Curriculum Vitae
Vice Dean
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University
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)
Visiting Researcher (Guest Research Scientist)
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Research Scientist
Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
JSPS Research Fellow (PD)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Ph.D. in Behavioral Science
Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
M.A. in Behavioral Science
Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
B.A. in International Relations
Faculty of International Relations, University of Shizuoka
Principal Investigator
Can children transmit healthy and sustainable eating preferences to their parents? Joining health psychology and cultural evolutionary theory to explore new avenues in cultural transmission
2023 – 2023
Cultural group selection and the evolution of social norms: Studies with large-size group experiments and the analyses of macro-level data
Mar 2019 – Mar 2020
¥14,430K
Internally superimposed selves: Developing a new research in collaboration between philosophy and empirical science
Oct 2017 – Sep 2022
¥13,162K
Inductive learning, and the evolution and maintenance of social norms
Apr 2017 – Mar 2021
¥17,030K
Exploration for cognitive foundations of scientific discovery
2015 – 2017
¥3,510K
Environmental structure and architecture of the mind that produce cumulative cultural evolution
2013 – 2015
¥17,160K
Reputation: Cognitive foundation of the social order
2012 – 2014
¥3,770K
Development of adaptive toolbox approach in social learning
2011 – 2012
¥13,910K
Adaptive toolbox in social learning
2010 – 2011
¥3,094K
Summer Institute in Behavioural Economics
Aug 2003 – Aug 2003
Research on adaptive concession making strategies in negotiation and its social consequences
Apr 2002 – Aug 2004
Evolutionary social psychological investigations on the origin of property rights and resource sharing
Apr 1999 – Mar 2001
Co-Investigator
Interdisciplinary study on cultural-evolutional bases of conflict and cooperation
Jul 2017 – Mar 2020
¥18,720K
Constructive Understanding of the Origin and Evolution of Language
Jun 2017 – Mar 2022
¥244,140K
Understanding cognitive, neural and ecological bases of human collective behavior
May 2016 – Mar 2021
¥182,650K
Distinguished Excellent Presentation Award
The Japanese Psychological Association
Nakata, S., Ohira, A., & Takezawa, M. — Emergence of word order rules via communication and cultural transmission
Excellent Presentation Award (English Session)
Japanese Group Dynamics Association
Kido, Y., & Takezawa, M. — Coevolution of norm-psychology and cooperation under exapted conformity
Excellent Teachers Award (General Education, FY2020)
Hokkaido University
Best Paper Award (for 1999 paper)
Japanese Group Dynamics Association
Takezawa, M. (1999). The effect of an unfair treatment in the resolution of social dilemma. Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 30–40.
Best Paper Award (for 1999 paper)
Japanese Cognitive Science Society
Takezawa, M., & Kameda, T. (1999). Ownership and sharing: Exploring social foundations of communal sharing norm by evolutionary game analysis. Cognitive Studies, 6, 191–205.
| April 2025 – Present | Director, Japanese Society of Social Psychology |
| January 2022 – Present | President, Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan |
| January 2022 – April 2025 | Editorial Board Member, Perspectives on Psychological Science |
| November 2021 – October 2025 | Editorial Board Member of the Japanese Journal of Psychology, Japanese Psychological Association |
| 2021 | Chair of Organizing Committee, Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021 Sapporo |
| 2018 – 2022 | Executive Committee, Cultural Evolution Society |
| June 2016 – April 2019 | Editor-in-Chief, Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science |
| January 2016 – December 2021 | Vice President, Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Japan |
| 2015 – 2017 | Executive Director, Japanese Society of Social Psychology |
| 2013 – 2015 | Executive Director, Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Japan |
| 2013 – 2014 | Director, Japanese Society of Social Psychology |
| July 2011 | New Investigator Competition Committee, The 23rd Annual Conference of Human Behavior and Evolution Society |
| 2010 – Present | Editorial Member, Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science |
| 2010 – 2012 | Auditor, Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Japan |
| 2006 – 2010 | Editorial Member, Japanese Cognitive Science Society |
| 2004 | Program Reviewer, The 16th Annual Meeting for Human Behaviour and Evolution Society |
Funding Agencies
Journals
Hokkaido University
Sophia University
Tilburg University
IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Invited Lectures