Contact Information:
Culture and Cognition Lab
P123 Biological Sciences Bldg.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada
Lab Email: cultpsy@ualberta.ca |
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Lab Leader: Taka Masuda, PhD
Associate Professor
P355 Biological Sciences Bldg.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada
Phone: 780-492-7861
Fax: 780-492-1768
Email: tmasuda@ualberta.ca
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| Upcoming News: |
Hajin Lee has passed her dessertation defense. Congratulations Hajin!
Emily Wu has been accepted as an English teacher in the Jet Program. She will be spending the next 2-3 years in Japan. Congratulations Emily!
Liman Li's paper has been accepted by the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. The title is: "Culture and decision making: Influence of analytic versus holistic thinking style on resource allocation in a fort game."
Dr. Masuda received Honour Roll with Distinction for two of his courses in Fall 2017. Congratulations, Dr. Masuda!
Dr. Liman Li found a new tenure-tracking assistant professor position at Education University of Hong Kong. Congratulations, Liman!
Mantou Nigel Lou's dissertation proposal is approved. Congratulations, Nigel!
We are pleased to welcome back Yuto Yasuda who will be joining us in the lab on Friday, September 15th!
Congratulations to Dr.Masuda, Hajin, Sumin and Shirley for successfully completing their data collection in Japan and returning from their trip!
Congratulations to Dr. Masuda for his recent publication!
Li, L., Masuda, T., & Lee, H. (2017). Low Relational Mobility Leads to Greater Motivation to Understand Enemies but Not Friends and Acquaintances. British Journal of Social Psychology.
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Interested in participating in a study?
The Child-Parent Project |
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Culture and Cognition Lab Publications
2018
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Senzaki, S., Wiebe, S. A., Masuda, T., Shimizu, Y. (2018). A cross-cultural examination of selective attention in Canada and Japan: The role of social context. Cognitive Development. 48,32-41. |
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Li, L. M. W, Masuda, T., Hanamura, T., & Ishii, K.. (in press). Culture and decision making: Influence of analytic versus holystic thinking style on resource allocation in a fort game. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. |
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Li, L. M. W, Masuda, T., Lee, H. (2018). Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances. British Journal of Social Psychology. 57(1), 43-60. |
2017
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Masuda, T. (in press). Culture and attention: Recent empirical findings and new directions in cultural psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. |
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Masuda, T., Ishii, K., Miwa, K., Rashid, M., Lee, H., & Mahdi, R. (2017). One Label or Two? Linguistic Influences on the Similarity Judgment of Objects between English and Japanese Speakers. Frontiers in Psychology: Cultural Psychology.8:1637 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01637. |
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Masuda, T., Li, L. M. W., & Russell, M. J. (in press). Judging the world dialectically vs. non-dialectically: Cultural variations in on line decision-making processes. In J. Spencer-Rodgers & K. Peng (Eds.), The psychological and cultural foundations of East Asian Cognitions. New York: Oxford University Press. |
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Lou, N. M., Masuda, T., & Li, L. M. W. (in press). Decremental mindsets and prevention-focused motivation: An extended framework of implicit theories of intelligence. Learning and Individual Differences. |
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Masuda, T., Li, L. M. W., Russell, M. J. & Lee, H. (in press). Perception and cognition. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology (Second Edition). New York: Guilford Press. |
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Lee, H., Nand, K., Shimizu, Y., Takada, A., Kodama, M., & Masuda, T. (in press). Culture and emotion perception: Comparing Canadian and Japanese children’ and parents’ context sensitivity. Culture and Brain. 5(2), 91-104. |
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Li, L., Masuda, T., & Lee, H. (2017). Low Relational Mobility Leads to Greater Motivation to Understand Enemies but Not Friends and Acquaintances. British Journal of Social Psychology. |
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Masuda, T. (2017). Bunka to kokoro: Bunka shinri gaku no genzai no doukou [Culture and the mind: The current advances in cultural psychology]. Shinrigaku World, 76. |
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Lee, H., Shimizu, Y., Masuda, T., & Ulman, J. (in press). Cultural Differences in Spontaneous Trait and Situation Inferences" in its current form for publication. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,48(5), 627-643 |
2016
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Masuda, T., Ishii, K., & Kimura, J. (2016). When does the culturally dominant mode of attention appear or disappear? Comparing patterns of eye movement during the visual flicker task between European Canadians and Japanese. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47 (7), 997-1014. |
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Imai, M., Kanero, J., & Masuda, T. (2016). The relation between language, culture, and thought. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 70-77. |
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Li, L. M. W., & Masuda, T. (2016). The role of regulatory focus in how much we care about enemies:
Cross cultural comparison between European Canadians and Hong Kong
Chinese. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47 (1), 131-148. |
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Masuda, T. (2016). Culture and perception. In H. Miller (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of theory in psychology (pp. 658-660). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. |
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Senzaki, S., Masuda, T., Takada, A., & Okada, H. (2016). The communication of culturally dominant modes of attention from parents to children: A comparison of Canadian and Japanese parent-child conversations during a joint scene description task. PLoSOne 11(1): e0147199. doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0147199. |
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Li, L. M. W., Masuda, T., & Jiang, F. (2016). Influence of cultural meaning system and socioeconomic development on indecisiveness in three cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47 (4), 508-524. |
2015
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Masuda, T. (2015). Kyokansei kenkyu no hatten no tameno rironteki freimuwaaku:
Murata ra (2015) heno komento ronbun [Theoretical frameworks for
advancing empathy research: A commentary on Murata et al. (2015)]. Japanese Psychological Review, 58(3), 404-410. |
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Russell, M. J., Masuda, T.,
Hioki, K., & Singhal, A. (2015). Culture and Social Judgments: The
importance of culture in Japanese and European Canadians’ N400 and LPC
processing of face lineup emotion judgments. Culture and Brain, 3(2), 131-147. |
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Rychlowska, M., Miyamoto, Y., Matsumoto, D., Hess, U., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Kamble, S., Muluk, H., Masuda, T.,
Niedenthal, P. M. (2015). Heterogeneity of long-history migration
explains cultural differences in reports of emotional expressivity and
the functions of smiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), E2429-E2436. |
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Li, L. M. W., Masuda, T., Russell,
M. J. (2015). Culture and decision making: Investigating cultural
variations in the East Asian and North American online decision making
processes. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 18(3), 183-191. |
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Ito, K., Masuda, T., Komiya,
A., & Hioki, K. (2015). Seeking help from close, same-sex friends:
Relational costs for Japanese and personal costs European Canadians. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32(4), 529-554. |
2014
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Masuda, T. (2014).
