日本語

Yo Nakawake, PhD

Associate Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Research Affiliate, Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management

Research Affiliate, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion

        nakawake.yo[@]kochi-tech.ac.jp

ORCID: 0000-0002-4911-0740

Google Scholar: LINK

GitHub: YNakawake

ResearchMap: LINK [in Japanese]

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/nakawakelab/english

cultural evolution,  folktale,  cognitive science of religion,    majority group decision

Publication

• • Nakawake, Y., & Kobayashi, Y. (in press). Exploring new technologies for the future generation: Exploration-exploitation trade-off in an intergenerational framework. Royal Society Open Science.

  • Shibasaki, S., Nakadai, R. & Nakawake, Y. (in press). Biogeographical distributions of trickster animals. Royal Society Open Science.

  • Nakawake, Y., Honda, N., & Suyama, M. (in press). Night parade of one hundred demons: Exploring counterintuitiveness of Japanese monstrous beings. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science.

  • Nakawake, Y., Kubo, K., Kakinuma, M., & Sato, K. (2024). Cultural evolution of stories: Perspectives from adaptive functions and cognitive foundation. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. 31(1) 110–127 [PDF]

  • Kakinuma, M., Ando, J., & Nakawake, Y. (2023). Preference for normative information over social information: A vignette Experiment testing content bias at three phases of transmission. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 14(2), 53-57. https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2023.110 [PDF]

  • Ikari, S., Sato, K., Burdett, E., Ishiguro, H., Jong, J., & Nakawake, Y. (2023). Religion-related values differently influence moral attitude for robots in the US and Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(6–7), 742–759. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221231193369. [LINK] [request via ResearchGate]

  • Meng, X., Ishii, T., Sugimoto, K., Nakawake, Y., Moriguchi, Y., Kanakogi, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities. Cognition, 239, 105576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105576 [PDF]

  • Nakadai*, R., Nakawake*, Y. & Shibasaki*, S. (2023).  AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation. Nature Human Behaviour. 7, 1804-1805. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01652-3 [LINK] [request via ResearchGate]

  • Miyajima, T., Nakawake, Y., Meng, X., & Sudo, R. (2023). Ordinance influences individuals' perceptions towards prospects of social circumstance but not the status quo: An experimental field study on sexual minorities issues in Japan. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12568 [PDF]

  • Nakawake, Y.*, & Ishii, T.* (2022). The rationality of religion as adaptive heuristics. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. 29(3), 433-445. https://doi.org/10.11225/cs.2022.035 [in Japanese] [PDF]

  • Burdett, E., Ikari, S., & Nakawake. Y. (2022). British Children’s and Adults' Perceptions of Robots. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3813820. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3813820 [PDF]

  • Nakawake, Y., & Kobayashi, Y. (2022). Negative observational learning might play a limited role in the cultural evolution of technology. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 970. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05031-2 [PDF]

  • Yamada, J., Nakawake, Y., Shou, Q., Nishina, K., Matsunaga, M., & Takagishi, H. (2021). Salivary oxytocin is negatively associated with religious faith in Japanese non-Abrahamic people. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705781 [PDF]

  • Meng*, X., Nakawake*, Y., Hashiya, K., Burdett, E., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2021). Preverbal infants expect agents exhibiting counterintuitive capacities to gain access to contested resources. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89821-0 [PDF] equal contribution

  • Nakawake*, Y., & Sato*, K. (2019). Systematic quantitative analyses reveal the folk-zoological knowledge embedded in folktales. Palgrave Communications, 5(1), 1-10.  [PDF]   *equal contribution

• • Meng, X., Nakawake, Y., Nitta, H., Hashiya, K., & Moriguchi, Y. (2019). Space and rank: infants expect agents in higher position to be socially dominant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1912), 20191674.  [PDF]

• • Willard, A. K., Nakawake, Y., & Jong, J. (2018). The evolution of the shaman's cultural toolkit. Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 41, e89.  [Link]

• • Krockow, E. M., Takezawa, M., Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., Smithers, S., Kita, T., & Nakawake, Y. (2018). Commitment-enhancing tools in centipede games: Evidencing European-Japanese differences in trust and cooperation. Judgment and Decision Making,13(1), 61–72. [PDF]

• • Kavanagh, C., & Nakawake, Y. (2016). Developing the field site concept for the study of cultural evolution: the promise and the perils. Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 7(2), 273-280 [PDF] 

• • Horita, Y., Takezawa, M., Kinjo, T., Nakawake, Y., & Masuda, N. (2016). Transient nature of cooperation by pay-it-forward reciprocity. Scientific reports, 6.  [PDF]

• • Watanabe, T., Takezawa, M., Nakawake, Y., Kunimatsu, A., Yamasue, H., Nakamura, M., Miyashita, Y., & Masuda, N. (2014). Two distinct neural mechanisms underlying indirect reciprocity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(11), 3990-3995.  [PDF] 

Preprint

• • Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (preprint). The robust beauty of the majority rule by a small number of selected members.  https://osf.io/3axpj/

  • Nakawake, Y., & Stanford, M. (preprint). Following Majority Rule versus Deferring to Elders: Educational Background Shapes Group Decision Preference in Burmese Children. https://psyarxiv.com/jm3dr/