Shigehiro Oishi (University of Virginia)

September 18, 2015

12:00PM - 1:30PM

Psychology 035

Add to Calendar 2015-09-18 12:00:00 2015-09-18 13:30:00 Shigehiro Oishi (University of Virginia) Talk title: Socio-ecological Psychology Talk abstract: Socio-ecological psychology investigates humans’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral adaption to physical, interpersonal, economic, and political environments. This talk covers three types of socio-ecological psychology research: (a) association studies that link an aspect of social ecology (e.g., population density) with psychology (e.g., prosocial behavior), (b) process studies that clarify why there is an association between social ecology and psychology (e.g., residential mobility, anxiety, familiarity-seeking), and (c) niche construction studies that illuminate how psychological states give rise to the creation and maintenance of a social ecology (e.g., familiarity-seeking, dominance of national chain stores). Socio-ecological psychology attempts to bring the objectivist perspective to psychological science, investigating how objective social and physical environments, not just perception and construal of the environments, affect one’s thinking, feeling, and behaviors, as well as how people’s thinking, feeling, and behaviors give rise to social and built environments. Shige Oishi is a Professor in Psychology at the University of Virginia. He has published over 140 articles and chapters on culture, social ecology, and well-being, and two books: 「幸せを科学する」”Doing The Science of Happiness” Shinyosha, Tokyo, Japan in Japanese in 2009 and “The Psychological Wealth of Nations: Do Happy People Make a Happy Society?” from Wiley-Blackwell in 2012. His papers appeared in Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Personality among many others. In 2010, Oishi was named one of the most cited social psychologists in North America (22nd out of 611 social psychologists in the career-stage adjusted impact factor). He is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He served as an associate editor for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin from 2008 to 2010, and was an associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology between 2011 and 2015. Oishi received a B.A. in psychology from International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1993, an M.Ed. from Columbia University, Teachers College, New York in 1995, and a Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, Oishi moved to the University of Virginia, and was promoted to an associate professor in 2006, and promoted to full professor in 2012. Psychology 035 OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2015-09-18 12:00:00 2015-09-18 13:30:00 Shigehiro Oishi (University of Virginia) Talk title: Socio-ecological Psychology Talk abstract: Socio-ecological psychology investigates humans’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral adaption to physical, interpersonal, economic, and political environments.  This talk covers three types of socio-ecological psychology research: (a) association studies that link an aspect of social ecology (e.g., population density) with psychology (e.g., prosocial behavior), (b) process studies that clarify why there is an association between social ecology and psychology (e.g., residential mobility, anxiety, familiarity-seeking), and (c) niche construction studies that illuminate how psychological states give rise to the creation and maintenance of a social ecology (e.g., familiarity-seeking, dominance of national chain stores).   Socio-ecological psychology attempts to bring the objectivist perspective to psychological science, investigating how objective social and physical environments, not just perception and construal of the environments, affect one’s thinking, feeling, and behaviors, as well as how people’s thinking, feeling, and behaviors give rise to social and built environments. Shige Oishi is a Professor in Psychology at the University of Virginia. He has published over 140 articles and chapters on culture, social ecology, and well-being, and two books: 「幸せを科学する」”Doing The Science of Happiness” Shinyosha, Tokyo, Japan in Japanese in 2009 and “The Psychological Wealth of Nations: Do Happy People Make a Happy Society?” from Wiley-Blackwell in 2012. His papers appeared in Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Personality among many others. In 2010, Oishi was named one of the most cited social psychologists in North America (22nd out of 611 social psychologists in the career-stage adjusted impact factor). He is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He served as an associate editor for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin from 2008 to 2010, and was an associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology between 2011 and 2015. Oishi received a B.A. in psychology from International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1993, an M.Ed. from Columbia University, Teachers College, New York in 1995, and a Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, Oishi moved to the University of Virginia, and was promoted to an associate professor in 2006, and promoted to full professor in 2012.   Psychology 035 Decision Sciences Collaborative decisionsciences@osu.edu America/New_York public

Talk title: Socio-ecological Psychology

Talk abstract: Socio-ecological psychology investigates humans’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral adaption to physical, interpersonal, economic, and political environments. This talk covers three types of socio-ecological psychology research: (a) association studies that link an aspect of social ecology (e.g., population density) with psychology (e.g., prosocial behavior), (b) process studies that clarify why there is an association between social ecology and psychology (e.g., residential mobility, anxiety, familiarity-seeking), and (c) niche construction studies that illuminate how psychological states give rise to the creation and maintenance of a social ecology (e.g., familiarity-seeking, dominance of national chain stores). Socio-ecological psychology attempts to bring the objectivist perspective to psychological science, investigating how objective social and physical environments, not just perception and construal of the environments, affect one’s thinking, feeling, and behaviors, as well as how people’s thinking, feeling, and behaviors give rise to social and built environments.

Shige Oishi is a Professor in Psychology at the University of Virginia. He has published over 140 articles and chapters on culture, social ecology, and well-being, and two books: 「幸せを科学する」”Doing The Science of Happiness” Shinyosha, Tokyo, Japan in Japanese in 2009 and “The Psychological Wealth of Nations: Do Happy People Make a Happy Society?” from Wiley-Blackwell in 2012. His papers appeared in Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Personality among many others. In 2010, Oishi was named one of the most cited social psychologists in North America (22nd out of 611 social psychologists in the career-stage adjusted impact factor). He is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He served as an associate editor for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin from 2008 to 2010, and was an associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology between 2011 and 2015.

Oishi received a B.A. in psychology from International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1993, an M.Ed. from Columbia University, Teachers College, New York in 1995, and a Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, Oishi moved to the University of Virginia, and was promoted to an associate professor in 2006, and promoted to full professor in 2012.