Yukari Jessica Tham

Profile Information

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University

Degree: Bachelor’s degree in commerce(Hitotsubashi University)
Master's degree in social psychology(The University of Tokyo)
PhD in social psychology(The University of Tokyo)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201801008072732650
researchmap Member ID: B000305247

External link: https://yukarijessica.me/en/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Social psychology /

Research History

Apr, 2025 - Present

Fellow (5th Cohort), Program for the Development of Next-Generation Leading Scientists with Global Insight (L-INSIGHT)
Oct, 2023 - Present

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University
Sep, 2020 - Mar, 2024

Lecturer, Center for General Education, Mori Arinori Institute for Higher Education and Global Mobility, Hitotsubashi University
Apr, 2023 - Sep, 2023

Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Research Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Oct, 2021 - Mar, 2022

Research Assistant, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo
May, 2021 - Mar, 2022

Researcher, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Research Fellow, Business Research Lab. Inc.
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2022

Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 2019 - Jul, 2020

Teaching Assistant, School of Child Psychology, Tokyo Future University
Feb, 2016 - Mar, 2018

Research Assistant, School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University Business School
Jan, 2017 - Apr, 2017

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Nov, 2015 - Jun, 2016

Research Assistant, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University

Education

Apr, 2020 - Sep, 2023

Department of Social Psychology, Ph.D. Program at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Department of Social Psychology, Masters Program at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

Department of Business Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University

Committee Memberships

Sep, 2019 - Aug, 2020

Co-organizer, Young Psychologist Program of the Japan Society of Personality Psychology
Feb, 2020 - Present

Co-organizer, Society for Social and Behavioral Sciences

Awards

Feb, 2024

Excellent Presentation Award at the 87th Annual Convention, Japanese Psychological Association

Yukari Jessica Tham, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Kaori Karasawa
Oct, 2023

Excellent Presentation Award at the 69th Annual Convention, Japanese Group Dynamics Association

Yukari Jessica Tham, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa
Feb, 2023

Sumisei Award for Women in Humanities and Social Sciences, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company

Yukari Jessica Tham
Oct, 2022

Excellent Presentation Award at the 86th Annual Convention, Japanese Psychological Association

Yukari Jessica Tham, Erika Kobayashi, Shohei Okamoto
Jan, 2022

Ikushi Prize 2021, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Yukari Jessica Tham
Sep, 2021

Excellent Presentation Award at the 67th Annual Convention, Japanese Group Dynamics Association

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa
Oct, 2020

Excellent Presentation Award at the 84th Annual Convention, Japanese Psychological Association

Megumi Ohashi, Yukari Jessica Tham, Etsuko Togo, Yumiko Iume
Dec, 2018

Young Researcher's Scholarship Award 2018, The Japanese Society of Social Psychology

Yukari Jessica Tham

Papers

Equitable burden-sharing in “take-one-for-the-team” situations: The role of coordination

Yukari Jessica Tham, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead author
The importance of examining both the amount and balance of social support: A study on the relationship between social support and subjective well-being of older Japanese adults

Yukari Jessica Tham, Shohei Okamoto, Erika Kobayashi

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(2) e2783, Mar, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead author
Underlying dimensions of benefit and risk perception and their effects on people’s acceptance of conditionally/fully automated vehicles

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Transportation, 49(6) 1715-1736, Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Mothers’ motivation for volunteering in their children’s community-based sports clubs: The effects of justice sensitivity and harassment

Megumi M. Ohashi, Yukari Jessica Tham, Etsuko Togo, Yumiko Iume

Japanese Psychological Research, 93(1) 10-20, Apr, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Social rewards in the volunteer’s dilemma in everyday life

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 25(1) 117-125, Mar, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Who incurs a cost for their group and when? The effects of dispositional and situational factors regarding equality in the volunteer’s dilemma

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Personality and Individual Differences, 185 111236, Feb, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Development of a Japanese version of the Symbolic Ableism Scale (SAS-J)

Yuho Shimizu, Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Japanese Psychological Research, 92(6) 532-542, Feb, 2022 Peer-reviewed
The effect of impression formation on rejection in the ultimatum game

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 12(1) 12-17, Mar, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
The positive and negative effects of justice sensitivity and justice-related emotions in the volunteer's dilemma

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Personality and Individual Differences, 151 109501-109501, Dec, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
Development of a Japanese version of the Justice Sensitivity Inventory (JSI-J)

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Manfred Schmitt, Kaori Karasawa

The Japanese journal of psychology, 90(5) 503-512, Dec, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
Because of the “bad blood”?: Genetic essentialism and associative stigma of an ex-convict’s children

Yukari Jessica Tham, Koji Murata, Kaori Karasawa

Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 16(2) 77-82, Dec, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author

Misc.

