Culture and Cognition: University of Michigan

1993-1994 \| 1995-1996 \| 1997-1998 \| 1999-2000 \| 2001-2003\| 2004-2006\|2007-2010\|	Certificate Students
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1993 – 1994

	Michael W. Morris [email protected] Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership, Columbia Business School Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: cross-cultural differences on social judgment Populations/areas: East Asians and North Americans
	Anna Yeakley Assistant Professor of Psychology, Occidental College Area of Specialization: Cultural Psychology and Education Research interests: Social Services, Latino Health, & Diversity Education Populations/areas: various
	Tamara Halle [email protected] Program Area Director & Senior Research Scientist, Early Childhood Development, Child Trends Area of Specialization: Developmental and Cultural Psychology Research interests: ocial influences on children's cognitive development, especially cognitive skills related to academic achievement in low-income and at-risk populations. Her interests include the development of language and communication skills; emergent literacy skills of young children in home and school settings; and family and peer influences on academic achievement and social adaptation Populations/areas: various
	Nancy Wong [email protected] Assistant Professor of Management, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology Area of Specialization: Consumer, Social and Cultural Psychology Research interests: influence of cultural values on consumer psychology and emotion. The exemplar research areas include : survey research methodology in international studies, consumer decision models in services and luxury consumption, and influence of emotion and cultural values on judgment and decision models.
	Anne Hickling Manager, Training Services, SunGard Public Sector Area of Specialization: Developmental and Cultural Psychology; Information Technology

1995 – 1996

E. Margaret Evans
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Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan

Area of Specialization: Development and Cultural Psychology
Research interests: Preschool and elementary-school children's acquisition of knowledge of the world around them is one of the most impressive achievements of conceptual development. In recent years, I have examined this sort of knowledge acquisition in terms of a) the emergence of intuitive causal explanations or theories, and b) the influence of certain contexts, primarily those of culture, religious belief, school, and museums
Populations/areas: various

Gil Diesendruck
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University

Area of Specialization: Developmental and Cultural Psychology
Research interests: Children's acquisition of word meanings, Conceptual development, Categorization, Pragmatics and theory of mind, Cultural investigations of language and thought
Populations/areas: various

1997 – 1998

	Kaiping Peng [email protected] Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: culture and cognition, including causal inference, judgment bias, logic and dialectical reasoning across domains and contexts; culture, self and identity Populations/areas: East Asia, North America
	Incheol Choi [email protected] Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Psychological Science, Seoul National University, Korea Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Population/areas: East Asians and Americans
	Rachel Heiman [email protected] Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research interests: Middle class anxieties and suburban life amid contemporary political-economic shifts; the implications of diminishing fossil fuels for compounding the spatialization of inequality; comparative perspectives on the global middle classes Populations/areas: suburban United States, middle class United States
	Piotr Winkielman [email protected] Professor of Psychology, University of California- San Diego Area of Specialization: Social and Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience Research interests: His research explores the interplay between emotion, cognition, embodiment and consciousness. He is particularly interested in the implications of this work for social cognition. Populations/areas: various
	Barbara Hofer [email protected] Associate Professor of Psychology, Middlebury College Area of Specialization: Educational, Developmental, and Cultural Psychology Research interests: Her research interests include a broad range of issues related to teaching, learning and development, particularly in adolescence and during the college years. Her current work focuses on the development of personal epistemology - individual beliefs about knowledge and knowing - and how this interacts with learning strategies, motivation, cognition, and academic performance. Populations/areas: various
	Janet McIntosh [email protected] Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research interests: My current research applies theories from linguistic and psychological anthropology to the religious lives and ethnic relations of Giriama and Swahili in Kenya. I am also doing a project on how white Kenyans interact with African religion. Populations/areas: East Africa
	Izumi Sakamoto [email protected] Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada Area of Specialization: Social Work and Social Psychology,Cultural Psychology Research interests: Her research interests include multiple identities and cultural negotiation processes, socio-cultural adaptation of immigrants, critical international social work, empowerment, anti-oppressive social work, and social work pedagogy. Populations/areas: various
	Paul Kockelman [email protected] Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research interests: Linguistic Anthropology, Political Economy, Semiosis and Cognition, Mind and Emotion, Agency and Selfhood Populations/areas: various
	Katherine Hinds Faculty at the New School for General Studies, New School University Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research interests: Culture and Child Development; Reproduction/Reformation of Race, Class, Gender/Sexuality Identities; Connections of Sentiment, Mind, Culture, and Society; and the Anthropology of Childhood Populations/areas: U.K. and Jamaica
	Paul Estin [email protected] Teacher of World History and Psychology classes at Newton South High School Area of Specialization: Cognitive and Cultural Psychology
	Nicle Berry [email protected] Assistant Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research interests: Dr. Berry is committed to understanding how to foment changes that have a positive impact on health. Her research focuses on the study of social change through an examination of reproductive health in a globalizing world. Populations/areas: various
	Heidi Schweinsgruber [email protected] Director of the Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Research Council (NRC) Area of Specialization: Anthropology, Developmental and Cultural Psychology Research interests: Learning science in informal environment. Populations/areas: various
	Marion Davis [email protected] Marion Davis Consulting, L.L.C. Area of Specialization: Communication, Social, and Cultural Psychology
	Ivelisse Martinez-Beck [email protected] Child Care Research Coordinator, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Area of Specialization: Developmental Psycholinguistics and Cultural Psychology

