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72
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2023
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Overview

Michael W. Morris is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine and social sciences with notable contributions in subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics including cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, congenital anomalies and fetal surgery, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, international student and expatriate challenges, critical race theory in education, and communication in education and healthcare.

Michael W. Morris has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The American Surgeon
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Their recent papers include:

  • "Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "How Does Collectivism Affect Social Interactions? A Test of Two Competing Accounts" (2020), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "The surprising underperformance of East Asians in US law and business schools: The liability of low assertiveness and the ameliorative potential of online classrooms" (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence" (2024), Nature Climate Change
  • "Outcomes by disease onset, sex, and intervention in neonates with SIP and surgical NEC" (2023), Pediatric Research

Michael W. Morris frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Jackson G. Lu
  • Krishna Savani
  • David Sawaya
  • Neha Varshney
  • Hannah Cockrell

Best Publications

  • Multicultural minds. A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition.

    Ying-yi Hong;Michael W. Morris;Chie-yue Chiu;Veronica Benet-Martinez

  • Culture and Cause: American and Chinese Attributions for Social and Physical Events

    Michael W. Morris;Kaiping Peng

  • Negotiating Biculturalism Cultural Frame Switching in Biculturals with Oppositional Versus Compatible Cultural Identities

    Verónica Benet-Martínez;Janxin Leu;Fiona Lee;Michael W. Morris

  • Views from Inside and Outside: Integrating Emic and Etic Insights about Culture and Justice Judgment

    Michael W. Morris;Kwok Leung;Daniel Ames;Brian Lickel

  • Negotiating gender roles: Gender differences in assertive negotiating are mediated by women’s fear of backlash and attenuated when negotiating on behalf of others.

    Emily Tara Amanatullah;Michael W. Morris

  • FROM THE HEAD AND THE HEART: LOCATING COGNITION- AND AFFECT-BASED TRUST IN MANAGERS' PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS

    Roy Young Joo Chua;Paul Ingram;Michael W. Morris

  • How Emotions Work: The Social Functions of Emotional Expression in Negotiations

    Michael W. Morris;Dacher Keltner

  • Conflict Management Style: Accounting for Cross-National Differences

    Michael W. Morris;Katherine Y. Williams;Kwok Leung;Richard Larrick

  • Culture and the construal of agency : Attribution to individual versus group dispositions

    Tanya Menon;Michael W. Morris;Chi-yue Chiu;Ying-yi Hong

  • Beneficial effects of aggressive protein feeding in severely burned children.

    J. Alexander;Bruce Macmillan;J. Stinnett;Cora Ogle

  • Perception of Translational Heading From Optical Flow

    William H. Warren;Michael W. Morris;Michael Kalish

  • Guanxi vs networking: Distinctive configurations of affect- and cognition-based trust in the networks of Chinese vs American managers

    Roy Y J Chua;Michael W Morris;Paul Ingram

  • Reasons as Carriers of Culture: Dynamic versus Dispositional Models of Cultural Influence on Decision Making

    Donnel A. Briley;Michael W. Morris;Itamar Simonson

  • Motivated cultural cognition: the impact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of need for closure.

    Chi-yue Chiu;Michael W. Morris;Ying-yi Hong;Tanya Menon

  • Culture as common sense: perceived consensus versus personal beliefs as mechanisms of cultural influence.

    Xi Zou;Kim-Pong Tam;Michael W. Morris;Sau-lai Lee

  • Collaborating across cultures: Cultural metacognition and affect-based trust in creative collaboration

    Roy Y.J. Chua;Michael W. Morris;Shira Mor

  • Rapport in conflict resolution: Accounting for how face-to-face contact fosters mutual cooperation in mixed-motive conflicts.

    Aimee L. Drolet;Michael W. Morris

  • Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics

    Michael W. Morris;Ying-yi Hong;Ying-yi Hong;Chi-yue Chiu;Zhi Liu

  • Long and Short Routes to Success in Electronically Mediated Negotiations: Group Affiliations and Good Vibrations.

    Don A. Moore;Terri R. Kurtzberg;Leigh L. Thompson;Michael W. Morris

  • The Lessons We (Don't) Learn: Counterfactual Thinking and Organizational Accountability after a Close Call

    Michael W. Morris;Paul C. Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chi-Yue Chiu
Chi-Yue Chiu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Daniel R. Ames
Daniel R. Ames Columbia University
Verónica Benet-Martínez
Verónica Benet-Martínez Pompeu Fabra University
Leigh Thompson
Leigh Thompson Northwestern University
Eric D. Knowles
Eric D. Knowles New York University
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard P. Larrick
Richard P. Larrick Duke University

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