Dr Jonathan Kim

I am a social cognitive psychologist and psycholinguist, working within the frameworks of cultural competence and cultural safety. I am currently a lecturer in psychology at the University of Aston. Prior to this I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Social Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

• The impact of language on social perception
  • The effect of Explicit (e.g., grammatical gender) and Implicit (e.g., conceptual, stereotypical, typical gender) gender information
  • Gender Priming
  • Differences in social perception between languages and/or cultures
  • Impacts of, and attitutes towards, hate speech
• Methodological research
  • Considerations for internet-based research
  • Intercultural norming (e.g., gender ratios, stereotypicality)
  • Assumption examination (e.g., true nature of gender ratios)
• Wider Human Perception
  • Egospeed estimation while driving

• 2024-present: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Aston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• 2020-2023: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• 2016-2020: PhD Stipendiat in Social Sciences (focus in Psychology), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• 2013: Research Assistant, Traffic And Road Safety Group, Hamilton, New Zealand
• 2008: Telephone Researcher, Versus Research Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand

• 2015: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Masters Writing Award, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand