(Ya Hui) Michelle SEE, Ph.D.
施雅慧

Associate Professor
​National University of Singapore


PicturePhoto Credit: Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University
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Announcements​

Congratulations to Deborah Tan 
Deborah Tan En Qi has joined the Ministry of Social and Family Development as a Research Officer. Her Honours Thesis examined the effects of lay theories of discrimination on the willingness to advocate for equality. Congratulations! 

Forthcoming Presentation at the Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP 2025) Conference, July 10–12, Monash University Malaysia
LI Zheng (Charlie) will be presenting on ​“Relational Mobility and Attitudinal Advocacy: Evidence from Individual and Multilevel Analyses” at the Asian Association of Social Psychology Annual Conference (AASP 2025) at Monash University Malaysia (Paper Presentation #433, 4:00 pm–4:15 pm, Friday, July 11). This research draws on both individual- and country-level data to demonstrate that greater freedom and opportunity to form desirable relationships and terminate undesirable ones encourage stronger intentions to express extreme attitudes and persuade others to adopt them. These findings contribute to our understanding of how individuals employ attitudinal advocacy to adapt to the demands and goals of their immediate social ecology.

Congratulations to LI Zheng (Charlie) on his Graduate Students' Teaching Award!  
This award recognizes excellence in teaching by graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. We look forward to his continued engagement in the learning journeys of various undergraduate students in future semesters! 

Forthcoming Chapter on Social Influence in Close Relationships in Research Handbook of Social Influence (edited by Professor Radmila Prislin) 
We are delighted to announce a forthcoming chapter (first author Dr. Kenneth Tan ) that discusses how people respond to and engage in social influence in interpersonal settings. This chapter is part of the Research Handbook on Social Influence edited by Professor Radmila Prislin, and has been described as "an unparalleled resource for researchers and scholars of social influence. By casting a net that is both remarkably wide and deep, the Handbook provides the most thoroughgoing consideration I know of how people affect change and are affected by change in others. Serious students of these processes should have a copy readily available on their shelves or devices.’ – Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University, USA

Forthcoming Presentation at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Feb 20-22 2025 in Denver, Colorado
LI Zheng (Charlie) will be presenting on "Expressing Attitudes within Social Environments: Relational Mobility as a Unique Predictor of Attitudinal Advocacy" at the SPSP 2025 annual convention in Denver, Colarado (Poster #43, 12:30pm-1:30pm, Friday) . This research shows that greater ease in forming and exiting relationships leads to more certainty in one's attitudes on topics including censorship and same-sex marriage. This, in turn, leads to more sharing of one's attitudes. Therefore, this work has implications for our understanding of antecedents to attitudinal advocacy from a socio-ecological perspective. 

AASP Summer School in 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr. Ya Hui Michelle See has accepted an invitation to join the Summer School for the Asian Association for Social Psychology (AASP) biennial meeting, which will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as a mentor. She looks forward to providing a research-intensive experience for students across Asia, alongside the other mentors! See here for applications https://www.aasp2025.com/summer-school-1
Congratulations to Reiner Ng 
​Reiner Ng has joined the Defense Science Organization as a Senior Researcher. Congratulations! 
Congratulations to Gabriel Goh
​Gabriel Goh has joined the Ministry of Social and Family Development as a Research Psychologist. Congratulations! 
Forthcoming paper in Journal of Communication
​We are excited to share news about our forthcoming paper in Journal of Communication on "The influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: A cross-cultural meta-analysis"!
This meta-analysis compares the persuasiveness of affective versus cognitive appeals across societies that vary on individualism-collectivism. Affective appeals were found to be more persuasive than cognitive appeals in collectivistic societies, thus suggesting that in persuasion, cultural tendencies to prioritize the group's needs may encourage the integration of emotions from affective appeals in individuals' attitudes and behaviour. Preprint here: <pdf>

Lab BBQ 2024
​During this past summer, our lab gathered for a BBQ to celebrate the end of the Academic Year 2023/2024. Many thanks to Charlie for organising the BBQ, and to Reiner and Charlie for grilling the food. We hope everybody enjoyed the company and the meal, and feel ready for the upcoming year!

Congratulations to Reiner NG on passing his PhD oral defense 
Reiner's PhD thesis is entitled "What changes the trust for conflicting information: The influence of affect-cognition and subjective ambivalence", and he examined how affect-cognition matching can increase the extent of subjective ambivalence to consequently reduce the amount of trust that is given to conflicting content. 

Congratulations to Gabriel GOH on passing his PhD oral defense
In Gabriel's PhD thesis "Horizontal-Verticality in Ingroup and Outgroup Derogation: An Integrative Cultural Perspective of the Black Sheep and Ingroup Leniency Effects," he examined how horizontal and vertical cultural orientations shape reactions to deviant behaviour within and between groups. 

Congratulations to LI Zheng (Charlie) on passing his PhD candidacy exams
In his thesis research, he will examine the impact of relational mobility on attitudinal advocacy. This research has implications for understanding how individuals express their attitudes in ways that serve interpersonal goals shaped by the level of relational mobility in their environment.