Program-Specific Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Future of Human Society (IFOHS) at Kyoto University.

Affiliated researcher at the University of Sussex and KU Leuven.


10/2024 - Talk | Lab Meeting, こころ Lab, Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University | Title: “Culture & Well-being: A Research Outline” Slides

04/2024 - Symposium Talk & Small Group Meeting (Co-Organizer) | EASP funded Small-Group Meeting, In-Person in Pescara, Italy | Title: “The Role Of Dignity, Face, and Honour Cultural Logics in Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Intergroup Processes” Slides

07/2023 - Symposium Talk | 2023 European Association of Social Psychology, In-Person in Krakow, Poland | Title: “Are Mediterranean societies honor cultures? The cultural logics of Honor, Face, and Dignity in Southern-Europe and the MENA Region” Slides

02/2023 - Poster Presentation | 2023 International Convention of Psychological Science, In-Person in Brussels, Belgium | Title: “Honor Fit and Well-Being in the Mediterranean Region” Poster

09/2022 - Oral Presentation | 2022 UK Culture and Psychology Conference, In-Person in Newcastle, UK | Title: “Honor Fit and Well-Being in the Mediterranean Region” Slides

02/2022 - Symposium Talk | 2022 Conference of the International Association for Relationship Research, Virtual | Title: “The Self and Relationships in the Mediterranean” Slides

07/2022 - Symposium (Chair) | 2022 International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Online | Title: “What shapes our self? The role of socio-contextual influences on independence and interdependence” Speakers: Prof. Jinkyung Na (Sogang University, South Korea), Dr. Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University, USA), Dr. Nicolas Geeraert (University of Essex, UK), & Prof. Ayse Uskul (University of Kent, UK) Discussant: Prof. Vivian Vignoles (University of Sussex, UK) Overview Video

06/2022 - Symposium Talk | 2022 Conference of the Consortium of European Research on Emotions, Open Paper Session, In-Person in Granada, Spain | Title: “Expanding the map: Emotional Fit and Subjective Wellbeing in the Mediterranean” Slides

02/2022 - Symposium Talk | 2022 Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Virtual & In-Person in San Francisco, USA | Title: “The link between self-construal and wellbeing in honor, face, and dignity regions”

07/2021 - Award Keynote | Triandis Doctoral Award Presentation, 25th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Virtual | Title: “The Relationality of Feelings: A Cultural Comparison of Affective Patterns in Western and East-Asian Relationships”

12/2020 - Invited Talk | Social Seminar, Department of Psychology, University of Kent | Title: “Emotions and Relationships in Belgium and Japan”

04/2018 - Symposium Talk | 2018 Consortium for Emotion Research in Europe (CERE) in Glasgow, Scotland, UK | Title: “We move, we stay, together: Interpersonal patterns of affect in Belgium and Japan”

07/2017 - Poster Presentation | 2017 EASP conference in Granada, Spain | Title: “Cultural Differences in self-reported affect and relationship satisfaction during couple conflicts”

07/2017 - Blitz Presentation | Pre-conference meeting “Relationships and Health” at the 2017 EASP conference in Granada, Spain | Title: “The role of positive affect for partner’s satisfaction and wellbeing in two cultures”

08/2016 - Poster Presentation | 23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nagoya, Japan | Title: “Conflict in Couples: Behavioral strategies and their relationship outcomes in the US, Belgium and Japan”

07/2015 - Symposium Talk | Congress of the International Society for Research on Emotions, Geneva, Switzerland | Title: “Humiliated Fury is not universal: The co-occurrence of anger and shame in the U.S. and Japan”

03/2015 - Poster Presentation | International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Title: “The effect of hate crime on self-attributed humanness”