Dr. Steven J. Heine（University of British Columbia）joined Kokoro Research Center

Name: Dr. Steven J. Heine （Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada）
Term: Jan.7,2013-Jul.26,2013
Research: Cultural bases in mental health and decision-making: Comparisons between Japan and North America
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My research touches upon three distinct topics. I’m interested in how basic psychological processes are affected by cultural learning and while at Kokoro Research Center I will conduct some experiments that investigate how Japanese and Canadians differ in terms of processes related to well-being and responses to anomalies. I am also interested in the ways that people’s encounters with genetic concepts leads them to think in more fatalistic and deterministic ways. A third line of research explores the ways that people strive to maintain meaning in the face of meaninglessness.
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For more information
http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~heine/cv.html

2013/02/02