Research keywords (4)：
wisdom of crowds
, cultural evolution
, group decision making
, cooperation
Research theme for competitive and other funds (15)：
2023 - 2023 Can children transmit healthy and sustainable eating preferences to their parents? Joining health psychology and cultural evolutionary theory to explore new avenues in cultural transmission
2017 - 2022 Internally superimposed selves: Developing a new research in collaboration between philosophy and empirical science
2017 - 2022 Constructive Understanding of the Origin and Evolution of Language
2016 - 2021 Understanding cognitive, neural and ecological bases of human collective behavior
2017 - 2021 Inductive learning, and the evolution and maintenance of social norms
2017 - 2020 Interdisciplinary study on cultural-evolutional bases of conflict and cooperation
2019 - 2020 Cultural group selection and the evolution of social norms: Studies with large-size group experiments and the analyses of macro-level data
2015 - 2017 Exploration for cognitive foundations of scientific discovery
2013 - 2015 Environmental structure and architecture of the mind that produce cumulative cultural evolution
2012 - 2014 Reputation: Cognitive foundation of the social order
2011 - 2012 Development of adaptive toolbox approach in social learning
2010 - 2011 Adaptive toolbox in social learning
2002 - 2004 Research on adaptive concession making strategies in negotiation and its social consequences
2003 - 2003 Summer Institute in Behavioural Economics
1999 - 2001 Evolutionary social psychological investigations on the origin of property rights and resource sharing
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Papers (45)：
Yuta Kido, Masanori Takezawa. Coevolution of norm psychology and cooperation through exapted conformity. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2024. 6. e35
Shogo Homma, Masanori Takezawa. Risk preference as an outcome of evolutionarily adaptive learning mechanisms: An evolutionary simulation under diverse risky environments. PLOS ONE. 2024
Seiya Nakata, Masanori Takezawa. Hierarchical structures emerge from the cultural transmission: an iterated learning experiment using a non-linguistic task. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 2023. 6
Seiya Nakata, Masanori Takezawa. Conditions under which faithful cultural transmission through teaching promotes cumulative cultural evolution. Scientific Reports. 2023. 13. 1
Joshua Conrad Jackson, Jamin Halberstadt, Masanori Takezawa, Kongmeng Liew, Kristopher Smith, Coren Apicella, Kurt Gray. Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2023. 125. 1207-1238
Yuta Kido, Masanori Takezawa. Empirical evidence for the spread of cooperation through copying successful groups. 2024
Masanori Takezawa. Book review: Mathematics of Cultural Evolution (2020) by Kohei Tamura, Morikita Publishing. Japanese Journal of Social Psychology. 2021. 36. 6. 114-115
Asako Miura, Masami Tomonaga, Etsuko Harada, Yuki Yamada, Masanori Takezawa. The new style of psychological research: CHANGE we can believe in: Editorial. Japanese Psychological Review. 2020. 62. 3. 197-204
Ishii, T, Takezawa, M. Testing the similarity-projection hypothesis using the reaction time paradigm: Anchoring and adjustment in social judgments. PsyArXiv (February 22. 2019). 2019
Fuyuko Izawa, Masanori Takezawa. The Influence of Optimism on the Accuracy of Contingency Judgment : An Examination from the Viewpoint of Depressive Realism. Psychological Report of Sophia University. 2013. 37. 49-61
Cumulative cultural evolution under incomplete information transmission: Reinvestigation of Nakwake & Takezawa (2014)
(The 16th annual meeting of Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan 2023)
Maladaptive cultural evolution and oblique transmission
(The 16th annual meeting of Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan 2023)
1997 - 2001 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Letters Ph. D. program in Behavioral Science
1995 - 1997 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Letters Master's Course in Behavioral Science
1991 - 1995 University of Shizuoka Faculty of International Relations Department of International Relations
Professional career (3)：
B. A. in International Relations (University of Shizuoka)
M. A. in Behavioral Science (Hokkaido University)
Ph. D. in Behavioral Science (Hokkaido University)
Work history (9)：
2022/04 - 現在 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences Professor
2012/11 - 2022/03 Hokkaido University Department of Behavioral Science Associate Professor
2019/03 - 2020/02 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture Guest Research Scientist
2010 - 2012 Sophia University Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences Associate Professor
2006 - 2010 TIlburg University Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science Assistant Professor
2005 - 2006 Max Planck Institute for Human Development Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Research Scientist
2000 - 2005 Max Planck Institute for Human Development Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Post-doc Research Fellow
2002 - 2004 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Post-doc Research Fellow (PD)
1999 - 2001 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Pre-doctoral Research Fellow (DC2)
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Committee career (16)：
2022/01 - 現在 Perspectives on Psychological Science Editorial Board Member
2022/01 - 現在 Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan President
2021/11 - 現在 Japanese Psychological Association Editorial board member of the Japanse Journal of Psychology
2010 - 現在 Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science Editorial Member
2018 - 2022 Cultural Evolution Society Executive Committee
2016/01 - 2021/12 Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Japan Vice President
2021 - 2021 Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021 Sapporo Chair of organizing committee
2016/06 - 2019/04 Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science Editor in chief
2015 - 2017 Japanese Society of Social Psychology Executive Director
2013 - 2015 Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Japan Executive Director
2013 - 2014 Japanese Society of Social Psychology Director
2010 - 2012 European Science Foundation Peer Reviewer
2010 - 2012 Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Japan Auditor
2011/07 - 2011/07 The 23rd Annual Conference of Human Behavior and Evolution Society New investigator competition committee
2006 - 2010 Japanese Cognitive Science Society Editorial member
2004 - 2004 The 16th Annual Meeting for Human Behaviour and Evolution Society Program Reviewer
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Awards (5)：
2023/11 - The Japanese Psychological Association Distinguished Excellent Presentation Award Emergence of word order rules via communication and cultural transmission: Experiemental investigation using iterate learning paradigm
2022 - Japanese Group Dynamics Association Excellent Presentation Award Coevolution of norm-psychology and cooperation under exapted conformity
2021 - Hokkaido University Excellent teachers in the class questionnaire for the general education courses (2020)
2000 - Prize for the best paper in 1999 from Japanese Group Dynamics Association (for "The effect of an unfair treatment in the resolusion of social dilemma, Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 30-40)
2000 - Prize for the best paper in 1999 from Japanese Cognitive Science Society (for “Ownership and sharing: Exploring social foundations of communal sharing norm by evolutionary game analysis”, Cognitive Studies, 6, 191-205.)
Association Membership(s) (8)：
Cultural Evolution Society
, Human Behaviour and Evolution Society
, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
, Human Behaviour and Evolution Society of Japan
, Japanese Psychological Association
, Japanese Society of Social Psychology
, Cognitive Science Society
, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
