Laboratory for Social- Emotional Development

Principal Investigator   

Mari Hasegawa, Ph.D.

Tohoku University

Mari's research interests are primarily in the field of moral development, specifically in investigating moral and social judgments. In particular, she has examined children’s understanding of democratic concepts, such as freedom of speech, children’s judgments about exclusion in peer groups, and the understanding of moral emotions, such as guilt and pride. She has also studied the impact of electronic media on children's violent and prosocial behavior.

EDUCATION    

  2000  M.A., Psychology, Human Developmental Sciences, Ochanomizu University,   Japan

  2003  Ph.D., Psychology, Human Developmental Sciences, Ochanomizu University,  Japan

PRIMARY ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT 

  ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  2020-present Professor of psychology, Tohoku University, Japan

  2013-2020  Professor of psychology, Yokohama-City University, Japan

  2008- 2013    Associate Professor of psychology, Yokohama-City University, Japan

  2007- 2008    Associate Professor of psychology, Takachiho University, Japan

  2003- 2007    Postdoctoral Researcher, Ochanomizu University, Japan

  2002- 2003    Research Assistant, Ochanomizu University, Japan

HONORS AND AWARDS   

  2004   Japan Society of Developmental Psychology Award

SELECTED PAPERS    

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Peplak, J., Bobba, B., Hasegawa, M., Caravita, S.C.S., & Malti, T. (in press). The warm glow of kindness: Developmental insight into children’s moral pride across cultures and its associations with prosocial behavior. Developmental Psychology.

Hasegawa M. (2023). The Judgments and Emotion Attributions in Peer Exclusion Situations among Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth Graders in Japan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(7):5306. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075306

Hasegawa, M. (2021). Preschoolers’ and Third Graders’ Understanding of the Causal Relations of Emotions and Behaviors in Moral Situations. Japanese Psychological Research. 64, 333-342.

Hasegawa, M. (2019). Understanding of moral emotions and social exclusion in preschoolers and third graders. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 595-610.

Hasegawa, M.  (2018). Developing moral emotion attributions in happy victimizer task: Role of victim information. Japanese Psychological Research, 60, 38-46.

Hasegawa, M. (2016). Development of moral emotions and decision-making from childhood to young adulthood. Journal of Moral Education, 45, 387-399. 

Hasegawa, M. & Sakamoto, A. (2012). Electronic media’s influence on elementary school children’s QOL: Internet survey on their mothers. Japanese Journal of Applied Psychology, 38, 37-44. 

Hasegawa, M., Horiuchi,Y., Suzuki, K., Sado, M. & Sakamoto, A. (2012). A two-wave panel investigation of the influence of viewing prosocial behavior on television on the sociality of elementary school children. Media Asia, 39, 216-228.

Hasegawa, M. (2003). Development of judgments about freedom of speech among children, adolescents and college students. The Japanese Journal of developmental psychology, 14, 304-315.　(in Japanese with English abstract)

LICENSURE

   2013-present  Clinical developmental psychologist, Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Japan. 

CONTACT    

Tohoku University

Graduate School of Education / Faculty of Education

27-1 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808576 JAPAN

E-mail: mari.hasegawa.c2 at tohoku.ac.jp

How to join us?

You can join our laboratory as graduated students via the entrance examination of " Graduate School of Education"