Projects
- Origins of Prejudice and Social Division Intergroup Relations
Political Psychology
- How We Know “Right” and “Wrong” Moral Psychology
Psychology and Law
- Mutuality of Mind and Culture Cultural Psychology
Communication and Culture
What’s New
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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.
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Members of our lab gave their presentations at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology
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Minoru Karasawa became the 15th President of the Asian Association of Social Psychology
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Yanagida, Karasawa, & Murata (2022) received the Best Paper Award
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
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Kasahara, Miura, & Karasawa (2024, Advance online publication)
Affective polarization in a multi-party society: The roles of moral conviction, Japanese Journal of Psychology.
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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).
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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.
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Matsuo, Sasahara, Taguchi, & Karasawa (2019)
Development and validation of the Japanese Moral Foundations Dictionary. PLOS ONE, 14(3): e0213343
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Talk at TEDxNagoyaU
Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Social Divisiveness
(in Japanese)
Global Research Network
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