Michael Ko
Biographic Data
| ID | 5861794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Ko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ko |
| SIGNATURE | KO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2273-7359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Leader choices reflect cultural differences in ideal affect more during organizational growth than decline
What emotions do people prefer in their leaders, and do these emotional preferences vary depending on how their organizations are performing? In three studies conducted between 2018 and 2023 with European American, East Asian American, and Hong Kong Chinese participants, we predicted that people would choose leaders whose emotional expressions matched their culture's ideal affect (the affective states they value) more during growth , when conditi…
A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation
What affective states do people ideally want to feel and why? In Affect Valuation Theory, Tsai et al. (2006) proposed and observed that (a) how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and (b) cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data meta-analysis, we reexamined these two premises in a combined d…
Cultural variation in the smiles we trust
When playing single-shot behavioral economic games like the Trust and Dictator Games, European Americans and East Asians invested in and gave more to targets whose smiles matched their culture's ideal affect (the affective states they value; Blevins et al., 2024; Park et al., 2017), suggesting that smiles signal something about targets' traits. But what happens when participants are given direct information about targets' traits; do targets' smil…
Social media users produce more affect that supports cultural values, but are more influenced by affect that violates cultural values
Although social media plays an increasingly important role in communication around the world, social media research has primarily focused on Western users. Thus, little is known about how cultural values shape social media behavior. To examine how cultural affective values might influence social media use, we developed a new sentiment analysis tool that allowed us to compare the affective content of Twitter posts in the United States (55,867 twee…
Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments
ML improved risk adjustment models and the incorporation of SDH indicators reduced underpayment in several vulnerable populations
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Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments
ML improved risk adjustment models and the incorporation of SDH indicators reduced underpayment in several vulnerable populations
Social media users produce more affect that supports cultural values, but are more influenced by affect that violates cultural values
Although social media plays an increasingly important role in communication around the world, social media research has primarily focused on Western users. Thus, little is known about how cultural values shape social media behavior. To examine how cultural affective values might influence social media use, we developed a new sentiment analysis tool that allowed us to compare the affective content of Twitter posts in the United States (55,867 twee…
Cultural variation in the smiles we trust
When playing single-shot behavioral economic games like the Trust and Dictator Games, European Americans and East Asians invested in and gave more to targets whose smiles matched their culture's ideal affect (the affective states they value; Blevins et al., 2024; Park et al., 2017), suggesting that smiles signal something about targets' traits. But what happens when participants are given direct information about targets' traits; do targets' smil…
A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation
What affective states do people ideally want to feel and why? In Affect Valuation Theory, Tsai et al. (2006) proposed and observed that (a) how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and (b) cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data meta-analysis, we reexamined these two premises in a combined d…
Leader choices reflect cultural differences in ideal affect more during organizational growth than decline
What emotions do people prefer in their leaders, and do these emotional preferences vary depending on how their organizations are performing? In three studies conducted between 2018 and 2023 with European American, East Asian American, and Hong Kong Chinese participants, we predicted that people would choose leaders whose emotional expressions matched their culture's ideal affect (the affective states they value) more during growth , when conditi…
Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Affect (linguistics (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Cultural diversity (2 works) · Cultural values (2 works) · Ideal (ethics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)