Kai Otsubo

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I am a Japanese Ph.D. student in social psychology, studying the dynamics of cooperation and conflict in human societies.

Education

Ph.D. Candidate

2024 – Present

Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

M.A. in Psychology

2022 – 2024

Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

B.A. in Education

2018 – 2022

School of Education, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Kuge, H.*, Otsubo, K.*, Hattori, K., Urakawa, M., & Yamada, Y. (in press). Attraction depending on the level of abstraction of the character descriptions. Collabra: Psychology. *co-first authors
Otsubo, K., Nawata, K., & Yamaguchi, H. (2024) Conformity-Based Out-group Aggression: Does an In-group Audience Intensify Out-Group Aggression as a Result of Conformity? Japanese Psychological Research. [link]
Otsubo, K., Masuda, Y., & Yamaguchi, H. (2023) “Watching eyes” do not strengthen the behavioral intention of donating blood. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science. 14(1), 26-31. [link]
Otsubo, K., & Yamaguchi, H. (2023) No significant effect of mortality salience on unconscious ethnic bias among the Japanese. BMC Research Notes. 16:91. [link]

Non-peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Otsubo, K. & Yamaguchi, H. (2023). Do threats to cultural worldviews intensify outgroup aggression?: A test of the two hypotheses drawn from terror management theory. Kyushu University Psychological Research, 24, 1-8. (In Japanese) [link]

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