Ya Hui Michelle See
Biographic Data
| ID | 114745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ya Hui Michelle See |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ya Hui Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | See |
| SIGNATURE | SEE Y H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6772-982X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: A cross-cultural meta-analysis
People are frequently exposed to different extents of affective and cognitive appeals, but it remains unclear whether appeals targeting emotions or beliefs are differentially effective across cultures. Hence, this meta-analysis investigates the relative influence of affective versus cognitive appeals for persuasion outcomes as a function of individualism-collectivism. Using 133 samples across 22 countries (N = 29,338), we found affective appeals …
Defensive Confidence and Certainty in Unchanged Attitudes: The Role of Affect–Cognition Matching
Despite much prior research on matching appeals to the affective–cognitive orientation of attitudes, little attention has focused on the consequences of affect–cognition (mis)matching when individuals resist persuasion. We propose that unlike a matched attack, an attack that is mismatched to the affective–cognitive orientation of attitudes would result in low defensive confidence individuals holding onto their unchanged attitudes with less certai…
When Objective Ambivalence Predicts Subjective Ambivalence: An Affect–Cognition Matching Perspective
Understanding when people are likely to feel ambivalent is important, as ambivalence is associated with key attitude outcomes, such as attitude-behavior consistency. Interestingly, the presence of conflicting positive and negative reactions (objective ambivalence) is weakly related to feeling conflicted (subjective ambivalence). We tested a novel situation that can influence the correspondence between objective and subjective ambivalence: whether…
The effects of perceived Covid‐19 threat on compensatory conviction, thought reliance, and attitudes
This research examines how people can defend themselves from the threat associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic by relying more on their recently generated thoughts (unrelated to the threat), thus leading those thoughts to have a greater impact on judgement through a meta‐cognitive process of thought validation. Study 1 revealed that the impact of the favourability of self‐related thoughts on self‐esteem was greater for those feeling relatively mor…
Effects of living arrangements on well‐being, perceived conflict, and intergroup attitudes for local and international students: Results from a field intervention
Immigration may be perceived by members of host countries as a threat, with psychological and material impacts on immigrants' well‐being: it may reinforce negative stereotypes, promote discrimination, or even encourage violence. One means of alleviating such prejudice is increased intergroup contact. However, under certain conditions, increased contact can produce harmful outcomes as intergroup contact may provide opportunities for positive and n…
When dueling emotions and conflicting beliefs predict subjective ambivalence: The role of meta-bases
Within the emotions and beliefs upon which attitudes are based, people can hold simultaneously positive and negative reactions. In addition, independent from the emotions and beliefs in their attitude structure, people hold subjective perceptions about their affective and cognitive attitudinal bases (i.e., meta-bases), which reflect interest in processing emotions or beliefs, respectively. We tested how much people experience subjective ambivalen…
Values Predict Willingness to Interact With Immigrants: The Role of Cultural Ideology and Multicultural Acquisition
As globalization advances, immigration has increasingly been contested. Psychological studies of immigration, which are frequently conducted in Western contexts, have established a link between attitudes toward immigrants and individual values. In two studies, the present research investigates this link between values and favorability toward immigrants in an Asian nation with a high proportion of immigrants, Singapore, and considers differences i…
Persuasive message scrutiny as a function of implicit-explicit discrepancies in racial attitudes
Partner's understanding of affective–cognitive meta‐bases predicts relationship quality
Knowledge that partners have about each other's attitudes are consequential for relationship quality. This article extends prior research and examines whether knowledge regarding a partner's meta‐attitudinal bases, or subjective perceptions of how one's attitudes are driven, can influence relationship quality. Given how meta‐bases are reflective of information‐processing goals, we hypothesized that partner understanding of meta‐attitudinal bases …
Mortality salience and evaluations of in‐group versus out‐group critics: The role of criticism legitimacy and perceived threat
Significant terror management research has examined the impact of mortality salience on evaluations toward in‐group versus out‐group and attitudinally similar versus dissimilar others. However, relatively little research has examined evaluations when group membership is disentangled from attitude similarity. The current research examined the impact of mortality salience on evaluations toward in‐group and out‐group critics when people are less lik…
