Eiichiro Watamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 238646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eiichiro Watamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eiichiro |
| FAMILY NAME | Watamura |
| SIGNATURE | WATAMURA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Osaka |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5661-359X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Further Evidence for the Role of Felt Understanding in Intergroup Relations: Japanese and Chinese Relations in Japan 1
Felt understanding in intergroup context is the belief that members of an outgroup understand and accept ingroup members' perspectives. A series of studies in Europe recently conducted by Andrew Livingstone and colleagues showed the unique effect of felt understanding in intergroup relations. The effects were apparent even when controlling for outgroup beliefs and metabeliefs. The present article reports a cross‐cultural replication of those find…
Cultural Generalizability of the False Signaling Theory: A Replication Study Using a Japanese Sample
Hypocrites are generally viewed unfavorably. According to the false signaling theory, this is because a hypocrite's condemnation falsely manipulates observers into believing in their moral goodness. However, since the false signaling theory has not been tested in cultures other than that of the United States, its cultural generalizability remains unclear. This study replicated two experiments comparing evaluations of hypocrites with those of tran…
Sliding or securing? Emotional ambivalence and public perception after euthanasia legalization in Japan
This study examined how legislation regarding euthanasia legalization influences individuals' psychological responses, focusing on slippery slope concerns and expectations regarding human dignity. In a preregistered experiment, 294 Japanese adults were recruited online and randomly assigned to legalization or control conditions; the final sample comprised 230 adults. Participants in the legalization condition read a simulated news article about t…
Comparing individual-level punitiveness across eight societies: A Political Economy Regime Perspective
This study examines individual-level punitiveness, defined as support for harsher criminal sanctions, across eight societies categorised under Cavadino and Dignan's political-economic typology: neoliberalism, conservative corporatism, social democratic corporatism, and oriental corporatism. Using a publicly available dataset with responses from approximately 300 individuals in each society, this study explores how punitive attitudes vary across r…
Punitive Penalties for the Maltreatment of Animals: A Case Study of People's Perceptions
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more integrated into society, concerns have arisen about unintended biases in AI-driven decision-making and the environmental impact of AI technology development. AI assistants such as Siri and Alexa, while helpful, can obscure decision-making and contribute to increased energy use and CO2 emissions. The present study explores whether consumers prioritize transparency and environmental sustainability over p…
Who participates in criminal justice? An exploratory study in Japan
Cultural invariance and ideological variance of collective ownership threat in intergroup relations
Wrongful Conviction Rates and Death Penalty Support: Acceptability Hypothesis in Japan
This study tested the hypothesis that presenting people with information about wrongful convictions that are considered an unacceptable cost of administering justice lowers support for the death penalty. We recruited 815 participants using an online crowdsourcing service in Japan, randomly assigned them to eight groups with varying combinations of presence or absence of information emphasizing losses caused by wrongful convictions and asked them …
Criminal justice participation among Japanese adults: A preliminary study
Reporting the real names of juvenile offenders: A study of Japanese perspectives through the lens of symbolic discrimination
Japanese public opinion on reporting the real names of juvenile criminals: An examination from the perspective of justification preferences
Comparing the determinants of punitiveness in Japan and Costa Rica
While there is a growing interest in the comparative analysis of individuals' punitiveness, research comparing its determinants across societies remains scarce. This study aims to address this gap by examining the differences and similarities in the determinants of individual punitiveness in two societies with differing characteristics: Japan and Costa Rica. Drawing on a model based on the (late) modernisation perspective, we conducted multi-grou…
A comparison of sentencing decisions and their justification between professional judges and laypeople in Japan
Contrast of felt understanding and intergroup relations within and between communities
Testing can facilitate forgetting of tested items
Previous research has shown that taking a test facilitates memory retention on later retesting, although facilitation is stronger when retesting is delayed. On the basis of the finding that testing prevents later forgetting without affecting memory recovery, we investigated immediate effects of taking a test on retrievability of a tested item. In two experiments, forty participants recalled studied items, then performed a retest of the studied it…
Resource-Independent Negative Effects of Foreign Language on Analogical Problem Solving
It has been shown that analogical problem solving is more difficult when a target problem is written in a foreign language than in one's native language. Possible resource-independence of this negative effect of a foreign language was investigated. After reading an analog or a filler story, participants solved a target problem written in their native or a foreign language. Those who read the problem in their native language performed a concurrent…
The Automatic Activation of Retributive Motive When Determining Punishment
Can Jurors Free Themselves from Retributive Objectives
Information Seeking in a Non-Hypothesis Testing Task
Criminal justice participation among Japanese adults: A preliminary study
Comparing the determinants of punitiveness in Japan and Costa Rica
