Projects
- Origins of Prejudice and Social DivisionIntergroup Relations
Political Psychology - How We Know “Right” and “Wrong”Moral Psychology
Psychology and Law - Mutuality of Mind and CultureCultural Psychology
Communication and Culture
What’s New
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AASP 2025 Proceedings have been published
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Karasawa & Yoshinari have published their chapter in a Festschrift dedicated to Prof. Anne Maass of Padova University
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A research article on "food identity" has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Marketing
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Minoru Karasawa delivered an opening speech at an international conference in Vietnam
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A new book, Legal Radicalism (in Japanese; Yuhikaku Publishing, Tokyo), has been published.
About Us
In general terms, the members of our lab conduct research in a field known as social cognition.
Social cognition is a subfield of social psychology, which is concerned mainly with how people make sense of their social worlds - consisting of other people around them as well as the groups and communities to which they belong.
Research Gallery
Moral conviction facilitates homophily: People tend to communicate with others holding similar attitudes and bolstering their moral values.
Kasahara & Karasawa (2025)) Impact of moral conviction on social networking: Role of seeking cognitive consistency and shared reality in opinion homophily. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28 , e12677.
Do we blame more a human driver or a driving robot? What is the underlying psychological mechanism?
Mu, Y., & Karasawa, M. (2024). Blame attribution and intentionality perception of human versus robot drivers: Implications for judgments about autonomous vehicles in moral dilemma contexts. Cogent Psychology, 11(1).
How Do We Know What Other People Think? The Answer Depends on Cultural Learning.
Wice, Karasawa, Matsui, & Miller (2020). Knowing minds: Culture and perceptions of mental state access. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23, 319-327.
Matsuo, Sasahara, Taguchi, & Karasawa (2019)
Development and validation of the Japanese Moral Foundations Dictionary. PLOS ONE, 14(3): e0213343
Talk at TEDxNagoyaU
Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Social Divisiveness
(in Japanese)
Global Research Network
