Current PhD Students

Mina Son

Mina Son

Personality, Assessment, Natural Language Processing

Selected Publications

Lee, P., Fyffe, S., Son, M., Jia, Z., & Yao, Z. (2023) A paradigm shift from “Human Writing” to “Machine Generation” in personality test development: An application of state-of-the-art natural language processing, Journal of Business and Psychology, 38(1), 163-190.

Lee, P., Joo, S., Zhou, S. & Son, M. (2022). Investigating the impact of negatively keyed statements on multidimensional forced-choice personality measures: A comparison of partially ipsative and IRT scoring methods. Personality and Individual Differences, 191, 197-229.

Expanded Publication List

Lee, P., Fyffe, S., Son, M., Jia, Z., & Yao, Z. (2023) A paradigm shift from “Human Writing” to “Machine Generation” in personality test development: An application of state-of-the-art natural language processing, Journal of Business and Psychology, 38(1), 163-190.

Lee, P., Joo, S., Zhou, S. & Son, M. (2022). Investigating the impact of negatively keyed statements on multidimensional forced-choice personality measures: A comparison of partially ipsative and IRT scoring methods. Personality and Individual Differences, 191, 197-229.

Yang, J., Son, M., & Noh, S. (2021). Employment news agenda and trends analysis in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic using text mining. Quarterly Journal of Labor Policy, 21(2), 197-229.

Shin, J., Suh, E. M., & Son, M. (2014). Judging extraversion from a 3-second voice clip. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 28, 41-58.

Courses Taught

PSYC 301 Research Methods in Psychology

PSYC 320 Psychological Tests and Measurements (Lab TA)

PSYC 300 Statistics in Psychology (Lab TA)

Education

M.A. in Personality and Social Psychology (Yonsei University, 2015)

B.S. in Urban Planning and Engineering (Yonsei University, 2013)

Recent Presentations

Noh, S., Son, M., & Yang, J. (December, 2021). A study on the text analysis of job-seekers’ personal statements. Paper presented at the Employment and Vocational Education and Training Forum.

Son, M., Lee, H., & Chang, H. (December, 2019). Innovations with business communication in selection: Artificial intelligence-based selection. Talk presented at the Winter Conference of the Korean Association for Business Communication, Seoul, Korea.

Lim, J., Son, M., Kim, H., Kim, M., Lee, H., & Jung, S. (May, 2018). The Relationship between individual difference factors and HR performance appraisals. Poster presented at the 2018 Spring Conference of Korean Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seoul, Korea.

Kim, H., Lee, H., Son, M., Kim, M., Lim, J., & Jung, S. (May, 2018). Exploring the utility of bogus items for HR selection tests. Poster presented at the 2018 Spring Conference of Korean Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seoul, Korea.

Kim, M., Kim, H., Lim, J., Son, M., Lee, H., & Jung, S. (May, 2018) Online vs. offline: Differences of personality variable scores. Poster presented at the 2018 Spring Conference of Korean Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seoul, Korea.

Son, M., Shin, J., Yi, S., & Suh, E. M. (Feb, 2015). Does personality have a sound? Judging extraversion from a 3-second voice clip. Poster presented at the 16th annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA, US.