Jun-Yeob Kim

Jun-Yeob Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Central Florida's College of Business. His research examines personality factors in entrepreneurial and leadership contexts, particularly focusing on unconventional traits like 'weirdness', creativity, and narcissism.

Dr. Kim investigates how leader and entrepreneur characteristics influence organizational outcomes, including recent studies on how perceived deviance from norms affects creativity evaluations and resource acquisition. Complementary research explores destructive leadership patterns such as authoritarianism, micromanagement, and abuse in supervisory relationships.

His methodological approach integrates industrial-organizational psychology with quantitative analysis, employing experimental and survey-based designs. Recent publications demonstrate how entrepreneur weirdness simultaneously enhances perceptions of product creativity while creating social barriers to investor attraction.

Education credentials:

• Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Minor in Quantitative Psychology