Anca Miron , Ph.D.
CF 18 424-2328
mirona@uwosh.edu
Anca Miron received her MA and PhD degrees in Social Psychology from the University of Kansas and her BA and MA in Psychology from the University of Iasi, Romania.
Dr. Miron is an emotion/motivation researcher interested in issues related to emotional intensity and emotion regulation, as well as applications of emotion and motivation theories. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms by which reasons for feeling an opposing emotion affect the intensity of the original emotion. Some of the questions she addresses in her research are “Would you give a person a trivial or a somewhat more valuable gift to reduce his or her anger?”, “What influences the intensity of romantic attraction?” and “What are some efficient affect-based strategies for reducing prejudiced attitudes toward disadvantaged group members?” Her work also investigates how people make justice judgments and whether group members shift their definitions of justice as a function of their current motivational goals.
She teaches General Psychology, Research Methods, Social Psychology (graduate), and Multivariate Statistics.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Miron, A.M., Branscombe, N.R, & Biernat, M.R. (in press), Motivated shifting of justice standards, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Miron, A.M. & Brehm, J.W. (in press), Emotional intensity theory and cardiovascular implications for emotional states, In R. A. Wright and G. H. E. Gendolla (Eds.), Motivation perspectives on cardiovascular response, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Miron, A.M., Knepfel, D., & Parkinson, S. K. (2009), The surprising effect of partner flaws and qualities on romantic affect, Motivation and Emotion, 33, 261-276.
Brehm, J.W., Miron, A.M, & Miller, K. (2009). Affect as a motivational state, Cognition and Emotion, 23, 1069-1089.
Miron, A.M., & Branscombe, N.R. (2008). Social categorization, standards of justice, and collective guilt. A. Nadler, T. Malloy, & J. Fisher (Eds.), Social psychology of intergroup reconciliation. (pp. 77-97), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Miron, A.M., Parkinson, S.K., & Brehm, J.W. (2007). Does happiness have a motivational function? Cognition and Emotion, 21, 248-267.
Brehm, J.W. & Miron, A.M. (2006). Can the simultaneous experience of opposing emotions really occur? Motivation and Emotion , 30, 13-30.
Miron, A.M., & Brehm, J.W. (2006). Reactance theory – 40 years later. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 37, 9-18.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (2009)
Miron, A.M., & Wright, R.A. (2009, May). Impediment influence on engagement, feeling, and goal value. Co-Chairs. Symposium presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation, San Francisco, CA.
Miron, A.M. (2009, May). Intriguing effects of partner characteristics on romantic affect. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation, San Francisco, CA.
Miron, A.M. & Kneffel, D. (2009, May). Reducing romantic anger. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Miron, A.M., & Ferguson, M.A. (2009, May). Difficulty of refusal to help an out-group non-monotonically affects prejudice intensity. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
First row (left to right): Cassie Tate, Dr. Anca Miron, Anne Herlache, Korey Lewis
Second row (left to right): Kourtney Lechner, Rachel Wozniak, Brad Brezinski
