 방해 평판 염려가 성역할 태도에 미치는 영향: 성별 차이를 중심으로. 지역과 세계.
김가람, 정세원, 최은수* (2023). 한국인의 지루함. 한국심리학회지: 사회 및 성격.
Olsson,..., Choi et al., (2023). Gender gap in parental leave intentions: Evidence from 37 countries. Political Psychology.
2022
Kim, J.,+ Choi, E.,+ & Choi, I. (2022). Older people are not always happier than younger people: The moderating role of personality. Applied Psychology : Health and Well-being.
Kim, S., Han, K., & Choi, E.* (2022). Gender discrimination in workplace and depressive symptoms in female employees in South Korea. Journal of Affective Disorders.
Kim, G., Sung, S., & Choi, E.* (2022). The impact of face masks and sunglasses on emotion recognition in South Koreans. PLoS One.
Kim, J., Shim, Y., Choi, I., & Choi, E.* (2022). The Role of coping strategies in maintaining well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Na, J., Kim, N., Suk, H. W., Choi, E., Choi, J. A., Kim., J. H., Kim, S., & Choi, I. (in press). Collectivism increased during the COVID-19 pandemic: A field study testing the pathogen stress hypothesis of individualism-collectivism. Personality and Individual Differences.
Namkoong, J., Ro, J., Hur, T., & Choi, E.* (in press). Regrets over "me" versus regrets over "us": The influence of culture on action versus inaction regrets. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
Lee, S.,+ Yoo, K.,+ Choi, E*, & Choi, I.* (in press). To drink, or to exercise, that is (not) the question!: Daily effects of alcohol consumption and exercise on well-being. Applied Psychology : Health and Well-being.
2021
Janis, Z., ... Choi, E., et al. (2021). Tears Evoke the Intention to Offer Social Support: A Systematic Investigation of the Interpersonal Effects of Emotional Crying Across 41 Countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Choi, E., Han, K., et al. (2021). Long working hours and depressive symptoms: moderation by gender, income, and job status. Journal of Affective Disorder.
Linkov, V., Choi, E., Han, G., & O'Doherty, K. (2021). Linguistic diversity index: A scientometrics measure enhancing value of small and minority group languages. Sage Open.
Suk, H.+, Choi, E.+, Na, J., Choi, J., & Choi, I. (2021). Within-person day-of-week effects on affective and evaluative/cognitive well-being among Koreans. Emotion. (+Equal contribution)
Choi, I., Kim, J., Kim, N., Choi, E., Choi, J. A., Suk, H. W., & Na, J. (2021). How COVID 19 Affected Mental Well-Being of Koreans: An Analysis of Daily Well-Being for 11 Weeks of the Outbreak. PLoS One.
Choi, E., Han, K. et al. (2021). Social participation and depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older adults: Emotional social support as a mediator. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
2020
Choi, E., Lee, J., & Lee, S. (2020). Validation of the Korean version of the obsession with COVID-19 scale and the coronavirus anxiety scale. Death Studies.
Choi, I., Yoo, J., Lee, J., & Choi, E.* (2020). Essentializing happiness reduces one’s motivation to be happier. Journal of Personality.
Lee, S. H., Choi, I., Choi, E., Lee, M., Kwon, Y., Oh, B., & Cole, S. W. (2020). Psychological well-being and gene expression in Korean adults: The role of age. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104785.
Choi, E., Kim, E., Kim, I., & Choi, I. (2020). Attitude toward social enterprises: A comparison between for-profit and social enterprise employees. Sustainability, 12(7).
Chentsova-Dutton, Y. E., Choi, I., & Choi, E.* (2020). Perceived parental support and adolescents' positive self-beliefs and levels of distress across four countries. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-11.
2019
Kwon, Y., Choi, E.*, Choi, J., & Choi, I.* (2019). Discrepancy regarding self, family, and country and happiness: The critical role of self and cultural orientation. Journal of Happiness Studies.
2018
Dzokoto, V., Mensah, E., Choi, E., & Washington-Nortey, P.M. (2018). Let one person’s tears not be infectious: Efik proverbs as emotion regulation exemplars. In G. Jovanović, L. Allolio-Näcke, & C. Ratner (Eds.), The Challenges Of Cultural Psychology: Historical Legacies, Future Responsibilities. London & New York: Routledge.
Choi, E., Kwon, Y., Lee, M., Choi, I., & Choi, J. (2018). Social relatedness and physical health are more strongly related in older than younger adults: Findings from the Korean Adult Longitudinal Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(3).
2017
Choi, E., & Chentsova-Dutton, Y. E. (2017). The relationship between momentary emotions and well-being across European Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Cognition & Emotion, 31(6), 1277-1285.
2016
Park, C., Choi, E., Kim, J., & Hur, T. (2016). The interaction of trait and group information on impression formation. Psychologia, 59(4).
Choi, E. & Choi, I. (2016). The associations between body dissatisfaction, body figure, self-esteem, and depressed mood in adolescents in the United States and Korea: a moderated mediation analysis. Journal of Adolescence, 53, 249-259.
Choi, E., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Parrott, W. G. (2016). The Effectiveness of somatization in communicating distress in Korean and American cultural contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1-17.
2015
Chentsova-Dutton,Y., Choi. E., & Reyes, J, Ryder, A. (2015). I felt sad and did not enjoy life…: Cultural context and the associations between anhedonia, depressed mood and momentary emotions. Transcultural Psychiatry, 52(5), 616-635.
2014
Chentsova-Dutton, Y.E., Choi, E., & Ryder, A.G. (2014). Cultural variations in ideal and momentary hedonic balance: Does a more negative ideal protect Russian Americans from daily stress? Psychology. The Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 11(1)
2013
Choi, E., & Hur, T. (2013). Is reading the sexual intention truly functional?: The impacts of perceiving a partner’s sexual intention on courtship initiation behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42(8), 1525-1533. *Awarded as an excellent paper by the National Research Foundation of Korea, 2014)
Papers in Korean
최은수, 최종안, 최인철 (2019). 대한민국 행복 지도: 소셜미디어를 활용한 대한민국 지역별 행복비교. 한국심리학회지: 일반, 38(4), 647-667.
최종안, 이민하, 권유리, 최인철, 최은수* (2016). 낙관적인 사람이 행복할까, 행복한 사람이 낙관적일까?: 낙관성과 행복 간 인과관계 탐색. 한국심리학회지: 사회 및 성격, 30(3), 95-114.
최은수, 김윤영, 유키코 우치다. (2016). The folk psychology of happiness in Korea. 한국심리학회지: 문화 및 사회문제, 22(2), 165-182.
최인재, 최은수* (2016). The role of self-esteem in negative emotions: A cross-cultural study between American and Korean Adolescents. 한국청소년학구, 23(1).
박정열, 김지혜, 김용희, 김민종, 최은수, 허태균 (2007). 인상형성의 능동적 정보탐색: 남녀 차이와 세대 차이를 중심으로. 한국심리학회지: 여성, 12(2), 123-143.
Under review & In preparation
Ro, J., Namkoong, J., Leonhardt, J., & Choi, E.* (under reviewm 3rd round). Racial Bias in Social Media Content Engagement: Evidence from Instagram. Journal of Business Ethics.
Choi, E., Gobel, M., & Uchida, Y., (under review, 2nd round). Achieving or receiving: Leadership construal explains cultural variations in leaders’ other-orientation. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Block, K., ..Choi, E., et al. (under review, 2nd round). Why is the gender gap in the care-economy larger in highly developed countries? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.