President
Dr. Minoru Karasawa is a professor in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at the Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, in Japan. After earning his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Kyoto University, he went on to graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles on a Fulbright scholarship and completed his Ph.D. in 1991. Dr. Karasawa’s research interests include social identity, international attitudes, language and culture, social cognition and law, and ideology and moral judgments. He has published research articles as a primary author in Asian Journal of Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Political Psychology, among others. A study on collective guilt that he published in AJSP as a co-author received a Misumi Award in 2013. Dr. Karasawa co-edited Progress in Asian Social Psychology (Volumes 2 and 6) and served as an Associate Editor of AJSP from 2008 to 2011.