Collaborations with researchers in europe

• Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism

  Kerry, N., Al-Shawaf, L., Barbato, M., Batres, C., Blake, K. R., Cha, Y., Chauvin, G. V., Clifton, J. D. W., Fernandez, A. M., Galbarczyk, A., Ghossainy, M. E., Jang, D., Jasienska, G., Karasawa, M., Laustsen, L., Loria, R., Luberti, F., Moran, J., Pavlovic´, Z., Petersen, M. B., Smith, A. R., Zˇezˇelj, I., & Murray, D. R. (2022). Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289 , 20220978. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0978
  Despite the clear psychological importance of parenthood and the motivation to provide care for children, researchers have only recently begun investigating their influence on social and political attitudes. Because socially conservative values ostensibly prioritize safety, stability, and family values, we hypothesized that being more invested in parental care might make socially conservative policies more appealing.

• Individual, group, and temporal perspectives on the link between wealth and realistic threat

  Celikkol, G., Renvik, T. A., Sortheix, F. M., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Jetten, J., Ariyanto, A., Autin, F., Ayub, N., Badea, C., Besta, T., Butera, F., Costa-Lopes, R., Cui, L., Fantini, C., Finchilescu, G., Gaertner, L, Gollwitzer, M., Gómez, A. González, R., Hong, Y.-y., Jensen D. H., Karasawa, M., Kessler, T., Klein, O., Lima, M., Megevand, L., Morton, T., Paladino, P., Polya,T., Ruza, A., Shahrazad, W., Shama, S., Smith, H. J.,Torres, A. R., van der Bles, A. M., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2022). Individual, group, and temporal perspectives on the link between wealth and realistic threat. Current Research in Ecological & Social Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100054
  In this 28-country study (N = 6112), we assessed how subjective perceptions and objective indicators of wealth were associated with majority group members’ perceptions of realistic threat related to immigration.

• Materialist and post-materialist concerns and the wish for a strong leader in 27 countries

  Lima, M. E. O., de França, D. X., Jetten, J., Pereira, C. R., Ariyanto, A., Autin, F., Ayub, N., Badea, C., Tomasz Besta, T., Butera, F., Costa-Lopes, R., Fantini, C., Finchilescu, G., Gaertner, L., Gollwitzer, M., Ángel Gómez, Á, González, R., Hong, Y-y., Jensen, D. H., Karasawa, M., Kessler, T., Klein, O., Jasinskaja-Lathi, I., Megevand, L., Morton, T., Paladino, P., Polya, T., Renvik, T. A., Ruza, A., Shahrazad, W., Shama, S., Smith, H. J., Torres, A. R., van der Bles, A. M., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2021). Materialist and post-materialist concerns and the wish for a strong leader in 27 countries. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(1), 207-220. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.6213
  We explore whether objective higher levels of democracy are differentially associated with materialist and post-materialist concerns and, in turn, whether this is related to the wish for a strong leader.

• Negative desires make failure to help more blameworthy: The role of wrongness and moral character evaluations

  Hirozawa, P. Y., & Karasawa, M. (2020). Negative desires make failure to help more blameworthy: The role of wrongness and moral character evaluations.
  Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 18(2), 119-126. DOI: 10.4189/shes.18.119

• Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups

  Rudnev, M., Vauclair, C. M., Aminihajibashi, S., Becker, M., Bilewicz, M., Castellanos Guevara, J. L., Collier-Baker, E., Crespo, C., Eastwick, P., Fischer, R., Friese, M., Gomez, A., Guerra, V., Hanke, K., Hooper, N., Huang, L. L., Karasawa, M., Kuppens, P., Loughnan, S., Peker, M., Pelay, C., Pina, A., Sachkova, M., Saguy, T., Shi, J., Silfver-Kuhalampi, M., Sortheix, F., Swann, W., Tong, J., Yeung, L. W. V., & Bastian, B. (2020). Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups.
  PLoS ONE, 15(6): e0233989. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233989

• Explaining illness with evil: Pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism.

  Bastian, B., Vauclair, M., Loughnan, S., Bain, P., … Karasawa, M., et al. (2019). Explaining illness with evil: Pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

• “Our country needs a strong leader right now”: Economic inequality enhances the wish for a strong leader.

  Sprong, S., Jetten, J., Wang, Z., Peters, K., Mols, F., Verkuyten, M., Bastian, B., … Karasawa, M., et al., (2019). “Our country needs a strong leader right now”: Economic inequality enhances the wish for a strong leader.
  Psychological Science, 30, 1-13. DOI: 10.1177/0956797619875472

• Regaining in-group continuity in times of anxiety about the group’s future: A study on the role of collective nostalgia across 27 countries.

  Smeeks, A., Jetten, J., Verkuyten, M., Wohl, M. J. A., Jasinskaya-Lahti, I., …, Karasawa, M. et al. (2018). Regaining in-group continuity in times of anxiety about the group’s future: A study on the role of collective nostalgia across 27 countries.
  Social Psychology. (Published online, October 9). DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000350

• Cultural values moderate the impact of relative deprivation.

  Smith, H. J. , Ryan, D. A., Jaurique, A., Pettigrew, T. F., Jetten, J., …. Karasawa, M., et al. (2018). Cultural values moderate the impact of relative deprivation.
  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49, 1183-1218. DOI: 10.1177/0022022118784213

• Revisiting the measurement of anomie.

  Teymoori A, Jetten J, Bastian B, Ariyanto A, Autin F, Ayub N, et al. (2016) Revisiting the measurement of anomie.
  PLOS ONE, 11(7): e0158370. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0158370

• Culture, ambiguity aversion and choice in probability judgments.

  Adachi, K., Yama, H., Van der Henst, J.-B., Mercier, H., Karasawa, M., & Kawasaki, Y. (2013). Culture, ambiguity aversion and choice in probability judgments.
  International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving, 23(2), 63-78.

• Do verbs and adjectives play different roles in different cultures? A cross-linguistic analysis of person representation.

  Maass, A., Karasawa, M., Politi, F., & Suga, S. (2006). Do verbs and adjectives play different roles in different cultures? A cross-linguistic analysis of person representation.
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 734-750.