1999 – 2000

	Ara Norenzayan [email protected] Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Thinking across cultures; religious cognition; psychological foundations of culture. Populations/areas: East Asia, Middle East, religious vs. secular populations
	Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks [email protected] Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology, Management Research Interests: Cultural psychology of organizational behavior. Emotion perception & leadership; Identity & innovation; Intercultural and interethnic business relations. Populations/areas: Different religious (e.g. protestant and catholic) and ethnic (e.g. Hispanics and European Americans) groups in North America; people at workplace.
	Ai-hsuan Sandra Ma [email protected] Assistant Professor of Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Area of Specialization: Sociology and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Globalization ; International Migration ; Cultural and Ethnic Studies ; Social Psychology /Microsociology; Gender ; Qualitative Methodology ; Asian Studies ; Decision Science; Asian American Studies
	Shailaja Menon [email protected] Assistant Professor of Literacy at the University of Colorado at Boulder Area of Specialization: Literacy, Education and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Emergent Literacy Populations/areas: various
	Tiffany Lightbourn email Assistant Professor of Psychology, Vassar College Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Prejudice and Discrimination in a Global Context; Development and Manifestantion of Anti-immigrant Sentiment within the Context of the Caribbean. Populations/areas: Caribbean

2001 – 2003

	Heather Coon [email protected] Associate Professor of Psychology, North Central College Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how your culture (whatever it is) affects who you are and how you interpret different kinds of events. As such, my research interests lie in the areas of: culture and the self, the meaning of success, failure, and responsibility in different cultural contexts, and the real scoop about the individualism and relationality of North Americans.
	Julius Trey Hedden [email protected] Research Associate at Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard University Area of Specialization: Cognitive and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: His research interests focus on the flexibility, organization and neural representation of executive control processes, including plasticity related to developmental, cultural, and strategic influences. Populations/areas: various
	Li-Jun Ji [email protected] Associate Professor of Psychology, Queen’s University, Canada Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Culture and reasoning. Culture and mood, specifically, including attention, categorization, information processing, decision making, prediction, and interpretation of life and events. I'm also interested in their implications in business, education, health, and other domains. Populations/areas: Adults and children from East Asia and North America
	Markus Kemmelmeier [email protected] Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada at Reno Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Current Position: Research Interests: I am interested in cultural influences on social behavior, especially in the domains of self, suicide, volunteerism and social judgment Populations/areas: Diverse
	Takahiko Masuda [email protected] Assistant Professor in Psychology, University of Alberta, Canada Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Current Position: Research Interests: Cultural variations in attentional processes, emotional expressions, and decision making Populations/areas: East Asians (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) and North Americans
	Brian Malley [email protected] Lecturer in Psychology, University of Michigan Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Current Position: Research Interests: : Malley’s research focuses on the cognitive science of religion, in particular the ways in which scriptures are conceived, used, interpreted, and deployed socially.

2004 – 2006

David Liu
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington

Area of Specialization: Developmental and Cultural Psychology
Research Interests: I'm interested in children's developing understanding of people's behavior and mental states and the social world. I'm interested in cultural influences of children's cognitive development as well as the neurodevelopmental mechanisms related to conceptual development
Populations/areas: Chinese children

Janxin Leu
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Assistant Professor in Psychology, University of Washington

Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology
Research Interests: My research examines the role of social and cultural influences in the emotions and health of diverse populations. In particular, I am interested in cultural differences among Westerners and East Asian populations. A second line of research examines generational differences in the psychology of Asian immigrants.

