Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Humanities Major in Psychology
Hirokazu Arai
Professor
Sports psychology
Enhancement of competitive ability through sports psychology (mental training, team Building); dissemination of lifelong sports through social marketing
Keita Ochi
Professor
Criminal psychology, social psychology
Criminal psychology, particularly research into applications for psychology in criminal investigations
Satoru Shimamune
Professor
Behavioral analysis, industrial and organizational psychology
Performance management, instructional design, organizational behavior management and consumer behavior research
Toshiharu Takahashi
Professor
Psychophysiology, sleep science, clinical chronobiology, psychiatry
Changes in mental capacity to work and P300 waves in relation to jet lag and shift work, circadian rhythm sleep disorders
Keiichi Tajima
Professor
Phonetics, linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science
Empirical research related to the perception, production, and acquisition of spoken language
Yuki Fukuda
Professor
Psycholinguistics, educational psychology
Reading comprehension models in terms of shallow processing, roles of linguistic activities in communication
Tetsuya Fujita
Professor
Cognitive psychology, educational psychology
Basic research into the cognitive mechanisms focusing on human memory and applied education research focusing on the links between motivation in learning situations and learning strategies are recent themes.
Yayoi Watanabe
Professor
Developmental psychology, clinical developmental psychology, school counseling
Elucidating the developmental mechanisms for social awareness and morality, preventing bullying and other problems with human relations, developing and deploying psychology teaching programs
Yasuhiro Takeshima
Lecturer
Perceptual psychology, cognitive psychology
Research on factors affecting the interactions between different sensations, and research on temporal processing between audiovisual stimuli