Haruno Kusakabe PhD Student / JSPS Research Fellow (DC1) Hokkaido University
I am a PhD student studying at Prof. Masaki Yuki's lab at the Department of Behavioral Science, Hokkaido University in Japan. My research focuses on cross-societal differences in exchange and use of reputational information in human society. I employ a multidisciplinary approach from social, socio-ecological, and evolutionary psychology, along with several methodologies such as experience sampling, online experiments, and large-scale data analysis. Research Interest reputation, gossip, culture, social norms, punishment, supernatural punishment belief Educations PhD Student, 2025-Present Hokkaido University, Japan Visiting Student, 2024-2025 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands MA in Human Science, 2023-2025 Hokkaido University, Japan BA in Law, 2018-2023 Kyoto University, Japan