Curriculum Vitae

Masanori Takezawa

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ORCID 0000-0003-4103-0591 Google Scholar

Academic Positions

Apr 2025 – Present

Vice Dean

Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University

Apr 2022 – Present

Professor

Department of Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University

Concurrent: Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences (CERSS); Core member, Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN)

Mar 2019 – Feb 2020

Visiting Researcher (Guest Research Scientist)

Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Nov 2012 – Mar 2022

Associate Professor

Department of Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University

Dept. reorganised Apr 2019: Graduate School of Humanities → Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences

Apr 2010 – Oct 2012

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo

Aug 2006 – Mar 2010

Assistant Professor

Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Sept 2005 – Jul 2006

Research Scientist

Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Sept 2000 – Aug 2005

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Apr 2002 – Aug 2005

JSPS Research Fellow (PD)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Jan 1999 – Mar 2001

JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Education

Apr 1997 – Mar 2001

Ph.D. in Behavioral Science

Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Apr 1995 – Mar 1997

M.A. in Behavioral Science

Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Apr 1991 – Mar 1995

B.A. in Behavioral Science

Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University

Grants & Funding

Principal Investigator

Cultural group selection and the evolution of norms: macro-data and large-scale group experiments

JSPS International Collaborative Research Enhancement — Grant #17KK0060

2018 – 2020

¥14,430,000

Identity and internally superimposed selves

JSPS Innovative Research on Humanities and Social Sciences

2017 – 2022

¥13,162,500

Evolution and maintenance of norms through inductive learning: toward a new experimental paradigm

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) — Grant #17H02621

2017 – 2020

¥17,030,000

Cognitive architectures underlying the historical development of science

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research — Grant #15K13111

2015 – 2017

¥3,510,000

Cumulative cultural evolution: environment and cognitive architecture

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) — Grant #25285176

2013 – 2015

¥17,160,000

Reputation: exploring the cognitive foundations of social life

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research — Grant #24653166

2012 – 2014

¥3,770,000

Development of an adaptive toolbox approach in social learning

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) — Grant #23683011

2011 – 2012

¥13,910,000

Adaptive toolbox in social learning

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Startup) — Grant #22830083

2010 – 2011

¥3,094,000

Co-Investigator

Constructive understanding of the origin and evolution of language

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Innovative Areas — PI: T. Hashimoto (JAIST) — Grant #17H06383

2017 – 2021

¥244,140,000 (total to project)

Interdisciplinary study on cultural evolutionary foundations of conflict and cooperation

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) — PI: H. Ohira (Nagoya Univ.) — Grant #17KT0001

2017 – 2019

¥18,720,000 (total)

Cognitive, neural, and ecological basis of collective behavior

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) — PI: T. Kameda (Univ. of Tokyo) — Grant #16H06324

2016 – 2020

¥182,659,000 (total)

Awards & Honours

2023

Distinguished Excellent Presentation Award

Japanese Psychological Association

Nakata, Ohira & Takezawa

2007

Best Paper Award

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Takezawa, Gummerum & Keller (2007)

Service & Editorial Roles

Apr 2025 – Director, Japanese Society of Social Psychology
Apr 2022 – President, Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan (HBES-J)
Jun 2016 – Apr 2019 Editor-in-Chief, Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science
2015 – 2017 Executive Director, Japanese Society of Social Psychology
2010 – Editorial Board Member, Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science
2010 – 2014 Executive Director, Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan (HBES-J)

Professional Membership

  • Cultural Evolution Society
  • Human Behaviour and Evolution Society (HBES)
  • European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA)
  • Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan
  • Japanese Psychological Association
  • Japanese Society of Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Science Society
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Ad Hoc Reviewing

Funding Agencies

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • European Science Foundation (ESF)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Journals

  • American Journal of Political Science
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Cognition
  • Current Biology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • PLOS ONE
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B
  • Psychological Review
  • Psychological Science
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Japanese Psychological Research
  • Japanese Journal of Social Psychology
  • Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science

Teaching

Hokkaido University

Grad. Introduction to Bayesian Modelling 2018–present
UG Cognitive Science 2020–present
UG Behavioral Science 2013–2018
Gen.Ed. Society as Equilibrium: Why Is Social Change So Difficult? 2020–present

Sophia University

UG Social Psychology I & II 2010–2012

Tilburg University

Grad. Psychology and Economic Behavior 2007–2010
UG Attitudes & Communication 2006–2010
UG Group Dynamics 2010

IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Grad. Norms and Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach 2004

Invited Lectures

Grad. Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Economics from a Psychological Perspective — Waseda University 2007, 2008
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