Shoko Watanabe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shoko Watanabe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Watanabe |
| SIGNATURE | WATANABE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1979-6673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Islamic Reform Movement of the Association of Algerian ʿUlamaʾ, 1931–1954
Psychological Exploration of Human Understanding of Divine Realities
This editorial introduces the empirical and theoretical works in this special issue, which examine questions about how people conceive of and think about divine realities, emotional and intellectual understandings of the divine, and the relationship between God representations and outcomes such as coping, health, faith development and leadership, and artistic expression. These examples are situated within a broader conversation about the tensions…
Fruitful Friction
This roundtable discussion, featuring a panel of scholars from both psychology and Christian theology, reflects on several different types of tensions at the intersection of these two fields. The discussion focused on four core inquiries. First, we explored the tension between interdisciplinarity vs. (hyper)specialization. Second, we discussed the tension between linguistic and cultural particularity vs. generalization and examined the importance…
Between Religion and the Colonial State
Politics According to Auma
One Trajectory Does Not Fit All
This pre-registered study examined whether longitudinal patterns of religious doubt during adolescence were associated with deidentification from religion during young adulthood. Using latent class growth modeling, we identified four trajectories of doubt among 1,402 religiously affiliated participants of the National Study of Youth & Religion (Waves 1?3). We found that deidentification rates at Wave 4 were higher among those who had stable high …
Examining the Religious Residue Among Racial-Ethnically Diverse Sexual Minorities
Research has demonstrated that even after being “done” with religion, formerly religious people (Dones) report more religious beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes than those who have never affiliated with religion (Nevers). Yet Dones also reports less religious beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes than those currently affiliated (Currents). In this pre-registered study, we examine if this stair-stepped pattern of “religious residue” is present for reli…
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
Schadenfreude for undeserved misfortunes
Past Its Prime? A Methodological Overview and Critique of Religious Priming Research in Social Psychology
Social psychologists have frequently used priming methodologies to explore how religion can impact behaviour. Despite this, no consensus currently exists on whether religious priming effects are replicable or consistently observed across a range of spiritual beliefs. Moreover, mixed evidence highlights possible methodological shortcomings within the priming literature as well as theoretical ambiguity regarding the contents of different primes. Th…
Volition Speaks Louder Than Action
On hearing of others’ offenses, people frequently intervene to encourage offenders to correct their wrongs. However, externally imposed reconciliatory behaviors may not effectively convince outside observers that offenders value victims’ welfare and deserve forgiveness. Four studies examined meta-judgments of victim valuation and offender forgivability when restitution was initiated voluntarily versus externally coerced. The same compensatory act…
Disgust Toward Interracial Couples
Three studies further explored Skinner and Hudac's (2017) hypothesis that interracial couples elicit disgust. Using verbal and face emotion measures (Study 1), some participants reported more disgust toward interracial couples than same-race White and Black couples. In Study 2, only people higher in disgust sensitivity tended to “guess” that rapidly presented images of interracial (vs. White) couples were disgusting. Study 3 used a novel image cl…
Making an Arab-Muslim Elite in Paris
This paper aims to clarify the scope and limitations of the ideals of Pan-Maghrib nationalism as developed by the Association of North African Muslim Students in France (AEMNAF) in the 1930s. The AEMNAF members’ inclination toward sciences and technology and their emphasis on conserving their mother culture made them consider Arabism and Islam their most important identity markers. Moreover, the AEMNAF created a sense of solidarity among Maghribi…
Feeling Bad and Doing Good
Previous forgiveness research has mostly focused on victims’ forgiveness of transgressors, and offenders’ post-transgression efforts intended to promote victim forgiveness have been collectively branded as apology. However, decisions concerning forgiveness frequently occur outside of dyadic contexts, and the unique roles of repentance and atonement in determining forgivability of offenders, despite their preeminence in theology and law, have rece…
The Party of God
Scholarship has long held that Islamic reform was a preparatory stage for nationalism in the Muslim world. In challenge to this view, this article shows how in the context of 20th-century Algeria Islamic reformers and nationalists continued to maintain distinct political ideas, visions, and projects. The article examines the internal framework of the Association of Algerian Muslim ʿUlamaʾ, an Islamic reform movement founded in 1931 when Algeria w…
A Forgotten Mobilization
This paper goes beyond the ideological views of nationalist leaders who positioned the departure of Tunisian volunteer soldiers for Palestine in 1948 in the framework of national-liberation history, and it analyzes the volunteer movement to provide a picture of the internal mechanisms of popular mobilization. This was a dual movement, of spontaneous participation and organized recruitment by local committees. The volunteers were ideologically het…
Reforming the Regime or Reforming the Dissidents? The Gradualist Dissent of Islamic Movements in Morocco
Japanese Buddhism, A Critical Appraisal
Tibetische Medizinphilosohie
Examining the Religious Residue Among Racial-Ethnically Diverse Sexual Minorities
Research has demonstrated that even after being “done” with religion, formerly religious people (Dones) report more religious beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes than those who have never affiliated with religion (Nevers). Yet Dones also reports less religious beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes than those currently affiliated (Currents). In this pre-registered study, we examine if this stair-stepped pattern of “religious residue” is present for reli…
One Trajectory Does Not Fit All
This pre-registered study examined whether longitudinal patterns of religious doubt during adolescence were associated with deidentification from religion during young adulthood. Using latent class growth modeling, we identified four trajectories of doubt among 1,402 religiously affiliated participants of the National Study of Youth & Religion (Waves 1?3). We found that deidentification rates at Wave 4 were higher among those who had stable high …