While there is a growing interest in the comparative analysis of individuals' punitiveness, research comparing its determinants across societies remains scarce. This study aims to address this gap by examining the differences and similarities in the determinants of individual punitiveness in two societies with differing characteristics: Japan and Costa Rica. Drawing on a model based on the (late) modernisation perspective, we conducted multi-grou…
Information Seeking in a Non-Hypothesis Testing Task
Can Jurors Free Themselves from Retributive Objectives
The Automatic Activation of Retributive Motive When Determining Punishment
Resource-Independent Negative Effects of Foreign Language on Analogical Problem Solving
It has been shown that analogical problem solving is more difficult when a target problem is written in a foreign language than in one's native language. Possible resource-independence of this negative effect of a foreign language was investigated. After reading an analog or a filler story, participants solved a target problem written in their native or a foreign language. Those who read the problem in their native language performed a concurrent…
Testing can facilitate forgetting of tested items
Previous research has shown that taking a test facilitates memory retention on later retesting, although facilitation is stronger when retesting is delayed. On the basis of the finding that testing prevents later forgetting without affecting memory recovery, we investigated immediate effects of taking a test on retrievability of a tested item. In two experiments, forty participants recalled studied items, then performed a retest of the studied it…
A comparison of sentencing decisions and their justification between professional judges and laypeople in Japan
Contrast of felt understanding and intergroup relations within and between communities
Wrongful Conviction Rates and Death Penalty Support: Acceptability Hypothesis in Japan
This study tested the hypothesis that presenting people with information about wrongful convictions that are considered an unacceptable cost of administering justice lowers support for the death penalty. We recruited 815 participants using an online crowdsourcing service in Japan, randomly assigned them to eight groups with varying combinations of presence or absence of information emphasizing losses caused by wrongful convictions and asked them …
Criminal justice participation among Japanese adults: A preliminary study
Reporting the real names of juvenile offenders: A study of Japanese perspectives through the lens of symbolic discrimination
Japanese public opinion on reporting the real names of juvenile criminals: An examination from the perspective of justification preferences
Comparing the determinants of punitiveness in Japan and Costa Rica
While there is a growing interest in the comparative analysis of individuals' punitiveness, research comparing its determinants across societies remains scarce. This study aims to address this gap by examining the differences and similarities in the determinants of individual punitiveness in two societies with differing characteristics: Japan and Costa Rica. Drawing on a model based on the (late) modernisation perspective, we conducted multi-grou…
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more integrated into society, concerns have arisen about unintended biases in AI-driven decision-making and the environmental impact of AI technology development. AI assistants such as Siri and Alexa, while helpful, can obscure decision-making and contribute to increased energy use and CO2 emissions. The present study explores whether consumers prioritize transparency and environmental sustainability over p…
Who participates in criminal justice? An exploratory study in Japan
Cultural invariance and ideological variance of collective ownership threat in intergroup relations
Further Evidence for the Role of Felt Understanding in Intergroup Relations: Japanese and Chinese Relations in Japan 1
Felt understanding in intergroup context is the belief that members of an outgroup understand and accept ingroup members' perspectives. A series of studies in Europe recently conducted by Andrew Livingstone and colleagues showed the unique effect of felt understanding in intergroup relations. The effects were apparent even when controlling for outgroup beliefs and metabeliefs. The present article reports a cross‐cultural replication of those find…
Cultural Generalizability of the False Signaling Theory: A Replication Study Using a Japanese Sample
Hypocrites are generally viewed unfavorably. According to the false signaling theory, this is because a hypocrite's condemnation falsely manipulates observers into believing in their moral goodness. However, since the false signaling theory has not been tested in cultures other than that of the United States, its cultural generalizability remains unclear. This study replicated two experiments comparing evaluations of hypocrites with those of tran…
Sliding or securing? Emotional ambivalence and public perception after euthanasia legalization in Japan
This study examined how legislation regarding euthanasia legalization influences individuals' psychological responses, focusing on slippery slope concerns and expectations regarding human dignity. In a preregistered experiment, 294 Japanese adults were recruited online and randomly assigned to legalization or control conditions; the final sample comprised 230 adults. Participants in the legalization condition read a simulated news article about t…
Comparing individual-level punitiveness across eight societies: A Political Economy Regime Perspective
This study examines individual-level punitiveness, defined as support for harsher criminal sanctions, across eight societies categorised under Cavadino and Dignan's political-economic typology: neoliberalism, conservative corporatism, social democratic corporatism, and oriental corporatism. Using a publicly available dataset with responses from approximately 300 individuals in each society, this study explores how punitive attitudes vary across r…
Punitive Penalties for the Maltreatment of Animals: A Case Study of People's Perceptions
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works)