Yoshimasa Majima

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Affiliation: Professor, School of Social Welfare, Department of Psychology for Well-being, Hokusei Gakuen University

Degree: BA (Behavioral Science)(Mar, 1994, Hokkaido University)
MA (Behavioral Science)(Mar, 1996, Hokkaido University)
Ph. D. (Behavioral Science)(Mar, 2000, Hokkaido University)

Researcher number: 50344536
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-1546
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901063536866701
researchmap Member ID: 5000075459

External link: https://www.mlab-jdm.org/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2020 - Present

Professor, School of Social Welfare, Hokusei Gakuen University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2020

Hokusei Gakuen University School of Social Welfare Department of Psychology for Well-being Associate Professor
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

University of Waterloo
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

Hokusei Gakuen University School of Social Welfare Department of Psychology for Well-being Assistant Professor
Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2012

Hokkaido University Department of Psychology Assistant Professor

Education

Apr, 1996 - Mar, 2000

Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
Apr, 1994 - Mar, 1996

Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
Apr, 1990 - Mar, 1994

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University

Awards

Papers

Be careful not to overload study tasks: Mobile devices and multiple presentation formats may compromise data quality of studies online

Majima Yoshimasa, Nakamura Hiroko

The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 40(2) 147-156, Mar 31, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Culture as a Moderator of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs.

Yoshimasa Majima, Alexander C Walker, Martin Harry Turpin, Jonathan A Fugelsang

Frontiers in psychology, 13 745580-745580, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Development of a User’s Guide of Open-source Statistical Software ‘jamovi’ and Its Implementation in the Course of Statistics and Experimental Method

58 213-222, Mar 15, 2021
Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting

Hugo Mercier, Martin Dockendorff, Yoshimasa Majima, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Melissa Schwartzberg

Thinking & Reasoning, Dec 11, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Introducing jamovi as a tool for education in statistics

Majima, Yoshimasa, Nagai, Akiyuki, Ishikawa, Satoru, Fujiki, Akiko, Matsuura, Toshio

Hokusei Review, School of Social Welfare, 57 111-129, Mar, 2020
Development of the Japanese Version of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS‐J)

Yoshimasa Majima, Hiroko Nakamura

Japanese Psychological Research, Dec 9, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Why Do You Believe in Pseudoscience or Disbelieve in Science?

Yoshimasa Majima

Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society, 116-131, Oct, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
Cognitive Reflection But Not Reinforcement Sensitivity Is Consistently Associated With Delay Discounting of Gains and Losses

Bialek Michal, Bergelt Max, Majima Yoshimasa, Koehler Derek J

JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS, 12(3-4) 169-183, Sep, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Reasoning

Yoshimasa Majima

58 75-99, Jun, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
Should I, as a Cognitive Scientist, Use Crowdsourcing in My Research?

眞嶋良全

認知科学, 26(2) 272-281, Jun, 2019 Invited
Obstacles to the spread of unintuitive beliefs

Hugo Mercier, Yoshimasa Majima, Nicolas Claidière, Jessica Léone

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Willingness to transmit and the spread of pseudoscientific beliefs

H. Mercier, Y. Majima, H. Miton

Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32(4) 499-505, Jul 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Conducting Online Behavioral Research Using Crowdsourcing Services in Japan

Yoshimasa Majima, Kaoru Nishiyama, Aki Nishihara, Ryosuke Hata

FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 8(378) 1-13, Mar, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Intuitive cognitive style, but not analytic style, strengthens the empirically suspect everyday beliefs.

Majima Yoshimasa

Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2017 43-43, 2017
The feasibility of a Japanese crowdsourcing service for experimental research in psychology

Yoshimasa Majima

SAGE Open, 7(1), 2017 Peer-reviewed
The viability of online experimental platform as a tool for cognitive studies

Majima Yoshimasa

Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2016 36-36, 2016
Belief in Pseudoscience, Cognitive Style and Science Literacy

Yoshimasa Majima

APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 29(4) 552-559, Jul, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Interaction between Mental Rotation and Manual Rotation with and without Motor Planning

Nishihara, S, Imai, F, Fujiki, A, Majima, Y. (contributing au

Psychology, 6 1086-1095, Jul, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Recent Trends in Behavioral Research MethodsCooperative Use of Crowdsourcing Services and Webbased Survey Platforms

Majima, Y

Hokusei Review, 52(52) 29-40, Mar, 2015 Lead author
Similarity, Complementarity and Interrelationship between Theories of Two Modes of Mindset

Majima, Y

Hokusei Review, 52(52) 11-27, Mar, 2015

Misc.

