Sayaka SUGA, Ph.D.

Background

2021 - present

Associate Professor Faculty of Letters, Keio University

2018-2021

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

2013-2018

Lecturer, Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Aichi Gakuin University

2012-2013

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency

2010-2012

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University

2009-2010

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nagoya University

Oct, 2008-Mar, 2009

Short term scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara

2008

Ph.D., Psychology, Kobe University Major Fields: Psychology, Social Psychology Thesis: Social Psychological Research on the Process of Shared Cognition in Communicative Contexts.

2007-2009

Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

2005

M.A., Psychology, Kobe University Major Fields: Psychology, Social Psychology Thesis: The Role of Communication in the Maintenance of Stereotypes.

2004-2006

Research Fellow Kobe University

2003

B.A, Psychology, Kobe University

Research Articles

• Suzuki A., Honma Y., & Suga S. (2013). Indelible distrust: Memory bias toward cheaters revealed as high persistence against extinction.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition., 39, 1901-1913.
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2011). Effects of the perception of a communicative context on the transmission of information. Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 9(1), 21-26 (in Japanese).
• Suzuki, A., & Suga, S. (2010) Enhanced memory for the wolf in sheep's clothing: Facial trustworthiness modulates face-trait associative memory. Cognition, 117, 224-229.
• Suga, S., Karasawa, M., & Hattori, Y. (2009) Effects of communicative goal on causal explanations of social events. Japanese Journal of Social Psychology, 25(1), 21-29, (in Japanese with English abstract)
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2006) Effects of social stereotypes on language use in the description of person dispositions. Japanese Journal of Social Psychology, 22-2, pp.180-188 (In Japanese)
• 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, pp.734-750.

Books and Book Chapters

• Karasawa, M., & Suga, S. (2008) Retention and transmission of socially shared beliefs: The role of linguistic abstraction in stereotypic communication. In Y. Kashima, K. Fiedler, & P. Frytag (Eds.) Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation, pp.241-262. Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2006) The level of abstraction in descriptions of person attributes: A social psychological perspective. In M. Nakagawa & T. Sadanobu (Eds.), Comparative Linguistic Series: Linguistic manifestation of the small world and the whole world, pp. 31-45. Kurosio publisher (In Japanese;).

Presentations

• Poster Presentations at International Conferences Suga, S. (2015). Comparison between subjectively perceived and objective consensus regarding prejudice in Japan. The 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Long Beach, USA.
• Suzuki A., Honma Y., & Suga, S. (2012). Encapsulated nature of distrust: Learned untrustworthiness is immune to intentional suppression (paper session). 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
• Suzuki A., Honma Y., & Suga, S. (2011). Prepared learning of cheaters? Memory for cheaters survives instructed extinction (poster session). 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
• Suga, S., Karasawa, M., & Sugimoto, Y. (2011) The impact of an actual experience of sharing on the saying-is-believing effect. The 16th European Association of Social Psychology General meeting. Stockholm, Sweden.
• Oral Presentations at International Conferences and Workshops Suga, S. (2010) Effects of communication on culturally maintaining stereotypes. International Workshop for Young Scholars Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
• Suga, S., Kim, H., Karasawa, M., Beiki, A., & Kaneda, M. (2010) How subtle difference in language use influences stereotypic judgments: A Japan-US comparison. The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Las Vegas, USA.
• Suga, S. & Karasawa, M (2009) A crucial determinant of causalexplanations: Effects of transitivity of predicate in a question. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 10th Annual meeting, Tampa, FL.
• Poster Presentations at Japanese Conferences Suga, S. (2009) Cultural bases of linguistic and stereotypic representations of social groups. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology, Osaka University
• Suga, S. (2008) Effects of communication on social cognition. Social Psychology Area Meeting at Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
• Suga, S. (2008) Effects of a communicative context on reproducing information of products. The International Seminar on Social Cognition for Young Researchers, Kyoto, Japan.
• Suga, S. & Karasawa, M. (2008) Effects of language abstraction level on changing stereotypic impressions for exchange students from China. Kyoto University Kokoro Research Center Workshop "Socio Cultural Aspects of Emotion Regulation and Psychological Well-being" Kyoto University
• Suga, S. & Karasawa, M. (2008) Effects of language abstraction on stereotypical impression formation. The 15th of European Association of Experimental Social Psychology General Meeting. Opatija, Croatia.
• Suga, S. & Karasawa, M. (2008)　Effects of transitive-intransitive verbs on causal explanations. The 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, America.
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2007)　Causal Information Search and Attribution Judgments under a Communicative Context. The 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, America
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2007) Effects of the linguistic characteristics of social stereotypes on impression formation. The 48th annual meeting of the Japanese society of social psychology. Waseda University, Japan. (In Japanese)
• Karasawa, M., & Suga, S. (2006) The Role of Linguistic Categories across Cultures: A Japanese Perspective Kent Workshop on Linguistic Bias,　Canterbury, England.
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2006) The Role of Communication in the Maintenance of Stereotypes. The 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, America.
• Oral Presentations at Japanese Conferences Karasawa, M., & Suga, S. (2006) Causal Inference about social issues under a communicative context. The 4th annual meeting of the Japanese society for cognitive psychology. Chukyo University, Japan. (In Japanese)
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2006) The audience tuning in communicating products information. The 4th annual meeting of the Japanese society for cognitive psychology. Chukyo University, Japan. (In Japanese)
• Karasawa, M., & Suga, S. (2005) The Linguistic Intergroup Bias in the Context of Message Transmission. The 14th European Association of Experimental Social Psychology General meeting, Wuerzburg, Germany.
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2005) Effects of Stereotypic Expectations on Impression Formation: Communication of Social Stereotypes. The 6th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychologists, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2005) The communication process of social stereotypes 2; Effect of the group membership. The 46th annual meeting of the Japanese society of social psychology. Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. (In Japanese)
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2005) Effects of communication based on role expectation on beliefs. The 3rd annual meeting of the Japanese society for cognitive psychology. Kanazawa University, Japan. (In Japanese)
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2004) Effects of Group Membership on the Language Use of Stereotype-Based Communication. The 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2004) Effects of extremity on causal information search. The 45th annual meeting of the Japanese society of social psychology. Hokusei Gakuen University, Japan. (In Japanese)
• Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2003) The communication process of social stereotypes; Effect of the group membership. The 44th annual meeting of the Japanese society of social psychology. Toyo University, Japan. (In Japanese)

2007-2009

Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.

2006

student scholarship from Center for Legal Dynamics of Advanced Market Societies (04/2006-03/2007, up to 300000yen)

2005

student scholarship from Center for Legal Dynamics of Advanced Market Societies (04/2005-03/2006, up to 300000yen)

2005

Student scholarship for international conference from the Japanese Society of Social Psychology (91500yen)

2005

Student scholarship for international conference from Kobe university ( 71090yen)

2005

Young researcher's encouraging award from the Japanese Society of Social Psychology