Shinobu Kitayama

Shinobu Kitayama (born March 9, 1957)[1] is a Japanese social psychologist and the Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He is also the Social Psychology Area Chair and Director of the Culture & Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the editor-in-chief of the Attitudes and Social Cognition section of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[2] He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Kyoto University and his doctorate from the University of Michigan.[3] Together with Mayumi Karasawa, he discovered the birthday-number effect, the subconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers in the date of their birthday over other numbers.

Shinobu Kitayama
Born (1957-03-09) March 9, 1957
Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
NationalityJapanese
EducationKyoto University
University of Michigan
Known forCross-cultural psychology
Cultural neuroscience
AwardsCareer Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
ThesisAttention as a mediator between affect and cognition: emotional tone and expectancy jointly determine accuracy in word perception (1987)

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