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 the motivational properties of emotions. Specifically, her work has focused on happiness, love, anger, and prejudiced affect. She has been particularly interested in studying the mechanisms by which reasons for feeling an opposing emotion affect the intensity of the original emotion. Some of the questions that she’s interested in addressing in her research are “Would you give a person a trivial or a somewhat larger gift to reduce his or her anger?”, “What influences the intensity of romantic attraction?” or “When it is inappropriate to feel angry, do people expose themselves to minor reasons for feeling happy in order to reduce their own anger?” She has also been doing work exploring the brain mappings associated with psychological reactance. A third line of her research looks at how people make justice judgments and whether group members shift their definitions of justice as a function of their current motivational goals.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Miron, A.M., & Branscombe, N.R. (in press). Social categorization, standards of justice, and collective guilt. To appear in A. Nadler, T. Malloy, & J. Fisher (Eds.), Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. 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 (2007)
Brehm, J.W., & Miron, A.M. (2007, May). Evidence that positive and negative affect are mutually exclusive. Paper presented at the 19 th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC.
Miron, A.M., & Ferguson, M.A. (2007, January). Prejudice intensity and fairness judgments influence support for diversity policies . Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
