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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.").

2022/4/7

A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been accepted by Advances in Gerontology ("The relationship between disease avoidance and attitudes toward older people").

2022/4/7

A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been accepted by The Journal of Social Psychology ("Anti-old and anti-youth attitudes among older adults: Focusing on middle-aged and old age identity").

2022/3/14

A lab member will give a presentation at The 12th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences from 29th to 31st of March (Title: "Implicit anti-elderly attitudes and subjective time to become elderly").

2022/3/14

Lab members (Tham and Shimizu) will give presentations at The 189th Convention of The Association of Social Behavior Research.

2022/3/12

A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been accepted by Frontiers in Psychology ("Influence of contact experience and germ aversion on negative attitudes toward older adults").

2022/3/12

A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been published by International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ("The social acceptance of smart health services in Japan").

2022/2/25

A new paper by Shimizu, Hashimoto, & Karasawa has been accepted 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").

2021/11/13

A new paper by Tanibe & Karasawa (2021) has been accepted by Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ("The attribution of responsibility to the manufacturer and/or user after an accident caused by a self-driving car").

2021/10/9

A lab member gave a paper presentation at the 32nd International Congress of Psychology.

2021/10/9

Lab members received the "Outstanding Presentation Award for 2021" at the 67th Annual Convention of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association (English Session: Tham, Short Speech: Shimizu).

2021/10/9

A new paper by Hashimoto & Karasawa (2021) has been accepted by Asian Journal of Social Psychology ("Are the powerful retributive, forgiving, or both? Moderating role of power on people’s responses to norm-violation.").

2021/10/9

A new paper by Shimizu, Osaki, Hashimoto, & Karasawa (2021) has been accepted by Sustainability ("How do People View Various Kinds of Smart City Services? Focus on the Acquisition of Personal Information.").

2021/9/12

A lab member will give a presentation at Aging & Social Change: 11th Interdisciplinary Conference from the 23rd to 24th of September (Title: What makes elderly people view themselves negatively?).

2021/9/12

A new paper by Tham et al. has been accepted by Transportation (Title: Underlying dimensions of benefit and risk perception and their effects on people’s acceptance of conditionally/fully automated vehicles.).

2021/9/12

A new paper by Tham et al. has been accepted by Personality and Individual Differences ("Who incurs a cost for their group and when? The effects of dispositional and situational factors regarding equality in the volunteer’s dilemma.").

2021/9/12

A new paper by Shimizu et al. has been accepted by Sustainability ("The social acceptance of collecting and utilizing personal information in smart cities.").

2021/7/10

BiblioPlaza introduced a book "Society 5.0 A People-centric Super-smart Society.", to which Karasawa contributed chapter 8: Issues and Outlook.

2021/7/10

Lab members will give a presentation at the 14th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology from the 29th to 31st of July.

2021/3/29

Lab members will give presentations at the 11th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences.

2021/3/23

A new paper by Tham et al. has been accepted by Asian Journal of Social Psychology (Title: Social rewards in the volunteer's dilemma in everyday life).

2021/3/23

A new paper by Tham et al. has been accepted by Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science (Title: The effect of impression formation on rejection in the ultimatum game).

2021/2/11

A lab member will give a presentation at the 2021 Association for Psychological Science Virtual Convention.

2021/2/11

Lab members will give presentations at the 22nd Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

2020/12/16

The Lab web site has been redesigned.

2020/10/17-18

Lab members will give presentations at the 59th Annual Convention of the Taiwan Psychological Association.

2020/7/19

A new paper by Karasawa has been accepted. (Title: "Challenges for the Data-driven Society with a Human-centerd Concept")

2020/6/19

A new paper by Kato et al. has been accepted by Applied Economics and Finance. (Title: "Rational Choice Hypothesis as X-point of Utility Function and Norm Function")

2020/6/15

Our research (mainly conducted by Tanibe Tetsushi) on VR communication was released by Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd.

