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Takahiko Masuda

My current research interests include cultural variations in cognition, emotion, and motivation; multiculturalism; bilingualism; acculturation; language acquisition; pragmatics; and socialization processes of cultural practices.

Primary Interests:

  • Causal Attribution
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Social Cognition
  • Causal Attribution
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Journal Articles:

  • Kitayama, S., & Masuda, T. (1995). Reappraising cognitive appraisal from a cultural perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 217-233.
  • Masuda, T., Akase, M., Radford, M. H. B., Wang, H. (2008). Jokyo yoin ga gankyu undo pattern ni oyobosu eikyo: Nihonjin to Seiyojin no syuken jyoho heno bunkasa no kikaku kenkyu [Cross-cultural research on the pattern of eye-movement: Comparing the level of concentration between Japanese and Western participants]. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 79, 35-43.
  • Masuda, T., Ellsworth, P. C., Mesquita, B., Leu, J., Tanida, S., & van de Veerdonk, E. (2008). Placing the face in context: Cultural differences in the perception of facial emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 365-381.
  • Masuda, T., Gonzalez, R. Kwan, L., & Nisbett, R. E. (2008). Culture and aesthetic preference: Comparing the attention to context of East Asians and European Americans. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1260-1275.
  • Masuda, T., & Kitayama, S. (2004). Perceived-induced constraint and attitude attribution in Japan and in the US: A case for cultural dependence of the correspondence bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 409-416.
  • Masuda, T., & Nisbett, R. E. (2006). Culture and change blindness. Cognitive Sciences, 30, 381-399.
  • Masuda, T., & Nisbett, R. E. (2001). Attending holistically vs. analytically: Comparing the context sensitivity of Japanese and Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 922-934.
  • Miyamoto, Y., Nisbett, R. E., & Masuda, T. (2006). Culture and physical environment: Holistic versus analytic perceptual affordance. Psychological Science, 17, 113-119.
  • Nisbett, R. E., & Masuda, T. (2003). Culture and point of view. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100, 11163-11175.
  • Yuki, M., Maddux, W. W., & Masuda, T. (2007). Are the windows to the soul the same in the East and West? Cultural differences in using the eyes and mouth as cues to recognize emotions in Japan and the United States. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 303-311.

Other Publications:

  • Kitayama, S., & Masuda, T. (1997). Shakaitekininshiki no bunkabaikai model. [Culture-mediated model of social cognition]. In K. Kashiwagi, S. Kitayama, & H. Azuma (Eds.), Bunkashinrigaku: Riron to Jissho [Cultural psychology: Theories and research] (pp. 109-127). Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppan.
  • Nisbett, R. E., & Masuda, T. (2006). Culture and point of view. In R. Viale, D. Andler, & L. Hirschfeld (Eds.), Biological and cultural bases of human inference (pp. 49-70). Mahwah, New Jersey: Laurence Erlbaum Associates.

Courses Taught:

  • Culture and Cognition
  • Individual and Social Behavior
  • Personality
  • Social Psychology
  • Culture and Cognition
  • Individual and Social Behavior
  • Personality
  • Social Psychology

Takahiko Masuda
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
P-355, Biological Sciences
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9
Canada

Phone: (780) 492-7861
Fax: (780) 492-1768

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