Publications by authors named "Heewon Kwon"
Article Synopsis
- Increased research over the last two decades highlights implicit racial bias's effects on health and healthcare, particularly for minority communities in the U.S., but there's a lack of studies focused on Hawai'i's unique context.
- This study aimed to identify implicit biases among college students in Hawai'i toward Native Hawaiians, Micronesians, and Filipinos using implicit association tests (IATs).
- The results indicated biases favoring Native Hawaiians over Whites and Whites over Micronesians, with race acting as a significant predictor in most cases, suggesting established social hierarchies influence these biases.
Perceived emotion suppression and culture: Effects on psychological well-being.
Int J Psychol
August 2019
Whether the negative effects of emotion suppression on psychological well-being are applicable cross-culturally is a long-debated topic. The present study attempted to shed light on this debate, focusing on the effects of perceived emotion suppression and examining the psychological processes leading from perceived emotion suppression to lower psychological well-being. We used a scale manipulation to lead 196 American and 213 Chinese participants to perceive themselves as having suppressed their emotions to a greater or lesser extent and then measured their life satisfaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMost people rate their abilities as better than "average" even though it is statistically impossible for most people to have better-than-median abilities. Some investigators explained this phenomenon in terms of a self-enhancement bias. The present study complements this motivational explanation with the parsimonious cognitive explanation that the phrase "average ability" may be interpreted as below-median ability rather than median ability.
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