2020/5/1

A research project directed by Karasawa has been launched.

2020/4/23

A new paper by Kato et al. has been accepted by Applied Economics and Finance. (Title: "Sustainability and Fairness Simulations Based on Decision-Making Model of Utility Function and Norm Function")

2020/2/27-29

Lab members will give presentations in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention.

2019/12/25

A new paper by Kasahara, Karasawa, and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies. (Title: Effects of free will belief on moral and judicial judgment: Role of explicit motives toward retribution and incapacitation.)

2019/11/9-10

Lab members will give presentations in the 60th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

2019/10/26

Tetsushi Tanibe was awarded the Presentation Award at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association. (Co-presentaters: Kaori Karasawa.)

2019/10/19-20

Lab members will give presentations in the 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association.

2019/10/14

A new paper by Hannikainen et al. has been accepted by Forontiers in Psychology. (Title: "For Whom Does Determinism Undermine Moral Responsibility? Surveying the Conditions for Free Will Across Cultures")

2019/9/16

Karasawa will be a speaker for a forum.

2019/9/11-13

Karasawa will be a speaker for the symposium, titled "Introductory Education of Psychology in Highschools," and a discussant for the symposium, titled "Working memory: Its measurement and conceptualization," in the 83th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA).

2019/9/5-7

Lab members will give presentations in the 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Cognitive Science Society.

2019/8/5

A new paper by Fukumoto, hashimoto and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies. (Title: "Perspective-taking mediates the effect of Victims’ personalities on forgiveness")

2019/7/26

A new paper by Tham, Hashimoto and Karasawa has been accepted by Personality and Individual Differences. (Title: The positive and negative effects of justice sensitivity and justice-related emotions in the volunteer's dilemma")

2019/7/11-13

Lab members will give presentations in the 13th biennal AASP conference.

2019/5/28

Karasawa will give a talk, "Risk in the data-driven society: a discussion about data applications to actualize the 'human-centred' society", at the 55th forum of Transdiciplinary Federation of Science and Technology.

2019/5/1

Karasawa was elected president of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

2019/4/24

A new paper by Tanibe, Hashimoto, Tomabechi, Masamoto and Karasawa has been accepted by Forontiers in Psychology. (Title: "Attributing mind to groups and their members on two dimensions")

2019/4/20-21

Karasawa will be a discussant for the workshop, titled "Society 5.0 and applied philosophy-IT system and social norm," in the 11th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy (JACAP).

2019/3/21-23

Lab members will give presentations in the 9th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Science (ACP2019).

2019/3/7-9

Lab members will give presentations in the International Convention of Psychological Science.

2019/2/7-9

Lab members will give presentations in the SPSP Annual Convention.

2019/1/13

A paper about the victim participant system in criminal trials (Shiraiwa, Kobayashi, & Karasawa, 2016) was introduced in an article in Asahi Shimbun.

2018/12/21

A new paper by Tham, Murata, and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies. (Title: "Because of the "bad blood"?: Genetic essentialism and associative stigma of an ex-convict's children")

2018/12/18

Book reviews of "Reading Other Minds" and Karasawa's reply to the reviews were published in "Society and Ethics," a journal published by Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics.

2018/11/15

Karasawa wrote an essay about the book "Reading Other Minds" in "Publisher's Review," the PR paper of the University of Tokyo Press, Hakusuisha Publishing Company, and Misuzu Shobo.

2018/10/26

A new book "Society 5.0" was published. Karasawa wrote a part of Chapter 8.

2018/10/2

Tetsushi Tanibe was awarded the Presentation Award at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association. (Co-presentaters: Takaaki Hashimoto, Tobu Tomabechi, Taku Masamoto, and Kaori Karasawa.)

2018/9/25-27

Lab members will give presentations in the 82nd Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association.

2018/9/8-9

Lab members will give presentations in the 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association.

2018/9/5

A paper by Shiraiwa and Karasawa was introduced on the website of the Japanese Society of Autopsy imaging.

