Welcome to our Social Psychology Lab
What's New
Lecture by Dr John Jost (Professor, New York University) (2010/12/20)
Co-sponsored the meeting by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research.Tohoku University, Global COE, International Symposium
"SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND JUSTIFICATION OF IT"(2010/12/18)"International Workshop"(2010/12/17)
Members of our lab participated in the meetings at Tokyo Office of Tohoku University.
Nagoya University Psychology Lecture Series(2010/11/30)
Speaker: Dr Nyla Branscombe (Professor of Psychology, University of Kansas)Recent Publications
Karasawa, M., & Muramoto, Y. (Eds.) (2011)Dynamics of individuals and groups. Perspectives of modern social
psychology, Vol. 3
Karasawa, M. (2011). Categorization-based versus person-based explanations of behaviors: Implications from the Dual-Process Model. In . R. M. Kramer, G. J. Leonardelli, & R. W. Livingston (Eds.),
Social cognition, social identity, and intergroup relations: A Festschrift in honor of Marilynn B. Brewer 
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).
Goto, N. & Karasawa, M. (in press). Identification with a wrongful subgroup and the feeling of collective guilt. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
Ikeda, K., Karasawa, M., Kudo, E., & Muramoto, Y. (2010) Social Psychology: Active Social Animals in Multilayered Constraints (New Liberal Arts Selection)
Karasawa, M. (2010). Socially shared cognition and communication. In K. Murata (Ed.)
Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology Series, Theories and applications of cognitive psychology (Vol. 6)
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.
Hioki, K., & Karasawa, M. (2010). Effects of entitativity on the judgment of collective intentionality and responsibility. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 81, 9-16 (in Japanese).
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).
Hattori Y. & Karasawa M. (2009). Disproportionate allocation of cognitive resource during thought suppression in depressed individuals. Japanese Journal of Personality, 17, 220-222.
Karasawa, M., & Maass, A. (2008).
The role of language in the perception of persons and groups. In R. M. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation and 
Teramae, S. & Karasawa, M. (2008). Perception of intentionality in group actions: Content analysis of behavior explanations. Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 6, 35-41 (in Japanese with English abstract).
Karasawa, M., & Suga, S. (2008). Taijin-ninchi no shinri-katei to gengo hyougen (Psychological processes in interpersonal relations and verbal expressions). In T. Masuoka (Ed.), Jojutshu ruikei-ron (Typology of narrations) (pp. 139-160, in Japanese ). Tokyo: Kuroshio Pubshing.
Conference Presentations
Tasaka, M. & Karasawa, M. (2012) The development of the predicting factor of prejudice against gay men in Japan. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, San Diego, CA. 1/26/2012
Asai, N. & Ohbuchi, K. (2012). Impact of Extended Contact on Chinese Attitude toward Japan before and after the Earthquake 2011. The 12th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California. 1/26-28/2012.
Goto, N. & Karasawa, M. (2012a). Effect of similarity/dissimilarity expression and guilt expression from a historical perpetrator group on guilt assignment by a victim group. The 13th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California. 1/26-28/2012.
Goto, N., & Karasawa, M. (2012b) They said they are different from historical perpetrators and feel guilt. Now, what should we do? Effect of similarity expression on intergroup forgiveness. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, San Diego, CA. 1/26/2012
Tsukamoto, S., & Karasawa, M. (2012) Are dehumanized defendants more guilty than "human-like" defendants?: Implications of dehumanization on the jury system,
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. The 12th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Karasawa, M. (2011) Social groups as a basis for explanations: How ordinary perceivers make sense of other peoplefs behavior. A Keynote Address at the 9th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, Kunming, China (August 29).
Goto, N. & Karasawa, M. (2011). Effect of perpetrator group's guilt expression and intragroup similarity on guilt assignment from victim group. The 12th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas. 1/27-29/2011.
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. 1/27-29/2011.
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.
Asai, N. & Karasawa, M. (2011). Impact of essentialist beliefs on consensus estimation. The 12th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas. 1/27-29/2011.
