Michael Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Confronting Our Common Enemy
Lazar and Wallace make a compelling case that, although climate disasters undercut democratic legitimacy, "authoritarianism is not the answer." The authors of this essay agree, but do not view regime type as the primary constraint on climate-policy outcomes. Here, the authors draw on research on political institutions and climate policy to highlight two overlooked features of the conversation. First, even if democracy is better on average in addr…
Framing memories of relationship transgressions: How visual imagery perspective activates relational knowledge
How people interpret the meaning of minor relationship transgressions can impact broader relationship well-being. It is proposed that picturing relationship transgressions from a third-person (vs. first-person) visual perspective prompts people to think of them in the context of their chronic relationship beliefs and goals. In doing so, individuals who are relatively anxious about their relationships become more insecure, whereas less anxious ind…
Religious magnanimity: Reminding people of their religious belief system reduces hostility after threat
The present research tested the hypothesis that many people's ambient religious beliefs are non-hostile and magnanimous by assessing whether reminding people of their religious belief systems would reduce hostility after threat. Across religious affiliations, participants reported that their religious belief systems encourage magnanimous behavior. In addition, priming their religious belief systems caused them to act more magnanimously, but only …
Government Apologies for Historical Injustices
Scholars from various disciplines suggest that government apologies for historical injustices fulfill important psychological goals. After reviewing psychological literature that contributes to this discussion, we present a list of elements that political apologies should contain to be acceptable to both members of the victimized minority and the nonvictimized majority. Content coding of a list of government apologies revealed that many, but not …
More than words: Reframing compliments from romantic partners fosters security in low self-esteem individuals
Although people with low self-esteem (LSEs) doubt their value to their romantic partners, they tend to resist positive feedback from their partners. This resistance undermines their relationships and has been difficult to overcome in past research. The authors investigated whether LSEs could be induced to take their partners' kind words to heart by manipulating how abstractly they described a recent compliment. In 3 studies, LSEs felt more positi…
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War
Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This paper develops new measures and new tests to address these problems. It has four main findings. First, the likelihood of civil war in countries that produce oil, gas, and diamonds rose sharply from the early 1970s to the late 1990s; so did the number of rebel groups that sold cont…
Is Democracy Good for the Poor
Many scholars claim that democracy improves the welfare of the poor. This article uses data on infant and child mortality to challenge this claim. Cross‐national studies tend to exclude from their samples nondemocratic states that have performed well; this leads to the mistaken inference that nondemocracies have worse records than democracies. Once these and other flaws are corrected, democracy has little or no effect on infant and child mortalit…
Supportive social relationships and adolescent health risk behavior among secondary school students in El Salvador
It feels like yesterday: Self-esteem, valence of personal past experiences, and judgments of subjective distance
Supporting predictions from temporal self-appraisal theory, participants in 3 studies reported feeling farther from former selves and experiences with unfavorable implications for their current self-view than from equally distant selves and experiences with flattering implications. This distancing bias occurred when assignment to negative and positive pasts was random, for both achievement and social outcomes and for single episodes as well as lo…
Trust and communicated attributions in close relationships
The attributional statements intimate partners communicate to one another were examined as a function of trust. In discussions by 35 married couples, 850 attributions and corresponding events were coded on dimensions of valence, globality, and locus. Results of regression and contingency analyses indicate that attributional statements expressed in high-trust relationships emphasized positive aspects of the relationship. Medium-trust couples activ…
The frequency of temporal-self and social comparisons in people's personal appraisals
"Exploring the "planning fallacy: Why people underestimate their task completion times
This study tested 3 main hypotheses concerning people's predictions of task completion times: (a) People underestimate their own but not others' completion times, (b) people focus on plan-based scenarios rather than on relevant past experiences while generating their predictions, and (c) people's attributions diminish the relevance of past experiences. Results supported each hypothesis. Ss' predictions of their completion times were too optimisti…
Biased recollections in older adults: The role of implicit theories of aging
This research explored how older adults recall the traits they possessed at an earlier age. It was hypothesized that older adults' recollections would be related to their theories about aging. In Study 1, a group of older Ss provided their theories concerning how various traits change with age. Another group of older Ss rated their current status on these traits and recalled the status they possessed at a younger age. In addition, a group of youn…
Are Wives' Memories for Events in Relationships more Vivid than their Husbands' Memories
Gender differences in socialization and marital roles may lead wives to attend more closely to relationship interactions than their spouses do; wives may also assign greater importance to such interactions and deliberate more about them. As a result, wives would possess more vivid memories than their husbands have for events in their relationship. Spouses tape-recorded descriptions of their first date together, a shared vacation and an argument b…
Women's theories of menstruation and biases in recall of menstrual symptoms
Getting what you want by revising what you had
Self-persuasion and self-presentation as mediators of anticipatory attitude change
Reciprocal relation between attitudes and behavior recall: Committing people to newly formed attitudes
Impact of causal attributions on affective reactions to success and failure
Assessed the impact of outcome (success vs failure) and attribution (internal vs external) on affect in an achievement setting. Following the theorizing of B. Weiner et al (1978, 1979), it was anticipated that the outcome manipulation would determine general positive and negative affective reactions
