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Dr. Eunjin Seo

  • Assistant Professor - School of Family & Consumer Sciences
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Biography and education

Dr. Eunjin “Jin” Seo is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at Texas State University. Jin joined Texas State University in August 2023. She completed her B.A. in Education from Seoul National University, South Korea, where she was a first-generation college student. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin as a Fulbright Scholar.

Research Interests

  • Goble, Priscilla Maria (Principal), Shen, Yishan (Principal), Weimer, Amy Ann (Supporting), Alfaro, Edna C (Supporting), Seo, Eunjin (Supporting), Behnke, Andrew Owen (Supporting). REU Site: Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Human Development and Family Sciences (OUR HDFS) Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation, Federal, $439005. (Funded: September 2024 - August 2027). Grant.
  • Shen, Yishan (Principal), Goble, Priscilla Maria (Co-Principal), Alfaro, Edna C (Co-Principal), Behnke, Andrew Owen (Co-Principal), Dier, Shannon Elizabeth (Co-Principal), Seo, Eunjin (Co-Principal), Weimer, Amy Ann (Co-Principal). Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Human Development and Family Sciences (OUR HDFS): A Two-Track Training Program, Texas State University, $6000. (Submitted: July 2024, Funded: September 2024 - May 2025). Grant.
  • Seo, Eunjin (Principal). A Causal Examination of How Peer Mindset Climate Shapes STEM Major Belongingness and Persistence, National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation, $70000. (Funded: September 2023 - May 2025). Grant.
  • Seo, Eunjin, Lee, Youkyung. Negative Gender Stereotype Concern and the Protective Role of Growth Mindset, Student Experience Research Network, $8000. (Funded: September 2018 - October 2019). Grant.
  • Seo, Eunjin. What Motivates People to Achieve? A Cross-cultural Examination, Fulbright Program / United States Department of State, $70000. (Funded: August 2011 - August 2013). Grant.
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  • Seo, E., Lee, Y., Steingut, R. R., Alfaro, E., & Lee, K. (2025). Testing the generalizability of the multiplicative effects of expectancy and value: The examination across different ages, genders, and races/ethnicities. Learning and Individual Differences, 116, 102578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102578
  • Seo, E., Lee, H. Y., Jamieson, J., Reis, H., Josephs, R., Beevers, C., & Yeager, D. S. (2022). Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 34, 1104–1114. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420001832
  • Shen, Y., Seo, E., Jiles*, A. I., Zheng, Y., & Wang, Y. (2022). Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review. American Psychologist, 77(8), 921–939. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001035
  • Seo, E., & Patall, E. A. (2021). Feeling proud today may lead people to coast tomorrow: Daily intraindividual relations between emotion and effort in academic goal striving. Emotion, 21(4), 892–897.
  • Seo, E., & Lee, Y. (2021). Stereotype threat in high school classrooms: How it links to teacher mindset climate, mathematics anxiety, and achievement. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(7), 1410–1423.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Paul R. Pintrich Memorial Research Award, American Educational Research Association. 2017 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Michael B. Salwen Research Award, Korean-American Educational Research Association. 2015 - Present
  1. Editorial Review Board Member

    Journal of Research on Adolescence

  2. Editorial Review Board Member

    Educational Psychology

  3. Editorial Review Board Member

    Journal of Youth and Adolescence

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    National Science Foundation