Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology and Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo.
Karasawa Kaori Lab.
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Every one of us is installed with a mind: a system which allows us to make sense of the social realm and accordingly navigate our actions. What kind of a model would represent such a mental system? Moreover, what would those models imply about the nature of us, humans?
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To find out, our lab conducts research on people’s social judgments regarding the self and others, as well as on self-regulatory behaviors. Each specific research project seeks to identify critical situational and individual-level determinants of social judgments/ behaviors, and to provide integrative explanations for the psychological processes underlying those relationships.
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Furthermore, social judgments and behaviors are shaped by certain sets of values. Justice, virtue, fairness – people generally show strong respect toward these morally-charged values and are motivated to realize them. That is, people possess a fundamental inclination to be a Moral Agent. Based on such premise, our research aims to model the mind of an individual as a Moral Agent. We do so through the lens of social psychology, and in a joint endeavor with adjacent disciplines (e.g., philosophy, cognitive sciences), in a unified pursuit of the same ultimate goal-exploring what it is to be a human being.
Latest News
2023/09/04
We make a presentation at The Japanese Group Dynamics Association 2023 Annual Convention (Sep. 23-24).
2023/09/04
We make a presentation at The Japanese Psychology Association 2023 Annual Convention (Sep. 14-15).
2023/09/04
We make a presentation at The Japanese Society of Social Psychology 2023 Annual Convention (Sep. 7-8).
2023/08/04
A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been published by Acta Psychologica ("Reducing negative attitudes toward older adults and increasing advocacy for policies to support older adults: Bayesian analysis approach.")..
2023/01/25
We make a presentation at Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2023 Annual Convention (Feb. 23-25).
2022/12/27
A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been published by Journal of Human Environmental Studies ("Trust in business operators of smart city projects").
2022/10/28
A new paper by Watanabe & Karasawa has been published by The Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ("Development of a belief in naïve concepts of free will scale").
2022/8/25
A book chapter by Karasawa et al. has been published in The International Handbook of Positive Psychology ("Positive psychology in South Korea and Japan: Current state of affairs and future potential").
2022/7/16
A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been published by Advances in Gerontology ("Ageist attitudes: Youth identity, subjective time to become older, and impressions of the general older population's physical and mental health").
2022/5/25
A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been published by Frontiers in Environmental Science ("Social acceptance of smart city projects: Focus on the Sidewalk Toronto case").
2022/5/11
Karasawa's interview was published in "WORK VIEW 2022: A rewarding team culture."
2022/4/27
A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been published by European Journal of Social Psychology ("Decreasing anti-elderly discriminatory attitudes: Conducting a ‘Stereotype Embodiment Theory’-based intervention.").