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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology,Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology |
| Keywords | independence vs. interdependence, cultural psychology, cultural neuroscience |
| Honours and awards | 2018: Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Career contribution award 2017: Distinguished achievement award for advancing cultural psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2015: Japanese Psychological Association award for distinguished scientific contribution 2012: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2011: Earnest R. Hilgard Visiting Professorship, Stanford University 2011: Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professorship, University of Michigan 2010: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2010: Scientific impact award, Society for Experimental Social Psychology 1995: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1982: Fulbright scholarship |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Ann Arbor |
| Institution | University of Michigan |
| Institute | Department of Psychology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kühnen | Psychology and Methods, Constructor University, Bremen |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/07/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Kitayama is an international leading socio-cultural psychologist. His work on cultural variations in the construal of identity and their consequences for psychological functioning has shaped the field of cultural psychology profoundly. Recently, he investigated the dynamic, recursive interaction between culture and the brain. During his stay in Germany, Professor Kitayama will examine how deep anxiety associated with declining trust in social institutions might fuel prejudice, dogmatic thinking, aggression and violence. |