Proceedings of the 31st International Congress of Psychology

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Kazuo Shigemasu is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and visiting Professor of Psychology at Keio University (Tokyo), and has held faculty appointments in psychology at the University of Tokyo, Teikyo University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Tohoku University. His research focus is methodology in psychology, particularly based on the Bayesian statistical approach. Shigemasu has served as president of the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA), the Behaviormetric Society (MS), and Japanese Association for Research on Testing (JART).

Sonoko Kuwano is Professor Emeritus of Osaka University, Japan. Her main research focuses on environmental psychology. She is a member of the Science Council of Japan. She has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science, Vice President of the International Commission for Acoustics, President of the Acoustical Society of Japan, and President of the Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition. She received Commendations for Contributions in Environmental Conservation from the Minister of the Environment in 2006.

Takao Sato is Dean and Professor of Comprehensive Psychology at Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan. Formerly Professor of Psychology at the University of Tokyo, his research is mainly concerned with visual and auditory perception, especially visual perception of spatio‐temporal patterns, and of motion and depth. He was President of the Japanese Psychological Association, President of the Vision Society of Japan, and President of the Japanese Psychonomic Society.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa is Distinguished Professor at the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS), Kyoto, Japan. His research focuses on the cognition and behavior of chimpanzees, both in the wild and in the laboratory. Matsuzawa is the former President of International Primatological Society, and the Editor‐in‐Chief of the journal Primates.

Ralph Adolphs is the Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. He directs the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, and his laboratory (emotion.caltech.edu) focuses on social neuroscience. Current research directions are to understand how emotions and social behavior arise in the brain, and predicting individual differences in these abilities from functional neuroimaging data. The laboratory includes studies of patients with focal brain lesions, fMRI, electrophysiology, and work in people with autism spectrum disorder.

Minoru Asada is Professor at the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan. He is also a Division Chief of Systems Intelligence, Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives at the same university. He has been a board member of the Japanese Society of Baby Science and the Japanese Society of Child Science since 2013. Since April 2017, he has been Vice President of the Robotics Society of Japan. He is also President of the NPO Leonardo da Vinci Museum Network, Osaka, Japan.

Ray Bull is Professor of Criminal Investigation at the University of Derby and Emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester, UK. His major research interest is the investigative interviewing of suspects, witnesses, and victims, as well as witness memory, including voice recognition. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 2010 and has been President of the European Association of Psychology and Law since 2014. He regularly acts as an expert witness and conducts workshops/training on investigative interviewing around the world.

Josep Call is a comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition and cognitive evolution. He is Professor in the Evolutionary Origins of Mind (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) at the University of St. Andrews (UK) and Director of the Budongo Research Unit at Edinburgh Zoo. His research focus is on technical and social problem solving in animals with a special emphasis on the great apes, including causal and inferential reasoning, tool use, long‐term memory and planning, gestural communication, and mindreading.

Fanny M. Cheung is Vice President for Research and Choh‐Ming Li Professor of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include cross‐cultural personality assessment and gender equality. After standardizing the MMPI and MMPI‐2 in Chinese societies, she noted the need for indigenous measures to fill the gaps in Western personality theories and assessment. She pioneered the combined emic–etic approach in personality assessment through the development of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory. This combined emic–etic approach is adopted in the development of other indigenous measures in South Africa and the Middle East.

Yann Coello is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology at the University of Lille, France. He is the Director of the CNRS Laboratory Cognitive and Affective Sciences and President of the French National Committee of Scientific Psychology (CNFPS), a national member of IUPSyS. He has published numerous influential articles and books on the sensorimotor foundations of perception, cognition, and social interactions.

Frans B. M. de Waal is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University Psychology Department in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is the author of numerous books including Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape. His research centers on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food sharing. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Maria Eduarda Duarte is Professor of Psychology with the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is also director of the Masters course in Psychology of Human Resources, Work, and Organizations. Her professional interests include career psychology theory and research, with special emphasis on issues relevant to adults and the world of work.

Nancy Eisenberg Regents’ Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, USA, is a developmental psychologist who studies social, emotional, and moral development, with primary interests in prosocial development and self‐regulation and their socialization. She is a past editor of Psychological Bulletin and Child Development Perspectives, and has received career contribution awards from the Association for Psychological Science, multiple divisions of the American Psychological Association, the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and the Society for Research on Child Development. She has served as President of the Association for Psychological Science, Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, and Western Psychological Association.

