PUBLICATIONS

* corresponding or co-corresponding author   

† graduate student advisee at the time of the work   

‡ equal contribution as co-first authors

IN PRESS

Hu, K., Kim, S.†, Jin, K., Baillargeon, R., & McElwain, N. (in press). Infants’ expectations about caregivers’ comforting behavior and associations with maternal depressive symptoms at 6, 9, and 12 months. Developmental Psychology.  [PDF]

Oh, J.†, & Jin, K.* (in press). Why do children and adults believe others apologize? British Journal of Developmental Psychology.  [PDF]

He, A., Song, H., Jin, K., Lee, H., & Arunachalam, S. (in press). When less is more: Evidence from Korean-learning children’s verb acquisition. Journal of Child Language.  [PDF]

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 

Baillargeon, R., Bian, L., Jin, K.*, & Margoni, F. (2026). Early sociomoral reasoning encompasses more than interpersonal relationships. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, e27.  [PDF]

Choi, S.†, & Jin, K.* (2026). Three-year-olds’ expectations and evaluations of helping behavior based on language group membership. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39(1), 91-110.  [PDF]

Lee, J. Y., Song, C., Taylor, L. K., Jin, K., Song, M., & Song, H. (2026). Contact with North Koreans can extend to South Koreans’ support for refugees. Current Psychology, 45, 304.  [PDF]

Kim, S.†, Bian, L., & Jin, K.* (2025). Gender bias against women and girls in brilliance-required contexts: Evidence from Korean adults. Sex Roles, 91, Article 65.  [PDF]

Jin, K.*, Ting, F., He, Z., & Baillargeon, R. (2024). Infants expect some degree of positive and negative reciprocity between strangers. Nature Communications, 15, 7742. [Blog post]  [BRIC interview]  [PDF]

Kim, S.†, Jeon, J.†, & Jin, K.* (2024). The relationship between adolescents’ expectations of brilliance and gender distribution across academic disciplines. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 37(2), 38-104.  [PDF]

Kim, S.†, Jin, K.*, & Bian, L. (2024). Gender brilliance stereotype emerges early and predicts children’s motivation in South Korea. Child Development, 95(3), 913-928.  [PDF]

Shi, H., He, A., Song, H., Jin, K., & Arunachalam, S. (2024). Learning verbs in English and Korean: The roles of word order and argument drop. Language Learning and Development, 20(1), 19-31.  [PDF]

Lee, S.†, & Jin, K.* (2023). Children’s reasoning about intragroup and intergroup exclusion. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(4), 103-120.  [PDF]

Choung, E.†, & Jin, K.* (2023). The relationships between the moral evaluations of whistle-blowing and the fairness-loyalty tradeoff. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(1), 133-151.  [PDF]

Park, J.†, & Jin, K.* (2022). The sense of belonging reduces ingroup favoritism in children. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1059415.  [PDF]

Park, J.†, Park, J.†, & Jin, K.* (2022). What did COVID-19 change? The impact of COVID-19 on Korean parents’ and children’s daily lives and stress. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53, 172-182.  [PDF]

Park, J.†, & Jin, K.* (2021). Preschoolers’ sociomoral evaluations of ingroup exclusion. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34(4), 91-108.  [PDF]

Park, J.†, & Jin, K.* (2021). Perceived helicopter parenting and psychopathic tendencies in college students: The mediating effect of lying to parents. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34(4), 133-151.  [PDF]

Yoon, S. O.‡, Jin, K.‡*, Brown-Schmidt, S., & Fisher, C. (2021). What’s new to you? Preschoolers’ partner-specific online processing of disfluency. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 612601.  [PDF]

Fisher, C., Jin, K.*, & Scott, R. M. (2020). The developmental origins of syntactic bootstrapping. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12, 48-77.  [PDF]

Jin, K.* (2020). Relationships among the desire to have children, adult attachment style, and belief in a just world. The Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issues, 26(4), 479-499.  [PDF]

Jin, K., & Kim, G. (2020). A qualitative study on the experiences of mothers who have abandoned their additional birth plans. The Korean Journal of Childcare & Education, 16(4), 1-29.  [PDF]

Park, J.†, & Jin, K.* (2020). Who should share? Preschoolers’ judgments regarding the moral responsibility of ingroup and outgroup members toward the poor. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(2), 69-85.  [PDF]

Jin, K., Kim, Y., Song, M., Kim, Y. J., Lee, H., Lee, Y., Cha, M., & Song, H. J. (2019). Fourteen- to eighteen-month-old infants use explicit linguistic information to update an agent’s false belief. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2508.  [PDF]

Jin, K.* (2019). The relationships between mothers’ psychological variables and their follow-up childbirth. The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology, 24(2), 175-192.  [PDF]

Jin, K.* (2019). The developmental origins of syntactic bootstrapping. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 32(2), 215-233.  [PDF]

Jin, K., Cha, M., & Song, H. (2019). The relationships between autistic trait and socio-moral judgments. The Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issues, 25(2), 137-155.  [PDF]

Jin, K., Hwang, J., & Song, H. (2019). Children’s moral evaluations of lying for one’s ingroup member. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 32(1), 82-104.  [PDF]

Jin, K.*, Houston, J., Baillargeon, R., Roisman, G. I., & Groh, A. M. (2018). Young infants expect an unfamiliar adult to comfort a crying baby: Evidence from a standard violation-of-expectation task and a novel infant-triggered-video task. Cognitive Psychology, 102, 1-20.  [PDF]

Jin, K.* (2018). Early sociomoral reasoning: Infants’ sensitivity to ingroup principle. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31(3), 183-200.  [PDF]

Jin, K., & Baillargeon, R. (2017). Infants possess an abstract expectation of ingroup support. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 8199-8204.  [PDF]

Jin, K., & Song, H. (2017). You changed your mind! Infants interpret a change in word as signaling a change in an agent’s goals. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 149-162.  [PDF]

Jin, K., Kim, S., Jeong, Y. K., Song, H., & Song, M. (2017). Attitudes towards sexual comments in group texting. The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology, 22(2), 289-313.  [PDF]

Jin, K., Kim, M., & Song, H. (2015). The development of Korean preschoolers’ ability to understand transitive sentences using case-markers. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), 75-90.  [PDF]

Baillargeon, R., Scott, R. M., He, Z., Sloane, S., Setoh, P., Jin, K., Wu, D., & Bian, L. (2015). Psychological and sociomoral reasoning in infancy. In P. Shaver & M. Mikulincer (Eds.-in-chief) & E. Borgida & J. Bargh (Vol. Eds.), APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology: Vol. 1. Attitudes and Social Cognition. Washington, D.C.: APA. [PDF]

Baillargeon, R., Setoh, P., Sloane, S., Jin, K., & Bian, L. (2014). Infant social cognition: Psychological and sociomoral reasoning. In M. S. Gazzaniga & G. R. Mangun (Eds.-in-chief), The Cognitive Neurosciences V. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF]

Jin, K., Kim, M., Kim, Y., Yun, J., & Song, H. (2008). Three- to four-year-old Korean children’s use of mutual exclusivity and pragmatic cues in word learning. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 21(1), 49-67.  [PDF]