Kosuke Wakabayashi

Dr. Kosuke Wakabayashi (若林宏輔）

2016(SEP)― Project Leader, Ritsumeikan Grobal Innovation Organization：R-GIRO

「The Restorative Justice Toward the Era of Decreasing Birthrate and Aging Population」

2016― Associate professor, Ritsumeikan University, College of Comprehensive Psychology

2015―2016 Associate professor, Ritsumeikan University, College of letters, Department of Psychology

2014−2015 Assistant Professor, Ritsumeikan University, College of letters, Department of Psychology

2013−2014 Sinior Researcher of Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO)

Center for Forensic Clinical Psychology

Qualifications

-2013 PhD in Psychology - Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Letters, Department of Psychology ( Japan)

-2007 MA in Psychology - Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Letters, Department of Psychology ( Japan)

-2005 BA in Psychology - Ritsumeikan University, collage of letters, department of psychology ( Japan)

Research Interests

Law and Psychology, Social Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Psychology

-Group decision making

-Visualization of group discussion/deliberation process

-Pre-trial publicity for judicial decision

Teaching Role

-2009 Learning Psychology

-2010-2013 Science of mind

-2013- Personality Psychology

-2014- History of Psychology

Research Projects

- Center for Forensic Clinical Psychology

Article

-Wakabayashi, K & Sato, T (2011). One-sided Conformity Effect between Witnesses with Different Judgment of the Same Event. Ritsumeikan Journal of Human Science, 24, 21-33.(In Japanese)

- Wakabayashi, K & Sato, T (2012). Historical connection between memory and testimony psychology by an experimental study of Seiichi Terada in Japan, The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 83(3), 174-181(In Japanese)

- Wakabayashi, K., Ibusuki, M., Komats, K & Sato, T(2012). Video-recorded confessions : Influence of Japan’s original video-recording system of interrogation on lay judges’ decision, Japanese law and Psychology, 12(1), 89-97. (In Japanese)

<In English>

- Goodman-Delahunty, J. &Wakabayashi, K, (2012). Adversarial Forensic Science Experts: An Empirical Study of Jury Deliberations, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 24(1), 85-103

BOOK

-SATO Tatsuya, WAKABAYASHI Kosuke & KIDO Ayae (Eds.) September 25, 2012 Psychology that Faces the Society, Shinyosha, 336p. (In Japanese)

-Wakabayashi, K (2013). Jury selection and pre-trial publicity, Fujita, M. (Eds). ”Law and Psychology”. Horitsu-Bunka-sya. (In Japanese

-Inaba, M. & Wakabayashi K., (Eds,) (2014). Transparency of Interrogation: Innovative Data Recording and Analysis by the Human Science, Institute of Human Sciences, Ritsumeikan University (In Japanese)