Schadenfreude for undeserved misfortunes
Feeling Bad and Doing Good
Previous forgiveness research has mostly focused on victims’ forgiveness of transgressors, and offenders’ post-transgression efforts intended to promote victim forgiveness have been collectively branded as apology. However, decisions concerning forgiveness frequently occur outside of dyadic contexts, and the unique roles of repentance and atonement in determining forgivability of offenders, despite their preeminence in theology and law, have rece…
The Party of God
Scholarship has long held that Islamic reform was a preparatory stage for nationalism in the Muslim world. In challenge to this view, this article shows how in the context of 20th-century Algeria Islamic reformers and nationalists continued to maintain distinct political ideas, visions, and projects. The article examines the internal framework of the Association of Algerian Muslim ʿUlamaʾ, an Islamic reform movement founded in 1931 when Algeria w…
Japanese Buddhism, A Critical Appraisal
Tibetische Medizinphilosohie
Japanese Buddhism, A Critical Appraisal
Reforming the Regime or Reforming the Dissidents? The Gradualist Dissent of Islamic Movements in Morocco
A Forgotten Mobilization
This paper goes beyond the ideological views of nationalist leaders who positioned the departure of Tunisian volunteer soldiers for Palestine in 1948 in the framework of national-liberation history, and it analyzes the volunteer movement to provide a picture of the internal mechanisms of popular mobilization. This was a dual movement, of spontaneous participation and organized recruitment by local committees. The volunteers were ideologically het…
The Party of God
Scholarship has long held that Islamic reform was a preparatory stage for nationalism in the Muslim world. In challenge to this view, this article shows how in the context of 20th-century Algeria Islamic reformers and nationalists continued to maintain distinct political ideas, visions, and projects. The article examines the internal framework of the Association of Algerian Muslim ʿUlamaʾ, an Islamic reform movement founded in 1931 when Algeria w…
Feeling Bad and Doing Good
Previous forgiveness research has mostly focused on victims’ forgiveness of transgressors, and offenders’ post-transgression efforts intended to promote victim forgiveness have been collectively branded as apology. However, decisions concerning forgiveness frequently occur outside of dyadic contexts, and the unique roles of repentance and atonement in determining forgivability of offenders, despite their preeminence in theology and law, have rece…
Past Its Prime? A Methodological Overview and Critique of Religious Priming Research in Social Psychology
Social psychologists have frequently used priming methodologies to explore how religion can impact behaviour. Despite this, no consensus currently exists on whether religious priming effects are replicable or consistently observed across a range of spiritual beliefs. Moreover, mixed evidence highlights possible methodological shortcomings within the priming literature as well as theoretical ambiguity regarding the contents of different primes. Th…
Volition Speaks Louder Than Action
On hearing of others’ offenses, people frequently intervene to encourage offenders to correct their wrongs. However, externally imposed reconciliatory behaviors may not effectively convince outside observers that offenders value victims’ welfare and deserve forgiveness. Four studies examined meta-judgments of victim valuation and offender forgivability when restitution was initiated voluntarily versus externally coerced. The same compensatory act…
Disgust Toward Interracial Couples
Three studies further explored Skinner and Hudac's (2017) hypothesis that interracial couples elicit disgust. Using verbal and face emotion measures (Study 1), some participants reported more disgust toward interracial couples than same-race White and Black couples. In Study 2, only people higher in disgust sensitivity tended to “guess” that rapidly presented images of interracial (vs. White) couples were disgusting. Study 3 used a novel image cl…
Making an Arab-Muslim Elite in Paris
This paper aims to clarify the scope and limitations of the ideals of Pan-Maghrib nationalism as developed by the Association of North African Muslim Students in France (AEMNAF) in the 1930s. The AEMNAF members’ inclination toward sciences and technology and their emphasis on conserving their mother culture made them consider Arabism and Islam their most important identity markers. Moreover, the AEMNAF created a sense of solidarity among Maghribi…
Schadenfreude for undeserved misfortunes
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
One Trajectory Does Not Fit All
This pre-registered study examined whether longitudinal patterns of religious doubt during adolescence were associated with deidentification from religion during young adulthood. Using latent class growth modeling, we identified four trajectories of doubt among 1,402 religiously affiliated participants of the National Study of Youth & Religion (Waves 1?3). We found that deidentification rates at Wave 4 were higher among those who had stable high …
Examining the Religious Residue Among Racial-Ethnically Diverse Sexual Minorities
Research has demonstrated that even after being “done” with religion, formerly religious people (Dones) report more religious beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes than those who have never affiliated with religion (Nevers). Yet Dones also reports less religious beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes than those currently affiliated (Currents). In this pre-registered study, we examine if this stair-stepped pattern of “religious residue” is present for reli…
The Islamic Reform Movement of the Association of Algerian ʿUlamaʾ, 1931–1954
Psychological Exploration of Human Understanding of Divine Realities
This editorial introduces the empirical and theoretical works in this special issue, which examine questions about how people conceive of and think about divine realities, emotional and intellectual understandings of the divine, and the relationship between God representations and outcomes such as coping, health, faith development and leadership, and artistic expression. These examples are situated within a broader conversation about the tensions…
Fruitful Friction
This roundtable discussion, featuring a panel of scholars from both psychology and Christian theology, reflects on several different types of tensions at the intersection of these two fields. The discussion focused on four core inquiries. First, we explored the tension between interdisciplinarity vs. (hyper)specialization. Second, we discussed the tension between linguistic and cultural particularity vs. generalization and examined the importance…
Between Religion and the Colonial State
Politics According to Auma
Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Islam (4 works) · North African History and Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)