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Intergenerational Altruism and Intergenerational Equity: The Source of Emissions Gap

Date & Time: 2025.2.19 (Wed) 14:45-15:45Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, room E304Zoom: Speaker: Kenichi Akao (Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University / Professor)Title: Intergenerational Altruism and Intergenerational Equity: The Source of Emissions Gap Abstract:The emissions gap refers to the difference between the projected greenhouse gas emission trajectory based on currently planned climate change mitigation policies and the efficient emission path required to achieve the 1.5-degree (or 2-degree) target agreed upon...

Children’s subjective experience and its structure

Date & Time: 2024.9.4 (Wed) 15:00-16:30Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, room E304Zoom: Speaker: Yusuke Moriguchi (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University / Associate Professor)Title: Children’s subjective experience and its structure Participants: 13

Global Norm of Government Climate Action and Public Support for Domestic Climate Policies

Date & Time: 2024.8.8 (Thu) 15:00-Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, room E304Zoom URL:Speaker: Professor Kim-Pong Tam (Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Participants: 25 Abstract:As public support is important for policy changes, it is crucial to understand how to encourage citizens to accept climate policies. Based on the widely documented social psychological phenomenon regarding the effect of descriptive norms on human behavior, I hypothesized...

Status Reversal and Its Discontents

Date & Time: 2024.3.18(Mon)10:00-11:30 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, room E304 Speaker: Professor Michael Hechter(School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University) Title: Status Reversal and Its Discontents Abstract: The recent rise of reactionary politics in modern democracies across the globe has been attributed to a variety of causes, including deindustrialization, economic inequality, immigration, and the rising fortunes of ethnic, racial, religious, and gender and sexual minorities. These explanations...

動物の暮らしを観て、心を探る、ヒトを知る

Date & Time: 2024.2.15(Thu) 10:00-11:30Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304Speaker: Masayuki NAKAMICHI (Osaka University Professor Emeritus)Title: 動物の暮らしを観て、心を探る、ヒトを知る Participants：22

The adaptivity of human search

Date & Time: 2023.11.30(Thu) 13:00-14:00Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304Zoom: Please click here.Speaker: Andreas Wilke(Department of Psychology, Clarkson University, Professor)Title: The adaptivity of human search Abstract：Humans and other organisms must search effectively for the resources they need, whether these are physical (e.g., food or shelter) or informational (e.g., patterns in the world, or concepts stored in memory). Most human search studies have focused on brief (static) laboratory tasks, but being...

Food for thought: The potential of a social approach to promote heal thy, sustainable eating.

Abstract:Unbalanced nutrition and related diseases are currently among the biggest challenges to public health in industrialized societies. Many behavioral change interventions have had limited success in long-term change of nutrition and eating behaviors. One possible explanation is that past interventions have conceptualized eating as individual behavior. Yet, eating is a social activity: Over the course of evolution, humans have used food to establish social bonds; by the age of 20, a person has eaten...

Enriching environmental psychology with cross-national comparisons.

Date & Time: 2023.8.8(Tue) 10:00-12:00Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304Speaker：Kevin Kim-Pong Tam准教授(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)Title：Enriching environmental psychology with cross-national comparisons. Abstract:Humans’ interactions with their surrounding environments are embedded in national contexts. A complete rendition of environmental psychology herefore necessitates sensitivity to the influence of contextual factors and the possibility of cross-national variations. In this talk, I will demonstrate that mainstream research in our field currently...