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
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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Japanese National Identity
Karasawa, Tsukamoto, & Ryu (2020). Can patriotism be distinguished from nationalism? Empirical evidence concerning Japanese national identity and Its ideological significance. Poster presented at SPSP Annual Conference (New Orleans, LA, USA)
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Stereotype and Language
Iori KASAHARA (Ph.D. Student) presented at SPSP 2020 (New Orleans, LA, USA).
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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
Collaborations with researchers in north-america
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Perceived warmth of offending group moderates the effect of intergroup apologies
Awale, A., Chan, C., Tam, K., & Karasawa, M. (in press). Perceived warmth of offending group moderates the effect of intergroup apologies.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220961844Using 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. -
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.12404How 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. -
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.
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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. DOI: 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.