Rate My Professor Young-Hee Cho

Professor Young-Hee Cho is a Professor of Quantitative Psychology in the Department of Psychology within the College of Liberal Arts at California State University, Long Beach. She holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Irvine. Cho joined the CSULB Psychology Department in 1998 as an Assistant Professor, advanced to Associate Professor in 2004, and was promoted to full Professor in 2011.

Cho's research centers on the psychological well-being of older adults, with a focus on identifying cognitive, physical, and social risk factors for falls and assessing the efficacy of cognitive and physical interventions to prevent them. She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams from Physical Therapy and Gerontology at CSULB, utilizing dual-task methodologies that combine cognitive tasks with walking to study mutual interferences across varying levels of cognitive complexity. Her investigations examine the effects of these dual-task interventions on cognitive and walking performance, as well as psychological factors including fear of falling and quality of life. Key publications include "Tests of Monotonicity and Scale Invariance" (2000, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes); "The Effects of Cognition and Vision While Walking in Healthy Older Adults" (2024, Sensors); "Psychosocial Impacts of COVID-19 and Racial Injustice on Undergraduate Research Trainees" (2025, CBE—Life Sciences Education); and "A comparison of applicant and accepted student characteristics to research training programs with implications for recruitment and selection strategy" (2025, Frontiers in Education). As Co-Director of the Student Training Core and Training Director for Year One Scholars in the CSULB BUILD program, Cho mentors undergraduates in health-related research careers. Her students have earned awards such as the College of Liberal Arts Best Master's Thesis Award, and she appears on the Most Inspirational Professor Honor Roll.