People – Culture & Cognition Lab

Current Lab Members

Shinobu Kitayama

Principal Investigator; Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology

Our most recent work examines, among others, the self, cognition and emotion, norm psychology, and varieties of interdependence across the globe, with behavioral, neuroendocrine, neuroscience, and genetic and epigenetic methods.
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Irene Melani

Graduate Student

My research interests revolve broadly around understanding why and how cultural differences exist and manifest. Specifically, I am interested in the mechanisms underlying cultural variations in cognition and the ways individuals organize themselves within groups.
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Tong Suo

Graduate Student

My research interests revolve around the sense of self across time, namely autobiographical memory and future thinking, in-cultural contexts. I’m also interested in how cultural match and mismatch predicts well-being.
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Amelie Rossmaier

Graduate Student

My research interests revolve around culture and group dynamics. Specifically, I am focusing on how culture influences our motivation to conform and to trust in norms.
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Yaxin Xiao

Graduate Student

My research interests revolve around culture, social cognition, and neuroscience. Specifically, I am interested in exploring how culture learning on social cognition shapes our brain differently on both structural and activational levels. I am also interested in culture variations on the human physiological processes (e.g., neuroendocrine and immune systems).
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Mohammadhasan (Hasan) Sharifian

Graduate Student

My research revolves around culture and intergroup processes. Specifically, I am curious about the link between cultural tendencies and prejudice, conflict, and extremism. I am especially interested in focusing on understudied regions such as the Middle East and North Africa.
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Erin Wang

Graduate Student

My research interests revolve around cultural neuroscience and emotion. I am particularly interested in understanding how cultural values shape emotional processes in social relationships and their implications for mental and physical health outcomes, as well as social judgment.
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