Professor
Yu NIIYA
What is happiness and how can we achieve it? Who benefits from helping--the helper or the recipient of help? What factors encourage people to offer help when help is not requested? In this seminar, students co-create a class in which they learn about the self and culture by reading and discussing current research on selected topics in social and cultural psychology. Students learn how to recognize the costs and benefits of ego mechanisms, how to create happiness for themselves and others, how to build and maintain functional relationships, and how to shift from reacting to creating. By conducting experimental or survey research on a topic of their choice, students learn how to identify important problems, propose solutions, obtain data to check the validity of their propositions, and communicate their findings with others.
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Seminar activities
Students’ Theses
- Global journeys, national bonds: The impact of study abroad on homeland attachment
- The power of sharing ethnic food for multicultural cooperation
- Learning just because: How thinking about job hunt success affects motivation to learn
- Subtitling empathy: Enhancing empathy through movie subtitles
- I am a superhero: The unconscious power of poses
- Why am I not tagged? Self-image goals shape reactions to rejection in social media
- Dressed for success: The art of compliments, self-esteem, and unleashing creativity
- Making the most out of the differences: The role of diversity belief for satisfaction in working in diverse teams
- Does self-compassion increase compassion toward others?
- What kind of feedback motivates people to overcome challenges?
- What kind of self-disclosure promotes interpersonal relationships?
- Does holding a hot pack influence one's evaluation of a person as warm and kind?
- The influence of thank you messages and thank you gifts on prosocial behavior
- Is time an individual property? Concept of zero-sum time perspective and its relation with self-image goals