誰か1人が皆のために動かなければいけないとき

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心理学ワールド109号, Apr, 2025
育志賞育ててくれてありがとう

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日本学術振興会育志賞受賞者寄稿文集, Nov, 2024
社会的ジレンマ

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神戸大学文学部だより第22号, Oct, 2024
2023年度優秀学会発表賞＜ロング・スピーチ部門＞受賞コメント

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日本グルダイ学会会報64号, Feb, 2024
「第12回日本学術振興会育志賞」受賞コメント

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日本社会心理学会会報229号, May, 2022
2021年度優秀学会発表賞＜English Session部門＞受賞コメント

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日本グルダイ学会会報60号, Dec, 2021
第62回日本社会心理学会大会参加記

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日本社会心理学会会報228号, Oct, 2021
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) 2020年大会＠ニューオーリンズ参加記

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日本社会心理学会会報222号, Mar, 2020

Books and Other Publications

なぜ子どもは神を信じるのか?: 人間の宗教性の心理学的研究

松島公望 (監訳), 矢吹理恵・荒川歩 (編訳) (Role: Joint translator, 第1章, 第2章) (Original Author(s): J・L・バレット)

教文館, Jan, 2023 (ISBN: 9784764274648)

Presentations

Social psychological research on cooperation

Yukari Jessica Tham

Team Tsukamoto Meeting, Jun 10, 2025
Why do women do the lion’s share of housework?

Yukari Jessica Tham

Gender Research Workshop, Mar 7, 2025
Limited effects of social visibility on cooperative behavior in step-level public goods games

Yukari Jessica Tham

RISS Workshop, Feb 28, 2025
Loss aversion and the challenges of academic conference participation for parents

Yukari Jessica Tham

The 88th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Sep 8, 2024
No “cooperation for reputation” in highly asymmetric step-level public goods games

Yukari Jessica Tham, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Kaori Karasawa

The 20th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Jul 3, 2024
Do people perceive paternalistic rules as more effective for others than for themselves?

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024, Feb 8, 2024
Ideal Burden-Sharing and the Reality

Yukari Jessica Tham

The 489th Kansai Social Psychology Workshop, Dec 9, 2023
How people share burdens when their ability varies in a volunteer's dilemma *Winner of the Excellent Presentation Award

Yukari Jessica Tham, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

The 69th Annual Convention of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association, Sep 23, 2023
Who in a group takes on a task that must be done and when? Computational modeling of decision making in a volunteer’s dilemma *Winner of the Excellent Presentation Award

Yukari Jessica Tham, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Kaori Karasawa

The 87th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Sep 16, 2023
Getting rid of anonymity increases efficient provision of a public good in a volunteer’s dilemma

Yukari Jessica Tham, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Kaori Karasawa

Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2023, Feb 23, 2023
The effect of the amount and balance of social support on subjective well-being of older Japanese adults *Winner of the Excellent Presentation Award

Yukari Jessica Tham, Erika Kobayashi, Shohei Okamoto

The 86th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Sep 8, 2022
How much should and do individuals contribute in the volunteer’s dilemma?

Yukari Jessica Tham

The 189th Workshop of the Association of Social Behavior Research, Mar 24, 2022
Why do people prefer net-benefit equality but cannot achieve it in the asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma?

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2022, Feb 19, 2022
How much should and does the “strongest” member incur a cost for the group in an asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma? *Winner of the Excellent Presentation Award

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

The 67th Annual Convention of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association, Sep 11, 2021
The effect of the certainty of the proposer’s negative impression on the responder’s motivation to reject unfair offers: An examination using repeated ultimatum games

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

The 85th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Sep 1, 2021
Ideal and reality of distribution of labor in a group: An examination using asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma games

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology, Aug 26, 2021
People prefer equality in asymmetric volunteer’s dilemmas

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

The 14th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, Jul 29, 2021
How much should and does each member incur a cost for their group in the volunteer’s dilemma?

Yukari Jessica Tham

The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists, Mar 6, 2021
Who incurs a cost for their group and when? The effect of justice sensitivity and previous interactions with other members on people’s behavior in a volunteer’s dilemma

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2021, Feb 13, 2021
Are women more willing to cooperate than men when it does not require skill? An application of the costly signaling theory

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

The 13th Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan, Dec 12, 2020

Professional Memberships

Apr, 2018 - Present

The Japanese Psychological Association
Apr, 2018 - Present

The Japanese Society of Social Psychology
Apr, 2018 - Present

The Japanese Group Dynamics Association
Apr, 2018 - Present

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Apr, 2019 - Present

Asian Association of Social Psychology
Apr, 2020 - Present

Human Behavior and Evolution Society Japan

Research Projects

Burden sharing for public goods provision

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jul, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Yukari Jessica Tham
How to divide chores efficiently and equitably

Research Grant for Social Science 2024, Nomura Foundation, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Yukari Jessica Tham
Obstacles to sharing burdens efficiently and equitably in "multiple public goods games"

Research Grant for Research on Simulation and Gaming 2023, Foundation for the Fusion of Science and Technology, Feb, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Yukari Jessica Tham
Fairness in volunteer's dilemmas

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

Yukari Jessica Tham
Fairness in volunteer's dilemmas

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Yukari Jessica Tham
How much should and does the “strongest” member incur a cost for the group in an asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma?

Summer School Research Grant, Asian Association of Social Psychology, Dec, 2019 - Jul, 2021

Yukari Jessica Tham
Why does unfairness occur in volunteer's dilemmas?

Research Grant for Research on Simulation and Gaming Using Advanced and Creative Methods 2019, Foundation for the Fusion of Science and Technology, Dec, 2019 - Dec, 2020

Yukari Jessica Tham, Takaaki Hashimoto, Kaori Karasawa

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