FASS Staff Profile

DR SEE YA HUI MICHELLE

DEPARTMENT of PSYCHOLOGY

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS4/02-31
Email:
psysyhm@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
(65) 6516-8187
Fax:
(65) 6773-1843
Homepage:
https://www.michellesee.com/
Tabs

Brief Introduction

I received my bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in psychology from University of Arizona, and my M.A. and Ph.D. in social psychology from Ohio State University. Much of my work focuses on attitudes, for example, how subjective perceptions versus structural properties of attitudinal bases influence matching effects in persuasion. I also do research on intergroup attitudes under conditions of threat.

EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015-present         Associate Professor (with tenure), National University of Singapore
2017 (Jan-May)     Visiting Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara
2016 (Aug– Dec)   Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
2008-2009             Co-appointment with Computational Cognition for Social Systems, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
2007-2015             Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore


Teaching Areas

Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Lab in Attitudes
Social Psychology (Undergraduate-Honors Level)
Advanced Social Psychology (Graduate-Level)


Graduate Supervision

Khoo, B.L.Z. (PhD, Nov 2013).
Dissertation Title: Mortality salience and reactions toward critical ingroup and outgroup members.
Currently at Defense Science Organization National Laboratories (also, adjunct assistant professor at NUS Psychology)

Tan, H.M.J. (M. Soc.Sci., Jan 2017)
Thesis Topic: A further examination of the intergroup sensitivity effect: The moderating role of social exclusion, power, and category differentiation.
Currently at Singapore Civil Defense Force

Chi, B. (M. Soc. Sci., expected June 2017)
Thesis Topic: Attitude strength and affective-cognitive persuasion. 

 


Publications

OTHERS

  • JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

    *Denotes student co-author.

    Johnson, I.R., Petty, R.E., Brinol, P., See, Y.H.M. (2017). Persuasive message scrutiny as a function of implicit-explicit discrepancies in racial attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 222-234.

    Tan, K.*, See, Y.H.M., & Agnew, C.R. (2015). Partner's understanding of affective-cognitive meta-bases predicts relationship quality. Personal Relationships, 22, 524-535.

    Whitson, J., Wang, C.S., See, Y.H.M., Baker, W., & Murnighan, J.K. (2015). How, when, and why recipients and observers reward good deeds and punish bad deeds. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 128, 84-95.

    Khoo, B.L.Z.*, & See, Y.H.M. (2014). Mortality salience and evaluations of ingroup versus outgroup critics: The role of criticism legitimacy. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 242-254.

    See, Y.H.M., Valenti, G., Ho, Y.Y.A.*, & Tan, M.S.Q.* (2013). When message tailoring backfires: The role of initial attitudes in affect-cognition matching. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 570-584.

    See, Y. H. M., Petty, R. E., & Fabrigar, L. R. (2013). Affective-cognitive meta-bases versus structural bases of attitudes predict processing interest versus efficiency. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1113-1125.

    Wang, C.S., Leung, A.K.-y., See, Y.H.M., Gao, X.Y.* (2011). The effects of culture and friendship on rewarding honesty and punishing deception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1295-1299.

    See, Y.H.M., Petty, R.E., & Evans, M.L. (2009). The impact of perceived message complexity and need for cognition on information processing and attitudes. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 880-889.

    See, Y.H.M., Petty, R.E., & Fabrigar, L.R. (2008). Affective and cognitive meta-bases of attitudes: Unique effects on information interest and persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 938-955.

    See, Y.H.M., & Petty, R.E. (2006). Effects of mortality salience on evaluation of ingroup and outgroup sources: The impact of pro- versus counter-attitudinal positions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 405-416.


    OTHER PUBLICATIONS (BOOK CHAPTERS, ENCYCLOPAEDIC ENTRIES, ETC.)

    Wade, W.P., & See, Y.H.M. (2014). Measuring critical thinking as a learning outcome: A pilot study from the Ideas and Exposition I Module, Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4, 220-236. 

    See, Y.H.M., & Khoo, B.L.Z.* (2011). Tailoring information to change attitudes: A meta-structural approach. In I.M. Saleh & M.S. Khine (Eds.), Attitudes research in science education: Classic and contemporary measurements (pp.177-198). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

    Yang, Y., See, Y.H.M., Ortony, A., & Tan, J. J.* (2010). Subjective effectiveness in agent-to-human negotiation: A frame x personality account. In P. McBurney, S. Parsons, I. Rahwan, & N. Maudet (Eds), Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, 6057, 134-149, Springer-Verlag.

