Welcome to our Social Psychology Lab
Events before 2015
Recent Information
Prof. Karasawa gave a talk at TEDXNagoyaU@(Nagoya University, November 24, 2013)
Asai & Karasawafs (2013) paper received a 2013 Publication Award from the Japanese Society of Social Psychology.
Title: Effects of the ease in story construction on judicial decisions concerning a criminal case
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)
Three members from our lab attended 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (2008/6/10-14)
Special Lecture was deliverd by Dr. Higgins at Nagoya University (2008/5/30)
Publications
2014
2013
Haslam, N., Holland, E., & Karasawa, M. (2013). Essentialism and entitativity across cultures. In M. Yuki & M. B. Brewer (Eds.), Culture and group processes (pp. 17-37). New York: Oxford University Press.
Tsukamoto, S., Enright, J., & Karasawa, M. (2013). Psychological essentialism and nationalism as determinants of interethnic bias. Journal of Social Psychology,153 (5), 515-519. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2013.795926.
Miyamoto, S., Karasawa, M., Kobayashi, C., & Hara, N. (Eds.) (2013). Translation: Fiske, S. T., & Taylor, S. E. (2008).Social cognition: From brain to culture
Tsukamoto, S., Suga, S., & Karasawa, M. (2013). Rationale of punishment in the citizen-judge system. Japanese Journal of Law and Psychology , 13, 35-45. (in Japanese)
Adachi, K., Yama, H., Van der Henst, J.-B., Mercier, H., Karasawa, M., & Kawasaki, Y. (2013). Culture, ambiguity aversion and choice in probability judgments. International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving, 23(2), 63-78.
2012
2011
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. (2011). Identification with a wrongful subgroup and the feeling of collective guilt. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
2010
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).
2009
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.
2008
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 Cognition Across Cultures
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
2014
Karasawa, M. (2014). Blameworthy character invites harsher punishment: A social psychological approach to punitive motives against individuals and groups. Keynote speech at the joint meeting of the 4th Asian Conference of Psychology and the 4th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy. Osaka International Convention Center (March 28).
Tsukamoto, S., Asai, N., & Karasawa, M. (2014). Essentializing ethnic in-group and its impact on national identity. The 15th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, D315, Austin, TX.
2013
Karasawa, M. (2013) Social psychological approaches to sentence judgments. Symposium on gThe citizen-judge system and inappropriate sentencingh The 14th Meeting of the Japanese Society for Law and Psychology. Kyushu University. (October 13).
Karasawa, M., & Kashima, E. (2013). New directions in the study of morality 2: Culture and morality. Symposium organizers at the 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (August 24).
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).
Ohji, A. (2013) The Role of Out-Group Descriptive Norms in Encouraging Moral Behaviors. 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 19-24).
Karasawa, M., & Tsukamoto, S. (2013). Psychological essentialism and ethnocentrism: A case of Japanese national attitudes. Symposium presentation@at the 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (August 23).
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).
ETO, J.& Karasawa, M. (2013) Self-stereotyping about Blood-Types among Japanese, the 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (August 23).
Funato, T., Hasegawa, K., & Naito, T. (2013) How do newscasters tell the TV news to viewers and how does this influence the viewers? the 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (August 21-24).
Eto, J., Shimizu, K., Naito, T., & Karasawa, M. (2013) The Influence of Response Styles on Excuse-Makerfs Motivation. 14th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. (January 19).
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. (January 18).
Suh, Y. & Karasawa, M. (2013). SHARED STEREOTYPES AND THE SHIFTING STANDARDS PHENOMENON. The 14th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. (January 18).
Seel, M. & Teige-Mocigemba, S. (2013).Prejudice in Japan: Comparing explicit and implicit methods. At the 14th Annual Meeting of the Sociaty for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana, (January 18).
Tasaka, M. & Karasawa, M. (2013). gDONfT SEE ME AS GAY!h THE EFFECT OF AMBIGUITY OF THE MALE HOMOSEXUAL CATEGORY ON HETEROSEXUAL ATTITUDE TOWARD GAY MEN, The 14th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. (January 18).
Funato, T., Hasegawa, K., Naito, T., & Karasawa, M. (2013) The influence of two performersf gaze and verbal addressing on para-social interaction and impression formation from viewers. 14th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.(January 18).
2012
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.
2011
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.
2010
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)
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.
2009
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).
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.
2008
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
2015
- Karasawa (2015) Roles of causal inferences and language use in blaming others. D. P. S. S., University of Padova, Italy, Jan. 29, 2015.
2014
- Karasawa (2014) Making sense of people in cultural ways: The role of psychological essentialism. Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California at Berkeley. Oct. 1, 2014.
- Karasawa (2014) Blameworthy character invites harsher punishment: A social psychological approach to punitive motives against individuals and groups. Keynote speech at the joint meeting of the 4th Asian Conference of Psychology and the 4th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy. Osaka International Convention Center, Mar. 28, 2014.
2013
- Karasawa (2013) Influence of psychological factors on judgments by gcitizen-judges.h Lectures at a Public Symposium, hPsychological issues concerning the citizen-judge systemh by the Japanese Psychological Association. Gakushuin Universtiy, Jun. 8, 2013; Doshisha University, Nov. 9, 2013.
- Karasawa (2013) Judgment of morality and the motivation to punish : Comparing retributive and utilitarian justice. Faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia, Aug. 19, 2013.
2012
2011
- 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).
2010
- 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.
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 (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.
