Dr. Alice Lee-Yoon is an Assistant Professor in the Global Leadership and Management Department at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2024, specializing in organizational behavior. Her dissertation explored how time-based rewards can improve psychological wellbeing by fostering a sense of humanization among employees, whereas monetary rewards may inadvertently reduce wellbeing by driving employees to prioritize work-related relationships over personal ones in pursuit of financial goals. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Current Opinion in Psychology. Her work has also been featured in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Dr. Lee-Yoon teaches courses related to International Management and Organizational Behavior.
B.A. Psychology, The University of British Columbia, 2017
Hur, Julia D., Alice Lee-Yoon, and Ashley V. Whillans (2021). “Who is more useful? The impact of performance incentives on work and personal relationships.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Lee-Yoon, Alice, Grant E.Donnelley, and Ashley V. Whillans (2020). “Overcoming resource scarcity: Consumers’ response to gifts intending to save time and money.” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
Whillans, Ashley. V., Alice Lee-Yoon, and Elizabeth W. Dunn (2020). “Service provider salience: When guilt undermines consumer willingness to buy time.” Collabra: Psychology, 6(1), 28
Lee-Yoon, Alice and Ashley V. Whillans (2019). “Making seconds count: When valuing time promotes subjective well-being.” Current Opinion in Psychology, 26, 54-57.
Whillans, Ashley V. and Alice Lee-Yoon (2018). “Counting seconds and cents: The development of a short scale to examine how people think about trade-offs between time and money,” In SAGE Research Methods Cases (pp. 1-10). London, OH: SAGE Publications Ltd.
