Jiin Jung, Ph.D.

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Dr. Jiin Jung is a social psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University, specializing in minority influence on social change and minority-majority dynamics in group schism. Dr. Jung directs the Group Dynamics and Social Change Lab, which focuses on how minority voices, often dismissed as too radical to take seriously or too invisible to matter, can spread through society, change societal norms and cultural practices, and contribute to building a more innovative and resilient society. She also serves as Secretary of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. Her work sits at the intersection of social psychology and computational social science, aiming to tackle pressing social challenges and provide insights for policy interventions. Dr. Jung engages in policy initiatives geared toward democracy and gender equity.

Before beginning her academic career, she worked as an editor at Toto Book publishing. In this role, she developed an environmental education program for youth called Wild Grass School, and collaborated with peace activist Dae-Kwon Hwang in running the program. This work was published in the children's magazine, A Whale Told Me So. This program was part of Hwang's broader Life-Peace Movement, which used non-violence methods for achieving social change. She later edited Hwang's related book, Wild Grass School. This experience planted the seed for her research on tolerance, indirect minority influence, and social change.

Interests: Minority influence, social change, social identity, diversity, collective intelligence, computational social science

Jiin Jung, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | Department of Psychology | Lehigh University

Director | Group Dynamics and Social Change Lab

Secretary | The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas

Website | GDSC Lab | Google Scholar | CV

New Publications

Jung, J., Page-Gould, E., Alaukik, A., Bai, X., Templeton, E., Read, S., Grim, P., Dalege, J., Pleskac, T. J., Sznajd-Weron, K., Davenport, D., & Lerman, K. (forthcoming). Manifesto of computational social psychology. In J. Jung (Ed.), Handbook of computational social psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jung, J. (forthcoming). The yin and yang of progress in social psychology: Revisiting McGuire’s seven koan for computational social psychology. In J. Jung (Ed.), Handbook of computational social psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Groves, K., Jung, J., Zhang, C., Duncan, A., & Fox., S. (forthcoming). A network measure of community inclusion and segregation grounded in lived experiences in cities. In J. Jung (Ed.), Handbook of computational social psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jung, J., Miller, J. H., Page, S., Bramson, A., Acar, Z., & Crano, W. (forthcoming). A systems theory of minority influence on social change. In J. Jung (Ed.), Handbook of computational social psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jung J., Walker, T., Bramson, A., & Crano, (in press). How minorities change societies through indirect influence. In J. Larson & C. Coen (Eds.), Agent-Based Modeling for Research on Groups, Networks, and Organizations. American Psychological Association.

Grim, P., Singer, D. J., Bramson, A., Holman, B., Jung, J., & Berger, W. J. (in press). How diversity helps jury decisions . In J. Larson & C. Coen (Eds.), Agent-Based Modeling for Research on Groups, Networks, and Organizations. American Psychological Association.

Jung J., Miller, J. H., & Page, S. E. (2026). Agent-based modeling for psychological research on social phenomena. American Psychologist, 81(7), 1071–1084. doi:10.1037/amp0001530 [PsyArXiv Preprint]

Jung, J. & Bramson, A. (2026). Indirect Minority Influence Model. CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/8ad1d15c-1da0-49f1-b2db-5ac2e0823502/releases/1.0.0/

Berger, W. J., Singer, D. J., Grim, P., Bramson, A., Holman, B., & Jung, J. (2026). The epistemic advantages of representative deliberation. PLoS One 21(7): e0353387. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0353387

Zhang, C., Zimmerman, K., Duncan, A., & Jung, J. (2026). Distributed care hubs: Rethinking disability care policy through participatory research. In (Eds). Proceedings of the 2026 Conference of The Design Research Society.

Jung, J. (2025). An Agent-Based Model of Indirect Minority Influence on Social Change. CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/7136f043-2149-47c5-9540-220db008b18c/releases/1.0.0/

Jung, J. (2025). Change and persistence: A social psychological perspective on gender norms in South Korea. In J. Bouey, D. Hicks, & L. Hu (Eds.), Seeking Transformational Policies for Gender Equality in South Korea: Conference Papers Annex (pp. 10‒24). RAND Corporation.

Jung, J., & Gulden, T. R. (2025). From Inclusion to Innovation: Using an agent-based simulation to unravel the micro-mechanisms of the macro-level tolerance-innovation link. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, 28, 343–371. doi:10.1108/ijotb-09-2023-0189

Jung, J. (2025). Social Innovation Model. CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/fa31eedd-d99f-4469-8d38-457020d95266/releases/1.0.0/

Groves, K.†, Jung, J., & Packer, D. (2025). Identity fluidity. In B. Held (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (pp. 1-16). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Arringon, C., Baumer, E., Jackson, K., Jia, H., Jung, J., Li, S., & Stoltz, D. (2025). Engaging Communities in Developing Technologies to Support Community Flourishing: A Workshop Report. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas, Springer Nature.

Jung J. (2024). Researching Minority Influence on Social Change and Diversity Using Agent-Based Modeling. Sage Research Methods. SAGE Publications.

Singer, D. J., Grim, P., Bramson, A., Holman, B., Jung, J., & Berger, W. J. (2024). The epistemic role of diversity in juries: An agent-based model, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 27(1).

Jung, J. (2023). Two dual-categorization theories of tolerance: Commentary on Simon (2023). American Psychologist, 78, 745–747.

Gaffney, A. M., Souter, S. S., Jung, J., & Crano, W. D. (2023). Contexts and conditions of outgroup influence. Psychology of Language and Communication, 27, 173‒198.

News

October 29‒November 1, 2026 ‒ Organizing the Annual Conference of the Computational Social Science of the Americans in Santa Fe, NM.

June 30‒July 4, 2026 ‒ Presented at the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) in Strasbourg, France.

June 2026 ‒ Received the Paul J. Franz Jr. Fellowship Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University.

November 2025 ‒ Organizing the Annual Conference of the Computational Social Science of the Americans at Santa Fe, NM.

July 2025 ‒ Named a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP).

February 2025 ‒ Two talks at SPSP, Denver CO.

October 24‒27, 2024 ‒ Organizing the Annual Conference of the Computational Social Science of the Americas at Santa Fe, NM. Call for papers is open. Submit your work that applies computational methods to studying social issues.

October 1, 2024 ‒ Launching the Group Dynamics & Social Change Lab and are currently in the process of building the lab, renovating our lab space, and recruiting new members.

August 15, 2024 ‒ Moving to Bethlehem, PA to start my new faculty position at Lehigh University. Karleigh Groves will join our lab and start the PhD training at the Lehigh Social Psychology Program.

July 10, 2024 ‒ Organizing the CSSSA special webinar with the board of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas and discuss the history, current state, and future directions of our community.

June 30 - July 12, 2024 ‒ Attending a research workshop and advancing collaborative projects at the Santa Fe Institute.

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