Karasawa, M., & Kaneda, M. (2010). Punishing a culpable character: Determinants of perceived retributive justice among Japanese. International Society for Justice Research. The 13th Biennial Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada (Aug. 21-24, 2010)
Goto, N., & Karasawa, M. (2010). Perceived airness of the ingroup act or concerns for reputations: Determinants for the feeling of collective guilt. International Society for Justice Research. The 13th Biennial Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada (Aug. 21-24, 2010)
Karasawa, M. (2010a). Perception of responsibility and the use of language: Implications from a Japan-France comparison. Invited symposium presentation at the 1st International Conference on Indigenous and Cultural Psychology. University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (July 25, 2010)
Karasawa, M. (2009). Transmission of stereotype-relevant information in communicative contexts. Invited symposium presentation at the 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of International Society of Political Psychology, Dublin, Ireland (July 14, 2009).
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
Seo, Y., & Karasawa, M. (2010) The Influence of Interpersonal Skills and Group Commitment on Identity Formation. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 11th Annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Goto, N., & Karasawa, M. (2010) Social Eyes Modify the Relationship between Subgroup Identification and the Feeling of Collective guilt. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Las Vegas, NV.
Goto, N., & Karasawa, M. (2010) Fairness of the Action as a Consequence of Identification and Antecedent of the Feeling of Collective Guilt. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 11th Annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Nobuko Asai (2009) Coping strategies for group-based inequality: TheRole of Causal Explanation. International Symposium "How do people reactwhen they face social justice/injustice?: Determinants of cooperationand integration."
Nobuko ASAI & Minoru Karasawa (2009) Influence of Perceived SocialSupport on Reporting Discrimination. The 8th Biennial Conference of theAsianAssociation of Social Psychology, New Dehli, India.
Nobuko Asai, Minoru Karasawa, Tomohiro Kumagai & Nobuyoshi Kawashima(2010) Recognizing Personal Experiences of Discrimination: Impact ofEssentialist Beliefs of Group Differences and Social Structure. Societyfor Personality and Social Psychology 11th Annual meeting, Las veges,NV.
Kamata (2009) The Comparison of the Effect of Intergroup Friendship on Attitude towards an Out-group between Japanese and British Participants. Moderational Effect of Collectivism. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Japanese Social Psychology Osaka University (in Japanese)
Goto, N., & Karasawa, M. (2009) Degree of Abstraction in Memory with a Feeling of Guilt: Comparison of Near and Far Memory. The 8th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Kyoto, Japan (July 28).
Asai, N., & Karasawa, M. (2009) When do disadvantaged group members complain about discrimination? : Impact of social support and social cost. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 10th Annual meeting, Tampa, FL.
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.
Goto, N., & Karasawa, M. (2009)@The Feeling of Collective Guilt and Other Emotions: Effects of the Presence of a Friend. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Tampa, FL.
Goto, N., & Karasawa, M. (2009) Presence of a Friend Influences the Feeling of Collective Guilt. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology 10th Annual meeting, Tampa, FL.
Karasawa, M., & Yoshinari, Y. (2008). Causal attribution, language use, and the perception of responsibility. The 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology. Opatija, Croatia (June 11).
Asai, N., & Karasawa, M. (2008) Coping Strategies against Discrimination. The 15th of European Association of Experimental SocialPsychology General Meeting, Opatija, Croatia.
Karasawa, M. (2008a). Research in psychology and law under the Japanese legal reformation. Symposium presentation at the 7th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Chicago USA (June 27, 2008)
Karasawa, M. (2008b). A linguistic analysis of dispositional inferences and causal attributions. Symposium presentation at the 14th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Bremen, Germany (July 28, 2008)
Karasawa, M. (2008c) Chair and Discussant: Workshop on "The legal and psychological frames for the study of conflict resolution." The 9th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Law and Society. Nanzan University, Nagoya (Oct. 19).
Karasawa, M. (2008d) Discussant. Workshop on "Recent trends and future directions of the study of culture and cognition." The 49th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology. Kagoshima Kenmin Koryu Center, Kagoshima City (Nov. 3).
Invited Colloquia
Karasawa (2009a) When social cognition becomes truly social: The role of communication in socially shared cognition.Colloquium at Department of Psychology, East China Normal University Sep. 21 2009.
Karasawa (2009b) Can social groups be held responsible? Social and cultural bases for judgments of collective agency.Invited Lecture at Department of Psychology, East China Normal University Sep. 23, 2009.
Karasawa (2010) Responsibility for Unintended Acts and the Use of Language: PotentialCommonalities and Differences across Cultures. Invited Colloquium atDepartment of Psychology, East China Normal University, Dec. 8, 2010.
Karasawa (2011) When people use groups a s a basis for explanations: Salience, entitativity, and essence of groups. Colloquium at the School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia (September 2, 2011).