Bunka to Kokoro [Culture and the mind]. in T. Yamagishi (Ed.),
Shakaikoudo no bunka seidoteki kiban [Cultural-Institutional Foundations
of Social Behaviors]. (pp. 3-33). Tokyo: Keiso Shobo. Written in JapaneseW |
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Masuda, T. (2014).
Bunka ga umidasu imitaikei to sono shutoku [Meaning systems generated
by culture and its learning process]. In M. Imai & N. Saji (Eds.), Iwanami koza: Communication no ninchi kagaku, Dai 1 kan [Iwanami Lecture Series: Cognitive sciences in communication, Vol. 1] (pp. 285-292). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. Written in Japanese |
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Nand, K., Masuda, T., Senzaki,
S., & Ishii, K. (2014). Examining cultural drifts in artworks
through development and history: Cultural comparisons between Japanese
and Western landscape paintings and drawings. Frontiers in Psychology: Cultural Psychology, 5, 1041. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01041 |
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Senzaki, S., Masuda, T. & Nand, K. (2014). Holistic versus analytic expressions in
artworks: Cross-cultural differences and similarities in drawings and
collages by Canadian and Japanese school-age children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45(8), 1297-1316. doi: 10.1177/0022022114537704/ |
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Senzaki, S., Masuda, T. & Ishii, K. (2014). When is perception top-down, and when is it not? Culture, narrative, and attention. Cognitive Science, 38, 1493-1506. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12118 |
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Li, L. M. W., Masuda, T., Russell,
M. J. (2014). The influence of cultural lay beliefs: Dialecticism and
indecisiveness in European Canadians and Hong Kong Chinese. Personality and Individual Differences, 68, 6-12. |
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Masuda, T. (2014). Bunka to ninchi kenkyu no shintenkai [New directions in
research on culture and cognition]. In O. Takagi., I, Daibo., & K.
Takemura. (Eds.,), Shakai shinrigaku no shintenkai [New directions in
social psychology], pp. 186-204. Kyoto: Kitaoji Shobo. Written in Japanese |
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Masuda, T.,
Russell, M. J., Chen, Y. Y., Hioki, K., Caplan, J. B. (2014). N400
incongruity effect in an episodic memory task reveals different
strategies for handling irrelevant contextual information for Japanese
than European Canadians. Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 17-25. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2013.831819 |
2013
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Ito, K., Masuda, T. & Li, M. -W. (2013). Agency and Facial Emotion Judgment in Context. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 763-776. |
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| Imai, M., & Masuda, T. (2013)
The role of language and culture in universality and diversity of
human concepts. In M. Gelfand, C-Y, Chiu, & Y-Y, Hong (eds.), Advances in culture and psychology (pp. 1-61). New York: Oxford University Press. |
2012
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Masuda, T. (2012). Bunkashinrigakuno shizakara toraeru bunkato koufukukan no
shomondai: Koyasu hoka ronbun oyobi Oyama ronbun heno komento.
[Understanding the issues of culture and happiness from a cultural
psychology perspective: Comments on Koyasu et al. and Oyama’s
articles]. Japanese Psychological review, 55, 107-113. Written in Japanese |
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Wang, H., Masuda, T.,
Ito, K.,& Rashid, M. (2012). How Much Information? East Asian
and North American Cultural Products and Information Search Performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1539-1551. |
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Masuda, T., Wang,
H., Ishii, K., & Ito, K (2012). Do Surrounding Figures’ Emotions
Affect the Judgment of Target Figure’s Emotion?: Comparing the
Patterns of Attention between European-Canadians, Asian-Canadians,
Asian International Students, and Japanese using Eye-trackers. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience: The Impact of Emotion on Cognition. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00072 |
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Masuda, T. (2012).
Seiyo to higashi asia no bunsekiteki shikoyoshiki to hokatsuteki
shikoyoshiki [Analytic and holistic thinking styles in Western and
Asian cultures] In F. Koike, N. Kaneko, H. Matsuda, & T. Shigeoka
(ed.) Seitaikei no kurashikata: Asia shiten no kankyo risuku
manejiment. [Global eco-risk management from Asian viewpoints] (topic
page 14). Written in Japanese |
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Morling, B., & Masuda, T. (2012). Social cognition in real worlds: Cultural psychology and social cognition. In S. T. Fiske, & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (pp. 429-450). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. |
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Masuda, T., Wang,
H., Ito, K., & Senzaki, S. (2012). Culture and Cognition:
Implications for Art, Design, and Advertisement.University of Alberta.
In S. Okazaki (Ed.), Handbook of Research in International Advertising (pp. 109-133). Edward Elgar Publishing, UK. |
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Ito, K., Masuda, T., & Hioki, K. (2012). Affective Information in Context and Judgment
of Facial Expression: Cultural Similarities and Variations in Context
Effects Between North Americans and East Asians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43, 429-445. |
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