	Oona Cha [email protected] Assistant Professor, College of Business Administration, Chung-Ang University, Korea Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Cognitive consequences of independence vs interdependence in the context of culture, gender and power; Cultural factors affecting subjective well-being; Emotions in social context Populations/areas: East Asians and Americans
	Hannah-Faye Chua [email protected] Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan Center for Health Communications Research, Comprehensive Cancer Center Area of Specialization: Cognitive and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: interaction among cognition, emotion, and culture, using both behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. Population Interests: East Asians, Southeast Asians, and North Americans
	Yuri Miyamoto [email protected] Assistant Professor in Psychology, University of Madison, Wisconsin Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Dynamic interplay between socio-cultural environment and cognitive processes; Communication practices; Social cognition; Attention; Emotion; Bodily feedback and cognition Populations of Interest: Japanese, East Asians, Asian Americans, and European Americans
	Paulo Sousa [email protected] Lecturer in Cognitive Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University, Belfast, U.K. Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Social Psychology
	Joanne Cunningham [email protected] Post-Doctoral Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell University Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology
	Barbara Sarnecka [email protected] Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of California- Irvine Area of Specialization: Developmental Psycholinguistics, Cognitive and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: She is interested in the origins of human knowledge, particularly in the relation between language and thought – in how language enables the brain to develop new conceptual systems. Many of her studies focus on the development of concepts for the positive integers (one, two, three, etc.) and how this process builds on language, as well as on the core systems of number knowledge that humans share with other animals.

2007 – 2010

	Nicola Knight† Faculty at the Insitute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, U.K. Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Intersection of evolved cognitive structure and socialization processes; Influences of culture, class, and religion on cognitive processes.br> Populations/areas: various
	Michael Baran [email protected] Faculty at the Expository Writing Program, Harvard University Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Michael Baran's research examines how people in Southern Bahia, Brazil, make sense of changes in the way that racial categorizations are presented in schools, black movement organizations, and in the media. Population Interests: Northeast Brazil
	Nicholas Bowman [email protected] Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Center for Social Concern, Harvard University Area of Specialization: Education and Social Psychology Research Interests: Social class differences in independence, interdependence, and well-being; impact of experiences with racial/ethnic diversity among college students and older adults; effects of U.S. News college rankings on institutional prestige and student choice Population Interests: Working- and Middle-Class Americans
	Toshie Imada [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Child Development, University of Minnesota Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Subjective well-being in socio-cultural contexts. Population Interests: Americans and Japanese
	Xuezhao Lan [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow in Education, Harvard Area of Specialization: Education and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Cross-cultural comparisons in Executive Functions (e.g. inhibition, task switching ) and Self-regulation in children and adults. Population Interests: East-Asians and North-Americans
	Cristine Legare [email protected] Assistant Professor of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin Area of Specialization: Anthropology and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Michael Baran's research examines how people in Southern Bahia, Brazil, make sense of changes in the way that racial categorizations are presented in schools, black movement organizations, and in the media. Population Interests: Sub-Saharan Africa
	Jonathon Kopecky [email protected] Post-doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Area of Specialization: Cognitive and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Cultural differences in attention and multitasking, socio-cultural modeling. Population Interests: West Africa, Arab, and East Asian populations
	Hyekyung Park [email protected] Post-doctoral Fellow, Hokkaido University, Japan Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Universality and cultural variation in self-serving bias, cultural differences in management of attention Population Interests: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Asian American (esp. bilinguals)
	Yu Niiya [email protected] Assistant Professor at the Department of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies, Hosei University, Japan Area of Specialization: Cognitive and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Ego-threat and learning from failures; emotion and culture; amae. Population Interests: American and East Asian populations
	Vera Sacharin [email protected] Post-doctoral Fellow, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Université de Genève, Switzerland Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Cultural differences in cognition, emotion, and communication styles. Population Interests: US, Germany, Russia

Post-Docs

	Batja Gomes de Mesquita [email protected] Professor of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Mesquita’s research has explored the ways in which emotions are social and relational phenomena, in addition to innate and biological. Populations/areas: East Asians and European Americans Populations/areas: various
	Twila Tardif [email protected] Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan Area of Specialization: Developmental and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Twila Tardif's primary research interests are in exploring the relationships between language, culture, and cognition. In particular, early language learning in Mandarin and Cantonese. Populations/areas: East Asian and European American children
	Yukiko Uchida [email protected] Assistant Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Emotion, Subjective well-being, Interpersonal relationships, Social interaction, Social support, Implicit attitudes Populations/areas: East Asians and European Americans
	Sean Duffy [email protected] Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Camden Area of Specialization: Developmental, Cognitive, and Cultural Psychology Research interests: Culture, cognition and development, context sensitivity, cognitive representations of self and others. Also the development of spatial reasoning, quantitative estimation, environmental psychology. Populations/areas: East Asians, North Americans
	Keiko Ishii [email protected] Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Japan Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Cultural variation in attention, Linguistic relativity on cognition, cultural function of emotion, and cooperation and small group dynamics Populations/areas: East Asians and North Americans
	Ayse Uskul [email protected] Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Essex, U.K. Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural Psychology Research Interests: Ecoculture-cognition link; cultural identity and intergroup romantic relationships; cultural variation in honor and consequences for emotion and behavior; culture and communication/persuasion in the health domain Population/areas: Turkey, Western Europe, North America, East/South Asian immigrant groups in Canada and the UK