Collaborations with researchers in north-america

• 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.

• Perceived warmth of offending group moderates the effect of intergroup apologies

  Awale, A., Chan, C., Tam, K., & Karasawa, M. (2022). Perceived warmth of offending group moderates the effect of intergroup apologies.
  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25, 1372-1394. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220961844
  Using actual and fictional scenarios, we examined whether the apology–forgiveness relationship and the apology–remorse relationship were dependent on the victim group members’ perceived warmth of the offending group.

• 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.

• Knowing minds: Culture and perceptions of mental state access

  Wice, M., Karasawa, M., Matui, T., & Miller J. G. (2020).
  Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23, 319-327. DOI:10.1111/ajsp.12404
  How does culture influence the ways in which individuals reflect upon their knowledge of others’ mental states? We addressed this question in a two-study cross-cultural investigation examining perceptions of mental state access in the U.S. and Japan.

• Understanding collective guilt: Tolerance for contradiction and state-trait dissociations in perceived overlap between ingroup members.

  Brown, C. M., Goto, N., Tsukamoto, S., & Karasawa, M. (2020). Understanding collective guilt: Tolerance for contradiction and state-trait dissociations in perceived overlap between ingroup members.
  Current Psychology (published on line, March 11). DOI: 1007/s12144-020-00684-6

• 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.

• Verbal display rule knowledge: A cultural and developmental perspective.

  Wice, M., Matsui, T., Tsudaka, G., Karasawa, M., & Miller, J. G. (2019). Verbal display rule knowledge: A cultural and developmental perspective.
  Cognitive Development, 52 (in print; published online, June 25). DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100801.

• How can I become a member of my culture?: Shared representations of community-related moral violation in Japan and the U.S.

  Matsuo, A., Brown, C. M., Norasakkunkit, V., & Karasawa, M. (2019). How can I become a member of my culture?: Shared representations of community-related moral violation in Japan and the U.S.
  Culture and Brain. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-019-00084-z

• “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

• Psychological essentialism and nationalism as determinants of interethnic bias.

  Tsukamoto, S., Enright, J., & Karasawa, M. (2013). Psychological essentialism and nationalism as determinants of interethnic bias.
  Journal of Social Psychology,153 (5), 515-519. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2013.795926.

• Challenging Canadian multiculturalism: Lay perceptions of Canadian national identity.

  Tsukamoto, S., Gonzales, V., & Karasawa, M. (2010). Challenging Canadian multiculturalism: Lay perceptions of Canadian national identity.
  Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 8(1), 25-31.

• Category size and judgment of variability: The effects of seeing the trees in the forest.

  Karasawa, M., & Brewer, M. B. (1996). Category size and judgment of variability: The effects of seeing the trees in the forest.
  Japanese Psychological Research, 38, 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5884.1996.tb00026.x