Faculty Profiles

New Faculty for Fall 2009

Sang Woo

Assistant Professor
Psychological Sciences, PSYC

sewoo@purdue.edu

Sang Eun Woo joins the department of Psychological Sciences as an Assistant Professor after receiving her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea.

Dr. Woo's research focuses on how people's personality and motivation can help explain various organizational outcomes such as performance, job attitudes, and withdrawal behaviors. Her dissertation explores dispositional differences in frequencies of and reasons for voluntary turnover. She also has interest in constructs related to how motivated and open a person is to gain new experiences, such as taking an overseas assignment, changing jobs, working with people of different cultures, acquiring new knowledge, and developing one's managerial/leadership potential.




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