Shinobu Kitayama

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology; Director, Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain. Focuses on cultural differences in cognition, emotion, and behavior between East Asian and Western countries, particularly Japan and the United States, in terms of the interdependent and independent construal of the self. Documented reliable differences among and within countries that are compatible with this conceptualization, including differences in perception, emotion, motivation, and reasoning style. Recent work links cultural differences in mental processes with neuropsychological insights to establish a field of cultural neuroscience. Books include Handbook of Cultural Psychology (with Dov Cohen, 2007); The Heart's Eye: Emotional Influences in Perception and Attention (1994); and Emotion and Culture: Empirical Studies of Mutual Influence (with Hazel Markus, 1994). Current Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2010.