Saori TSUKAMOTO, Ph.D.

Background

2017 -

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

2016 - 2017

Visiting Researcher, Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan

2016 - 2017

Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)

2015 - 2016

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University

2014 - 2015

Fulbright Scholar - Ph.D Thesis Program

2014 - 2015

Department of Psychology, Princeton University - Visiting Graduate Student Researcher

2011 - 2015

Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University - Ph.D. in Psychology

2011 - 2014

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)

2009 - 2011

Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University - Master of Arts in Psychology

2008

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Victoria - Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Research Interests

Psychological Essentialism, Stereotype, Dehumanization, Culture

Research Articles

• Tsukamoto, S., & Fiske, T. S. (2018). Perceived Threat to National Values in Evaluating Stereotyped Immigrants, The Journal of Social Psychology, 158 (2), 157-172.Link
• (raw data) Tsukamoto, S., & Fiske, T. S. (2018). Perceived Threat to National Values in Evaluating Stereotyped Immigrants, The Journal of Social Psychology, 158(2), 157-172.Link
• Suzuki, A., Tsukamoto, S., & Takahashi, Y. (2017). Faces tell everything in a just and biologically determined world. Social Psychological and Personality Science. OnlineFirst.Link
• Tsukamoto, S., & Karasawa, M. (2015b). From Interpersonal to Inter-ethnic Differentiation: The Role of Psychological Essentialism. Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 13(1), 13-20.Link
• Tsukamoto, S., & Karasawa, M. (2015a). Dehumanization in the Judicial System: The Effect of Animalization and Mechanization of Defendants on Blame Attribution, Proceeding of the 10th Asian Association of Social Psychology Biennial Conference, 256-267.
• Tsukamoto, S., Holland, E., Haslam, N., Karasawa, M., & Kashima, Y. (2015). Cultural Differences in Perceived Coherence of the Self and In-group: A Japan-Australia Comparison, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 18(1), 83-89.Link
• Joshanloo, M., Weijers, D., Jiang, D.-Y., Han, G., Bae, J., Pang J. S., Ho, L. S., Ferreira, M. C., Demir, M., Rizwan, M., Khilji, I. A., Achoui, M., Asano, R., Igarashi, T., Tsukamoto, S., Lamers, S. M. A., Turan, Y., Sundaram, S., Yeung, V. W. L., Poon, W.-C., Lepshokova, Z. K., Panyusheva, T., & Natalia, A. (2015). Fragility of happiness beliefs across 15 national groups. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6, 1185-1210.Link
• Ueno, T., Tsukamoto, S., Kurita, T., & Karasawa, M. (2014). Incorporating Social Psychological Theories in the Model Training Regime: How Neural Representations for Social Cognition Emerge from Interactions with Others, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2990-2995.Link
• Joshanloo, M., Lepshokova, Z., Panyusheva, T., Natalia, A., Poon, W., Yeung, V., Sundaram, S., Achoui, M., Asano, R., Igarashi, T., Tsukamoto, S., Rizwan, M., Khilji, I., Ferreira, M. C., Pang, J., Ho, L., Han, G., Bae, J., & Jiang, D.-Y. (2014). Cross-cultural validation of the fear of happiness scale across 14 national groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45, 246-264.Link
• Tsukamoto, S., Enright, J., & Karasawa, M. (2013). Psychological essentialism and nationalism as determinants of interethnic bias. Journal of Social Psychology, 153 (5), 515-519.Link
• Tsukamoto, S., Gonzales, V., & Karasawa, M. (2010). Challenging Canadian multiculturalism: Lay perceptions of Canadian national identity. Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 8(1), 25-31.Link

Books and Book Chapters

• ・Tsukamoto, S., Kashima, Y., Haslam, N., Holland, E., & Karasawa, M. (2018). The psychological and cultural foundations of East Asian Cognition In Spencer-Rodgers, J. & Peng, K. (Eds.) Culture, naive dialecticism, and perceptions of individuals and groups (Chapter 11). NY: Oxford University PressLink

Presentations

• Poster Presentations Tsukamoto, S., & Fiske, T. S. (2016). Who threatens American National Identity?: The Perceived Influence of Immigrant Stereotypes. The 16th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
• Symposia Tsukamoto, S. (2013). Evaluating the legitimacy of actions by dehumanized perpetrators. In M. Karasawa & E. Kashima (Chairs), New directions in the study of morality 2: Theoretical integrations and empirical explorations. Symposium conducted at the 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: August 24
• Oral Presentations Tsukamoto, S. (2013). Evaluating the legitimacy of actions by dehumanized perpetrators. In M. Karasawa & E. Kashima (Chairs), New directions in the study of morality 2: Theoretical integrations and empirical explorations. Symposium conducted at the 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: August 24.
• Tsukamoto, S., Holland, E., Haslam, N., Karasawa, M., & Kashima, Y. (2013). Naive dialecticism and psychological essentialism as culturally shaped lay theories. The 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: August 23.
• Tsukamoto, S., Suzuki, A., & Karasawa, M. (2013). A dehumanization influence on the morality judgment of an environmental issue. The 14th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology,　B194, New Orleans, LA.
• Tsukamoto, S., Holland, E., Karasawa, M., Kashima, Y., & Haslam, N. (2012). Revealing cultural differences in essentialist beliefs about the self and the in-group, Pre-Conference of The 13th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, San Diego, CA.
• Tsukamoto, S., & Karasawa, M. (2012). Are dehumanized defendants more guilty than "human-like" defendants?: Implications of dehumanization on the jury system,The 12th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
• Tsukamoto, S. (2011). Ethnic categories as a causal explanation. In M. Karasawa (Chair), The role of lay theories and affect in intergroup contexts. Symposium conducted at the 9th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, SY016 (p.19), Kunming, China: July
• Tsukamoto, S., Enright, J., & Karasawa, M (2011). Essentialist way of understanding ethnic categories: Interventional attempts to reduce out-group negativity in relation to nationalism, The 9th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Kunming, China.
• Tsukamoto, S. (2011). Ethnic categories as a causal explanation, The 9th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology - Symposium, Kunming, China.
• Tsukamoto, S., Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2011). The influence of pscyhological essentialism on inferences about gender category: the case for 'citizen-judges'. The 12th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas.
• Tsukamoto, S., Enright, J., & Karasawa, M. (2011). The influence of in-group essentialist beliefs and in-group identity on attitude toward an out-group. Pre-Conference of The 12th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
• Tsukamoto, S. & Karasawa, M (2010). Understanding interpersonal differences: Perceptions of ethnic categories in relation to essentialism. Society for Personality and Social Psychology the 11th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Tsukamoto, S. & Karasawa, M (2010). The influence of social context on essentialist beliefs: Exclusivity perception of ethnic categories. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Tsukamoto, S. & Karasawa, M (2009). Is "Japanese" a natural category?: The influence of essentialist beliefs on perceptions of intergroup differences, The 8th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, New Delhi, India.

2009

Junior Researcher's Award (Japanese Society of Social Psychology)