    Horcajo, J., See, Y.H.M., Briñol, P., Petty, R.E. (2008). The role of mortality salience in consumer persuasion. Advances in Consumer Research, 35, 782-783.

    See, Y. H. M., & Petty, R. E. (2007). The need for cognition. In R.F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds), Encyclopedia of social psychology (pp. 611-613). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

     

Other Information

RESEARCH FUNDING


Impact of Residential Arrangements on Intergroup Relations in Student Residences
Sep 2015-Aug 2016
National Population and Talent Division, Singapore Prime Minister’s Office
S$50,000 (US$37,037)
Principal Investigator

Brain State and Conditioned Attitude Formation
Sep 2014-Sep 2016
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA; Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development)
S$335,340 (US$248,400)
Co-Principal Investigator
(Principal Investigator: A/P Trevor Penney; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Yen Shih Cheng)

When Message Tailoring Backfires: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
Dec 2011-Dec 2014
Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1
S$58, 000 (US$42,963)
Principal Investigator

The Impact of Digital Games on Adolescents’ Social and Psychological Development
Sep 2008-Sep 2012
Singapore Ministry of Education R&D on IDM in Education Programme
S$1,705,320 (US$1,263,200)
Co-Principal Investigator
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Henry Been Lirn Duh; Co-Principal Investigators: A/P Angeline Khoo, Dr. Mark Cenite, Dr. Vivian Chen, Dr. Moon-ho Ho, A/P Thomas Douglas, Prof Sang Min Wang)

Attitudes and Behavior as a Function of Affect and Cognition
Oct 2007-Oct 2010
Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1
S$52, 482 (US$38,875)
Principal Investigator


Conference Presentations/ Talks

INVITED COLLOQUIA

University of California, Santa Barbara (Apr 2017)
Hendrix College (Dec 2016)
Purdue University (Nov 2016)
State University of New York at Buffalo (Nov 2016)
University of Illinois at Chicago (Sep 2016)
Nanyang Technological University (Mar 2012)
Singapore Management University (Sep 2010)
Sungkyunkwang University (Aug 2010)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS – ORAL

See, Y.H.M. (2017). Invited Speaker. Dueling emotions of conflicting beliefs? When intra-component conflict predicts ambivalence. Attitudes & Social Influence Preconference at Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Antonio, Texas. 

Kan, M., & Fabrigar, L.R., See, Y.H.M., & Petty, R.E. (2017). Do you know as much as you think you know? Annual Meeting of Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA), Chicago, Illinois, USA. 

See, Y.H.M., Fabrigar, L.R., & Petty, R.E. (2014). Objective and subjective approaches to measuring attitude structure: Considering the theoretical implications of methodological choices. 17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Tan, K. & See, Y.H.M. (2013). The effect of familiarity with partner meta- attitudinal bases on romantic relationship quality.  Annual Meeting for Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA), Chicago, Illinois.

See, Y.H.M. (2008). Invited Speaker, Special Symposium: New trends in motivation research in social psychology. Annual Conference (49th) of Japanese Society of Social Psychology (JSSP), Kagoshima, Japan.

See, Y.H.M, Petty, R.E., & Fabrigar, L.R. (2008). Affective and cognitive meta-bases of attitudes: Unique effects on information interest and persuasion. Presented as symposium co-chair at Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Albuquerque, New Mexico.

See, Y.H.M. & Petty, R.E (2006). Meta-bases, structural bases and persuasion. Annual Meeting for MPA, Chicago, Illinois.

See, Y.H.M. & Petty, R.E (2005). Effects of mortality salience on evaluation of ingroup and outgroup sources: The impact of pro- versus counter-attitudinal positions. Annual Meeting for MPA, Chicago, Illinois.

See, Y.H.M., Petty, R.E., & Evans, M.L. (2003). The effects of message complexity in information processing in individuals high and low in need for cognition. Annual Meeting for MPA, Chicago, Illinois.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS – POSTER

See, Y.H.M., & Lim, M.Y.M. (2016). Considering a message in light of a distinct value increases pro-environment intentions among high attitude certainty recipients. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Diego, California.