Elaine F. Fernandez is the current Acting Head of the Department of Psychology, HELP University, Malaysia. She was a graduate of HELP University’s Bachelor of Psychology program, and obtained an MSc in Social Psychology (Distinction) from the University of Surrey, UK. She currently lectures in research and social psychology at HELP University, and is the convener for the Department of Psychology’s Centre for Diversity. At present, she is leading research projects tackling questions on Malaysian social identity, and the creation, maintenance, and consequences of social identification, both in general and in organizations.

Buxin Han is Professor of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Lab of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, and the University of CAS, Beijing, China. He is Deputy Secretary‐General of the Chinese Psychological Society (CPS), Secretary‐General of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), and President of the Division of Aging Psychology in the CPS and the China Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics. His research is focused on the mental health of the elderly and on cognitive aging. His publications primarily cover areas of healthy development, mental health, and religious faith.

Satoshi Hirata is Professor at the Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University, Japan. He has been conducting research on chimpanzees and other great apes from a comparative cognitive perspective to better understand the evolutionary origins of human behavior and cognition. He is currently Director of the Kumamoto Sanctuary of Kyoto University, where ex‐biomedical chimpanzees are housed.

Yuen Wan Ho is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she received her PhD degree. Her research interests include personality, aging, and emotion. In particular, she studies how personality and motivational factors could contribute to age differences in emotion regulation and well‐being across cultures.

Etsuko Hoshino is Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Music, Ueno Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research is aimed at understanding relations between music structures and musical affect and she is also actively interested in the influence of background music upon learning contexts, and in music therapy. Hoshino is currently chief editor of the Journal of Music Perception and Cognition (the journal of the Japanese Society of Music Perception and Cognition).

Hiroshi Ishiguro received a D. Eng. in systems engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 1991. He is currently Professor of Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University (2009–) and Distinguished Professor of Osaka University (2017–). He is also visiting Director (2014–) (group leader: 2002–2013) of Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and an ATR fellow. His research interests include sensor networks, interactive robotics, and android science.

Osamu Kitayama is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Community Studies, Kyushu University, Japan. He is a training and supervising analyst, and President of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society. He is author of more than 100 articles, including publications in the International Journal of Psycho‐Analysis in English, and about 15 books on psychoanalysis and medical communication.

Christopher Klager is a doctoral student and University Distinguished Fellow in the Education Policy program at Michigan State University, USA. His research focuses on developing students’ career interest in STEM and STEM teaching. Currently he works on the Crafting Engagement in Science Environments (CESE) project, investigating how to make high school chemistry and physics classes more engaging for students.

Cara Laney is an Associate Professor at the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, USA. Her research interests include false memory, eyewitness memory, and emotion. She has published more than 30 peer‐reviewed articles and book chapters.

Goh Chee Leong is Dean of the Faculty of Behavioural Science at HELP University, Malaysia. He is former President of ARUPS (ASEAN Regional Union of Psychological Societies) and the Malaysian Psychology Association (PSIMA), and has served as consultant for many organizations, including UNICEF, Maxis, Petronas, DiGi, and CIMB. His research interests include work psychology, stress, and eyewitness memory.

Choong Li Li is presently lecturer at the Department of Psychology at HELP University, Malaysia. Her research interests are in individual and family counseling, with a particular focus on non‐substance addiction such as gambling, video, or online gambling. She is actively involved in voluntary work with orphanages, schools for children with special education needs, and old folks’ homes.

Elizabeth F. Loftus is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior and Criminology, Law, and Society, and Professor of Law and Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Loftus’s research for the last 40 years has focused on the malleability of human memory. She has been recognized for this research with seven honorary doctorates and election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is past President of the Association for Psychological Science, the Western Psychological Association, and the American Psychology‐Law Society.

Masako Myowa is Professor at the Graduate School of Education of Kyoto University, Japan. Her research interests include the emergence and development of human intelligence and its evolutionary foundations. In her work, she has taken the approach of comparative cognitive developmental science, comparing the development of cognition in humans and nonhuman primates from their prenatal periods.

