Dr. Mike Morrison

Associate Professor

Phone: 519-433-3491
Email: mike.morrison@uwo.ca

Dr. Morrison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. Broadly speaking, his research has focused on ways in which individuals’ overall health, well-being, and decision-making can be improved. More specifically, he has concentrated on the areas of regrets and counterfactual thinking, subjective well-being, and attitudes.

With respect to regret and counterfactual thinking, Dr. Morrison’s work has focused on the primary determinants of regret intensity as well as how regrets relate to belongingness needs and diverse coping behaviours.

Dr. Morrison’s work in the area of subjective well-being has focused on worldwide patterns in the relationship of life satisfaction and affect with such variables as age and satisfaction with one’s country. He has also explored the links between personality traits and satisfaction with specific life domains as well as patterns of subjective well-being, affective forecasting, and the links between subjective well-being and political attitudes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic period.

Dr. Morrison’s work with regard to attitudes has focused on the interplay of explicit and implicit attitudes in legal decision-making, how implicit and explicit attitudes change over time, and the links between political attitudes, identity, intentions and behaviour.

Dr. Morrison leads the Social Cognition and Well-Being lab at King’s that any student interested in the areas of his research may join. He is also happy to supervisor Psychology Honors Specialization Thesis students and accept research volunteers.

Dr. Morrison also teaches Introduction to Psychology and courses related to Social Psychology, Health Psychology and Psychology Politics.

Education

• PhD  - Social Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012)
• MA  - Social Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009)
• BA - Psychology - University of Toronto (2004)

Teaching

• PSY 1000: Introduction to Psychology
• PSY 2720: Introduction to Social Psychology
• PSY 3330: Health Psychology
• PSY 3730: Psychology of Politics

Research

• Subjective Well-Being
• Implicit and Explicit Biases
• Political Attitudes, Intentions, and Behaviour
• Counterfactual Thinking and Regret

Selected Publications

Jebb, A., Morrison, M., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2020). Subjective Well-Being around the world: Trends and predictors across the lifespan. Psychological Science.

Gawronski, B., Morrison, M., Phills, C.E., & Galdi, S. (2017). Temporal stability of implicit and explicit measures: A longitudinal analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 300-312.

Morrison, M., DeVaul-Fetters, A., & Gawronski, B. (2016). Stacking the jury: Legal professionals intuitively select jurors according to implicit racial bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1129-1141.

Tay, L., Morrison, M., & Diener, E. (2014). Living among the affluent: Boon or bane? Psychological Science, 25, 1235-1241

Morrison M., Epstude, K., & Roese, N. J. (2012). Life regrets and the need to belong. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 675-681.

Morrison, M., & Roese, N. J. (2011). Regrets of the typical American: Findings from a nationally representative survey. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 576-583.

Morrison, M., Tay, L. & Diener, E. (2011). Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: Findings from a worldwide survey. Psychological Science, 22, 166-171.

Roese, N., & Morrison, M. (2009). The psychology of counterfactual thinking. Historical Social Research, 34, 16-26.

Roese, N. J., Epstude, K., Fessel, F., Morrison, M., Smallman, R., Summerville, A., Galinsky, A., & Segerstrom, S. (2009). Repetitive regret, depression, and anxiety: Findings from a nationally representative survey. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 28, 671-688.