See, Y.H.M., & Goh, C.B.J. (2015). Tailoring a message to an aroused value increases attitude certainty. Annual Meeting of the SPSP, Long Beach, California.

Khoo, B.L.Z., & See, Y.H.M. (2015). Self-construal strength moderates the effects of situational self-construal salience on spread of alternatives. Annual Meeting of the SPSP, Long Beach California.

See, Y.H.M., & Tan, J. J. (2014). Considering a pro-attitudinal message in light of a different value increases attitude-behavior consistency. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Austin, Texas.

Khoo, B.L.Z., & See, Y.H.M. (2014). Timing of critic’s group membership information moderates evaluations of ingroup critics under mortality salience. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Austin, Texas.

Ariel, S., Fabrigar, L.R., See, Y.H.M., & Petty, R.E. (2013). The structural/subjective distinction of ought-self discrepancies. Annual meeting of the SPSP, New Orleans, Louisiana.

See, Y.H.M., Valenti, G., & Tan, M.S.Q. (2013). When message tailoring backfires: Message opponents counter-argue tailored information more intensely than non-tailored information. Annual meeting of the SPSP, New Orleans, Louisiana.

See, Y.H.M., Valenti, G., & Ho, A.Y.Y. (2012). Message tailoring backfires when initial attitudes are incongruent with message position. Association for Psychological Science (APS) 24th Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

See, Y.H.M., Petty, R.E., & Fabrigar, L.R. (2012). Individual differences in social-adjustive bases of attitudes. Annual meeting of the SPSP, San Diego, California.

Khoo, B.L.Z., & See, Y.H.M. (2012). Mortality Salience and Processing of Information from Deviant Ingroup Members. Annual meeting of the SPSP, San Diego, California.

See, Y.H.M., Petty, R.E., & Fabrigar, L.R. (2011). Meta-bases and structural bases: Implications for motivation and ability processes in persuasion. Annual meeting of the SPSP, San Antonio, Texas.

See, Y.H.M., Fabrigar, L.R., & Petty, R.E. (2010). Matching a message to chronic social-adjustive meta-bases increases persuasion. APS 22nd Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.

Khoo, B.L.Z., See, Y.H.M., & Chee, T.H.R. (2010). Spread of alternatives as a function of self-construal salience and subtlety of prime. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Las Vegas, Nevada.

See, Y.H.M., Petty, R.E., & Fabrigar, L.R. (2010). Meta- and structural bases differentially predict selective processing. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Las Vegas, Nevada.

See, Y.H.M., & Petty, R.E. (2009). Information selection as a function of affective versus cognitive meta-bases. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Tampa, Florida.

Khoo, B.L.Z., See, Y.H.M., & Tong, E.M.W. (2009). Cognitive deconstruction as a function of self-esteem following mortality salience. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Tampa, Florida.

See. Y.H.M. (2007). Meta- versus structural bases of attitudes influence processing motivation versus ability. APS 20th Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

See, Y.H.M., Petty, R.E., & Fabrigar, L.R. (2006). Affect-cognition orientation: Measuring individual differences in meta-bases. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Palm Springs, California.

See, Y.H.M. & Petty, R.E (2005). Effects of meta- and structural bases on attitude accessibility. Annual meeting of the SPSP, New Orleans, Louisiana.

See, Y.H.M. & Petty, R.E (2004). Effects of mortality salience on evaluation of ingroup and outgroup sources. Annual meeting of the SPSP, Austin, Texas.

Invited Talks

Nanyang Technological University, School of Communication and Information, Singapore (Mar 2012)
Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences, Singapore (Sep 2010)
Sungkyunkwang University, Department of Psychology, South Korea (Aug 2010)

 

 

Honors and Awards

Elected Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology (2016).
Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Faculty Research Fellowship, National University of Singapore (2011).
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, National University of Singapore (2010; 2011; 2015).                                        
Distinguished University Fellowship, The Ohio State University (2001-2002; 2005-2006).
Council of Graduate Students Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service (2005).
Baumgardner Travel Award (2004).
Society for Personality and Social Psychologist (SPSP) Diversity Fund Award (2002).
Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Arizona (2000).
Dean’s List, University of Arizona (1998-2001).

Professional Affiliations


Association for Psychological Science
Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Professional Services

Ad Hoc Reviewer for:

Journalism
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
National Science Foundation, USA
 

                                                                                                                                             


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