Research/Cv (under construction)

EDUCATION

2013- 2017: PhD (Human Sciences), Hokkaido University.

Title: Majority rule and wisdom of crowds: a perspective of behavioural science on epistemic democracy. (submitted, 30th November 2016)

[Social Psychology Laboratory / Department of Behavioral Science]

2011-2013: MA (Psychology), Sophia University.

Tile: From whom should we learn? Comparing two social learning strategies: copy-the-best and copy-the-majority.

[Social Psychology Laboratory / Department of Psychology]

2007-2011: BA (Liberal Arts), Sophia University.

[Major in Religion and Philosophy / Faculty of Liberal Arts]

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATION

Selected Publications

1. Willard, A. K., Nakawake, Y., & Jong, J. (in press). The evolution of the shaman's cultural toolkit. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

2. 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]

3. 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]

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

5. 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]

Selected Conference presentation (international; in English)

[4] Krockow, E. M., Takezawa, M., Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., Smithers, S., Kita, T., & Nakawake, Y. (2016). Are Japanese people more trusting and cooperative than Europeans? Evidence from centipede games with commitment-enhancing tools. International Conference on Thinking, Brown University USA, August.

[5] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2016) Independent judgment based on common cues: The wisdoms of crowds in the inherently dependent world, International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), Yokohama, Japan., July.

[6] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2014) Transmission infidelity and cumulative cultural evolution (2): Computer simulation, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association annual conference, Bristol, U.K., April.

[7] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2013) Testing robustness of superiority of the Best Member against the Majority: Inferring the Best Member from past records, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association annual conference, Amsterdam, Netherland, March.

[8] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2012) Ecological testing of two social learning strategies: Majority vs. Best Member, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association annual conference, Durham, U.K., March.

Selected Conference presentation (in Japanese)

[9] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2016) Selected majority rule: computer simulation. The 57th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Social Psychology, Shogo, Japan, September.

[10] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2015) When is majority superior than the best member?: Investigation with computer simulations controlling for the ability and the correlation of judgments among group members. The 79th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Tokyo, Japan, September.

[11] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2015) Comparing group decision rule in a multi-attribute decision task. The 56th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Social Psychology, Tokyo, Japan , October.

[12] Nakawake, Y., Nakabachi, R., & Takezawa, M. (2015). Could social interaction provoke automatic imitation?. The 1th meeting of motor and affective synchrony, Kanazawa, Japan, March.

[13] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2014) Understanding cultural evolution with multimodal fitness landscape. The 55th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Social Psychology, Sapporo, Japan, July.

[14] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2013). Transmission Infidelity and Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Computer Simulation. 6th annual meeting of Human Behavior & Evolution Society of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan , December.

[15] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2012). Best Member vs. Majority: Inferring the Best Member from past records. 5th annual meeting of Human Behavior & Evolution Society of Japan, Hokkaido, Japan , December.

[16] Nakawake, Y., Masuda, N., Nakamura, M. Watanabe, T. & Takezawa, M. (2012). Behavioral strategy of two types of indirect reciprocity. 53th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Social Psychology, Tsukuba , Japan , November.

[17] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2012). Testing Effects of Elderly Priming on Behaviour by a Double-blind Method. 76th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association, Nagoya, Japan , September.

[18] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2011). Ecological testing of majority strategy. 4th annual meeting of Human Behavior & Evolution Society of Japan, Hokkaido, Japan , November.

[19] Nakawake, Y., & Takezawa, M. (2011). Condition the best member outperforms majority: Experimental Study. 52th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Social Psychology, Nagoya, Japan , September.

EMPLOYMENT / ACADEMIC AFFILIATION

2017: Collaborative researcher at Kyushu University (the Infant Laboratory), non-paid position

2017: Post doctoral fellow in cognitive anthropology, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography,

Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthroplogy, Unversity of Oxford, UK

2015-2016: Part time lecturer in Personality Psychology, Hokkaido University of Science.

- 2^nd year undergraduate students (psychology major): 14 lectures on the topic of big five theory, biological background of personality, personality assessment and statistics (e.g. factor analysis).

2014-2016: Research fellow (Young Scientist Category), Japan Society Promotion of Science.

- Received recognition and financial support as a distinguished Ph.D. student in Japan

- Working topic: Perspective of collective intelligence on cumulative cultural evolution

2013 – 2015 (Temporary Projects): Research Assistant, Ritual and Conflict Project, University of Oxford

- Collecting data on various Japanese religious rituals

2013-2014 & 2016: Teaching Assistant, Department of behavioral science, Hokkaido University.

2013-2014: Research Assistant, Behavioral Sciences Department, Hokkaido University.

2011-2013: Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, Sophia University.

AWARDS and RESEARCH GRANTS

2014-2016: Research Fellow of The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists, Perspective of collective intelligence on cumulative cultural evolution (¥2,200,000; approximately £16,400).

2013-2014: Foundation of the Fusion of Science and Technology, Why humans overimitate? A perspective from statistical inference (¥135,000; approximately £1,000).

2012: Young Researcher Presentation Award, The 16^th Conference of Experimental Social Science, December.

2012: Young Researcher Promotion Award, The Japanese Society of Social Psychology, November.

TECHNICAL

- Statistics programs: SPSS/AMOS, R/R markdown (generating reports)

- Website management (html for web site / JavaScript for simple web application)

- Participant recruitment system (Sona System)

- Quatrics / Survey Monkey: Survey Design.

- Programming for experiment and agent based computer simulation (C++ / R / Basic / Presentation /z-Tree/ Matlab / Inqusit / E-Prime)

- GLM/GLMM, other model fitting analysis based on models of theoretical biology and economic models

- Economic experiments / interactive networked experiment / priming experiment