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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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.
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Members of our lab gave their presentations at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology
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
