How does cultural change affect human psychology and behavior?

Cultural psychology reveals substantial cultural differences between human psychology and behavior. However, most of past studies have not shown that culture is dynamic, not static. Therefore, in this speech, Yuji Ogiwara is focusing on the change in culture and its impact on human psychology and behavior.

The Japanese society, which was traditionally a collectivist, has become more individualized in recent years due to globalization. How will these changes affect the psychology and behavior of the Japanese people? In this speech, Ogiwara will first show that the Japanese society was more personalized. Next, he will prove that Japanese personalization is related to lower happiness. Finally, he will propose a mechanism to promote the link between personalization and happiness: those who support the individualism trend is that few intimate friends are associated with less happiness. Finally, Mr. Ogiwara discusses how cultural changes can cause maladjustment

Yuji Ogiwara obtained her master's degree from Kyoto University in 2012 and currently has a doctorate. He is a researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His field of study is cultural psychology and social psychology. He is interested in how cultural changes will affect interpersonal relationships and happiness / subjective happiness. Specifically, I am studying that Japan's "individualism", which has grown in Japan due to the pressure of globalization, qualitatively differs from individualism in the context of Western culture. His interest affects in particular how to prevent or resolve the adverse effects of increasing individualism on Japanese society (eg social withdrawal / withdrawal) and increasing individualism.

Recent article by Yuji Ogiwara "Individualism brings happiness? The negative influence of individualism on interior relations and happiness (with Yukiko Uchida)" is the top 10 in psychology at psychology frontier in March 2014 "is. It is one of the research papers.

Cultural group The contrast of culture, ethnicity, personality, and cultural content of pop culture culture defines the factors that influence culture. Contribution to Cultural Research Over the past 10 to 20 years, intercultural psychology has had a major impact on psychology around the world. Due to the growing awareness of cultural importance and frequency of intercultural conflicts, this dissemination has unveiled a major mainstream journal of cultural studies, cultural psychology, and Journal of Intercultural Psychology.

Cultural psychology reveals substantial cultural differences between human psychology and behavior. However, most of past studies have not shown that culture is dynamic, not static. Therefore, in this speech, Yuji Ogiwara is interested in the change in culture and its impact on human psychology and behavior. The Japanese society, which was traditionally a collectivist, has become more individualized in recent years due to globalization. How will these changes affect the psychology and behavior of the Japanese people? In this speech, Ogiwara will first show that the Japanese society was more personalized. Next, he will prove that Japanese personalization is related to lower happiness. Finally, he will propose a mechanism to promote the link between personalization and happiness: those who support the individualism tendency are less intimate friends related to less happiness.