The effect of attitude on the recall of personal histories
Egocentric biases in availability and attribution
Reward contingency and intrinsic motivation in children: A test of the delay of gratification hypothesis
The development of causal attributions in social perception
Salience of reward and intrinsic motivation
Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction
A review of the evidence for and against the proposition that self-serving biases affect attributions of causality indicated that there is little empirical support for the proposition in its most general form. The literature provides some support for the contention that individuals engage in self-enhancin g attributions under conditions of success, but only minimal evidence was found to suggest that individuals engage in self-protecti ve attribut…
Is Democracy Good for the Poor
Many scholars claim that democracy improves the welfare of the poor. This article uses data on infant and child mortality to challenge this claim. Cross‐national studies tend to exclude from their samples nondemocratic states that have performed well; this leads to the mistaken inference that nondemocracies have worse records than democracies. Once these and other flaws are corrected, democracy has little or no effect on infant and child mortalit…
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War
Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This paper develops new measures and new tests to address these problems. It has four main findings. First, the likelihood of civil war in countries that produce oil, gas, and diamonds rose sharply from the early 1970s to the late 1990s; so did the number of rebel groups that sold cont…
Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction
A review of the evidence for and against the proposition that self-serving biases affect attributions of causality indicated that there is little empirical support for the proposition in its most general form. The literature provides some support for the contention that individuals engage in self-enhancin g attributions under conditions of success, but only minimal evidence was found to suggest that individuals engage in self-protecti ve attribut…
Egocentric biases in availability and attribution
"Exploring the "planning fallacy: Why people underestimate their task completion times
This study tested 3 main hypotheses concerning people's predictions of task completion times: (a) People underestimate their own but not others' completion times, (b) people focus on plan-based scenarios rather than on relevant past experiences while generating their predictions, and (c) people's attributions diminish the relevance of past experiences. Results supported each hypothesis. Ss' predictions of their completion times were too optimisti…
Government Apologies for Historical Injustices
Scholars from various disciplines suggest that government apologies for historical injustices fulfill important psychological goals. After reviewing psychological literature that contributes to this discussion, we present a list of elements that political apologies should contain to be acceptable to both members of the victimized minority and the nonvictimized majority. Content coding of a list of government apologies revealed that many, but not …
Impact of causal attributions on affective reactions to success and failure
Assessed the impact of outcome (success vs failure) and attribution (internal vs external) on affect in an achievement setting. Following the theorizing of B. Weiner et al (1978, 1979), it was anticipated that the outcome manipulation would determine general positive and negative affective reactions
The frequency of temporal-self and social comparisons in people's personal appraisals
It feels like yesterday: Self-esteem, valence of personal past experiences, and judgments of subjective distance
Supporting predictions from temporal self-appraisal theory, participants in 3 studies reported feeling farther from former selves and experiences with unfavorable implications for their current self-view than from equally distant selves and experiences with flattering implications. This distancing bias occurred when assignment to negative and positive pasts was random, for both achievement and social outcomes and for single episodes as well as lo…
Getting what you want by revising what you had
United Nations Voting Patterns
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More than words: Reframing compliments from romantic partners fosters security in low self-esteem individuals
Although people with low self-esteem (LSEs) doubt their value to their romantic partners, they tend to resist positive feedback from their partners. This resistance undermines their relationships and has been difficult to overcome in past research. The authors investigated whether LSEs could be induced to take their partners' kind words to heart by manipulating how abstractly they described a recent compliment. In 3 studies, LSEs felt more positi…
Trust and communicated attributions in close relationships
The attributional statements intimate partners communicate to one another were examined as a function of trust. In discussions by 35 married couples, 850 attributions and corresponding events were coded on dimensions of valence, globality, and locus. Results of regression and contingency analyses indicate that attributional statements expressed in high-trust relationships emphasized positive aspects of the relationship. Medium-trust couples activ…
Are Wives' Memories for Events in Relationships more Vivid than their Husbands' Memories
Gender differences in socialization and marital roles may lead wives to attend more closely to relationship interactions than their spouses do; wives may also assign greater importance to such interactions and deliberate more about them. As a result, wives would possess more vivid memories than their husbands have for events in their relationship. Spouses tape-recorded descriptions of their first date together, a shared vacation and an argument b…
Salience of reward and intrinsic motivation
The effect of attitude on the recall of personal histories
Supportive social relationships and adolescent health risk behavior among secondary school students in El Salvador
Women's theories of menstruation and biases in recall of menstrual symptoms
Affect, facial regard, and reactions to crowding
Reciprocal relation between attitudes and behavior recall: Committing people to newly formed attitudes
The development of causal attributions in social perception
Framing memories of relationship transgressions: How visual imagery perspective activates relational knowledge
