Graduate School of Education, Division of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education Senior Lecturer/ Junior Associate Professor
She received BA (Psychology) at Korea University, Seoul, Korea, and BA (Honours in Psychology) and PhD (Social and Cultural Psychology) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. From both culture-specific and pan-cultural views of psychology, her research has embraced intergroup dehumanisation, biased self-perception (self-humanising, self-enhancement), lay people's concepts about what it means to be human across cultures, multiculturalism in Japan, and various social and cultural issues in East Asia. Most recent research topics include cultural change and psychological well-being on the globe and acculturation attitudes and strategies in Japan.