Professor Yoshihisa Kashima
BLL, BA(Hons), MA, PhD
Professor
Deputy Head of School
Contact details:
| email: ykashima AT unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 8344 6312 |
Human social action is inherently cultural. Social action - construed as meaningful behaviour in social context - is a fundamental unit of analysis for social psychology. As such, culture, understood as a network of socially shared meaning, always informs social action, which in turn contributes to the dynamic production and reproduction of culture over time. The overarching question about this process, which we call cultural dynamics, is how concrete individuals' particular activities in interaction with actual and imagined others in specific context can generate, maintain, or transform overtime what may be regarded as a relatively enduring and context general system of meaning, which we often call culture. Our current research focuses on the role of narrative in social psychology of cultural dynamics, examining the effect of story telling and listening on cognition and motivation, as well as health relevant behaviour.
Research Interests:
- Quantitative Psychology
- Social & Organisational Psychology
- Social Action Lab
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychological Society
- Asian Association of Social Psychology
- European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
- International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
- Society for Experimental Social Psychology
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Recent Funded Research:
| Project: | Cultural Dynamics of Narratives |
| Year: | 2004–2008 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
| Project: | Narrative Social Influence |
| Year: | 2005–2007 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
Selected Publications: |
Bpok Chapter:
Kashima, Y. & Callan, V. (1994)." The Japanese Work Group". in Triandis, H. C., Dunnette, M. D., & Hough, L. M. (Eds). Handbook of Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Vol. 4, 610-646). Consulting Psychologists Press.
Refereed Journal Articles :
Kashima, Y., Siegal, M., Tanaka, K., & Kashima, E. S. (1992). "Do People Believe Behaviours Are Consistent with Attitudes? Towards a Cultural Psychology of Attribution Processes", British Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 111-124.
Kashima, Y., Gallois, C., & McCamish, M. (1993). "The Theory of Reasoned Action and Cooperative Behaviour: It Takes Two to Use a Condom", British Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 227-239.
Kashima, Y. & Kerekes, A. R. Z. (1994) "A Distributed Memory Model of Averaging Phenomena in Person Impression Formation", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 30, 407-455.
Kashima, Y., Yamaguchi, S., Kim, U., Choi, S-C., Gelfand, J. M., & Yuki, M. (1995). "Culture, Gender and Self: A Perspective from Individualism-Collectivism Research", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 925-937.
Kashima, Y. (2000). "Conceptions of Culture and Person for Psychology", Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31, 14-32. (invited for the Millenium Special Issue)
Kashima, Y. (2000). "Maintaining Cultural Stereotypes in the Serial Reproduction of Narratives", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 594-604.
Kashima, Y., Woolcock, J., & Kashima, E. (2000). "Group Impressions as Dynamic Configurations: The Tensor Product Model of Group Impression Formation and Change", Psychological Review, 107, 914-942.
Lyons, A. & Kashima, Y. (2003). "How are Stereotypes Maintained Through Communication?: The Influence of Stereotype Sharedness", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 989-1005.
PhD Students under Supervision:
Paul Bain, Lauren Ban, Boyka Bratanova, David Neal, Kim Peters, Jennifer Whelan, Vicki Yeung