Assistant Professor
Jaee CHO
Assistant Professor
jaeecho@ust.hk
Jaee CHO

Research Interests

  • Cultural Mixing and Globalization
  • Diversity Ideologies
  • Creativity
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Diversity and Conflict

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Columbia University, Management
  • M.A. Columbia University, Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences
  • M.A. Korea University, Cultural and Social Psychology
  • B.A. Korea University, Psychology & History

Academic And Professional Experience

  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Management, Assistant Professor, July 2017 - present.

Publications

Refereed Journal Publications (Chronological, alphabetical)

  • Cho, J., Morris, M. W., Blunden, H., Li, J., & Pan, J. Forthcoming. Thinking like a chameleon: How diversity ideologies differentially enable cultural accommodation. Journal of Applied Psychology.

  • Zhang, R., Chao, M. M., Cho, J., Morris., M. W.. & Cai, L. Y. 2025. Appropriate or appropriative? Diversity ideologies, judgment factors, and condemnation of cultural appropriation. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 3: 1477434.

  • Cho, J*., Wasti, S.A*., Savani, K., Tan H. H., & Morris, M. W 2024. Formal versus informal supervisor socio‐emotional support behaviours and employee trust: The role of cultural power distance. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 27:203-218. (*Authors contributed equally)(Download here)

  • Cho, J., Tadmor, C.T. & Morris, M.W. 2018. Are all diversity ideologies creatively equal? The diverging consequences of colorblindness, multiculturalism, and polyculturalism. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49: 1376-1401. (Download here)

  • Cho, J., Morris, M.W., & Dow, B. 2018. How Romans feel about visitors' doing 'as Romans do': Diversity ideologies and trust in evaluations of cultural accommodation. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4: 11-31. (Download here)

  • Cho, J., Morris, M.W, Slepian, M.L. & Tadmor, C.T. 2017. Choosing fusion: The effects of diversity ideologies on preference for culturally mixed experiences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69: 163-171. (Download here)

Book Chapters

  • Toosi, N.R, Perkins, S.E., Cho, J., & Phillips K.W. 2020. Are women better suited than men to lead in diverse settings?. In E. King, Q. Roberson & M. Hebl (Eds.), Pushing our Understanding of Diversity in Organizations. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

More Publications

Selected Recent Conference Presentations

  • Cho, J., Morris, M. W., Li, J., Benet-Martinez, V. & Lu, J.G. 2023. A multifaceted scale of polyculturalism. Talk was given at Biennial Conference of International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Hong Kong, China.

    • Conference Theme Best Paper Award (Finalist, IACMR)

  • Cho, J., Chao, M. M., Zhang, L., & Morris., M. W 2022. Liberals and conservatives in the United States differently judge cultural appropriation. Talk was given at Berkeley Culture Conference.

  • Cho., J., Chao, M.M., Morris, M.W., & Savani, K. 2020. Diversity ideologies and accusations of cultural appropriation. Talk was given at 2020 AIBSEAR Hong Kong Conference.

Honors And Awards

  • 2018. Harry and Pola Triandis Doctoral Thesis Award by International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology .

  • 2017. SPSP Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award.

  • 2017. Graduate Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference.