MATSUO Akiko

Profiles

Contact

matsuo.akiko(at)k.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp　Please replace (at) with @

Education

2007.12	B.S. in Psychology (Adrian College; GPA 4.0/4.0, Summa Cum Laude)
2009.8-2012.5	M.A. in I/O-Social Psychology with an emphasis on Social Psychology (Illinois State University, GPA 4.0/4.0)
2014.4-2014.9	Research Student (Graduate School of Environmental Study, Nagoya University)
2014.10-	Doctoral Course in Social Psychology at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan

Professional Experience

2007.8-2007.12	Research Assistant (Internship at Dr. London’s lab in the University Toledo), Adolescent Memory Project
2012.6-2013.3	Part-time Research Assistant, Embodiment Project (Dr. Higuchi’s lab in Tokyo Metropolitan University)
2013.1-2014.3	Part-time Lecturer (Tokyo Rissho Junior College; Stats for Psych, Research Methods, Personality Psych, Social Psych, & Psych Experiments)
2015.4-2018. 3	Part-time Research Assistant, Elderly Speech Articulation Project, etc. (National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology)
2015.5-2018. 3	Part-time Lecturer (Tokai Gakuen University; Psychology Experiments)
2015.10-	Part-time Lecturer (Aichi Institute of Technology; General Psychology)
2016.4-2017.3	Part-time Lecturer (Sugiyama Jyogakuen University; Psychology Experiments)
2017.4-2018.3	Part-time Lecturer (Toyota College of Community Health Nursing; Communication Studies)
2018.4-	Part-time Lecturer (Aichi Institute of Technology; Study of Human Nature)
2018.4-	Teaching Associate (Tokai Gakuen University)
2019.4-	Part-time Lecturer (Chubu University; General Psychology, Seminar on Psychology)
2019.4-2019.9	Part-time Lecturer (Sugiyama Jyogakuen University; Social Psychology)

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in social and personality psychology, particularly the self and culture. Specifically, I have interests in the mechanism, expressions, and relational consequences of morality in different cultural contexts.

Recent Achievements

Papers

Matsuo, A., & DeSouza, E. (2016). The effects of anticipation on psychological status among narcissists. SAGE Open, 6 (2), 1-7. doi: 10.1177/2158244016650921.
Matsuo, A., & Brown, C. M. (2018). Reflected self in others: Narcissism as motivation for moral conduct. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, 8, 55-67.
Matsuo, A., Sasahara, K., Taguchi, Y., & Karasawa, M. (2019). Development and validation of the Japanese Moral Foundations Dictionary. PLoS ONE, 14, 1-10. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213343
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
Matsuo, A., Norasakkunkit, V., & Karasawa, M. (in prep.) Morality is in the cultural eye of the beholder: A situation sampling study.
Hirozawa, P., Karasawa, M., & Matsuo, A. (2019). Intention matters to make you (Im)moral: Positive-negative asymmetry in moral character evaluations. The Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2019.1653254
Brown, C. M., & Matsuo, A. (2019) Emotional reactions to self-inconsistency and self-conflict in Japan and the U.S. Culture and Brain.DOI: 10.1007/s40167-019-00087-w

Conference Presentations

Domestic Conference Presentations

Hattori, Y, Suzuki, A. & Matsuo, A. (2016, June). Women in a group setting are perceived by men as more attractive. Poster presented at the 24th Japan Society for Research on Emotions conference, Tsukuba University.
Matsuo, A., Karasawa, M., & Norasakkunkit, V. (2016, September). The characteristics of moral violation situations and Japanese morality. The 57th Japanese Society of Social Psychology conference, Kwansei Gauin University.
Hirozawa, P. Y., Karasawa, M., & Matsuo, A. (2016, September). Judgments of Moral Character with Positive and Negative Intentions. The 57th Japanese Society of Social Psychology conference, Kwansei Gauin University.
Matsuo, A., Sasahara, K., Taguchi, Y., & Karasawa, M. (2017, September). The Development of Japanese Version of Moral Foundations Dictionary. Poster presented at the 81st Japanese Psychological Association conference, Kurume, Japan.
Matsuo, A., Sasahara, K., Taguchi, Y., & Karasawa, M. (2017, October). The Comparison between lab data and Tweets in Number of Moral-violating Words with Japanese Version of Moral Foundations Dictionary. The 58th Japanese Society of Social Psychology conference, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Matsuo, A., Sasahara, K., Taguchi, Y., & Karasawa, M. (2018, September). Cross-linguistic comparisons of immorality-related words on Twitter using the J-MFD. Poster presented at the 82nd Japanese Psychological Association conference, Sendai, Japan.
Kitamura, H., & Matsuo, A. (2019, June). Development and validation of the Purity-orientation/Pollution-avoidance scale. Paper presented at the 27th Japan Society for Research on Emotions conference, Tokai Gakuen University, Japan.
Matsuo, A. (2019, September). Moral judgment and disgust. One of the speakers in the symposium titled “Social exclusion and disgust” at the 60th Japanese Psychological Association conference, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
Matsuo, A., Norasakkunkit, V., & Karasawa, M. (2019, November). Cultural Bases of Moral Ethics: Perceptions of Morality in Japan and in the United States. Poster presented at the 83rd Japanese Society of Social Psychology conference, Rissho University, Japan.
Kitamura, H., & Matsuo, A. (2019, November). The relationship between the Purity-orientation/Pollution-avoidance and the implicit attitudes towards the pollution-involving stimuli: An analysis with the AMP. Paper presented at the 83rd Japanese Society of Social Psychology conference, Rissho University, Japan.

