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Hamamura, Takeshi

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Early Life and Educational Background

Hamamura was born and raised in Japan. In high school, he made a decision to continue his advanced study in the United States. He earned his BA in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. He obtained his PhD in Psychology in 2008 from the University of British Columbia under the guidance of Dr. Steve Heine. He moved to Hong Kong for his first academic job and taught social psychology and cultural psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2014, he decided to continue his cross-cultural journal and moved to Australia to take up a position at the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology at Curtin University.

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Hamamura’s research examines the interactive relationship between culture and the mind: how culture shapes our mental processes, and how our cultural environment is shaped by participating minds. Specific topics examined over the years include the role of culture in shaping self-evaluation,...

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  • Hamamura, T. (2012). Are cultures becoming individualistic? A cross-temporal comparison of individualism-collectivism in the U.S. and Japan. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16, 3–24.

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  • Hamamura, T., & Li, M. W. (2012). Discerning cultural identification from a thinly sliced behavioural sample. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1698–1707.

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  • Hamamura, T., Heine, S. J., & Paulhus, D. L. (2008). Cultural differences in response styles: The role of dialectical thinking. Personality and Individual Difference, 44, 932–942.

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  • Hamamura, T., Meijer, Z., Heine, S. J., Kamaya, K., & Hori, I. (2009). Approach-avoidance motivation and information processing: A cross-cultural analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 454–462.

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  • Heine, S. J., & Hamamura, T. (2007). In search of East Asian self-enhancement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 4–27.

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  1. School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Takeshi Hamamura

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Kent State University at Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH, USA

    Jon Sefcek

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Hamamura, T. (2017). Hamamura, Takeshi. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1535-1

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