When message tailoring backfires: The role of initial attitudes in affect–cognition matching
This research explores when and how tailoring messages to attitudinal bases backfires. Study 1 demonstrated that for attitudes (toward education subsidies) that were based more on beliefs than emotions, recipients whose initial attitudes were incongruent with the message position (i.e., message opponents) showed mismatching effects, such that the affective message was more persuasive than the cognitive message. Study 2 replicated these mismatchin…
The effects of culture and friendship on rewarding honesty and punishing deception
The impact of perceived message complexity and need for cognition on information processing and attitudes
Affective and cognitive meta-bases of attitudes: Unique effects on information interest and persuasion
The authors investigated the predictive utility of people's subjective assessments of whether their evaluations are affect- or cognition driven (i.e., meta-cognitive bases) as separate from whether people's attitudes are actually affect- or cognition based (i.e., structural bases). Study 1 demonstrated that meta-bases uniquely predict interest in affective versus cognitive information above and beyond structural bases and other related variables …
Affective and cognitive meta-bases of attitudes: Unique effects on information interest and persuasion
The authors investigated the predictive utility of people's subjective assessments of whether their evaluations are affect- or cognition driven (i.e., meta-cognitive bases) as separate from whether people's attitudes are actually affect- or cognition based (i.e., structural bases). Study 1 demonstrated that meta-bases uniquely predict interest in affective versus cognitive information above and beyond structural bases and other related variables …
The impact of perceived message complexity and need for cognition on information processing and attitudes
The effects of culture and friendship on rewarding honesty and punishing deception
Effects of living arrangements on well‐being, perceived conflict, and intergroup attitudes for local and international students: Results from a field intervention
Immigration may be perceived by members of host countries as a threat, with psychological and material impacts on immigrants' well‐being: it may reinforce negative stereotypes, promote discrimination, or even encourage violence. One means of alleviating such prejudice is increased intergroup contact. However, under certain conditions, increased contact can produce harmful outcomes as intergroup contact may provide opportunities for positive and n…
Values Predict Willingness to Interact With Immigrants: The Role of Cultural Ideology and Multicultural Acquisition
As globalization advances, immigration has increasingly been contested. Psychological studies of immigration, which are frequently conducted in Western contexts, have established a link between attitudes toward immigrants and individual values. In two studies, the present research investigates this link between values and favorability toward immigrants in an Asian nation with a high proportion of immigrants, Singapore, and considers differences i…
Persuasive message scrutiny as a function of implicit-explicit discrepancies in racial attitudes
Partner's understanding of affective–cognitive meta‐bases predicts relationship quality
Knowledge that partners have about each other's attitudes are consequential for relationship quality. This article extends prior research and examines whether knowledge regarding a partner's meta‐attitudinal bases, or subjective perceptions of how one's attitudes are driven, can influence relationship quality. Given how meta‐bases are reflective of information‐processing goals, we hypothesized that partner understanding of meta‐attitudinal bases …
Affective and cognitive meta-bases of attitudes: Unique effects on information interest and persuasion
The authors investigated the predictive utility of people's subjective assessments of whether their evaluations are affect- or cognition driven (i.e., meta-cognitive bases) as separate from whether people's attitudes are actually affect- or cognition based (i.e., structural bases). Study 1 demonstrated that meta-bases uniquely predict interest in affective versus cognitive information above and beyond structural bases and other related variables …
The impact of perceived message complexity and need for cognition on information processing and attitudes
The effects of culture and friendship on rewarding honesty and punishing deception
When message tailoring backfires: The role of initial attitudes in affect–cognition matching
This research explores when and how tailoring messages to attitudinal bases backfires. Study 1 demonstrated that for attitudes (toward education subsidies) that were based more on beliefs than emotions, recipients whose initial attitudes were incongruent with the message position (i.e., message opponents) showed mismatching effects, such that the affective message was more persuasive than the cognitive message. Study 2 replicated these mismatchin…