2018/8/28

Karasawa's book "Reading Other Minds" was awarded the Publication Award from the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

2018/8/28-29

Lab members will give presentations in the 59th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

2018/8/1

A new paper by Hashimoto, Karasawa, Hirayama, Wada, and Hosaka has been accepted by Journal of Disaster Research. (Title: "Community Proactivity in Disaster Preparation: Research Based on Two Communities in Japan")

2018/7/19

A new book "Epistemology for the Rest of the World" was published. Chapter 6 was written by "Intellectual Humility Project" (PI: Steven Stich), and Karasawa and Hashimoto took part in the project.

2018/7/10

A new paper by Ohtaka and Karasawa has been accepted by the Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. (Title: "Perspective-taking in families based on the social relations model")

2018/7/2

A new paper by Shiraiwa and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies. (Title: "The significance of the autopsy imaging (Ai) in Japanese corpse examination: From the interview with a bereaved family of traffic accident experienced judicial autopsy")

2018/5/24

Karasawa's book was introduced in "UTokyo BiblioPlaza," a website of the University of Tokyo.

2018/5/3

A new paper by Hashimoto and Karasawa has been accepted by PLoS ONE. (Title: "Impact of consumer power on consumers' reactions to corporate transgression")

2018/4/25

A new paper by Tado'oka, Higuchi, and Karasawa has been accepted by the Japanese Journal of Psycology. (Title: "The effect of stereotype suppression on negative thoughts about food products")

2018/4/7

Information of Members has been updated.

2018/4/2

Mr. Takehiko Ito took a position at Tamagawa University.

2018/3/1-3

Lab members will give presentations in the 2018 SPSP Annual Convention.

2018/2/27

Karasawa reported a research of flaming on the Internet and third-party punishment. The research was funded by "Japan Internet Safety Promotion Association."

2018/2/7

A new paper by "Intellectual Humility Project" (PI: Steven Stich) has been accepted by Mind & Language. Karasawa and Hashimoto are taking part in the project. (Title: "De pulchritudine non est disputandum? A cross-cultural investigation of the alleged intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgment")

2017/12/30

A new paper by Sakurai, Watanabe, and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies. (Title: "The effect of goal attainability on conserving regulatory resources")

2017/12/4

A new paper by Saito, Shiraiwa, and Karasawa has been accepted by The Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. (Title: "Determinants of the intention to participate in the judicial system in undergraduates: Using the factor relation model")

2017/12/1

Karasawa's books were introduced in "UTokyo BiblioPlaza," a website of the University of Tokyo.

2017/10/28-29

Lab members will give presentations in the 58th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

2017/9/30-10/1

Lab members will give presentations in the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association.

2017/9/22

Lab members will give presentations in the 81st Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association.

2017/8/24

A new paper by "Intellectual Humility Project" (PI: Steven Stich) has been accepted by Noûs. Karasawa and Hashimoto are taking part in the project. (Title: "Nothing at stake in knowledge")

2017/8/23

A new paper by "Intellectual Humility Project" (PI: Steven Stich) has been accepted by Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Karasawa and Hashimoto are taking part in the project. (Title: "The Gettier intuition from South America to Asia") Link

2017/8/17

A new paper by "Intellectual Humility Project" (PI: Steven Stich) has been accepted by Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. Karasawa and Hashimoto are taking part in the project. (Title: "Behavioral circumscription and the folk psychology of belief: A study in ethno-mentalizing")

2017/7/27

A new book by Karasawa will be published. (Title: Reading Other Minds: Perceiving Others with a Naive Heart)

2017/7/20

A new paper by Tanibe, Hashimoto, and Karasawa has been accepted by PLoS ONE. (Title: "We perceive a mind in a robot when we help it")

2017/6/26

A new paper by Fukumoto, Tomabechi, Hashimoto, and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies. (Title: "The effect of free will belief on aggression in social interactive situations")

2017/6/3

Lab members will give presentations in the 15th Annual Convention of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology.

