Culture Clash: Debate and Emotional Expression
February 23, 2025
An article featured in Psychology Today. The author incorporates the ideas from Shinobu and Christina’s Beyond East and West 2024 paper to propose a way to improve contemporary U.S. culture, which, he argues, is increasingly focused on “attacking and destroying” through argumentation.
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Shinobu Kitayama received Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology
“The American Psychological Foundation’s flagship award recognizes the work of a psychologist or group of psychologists that is impactful, innovative, and transformational. Dr. Shinobu Kitayama is recognized for his groundbreaking work on culture, as it is related to the self and all psychological processes that comprise it, including cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes.” Congratulations, Shinobu!……
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Shinobu Kitayama speaks at Denison University: “Exploring Beyond East and West”
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Shinobu Kitayama contributed to a new Nature paper!
Shinobu Kitayama contributed to a new Nature paper, which reviews the existing evidence and shows that the COVID-19 pandemic was fundamentally socio-cultural. Click here to read the new article
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Michele Gelfand’s RCGD talk covered in Michigan daily
Click here to read the article on Michigan Daily
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Amelie Rossmaier received the Travel Award at the Culture and Cognition Pre-conference of the Psychonomic Society
Amelie recently received the Graduate Student Travel Award at the 4th Culture and Cognition Pre-conference of the Psychonomics Society. Congratulations, Amelie!
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Shinobu Kitayama presents cultural psychology talk at the University of Tehran
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Shinobu Kitayama has received the Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence from SPSP
“The Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence is a teaching and mentoring award that honors a personality or social psychologist who has demonstrated a career-long commitment to fostering the professional and intellectual development of students and early career researchers. This award is intended to recognize exceptional and selfless efforts to shape our field through mentoring activities……
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Cristina Salvador’s study on Latin American emotional expression is highlighted in Michigan News
A recent press release from Michigan News covered the Latin American study “Emotionally Expressive Interdependence in Latin America: Triangulating Through a Comparison of Three Cultural Regions,” with Cristina Salvador as the lead author. Click here to read the entire article on Michigan News
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The “Germ Aversion Paradox” paper is featured in UM RCGD News
A recent press release from the University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics News featured our new paper titled “The Germ Aversion Paradox: When Germ Aversion Predicts Reduced Alpha Power Suppression to Norm Violations.” Click here to read the news article on the UM Psychology website
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Shinobu Kitayama has received the APS William James Fellow Award 2024!
“The APS William James Fellow Award honors APS members for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology. Recipients must be APS members recognized internationally for their outstanding contributions to scientific psychology.” Congratulations, Shinobu! Click here to read the entire article on the APS website