Introduction to the feature: Cognitive science of rationality

Majima Yoshimasa, Honda Hidehito

Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 29(3) 335-342, Sep 1, 2022

Books and Other Publications

日常記憶

仲真紀子, 眞嶋良全 (Role: Joint author)

金子書房, Aug, 2015
仮説的思考：帰納と検証

服部雅史, 山祐嗣, 他, 章の翻訳担 (Role: Joint author, 第７章)

北大路書房, Apr, 2015 (ISBN: 9784762828935)
実験アプリケーション開発の基礎

眞嶋良全 (Role: Joint author)

ナカニシヤ出版, Apr, 2009
Delphi プログラミング

眞嶋良全, 黒澤勝士 (Role: Joint author)

ナカニシヤ出版, Apr, 2009
社会的認知

菱谷晋介, 田山忠行, 執筆担当 (Role: Joint author)

八千代出版, Apr, 2005

Presentations

Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism and Attitude Toward Nonhuman Agents in Japanese

Hiroko Nakamura, Yoshimasa Majima, Akiko Matsuo

International Conference on Psychological Science (ICPS) 2019, Mar 9, 2019
Not All of Empirically Suspect Beliefs Can Be Intensified by Mind Perception

Majima, Y, Nakamura, H

The 59th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, Nov 16, 2018
オンライン・クラウドソーシングを利用した調査・実験は，社会科学系研究者への福音となるか

日本心理学会第82回大会, Sep 27, 2018
On the reasoning based on empirically suspect beliefs and its cultural difference

The 16th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sep 1, 2018
オンライン認知実験の可能性を探る

日本認知心理学会ベーシック＆フロンティアセミナー, Aug, 2018 Invited
Belief bias among believers of the paranormal and the pseudoscience

Majima, Y

The 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Jul 28, 2018
Do beliefs in paranormal and pseudoscience bolster belief bias in syllogistic reasoning?

The 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Nov 10, 2017, Psychonomic Society
Science literacy, cognitive style and belief in the pseudoscience

The 33rd Annual Conference of Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Sep 16, 2016 Invited
Cultural difference in a relationship between cognitive style and weird beliefs

International Conference on Thinking 2016, Aug 5, 2016
Intuitive-analytical thinking styles predict belief in paranormal and non-paranormal pseudoscience.

The 31st International Congress of Psychology, Jul 27, 2016
Positive affect and seeing soft objects promotes utilitarian moral judgment

Nakamura, Hiroko

The 31st International Congress of Psychology, Jul 26, 2016
The viability of online experimental platform as a tool for cognitive studies

The 14th Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, Jun 18, 2016
Perceived Softness and Positive Affect Hinders Utilitarian Moral Decision.

Nakamura, Hiroko

International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, May 7, 2016
Seeing Soft Objects Enhances Deontological Moral Judgment.

Nakamura, Hiroko

International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, May 5, 2016
認知スタイルは通俗的心理学信奉を予測するか

日本社会心理学会第56回大会, Nov 1, 2015
The Effect of Induced Processing Orientation on a Holistic-analytic Thinking Task

EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, Sep 26, 2015
構音抑制は意味判断に影響を与えるか

西原進吉, 名畑(新原)理津子

日本心理学会第79回大会, Sep 23, 2015
Does tactile softness and hardness alter our acceptance of utilitarian judgment?

Hiroko NAKAMURA

The 37th Annual Meeting of the cognitive science society, Jul 24, 2015, University of California, Merced
Belief in the myths of popular psychology, cognitive ability and cognitive style

The 13th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, Jul 4, 2015
展望的意図の想起に対するリハーサルの効果

北海道心理学会第61回大会, Nov 30, 2014

Professional Memberships

Works

クラウドソーシングを使った研究が気になっているあなたへ

眞嶋良全

Jul, 2018 Other
The Effect of Induced Processing Orientation on a Holistic-analytic Thinking Task

Sep, 2015 Other
認知科学オントロジー追加項目

日本認知科学会オントロジ, 委

Mar, 2005 Other
仮説検証過程の適応的変化に関する実験的検討

Dec, 2000 Other

Research Projects

Religious moral reasoning in the frame of dual process approach: Cultural differences in religious moral reasoning and thinking style.

科学研究費助成事業国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化(B)), 日本学術振興会, Oct, 2021 - Mar, 2026

山祐嗣, 山愛美, 橋本博文, 鈴木紘子, 眞嶋良全
Fake News: Who believes it? Who spread it?

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022
擬人化が科学的説明文の理解過程に及ぼす影響の検討

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022

中村紘子, 眞嶋良全
知覚的マインドセットと文化的マインドセットの相似性・相補性に関する研究

基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019
社会科学領域における協力者プールとしてのクラウドソーシング・サンプルの特性の検討

北星学園大学, Jun, 2015 - Mar, 2016
「科学性」の判断における，リテラシー・思考態度・思考スキルの役割に関する研究

基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015
Beyond truth and falsity: Degree of confidence

Sep, 2011 - Mar, 2014
A psychological study on the process of acquisition and persistence of pseudoscientific beliefs

Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2011
食事日誌記述法と食事選択シミュレーション課題の開発

萌芽研究, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2009
認知的バイアス発現に関わる個人差の検討とバイアス解消に向けた教育ゲームの開発

若手研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2008
心理学系大学院におけるインストゥルメンテーション教育の充実・推進に関する研究

カシオ科学振興財団, Dec, 2005 - Nov, 2007
認知的バイアス解消のための実験心理学的手続きの開発

萌芽, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2004

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