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Takamatsu Lab
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A psychology lab that seeks to understand human sociality through emotion and morality.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding human sociality through emotion and morality
The Takamatsu Lab studies human sociality through emotion, culture, and morality.
It investigates why people's feelings of empathy toward others are lost within social relationships.
Another topic is how the feeling of finding something "cute" (kawaii) relates to the desire to raise and protect children.
On moral judgment, the lab is reconsidering prior research, which has tended to be centered on North America, from an East Asian perspective.
Key terms
- Morality
- Moral sense; people's judgments and ways of thinking about what is good and what is bad
- Empathy
- How readily a person senses another person's feelings as if they were their own
- Psychological scale
- A measuring tool that quantifies the degree of a mental function, for example from answers to questionnaire items
NewsLab news
Paper by Associate Professor Takamatsu and colleagues published in Acta Psychologica
Paper by Associate Professor Takamatsu and colleagues published in The Journal of Social Psychology
Paper by Associate Professor Takamatsu and colleagues published in Affective Science
Paper by Associate Professor Takamatsu and colleagues published in Japanese Psychological Review (Shinrigaku Hyoron)
Paper by Associate Professor Takamatsu and colleagues published in Cognition and Emotion
ResearchResearch themes
Using quantitative methods, the lab conducts psychological research to understand human sociality through emotion and morality. Its three main themes are empathy, kawaii (cuteness), and morality.
*Illustrative imageEmpathy
The lab investigates why the motivation to empathize is lost within social relationships. Together with the original authors at Leiden University, it created a Japanese version of EmQue, a psychological scale that measures empathy in early childhood.
*Illustrative imageKawaii (cuteness)
The lab investigates how the feeling of finding something "cute" (kawaii) affects the desire to nurture and care for others, whether this feeling can be strengthened, and why it declines.
*Illustrative imageMorality
The lab has studied how people make moral judgments using moral dilemma tasks. Noting that previous research on morality has leaned toward North America, it has also published a paper that considers morality from a distinctly East Asian perspective, covering China, Korea, and Japan.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorReina TakamatsuPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Facial expressions - The Cartoonist's Art” J. Campbell Cory / Public domain (cropped)
- Empathy: “Child playing with train - DPLA - f5307c0655caabd7db3b7f0027d9813d” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Kawaii (cuteness): “Teddy bear on the window sill 01” Chenspec / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Morality: “Lipu tenpo nanpa soweli - utala pi ilo tawa” Aronora / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (高橋研究室): “Morning meal with coffee yogurt bowl and water in a cozy cafe setting” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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コリーン・クリスティーナ研究室): “Chuzao-Hosozao-shamisen” Ryukei / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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