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I received my Ph.D. in Behavioral Science from Hokkaido University in March 2002. My Ph.D. supervisor was Toshio Yamagishi. I then completed a post-doctoral fellowship funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Research Abroad at McMaster University in Canada and advised by Margo Wilson and Martin Daly. I became an evolutionary minded social psychologist. After then, I did a second post-doctoral fellowship funded by University of Antwerp in Belgium and advised by Carolyn Declerck and Christophe Boone. I learned more about neuro-economics.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020 - Professor at School of Social Informatics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
2009 -2019 Associate Professor at School of Social Informatics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
2008 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the study of Cultural and Ecological Foundations of the Mind, Hokkaido University, Japan
2006 – 2008 Post-Doctoral Research fellow, Department of Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium
2004 – 2006 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
(supported by Post-Doctoral Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Research Abroad)
2004 Research Fellow at the Center for the study of Cultural and Ecological Foundations of the Mind, Hokkaido University, Japan
2001 – 2004 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Department of Behavioral Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
2001 – 2002 Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Australia
1998 - 2000 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC), Department of Behavioral Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Hokkaido University, Behavioral Science (2002)
Thesis title: Social exchange heuristic: cognitive bases for ingroup bias and reciprocity.
M.A. Hokkaido University, Behavioral Science (1997)
Thesis title: A comparative study of trust and trustworthiness in Japan and US.
B.A. Hokkaido University, Behavioral Science (1994)
Thesis title: Ingroup favoritism: Bilateral Dependency and the Minimal Group Paradigm.
RESEARCH GRANTS OBTAINED
2011 – 2016 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) PI: Toshio Yamagishi
Title: Neuro-psychology and institutional foundations of human prosociality.
Total budget in 2011: 39,000,000 yen (my share: 2,300,000 yen)
Total budget in 2012: 42,730,000 yen (my share: 1,150,000 yen)
2010 – 2012 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas PI: Tatsuyoshi Saijo,
Sub team PI: Toshio Yamagishi, Cultural and institutional foundations of social behavior.
My share in 2010: 300,000 yen
My share in 2011: 1,000,000 yen
My share in 2012: 300,000 yen
2010 – 2013 Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) from Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). (PI)
Title: Study of adaptive foundations for human cooperation and its sustaining system.
2010: 5,980,000 yen
2011: 3,640,000 yen
2012: 3,900,000 yen
2013: 2,400,000 yen
Total budget: 15,920,000 yen
2009 - 2010 Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists Start-up from Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. (PI)
Title: Study of adaptive foundations of sanction behavior for sustaining of human cooperation.
2009: 1,391,000 yen
2010: 1,248,000 yen (I canceled 2010's budget because of duplication from the government)
2001 – 2004 Research Grant from Japanese Society for the Promotion Science (PD).
Title: Study of cultural and social foundations of reciprocal exchange relations
Total budget: 3,800,000 yen for three years
1998 – 2000 Research Grant from Japanese Society for the Promotion Science (DC2). Title: Study of social and relational foundation of fairness.
Total budget: 1,600,000 yen for two years