Academic Particulars:

Tatsuya Kameda has degrees from University of Tokyo (1982, 1984) in social psychology, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1989) in psychology. He taught at University of Tokyo, Toyo University, and at Hokkaido University where he is currently Professor of Social Psychology. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow in 1997 at University of Colorado at Boulder (Department of Psychology) and Northwestern University (Department of Organizational Behavior), and a DAAD Research Fellow in 2001 at Max Planck Institute (Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition). He is on six professional journal editorial boards. He is currently on leave at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Research Interests:

His current research centers on analyzing social behavior/cognition from an evolutionary/adaptationist perspective, by combining evolutionary games and simulations with behavioral experiments systematically. For the past few years, he has focused on how people handle uncertainty associated with resource supply and information provision collectively. Examples include research on development of a "communal-sharing norm" in a primordial hunter-gatherer environment (Kameda, Takezawa, & Hastie, 2003, 2005; Kameda, Takezawa, Tindale, & Smith, 2002), functions of social/cultural learning in a non-stationary uncertain environment (Kameda & Nakanishi, 2002, 2003), adaptive, "fast and frugal" group decision heuristics (Hastie & Kameda, 2005), collective risk-monitoring (Kameda & Tamura, in press), and so on. He published a textbook in this research line (co-authored by Koji Murata), "Social psychology from a complex-system perspective: Humans as adaptive agents" (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2000). He is also interested in mathematical modeling of consensus formation processes in small groups on the one hand and decision/policy-making processes in organizations on the other (e.g., Kameda, 1997; Kameda, Tindale, & Davis, 2003). He has strong side interests in anthropology, biology, economics, political science, and law.

Curriculum Vitae

Working Drafts:

• Kameda, T., Takezawa, M., Ohtsubo, Y., & Hastie, R. (in press). Are our minds fundamentally egalitarian? Adaptive bases of different socio-cultural models about distributive justice. In M. Schaller, S. J., Heine, A. Norenzayan, T. Yamagishi, & T. Kameda (Eds.), Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.(76KB)

Selected Recent Papers:

• Kameda, T., & Tamura, R. (2007). "To eat or not to be eaten?" Collective risk-monitoring in groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43, 168-179. (117KB)
  
• Kameda, T., & Tindale, R. S. (2006). Groups as adaptive devices: Human docility and group aggregation mechanisms in evolutionary context. In M. Schaller, J. Simpson, & D. Kenrick (Eds.), Evolution and Social Psychology. New York: Psychology Press. (105KB)
  
• Kameda, T., Takezawa, M., & Hastie, R. (2005). Where do social norms come from? The example of communal sharing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 331-334. (87KB)
  
• Hastie, R., & Kameda, T. (2005). The robust beauty of majority rules in group decisions. Psychological Review, 112, 494-508. (176KB)
  
• Kameda, T., & Hastie, R. (2004). Building an even better conceptual foundation: Commentary on "Towards a balanced social psychology" by Krueger and Funder. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 345-346. (1KB)
  
• Kameda, T., & Nakanishi, D. (2003). Does social/cultural learning increase human adaptability? Rogers' question revisited. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 242-260. (247KB)
  
• Kameda, T., Takezawa, M., & Hastie, R. (2003). The logic of social sharing: An evolutionary game analysis of adaptive norm development. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 2-19. (489KB)
  
• Kameda,T., Tindale, R.S., & Davis, J.H. (2003). Cognitions, preferences, and social sharedness: Past, present, and future directions in group decision making.  In S.L. Schneider & J. Shanteau (Eds.), Emerging perspectives on judgment and decision research (pp.215-240). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (132KB)
  
• Tindale, R.S., Kameda, T., & Hinsz, V. (2003). Group decision making: Review and integration. In M. A. Hogg & J. Cooper (Eds.), Sage handbook of social psychology (pp. 381-403). London: Sage. (119KB)
  
• Kameda, T., Takezawa, M., Tindale, R.S., & Smith, C.M. (2002). Social sharing and risk reduction: Exploring a computational algorithm for the psychology of windfall gains. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23, 11-33. (108KB)
  
• Kameda, T., & Nakanishi, D. (2002). Cost-benefit analysis of social/cultural learning in a non-stationary uncertain environment: An evolutionary simulation and an experiment with human subjects. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23, 373-393. (238KB)
  

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