Seiichiro Namba is Emeritus Professor at Osaka University, Japan. He is also a member of the Japan Academy. His main area of research is the psychology of hearing. He has served as President of the Acoustical Society of Japan and President of the Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition. He received Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from Oldenburg University, Germany, in 1996, and Commendations for Contributions in Environmental Conservation from the Minister of the Environment in 2003.

Carol D. Ryff, PhD is Director of the Institute on Aging and Hilldale Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. Her research centers on the study of psychological well‐being, an area in which she has developed multidimensional assessment scales that have been translated to more than 30 different languages and are used in research across diverse scientific fields. Her research has addressed how psychological well‐being varies by age, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic/minority status, and cultural context as well as by the experiences, challenges, and transitions individuals confront as they age. This work has generated over 200 publications. She currently directs the MIDUS (Midlife in the US) longitudinal study.

Barbara Schneider is the John A. Hannah Chair University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and Department of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA. She has used a sociological lens to understand societal conditions and interpersonal interactions that create norms and values that enhance human and social capital for the past 30 years. Her research focuses on how the social contexts of schools and families influence the academic and social well‐being of adolescents as they move into adulthood. She has published 15 books and over 100 refereed journal articles that focus on the family, social context of schooling, and sociology of knowledge.

Rainer K. Silbereisen Professor Emeritus since early 2017, is former Chair of Developmental Psychology and Director of the Center for Applied Developmental Science at the University of Jena, Germany. His main research areas are lifespan human development, with a strong emphasis on the interaction of personality with ecological conditions, such as cultural contexts and immigration, and rapid social, economic, and political change.

Tracy L. Spinrad is Professor of Family Studies in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, USA. Her program of research focuses on the socioemotional development of young children, particularly the relations of children’s self‐regulation abilities (i.e., effortful control) to children’s social adjustment. Further, much of her work has examined the role that parenting plays in the development of young children’s moral development, altruism, and empathy.

Anwarul Hasan Sufi is Professor of Psychology of the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and Director of the Rajshahi University Mental Health Center. Besides his specialization in developmental disabilities, his research interests are in aviation psychology and clinical psychology. He has written books in English and Bengali in the field of psychology, and is co‐author of textbooks on basic psychology for college students in Bangladesh. He has served as consultant for national and international NGOs working in Bangladesh in the areas of health, education, and disabilities and has been Guest Professor at universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Eugene Y. J. Tee is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, HELP University, Malaysia. He attained his PhD in Management from the University of Queensland in 2010 and has research interests in the study of emotions‐related processes in social and organizational interactions. He has published work on emotions in leader–follower interaction in Leadership Quarterly, Advancing Relational Leadership Theory, and Research on Emotions in Organizations.

Masayoshi Tsuge is Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. His main area of research is on intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, and behavioral disorders, with a special focus on special needs education.

Carlos Valiente is Professor at Arizona State University, USA. He studies the development of children’s emotional, social, and academic functioning and is especially interested in understanding when and why emotion and self‐control are related to success in the academic domain. His main research projects involve a longitudinal study designed to examine the role of classmates’ temperament on children’s academic functioning and a twin study that aims to explicate genetic and environmental mechanisms associated with sleep and health behaviors.

Jingjing Wang is a PhD student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Lab of Mental Health at the Institute of Psychology, and the University of CAS, Beijing, China. Her main area of research is on the cognition, emotion, and mental health of older adults.

Stuart K. Watson is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests span social learning, communication, and cultural transmission in primates and birds.

Andrew Whiten is Wardlaw Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, UK. His research interests focus on the evolution and development of social cognition, particularly social learning and culture in human and nonhuman primates.

Lindsey Young is a first‐year doctoral student, Rasmussen Fellow, and Erickson Research Fellow in the Education Policy program at Michigan State University, USA. Her research interests include science curriculum development and evaluation.

Liyu Zhan is Associate Professor of Psychology and Deputy Director of the Mental Health and Guidance Center of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China. She has received awards as an outstanding psychological educator at the university. Her main area of research is the mental health of college students. She has been a visiting scholar at the Huizhen Ke Lab (Asia University, Taiwan), working on suicide intervention and problematic Internet use. She has published several papers in Chinese journals.