International Conference Presentations

Matsuo, A., Reeder, G. D., Williams, B., & Louis, K. (2011, May). Performing “in synch” makes us “in synch.” Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association conference, Chicago.
Matsuo, A., Reeder, G. D., Williams, B., & Louis, K. (2012, May). Does synchronous behavior buffer reactions to failure AND success? Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association conference, Chicago.
Matsuo, A., & DeSouza, E. (2012, May). The effects of anticipation on psychological status among narcissists. Poster presented at the annual Association for Psychological Science conference, Chicago.
Matsuo, A., & Reeder, G.D. (2013, January). Synchrony, self-view, and impression formation. Poster presented at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, New Orleans.
Matsuo, A., Karasawa, M., Norasakkunkit, V., Sasahara, K., & Kaur, R. (2016, August). Cultural Bases of Moral Ethics: Perceptions of Morality in Japan and in the United States. The 23rd International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology conference, Nagoya, Japan.
Hattori, Y, Suzuki, A. & Matsuo, A. (2016, November). Males perceive females as more attractive when in group rather than alone. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society’s 57th Annual Meeting, Boston.
Matsuo, A., Karasawa, M., & Norasakkunkit, V. (2017, January). Perceptions of Shweder’s “Big 3” Morality in Non-West: Characteristics of Moral Violation Situations in Japan. Poster presented at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, San Antonio.
Matsuo, A., Karasawa, M., & Norasakkunkit, V. (2017, March). Why do people think of the situation as moral violation?: Perceptions of Shweder's "Big 3" morality in Japan and the U.S. Poster presented at International Convention of Psychological Science 2017, Vienna.
Hirozawa, P. Y., Karasawa, M., & Matsuo, A. (2017, March). Judgments of moral character for positive and negative intentions. Poster presented at International Convention of Psychological Science 2017, Vienna.
Matsuo, A., Karasawa, M., & Norasakkunkit, V. (2017, August). Can we “accurately” interpret immorality?: Cultural bases for shared representations of morality. One of the speakers in the symposium titled “Trends in the Study of Moral Judgments” at the 12th biennial Asian Association of Social Psychology Convention, Auckland, New Zealand..
Hirozawa, P. Y., Karasawa, M., & Matsuo, A. (2017, August). Asymmetries of moral character evaluation for positive and negative intention. Poster presented at the 12th biennial Asian Association of Social Psychology Convention, Auckland, New Zealand.
Kershner, A., Sansevere, K., Hardy, P., Remache, L., Matsuo, A., & Brown, C. (2019, February). Consensus in perceived moral violations: A comparison of Japan and the U.S. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association conference, New York.
Nakamura, H., Matsuo, A., & Majima, Y. (2019, March). Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism and Attitude Toward Nonhuman Agents in Japanese. Poster presented at the annual International Convention of Psychological Science Conference, Paris, France.
Matsuo, A., Brown, C. M., Norasakkunkit, V., & Karasawa, M. (July, 2020). Shared Representations of Community-Related Moral Violation in Japan and the U.S. Poster to be presented at the 32nd International Congress of Psychology Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.

Other

International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology Ph.D. Summer School (2016/7/26-30) Organizer and Onsite Supervisor, Japan Team @ Nakatsugawa Center in Gifu, Japan　Link (third-party site)
"The Judgmental Standards and Characteristics of Everyday Moral Violation Situations in Japan" (2016/9/28) Nagoya-Kyoto University Joint Colloquium @Campus Plaza Kyoto in Kyoto, Japan
Matsuo, A., Sasahara, K., Taguchi, Y., & Karasawa, M. (3/2/2019). Development and Validation of the Japanese Moral Foundations Dictionary. The 3rd Workshop for Computational Social Science Japan ＠ Nagoya University, Japan.
Executive Committee Main Member for the 27th Japan Society for Research on Emotions conference (6/28-30/2019) @Tokai Gakuen University, Japan.
“Communication: Active listening and assertion.” (10/27/2019) Faculty lecture in parents’ meeting @ Tokai Gakuen High School

Honors and Awards

The Alpha Chi Outstanding Scholar Award (Spring 2007)
Scholarship Cup Award (Spring 2006 & 2007)
Japanese Society of Social Psychology Travel Grant (2017)
The Japanese Psychological Association Travel Grant (2017)
Junior Researcher's Award (Japanese Society of Social Psychology)(2017)

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