Mortality salience and evaluations of in‐group versus out‐group critics: The role of criticism legitimacy and perceived threat
Significant terror management research has examined the impact of mortality salience on evaluations toward in‐group versus out‐group and attitudinally similar versus dissimilar others. However, relatively little research has examined evaluations when group membership is disentangled from attitude similarity. The current research examined the impact of mortality salience on evaluations toward in‐group and out‐group critics when people are less lik…
Partner's understanding of affective–cognitive meta‐bases predicts relationship quality
Knowledge that partners have about each other's attitudes are consequential for relationship quality. This article extends prior research and examines whether knowledge regarding a partner's meta‐attitudinal bases, or subjective perceptions of how one's attitudes are driven, can influence relationship quality. Given how meta‐bases are reflective of information‐processing goals, we hypothesized that partner understanding of meta‐attitudinal bases …
Persuasive message scrutiny as a function of implicit-explicit discrepancies in racial attitudes
Values Predict Willingness to Interact With Immigrants: The Role of Cultural Ideology and Multicultural Acquisition
As globalization advances, immigration has increasingly been contested. Psychological studies of immigration, which are frequently conducted in Western contexts, have established a link between attitudes toward immigrants and individual values. In two studies, the present research investigates this link between values and favorability toward immigrants in an Asian nation with a high proportion of immigrants, Singapore, and considers differences i…
When dueling emotions and conflicting beliefs predict subjective ambivalence: The role of meta-bases
Within the emotions and beliefs upon which attitudes are based, people can hold simultaneously positive and negative reactions. In addition, independent from the emotions and beliefs in their attitude structure, people hold subjective perceptions about their affective and cognitive attitudinal bases (i.e., meta-bases), which reflect interest in processing emotions or beliefs, respectively. We tested how much people experience subjective ambivalen…
Effects of living arrangements on well‐being, perceived conflict, and intergroup attitudes for local and international students: Results from a field intervention
Immigration may be perceived by members of host countries as a threat, with psychological and material impacts on immigrants' well‐being: it may reinforce negative stereotypes, promote discrimination, or even encourage violence. One means of alleviating such prejudice is increased intergroup contact. However, under certain conditions, increased contact can produce harmful outcomes as intergroup contact may provide opportunities for positive and n…
Defensive Confidence and Certainty in Unchanged Attitudes: The Role of Affect–Cognition Matching
Despite much prior research on matching appeals to the affective–cognitive orientation of attitudes, little attention has focused on the consequences of affect–cognition (mis)matching when individuals resist persuasion. We propose that unlike a matched attack, an attack that is mismatched to the affective–cognitive orientation of attitudes would result in low defensive confidence individuals holding onto their unchanged attitudes with less certai…
When Objective Ambivalence Predicts Subjective Ambivalence: An Affect–Cognition Matching Perspective
Understanding when people are likely to feel ambivalent is important, as ambivalence is associated with key attitude outcomes, such as attitude-behavior consistency. Interestingly, the presence of conflicting positive and negative reactions (objective ambivalence) is weakly related to feeling conflicted (subjective ambivalence). We tested a novel situation that can influence the correspondence between objective and subjective ambivalence: whether…
The effects of perceived Covid‐19 threat on compensatory conviction, thought reliance, and attitudes
This research examines how people can defend themselves from the threat associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic by relying more on their recently generated thoughts (unrelated to the threat), thus leading those thoughts to have a greater impact on judgement through a meta‐cognitive process of thought validation. Study 1 revealed that the impact of the favourability of self‐related thoughts on self‐esteem was greater for those feeling relatively mor…
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: A cross-cultural meta-analysis
People are frequently exposed to different extents of affective and cognitive appeals, but it remains unclear whether appeals targeting emotions or beliefs are differentially effective across cultures. Hence, this meta-analysis investigates the relative influence of affective versus cognitive appeals for persuasion outcomes as a function of individualism-collectivism. Using 133 samples across 22 countries (N = 29,338), we found affective appeals …
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (9 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Affect (linguistics) (4 works)