Research

The research team at the Culture and Development Lab is interested in how children’s cognitive and social development may be similar and different across various cultural groups. We conduct cross-cultural studies. Our research questions include:

• How do socialization practices and experiences shape the developing mind?
• How do children learn to imitate others?
• How do children learn to navigate the social world?

Selected publications

Nand, J., Masuda, T., Senzaki, S., & Ishii, K. (2014). Examining cultural drifts
     in artworks through history and development: Cultural comparisons    
     between Japanese and Western landscape paintings and drawings.
Frontiers in Psychology, Cultural Psychology. article

Senzaki, S., Masuda, T. & Nand, K. (2014). Holistic versus analytic expressions in
     artworks: Cross-cultural differences and similarities in drawings and collages by
     Canadian and Japanese school-age children. Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology, 45, 1297-1316. article

Senzaki, S., Masuda, T., & Ishii, K. (2014). When is perception top-down and
when is it not? Culture, narrative and attention, Cognitive Science, 1-14. article

Fukuzawa, A., Yamaguchi, S., & Senzaki, S. (2013). Jisonshin no level, hendousei to
     shouraieno kouteitekina kitaitono kanren: tooi shouraieno kouteitekina
     kitaigamatu kyoui keigenkinou nitsuite (Relationship between levels of self-
     esteem, self-esteem instability, and positive expectations for the future: Positive
     expectations for the far future decrease perceived threats), Japanese Journal of
     Personality, 22(2), 117-130. (In Japanese).

Masuda, T., Wang, H., Ito, K., & Senzaki, S. (2012). Culture and cognition:
     Implications for art, design, and advertisement. In S. Okazaki (Ed.), Handbook of
     research in international advertising (pp. 109-133). Edward Elgar Publishing,
     UK.