外国人客員教員（特任准教授）Vinai Norasakkunkit 先生（米国・ゴンザガ大学）よる講演会を下記の通り開催します。社会のグローバル化や高度技術化に伴う、引きこもりやニートの問題を、価値観をめぐる個人の特性と文化に特有な期待との間の、ミスマッチに起因する社会現象と位置づけ、実証的な心理学研究によって分析します。直前のご連絡で申し訳ありませんが、皆さまのご出席をお待ちしております。

日時：2019年2月27日（水）　16:00 – 17:30

場所：情報学研究科棟　第1講義室

講演者： Dr. Vinai Norasakkunkit

題目：Sources, Characteristics, and Consequences of Person-Culture Mismatch: The Psychology of Marginalization, Globalization, and Cultural Change.

言語：英語

Abstract:

The person-culture match hypothesis states that those whose personalities and values match the norms of their immediate and broader environment are likely to be happier and more functional than those whose values do not match (Fulmer et al., 2010). In Japan, person-culture mismatch can manifest as phenomena known as NEET and Hikikomori, for example. In the US, person-culture mismatch can be associated with the risk of becoming involved in criminal activities and/or joining gangs, for example. Related to this, my research has experimentally and theoretically investigated a number of questions: 1) Who are the people who are at risk of becoming mismatched with the norms and values of their society? 2) What are some of the specific psychological consequences of being mismatched with what is normative in one's society? 3) Is person-culture mismatch associated with the risk of becoming marginalized in one's society? 4) If so, can marginalizing situations cause personal values and behaviors to become mismatched with what is normative in one's society? The first and third questions have been investigated through some theoretical work, survey research, and a computer simulation called Agent Based Modeling. Questions 2 and 4 have been investigated experimentally. In the end, I will show that person-culture mismatch is the result the interaction between specific situations and specific dispositions. I will also touch on the roles that globalization and cultural change play on person-culture mismatch and youth marginalization.

Biography:

Vinai Norasakkunkit is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington (USA) and is currently a visiting Designated Associate Professor at the Center for Future Value Research, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University. Vinai's research interests are in the intersection of cultural psychology and clinical psychology, as well as the psychological consequences of globalization and youth marginalization such as the NEET and hikikomori phenomena in Japan. Vinai has collaborated with researchers at Nagoya University, Kyoto University, Hokkaido University, and Chiba University. Vinai is currently an associate editor of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology and recently guest edited a special issue on the psychology of cultural change. Vinai's other research areas include the cultural shaping of: 1) social anxiety and happiness, 2) attitudes towards climate change, 3) the persistence of initial impression formation, 4) lay beliefs about mental illness, 5) moral foundations theory, 6) emotional experiences, 7) self-enhancement motive, and 8) visual attention in choice-based decision making. So far Vinai has 26 publications in peer review journals and book chapters, including the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, and Journal of Happiness Studies. Vinai runs an active research lab at Gonzaga University involving 7-10 undergraduate students who present their work at regional conferences in the spring of every academic year.