2017/5/26

Lab members will give presentations in the Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

2017/4/7

Information of Members has been updated.

2017/4/5

A new paper by Shiraiwa, Kobayashi, and Karasawa has been accepted by The Japanese Journal of Criminal Psychology. (Title: "The Effectiveness of Crime Victim Policies of the Police: An Examination from the Perspective of Bereaving Family Members")

2017/4/3

Mr. Ryosuke Sakurai took a position at Hokkaido University of Education.

2017/3/24

Lab members will give presentations in the Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Science.

2017/3/19

A new paper by Shiraiwa and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies. (Title: "The examination of the inhibitory effect on sentencing decisions: People's values of rational nature-oriented")

2017/3/15

Karasawa will give a presentation in 3rd Taiwan-Japan Workshop on Computational Aesthetics. (Title: "Judgment bias in social psychology")

2017/2/22

We held a seminar on Experimental Philosophy with our guest, Dr. Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington).

2017/1/21

Lab members will give presentations in 2017 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention.

2016/12/21

Lab members will give presentations in 25th Academy of Human Informatics regular meeting.

2016/12/7

A new paper by Hashimoto and Karasawa has been accepted by Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships. (Title: "When and by whom are apologies considered? The effects of relationship and victim/observer standing on Japanese people’s forgiveness")

2016/11/13, 2016/12/11

Karasawa will give a presentation in a public symposium of the Japanese Psychological Association.

2016/10/9-10

Lab members will give presentations in the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association.

2016/10/3

Dr. Takaaki Hashimoto took a position as a program assistant professor at the University of Tokyo.

2016/10/3

Dr. Yoshika Tado'oka took a position at Nagano Prefectural College.

2016/9/30

Karasawa will give a presentation in a symposium at Otemon Gakuin University.

2016/9/17-18

Lab members will give presentations in the 57th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

2016/8/18-20

Lab members will give presentations in the Annual Conference of the Korean Psychological Association.

2016/7/24-29

Lab members will give presentations in the 31st International Congress of Psychology.

2016/6/2-5

Karasawa will give a keynote speech in "International Conference on Ethno-Epistemology: Culture, Language, and Methodology" (Title: "Engineering the concept of free will (or the belief in free will?)").

2016/4/2

Information of Members has been updated.

2016/3/30

A new paper by Tanibe, Shiraiwa, and Karasawa has been accepted by Journal of Human Environmental Studies.

2016/3/3

A new paper by Jung and Karasawa has been accepted by Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology.

2016/2/5

A new paper by Futaki, Watanabe, Sakurai, and Karasawa has been accepted by Japanese Journal of Social Psychology.

2016/1/19

A new paper by Shiraiwa, Kobayashi, and Karasawa has been accepted by Japanese Journal of Social Psychology.

2015/12/17

A new paper by Ohtaka and Karasawa has been accepted by Japanese Journal of Social Psychology.

2015/11/22

Karasawa will give a presentation in a workshop in the 48th Annual Meeting of Philosophy of Science Society, Japan.

2015/11/7

A new paper by Watanabe, Matsumoto, Ota, and Karasawa has been accepted by the Japanese Journal of Personality.

2015/10/31-11/1

Lab members will give presentations in the 56th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

2015/10/11-12

Lab members will give presentations in the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association.

2015/9/22-24

Lab members will give presentations in the 79th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association.

2015/8/19-22

Lab members will give presentations in the 11th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology.

2015/7/2

A new paper by Watanabe, Sakurai, and Karasawa has been accepted by the Proceedings of ACP.

2015/6/14

Karasawa will give a presentation in the Meeting of Japan Association for Philosophy of Science.

2015/4/25

Karasawa will give a presentation in a workshop in the 7th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Contemporary and Applied Philosophy.

2015/4/3

Information of Members and Publications has been updated.