How people interpret the meaning of minor relationship transgressions can impact broader relationship well-being. It is proposed that picturing relationship transgressions from a third-person (vs. first-person) visual perspective prompts people to think of them in the context of their chronic relationship beliefs and goals. In doing so, individuals who are relatively anxious about their relationships become more insecure, whereas less anxious ind…
Religious magnanimity: Reminding people of their religious belief system reduces hostility after threat
The present research tested the hypothesis that many people's ambient religious beliefs are non-hostile and magnanimous by assessing whether reminding people of their religious belief systems would reduce hostility after threat. Across religious affiliations, participants reported that their religious belief systems encourage magnanimous behavior. In addition, priming their religious belief systems caused them to act more magnanimously, but only …
Biased recollections in older adults: The role of implicit theories of aging
This research explored how older adults recall the traits they possessed at an earlier age. It was hypothesized that older adults' recollections would be related to their theories about aging. In Study 1, a group of older Ss provided their theories concerning how various traits change with age. Another group of older Ss rated their current status on these traits and recalled the status they possessed at a younger age. In addition, a group of youn…
Reward contingency and intrinsic motivation in children: A test of the delay of gratification hypothesis
African art
United Nations Voting Patterns
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Self-attribution of attitude
Affect, facial regard, and reactions to crowding
Attitude change and attitude attribution: Effects of incentive, choice, and consequences
Salience of reward and intrinsic motivation
Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction
A review of the evidence for and against the proposition that self-serving biases affect attributions of causality indicated that there is little empirical support for the proposition in its most general form. The literature provides some support for the contention that individuals engage in self-enhancin g attributions under conditions of success, but only minimal evidence was found to suggest that individuals engage in self-protecti ve attribut…
Reward contingency and intrinsic motivation in children: A test of the delay of gratification hypothesis
The development of causal attributions in social perception
Egocentric biases in availability and attribution
The effect of attitude on the recall of personal histories
Impact of causal attributions on affective reactions to success and failure
Assessed the impact of outcome (success vs failure) and attribution (internal vs external) on affect in an achievement setting. Following the theorizing of B. Weiner et al (1978, 1979), it was anticipated that the outcome manipulation would determine general positive and negative affective reactions
Reciprocal relation between attitudes and behavior recall: Committing people to newly formed attitudes
Getting what you want by revising what you had
Self-persuasion and self-presentation as mediators of anticipatory attitude change
Women's theories of menstruation and biases in recall of menstrual symptoms
Biased recollections in older adults: The role of implicit theories of aging
This research explored how older adults recall the traits they possessed at an earlier age. It was hypothesized that older adults' recollections would be related to their theories about aging. In Study 1, a group of older Ss provided their theories concerning how various traits change with age. Another group of older Ss rated their current status on these traits and recalled the status they possessed at a younger age. In addition, a group of youn…
Are Wives' Memories for Events in Relationships more Vivid than their Husbands' Memories
Gender differences in socialization and marital roles may lead wives to attend more closely to relationship interactions than their spouses do; wives may also assign greater importance to such interactions and deliberate more about them. As a result, wives would possess more vivid memories than their husbands have for events in their relationship. Spouses tape-recorded descriptions of their first date together, a shared vacation and an argument b…
"Exploring the "planning fallacy: Why people underestimate their task completion times
This study tested 3 main hypotheses concerning people's predictions of task completion times: (a) People underestimate their own but not others' completion times, (b) people focus on plan-based scenarios rather than on relevant past experiences while generating their predictions, and (c) people's attributions diminish the relevance of past experiences. Results supported each hypothesis. Ss' predictions of their completion times were too optimisti…
The frequency of temporal-self and social comparisons in people's personal appraisals
Trust and communicated attributions in close relationships
The attributional statements intimate partners communicate to one another were examined as a function of trust. In discussions by 35 married couples, 850 attributions and corresponding events were coded on dimensions of valence, globality, and locus. Results of regression and contingency analyses indicate that attributional statements expressed in high-trust relationships emphasized positive aspects of the relationship. Medium-trust couples activ…
It feels like yesterday: Self-esteem, valence of personal past experiences, and judgments of subjective distance
Supporting predictions from temporal self-appraisal theory, participants in 3 studies reported feeling farther from former selves and experiences with unfavorable implications for their current self-view than from equally distant selves and experiences with flattering implications. This distancing bias occurred when assignment to negative and positive pasts was random, for both achievement and social outcomes and for single episodes as well as lo…
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War
Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This paper develops new measures and new tests to address these problems. It has four main findings. First, the likelihood of civil war in countries that produce oil, gas, and diamonds rose sharply from the early 1970s to the late 1990s; so did the number of rebel groups that sold cont…
Is Democracy Good for the Poor
Many scholars claim that democracy improves the welfare of the poor. This article uses data on infant and child mortality to challenge this claim. Cross‐national studies tend to exclude from their samples nondemocratic states that have performed well; this leads to the mistaken inference that nondemocracies have worse records than democracies. Once these and other flaws are corrected, democracy has little or no effect on infant and child mortalit…
Supportive social relationships and adolescent health risk behavior among secondary school students in El Salvador
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