Welcome! I am a PhD candidate majoring in social psychology at the University of Tokyo. I have mainly studied the effect of a sense of fairness on prosocial/proself behavior in social dilemmas. In my free time, I enjoy drawing pictures and watching a documentary on wild animals.
Master's degree in social psychology, 2020
The University of Tokyo
Bachelor’s degree in commerce, 2018
Hitotsubashi University
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (September, 2021). How much should and does the “strongest” member incur a cost for the group in an asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma? Talk presented at the 67th Annual Convention of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association. Online. *Winner of the Excellent Presentation Award
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (September, 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. Poster presented at the 85th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association. Online.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (August, 2021). Ideal and reality of distribution of labor in a group: An examination using asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma games. Presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology. Online.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (July, 2021). People prefer equality in asymmetric volunteer’s dilemmas. Poster presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology. Online.
Tham, Y. J. (March, 2021). How much should and does each member incur a cost for their group in the volunteer’s dilemma? Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists. Online.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (February, 2021). Who incurs a cost for theier group and when? The effect of justice sensitivity and previous interactions with other members on people’s behavior in a volunteer’s dilemma. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Online.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (December, 2020). Are women more willing to cooperate than men when it does not require skill? An application of the costly signaling theory. Presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan. Online.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (November, 2020). Social perception in a volunteer’s dilemma in everyday life. Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology. Online.
Shimizu, Y., Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (November, 2020). Developing a scale to measure symbolic ableism in Japan. Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology. Online.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (September, 2020). Determinants of acceptance of automated vehicles. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association. Online.
Hashimoto, T., Tham, Y. J., Karasawa, K., and Tai, M. (September, 2020). Understanding people’s attitudes toward a “data-driven” society based on trust and technology acceptance models. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association. Online.
Ohashi, M. M., Tham, Y. J., Togo, E., and Iume, Y. (September, 2020). Factors for mothers to continue team support in elementary school children’s community sports: Effects of sports harassment and the justice sensitivity. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association. Online. *Winner of the Excellent Presentation Award
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (February, 2020). How people evaluate volunteers and shirkers in the volunteer’s dilemma? The effect of perceived cost of volunteering. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA, USA.
Tham, Y. J. (November 2019). Rejecting an unfair offer allows you to gain self/other-focused material/social rewards: An integrative framework of motivation for rejecting unfair offers in ultimatum games. Poster presented at the 23rd Experimental Social Science Conference. Tokyo, Japan.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (November, 2019). Individual differences of willingness to volunteer in a volunteer’s dilemma: The positive and negative effects of justice sensitivity. Talk presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology. Tokyo, Japan.
Tham, Y. J., Murata, K., and Karasawa, K. (September, 2019). Implicit and explicit attitudes toward blood ties. Talk presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Cognitive Science Society. Hamamatsu, Japan.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (July, 2019). “Take one for the team!” The positive and negative effects of justice sensitivity in a volunteer’s dilemma in workplace scenarios. Poster presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology. Taipei, Taiwan.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., Shiraiwa, Y., and Karasawa, K. (March, 2019). Who “volunteers”? The effect of justice sensitivity in a volunteer’s dilemma at a university dorm. Talk presented at the 9th Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences. Tokyo, Japan.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., Schmitt, M., and Karasawa, K. (March, 2019). Development of a Japanese version of the Justice Sensitivity Inventory (JSI-J). Poster presented at the 9th Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences. Tokyo, Japan.
Tham, Y. J., Hashimoto, T., and Karasawa, K. (February, 2019). Egoistic motives of concerning injustice for others: Justice sensitivity and self-Consciousness. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR, USA.
Tham, Y. J., Murata, K., & Karasawa, K. Because of the “bad blood”? Genetic essentialism and associative stigma of an ex-convict’s children. (August, 2018). Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology. Osaka, Japan.
September, 2020 - Part-time lecturer at Hitotsubashi University (Course: “Psychology”)
February, 2020 Teaching assistant at Tokyo Future University (Course: “Psychological Experiment”)
April, 2019 - July, 2020 Teaching assistant at Tokyo Future University (Courses: “Statistics for Psychology II” and “Psychological Experiment”)
April, 2019 - July, 2020 Teaching assistant at the University of Tokyo (Course: “Seminar in Social Psychology II”)
September, 2018 - January, 2019 Teaching assistant at the University of Tokyo (Courses: “Research Method in Social Psychology I” and “Research Method in Social Psychology II”)
April, 2018 - July, 2018 Teaching assistant at the University of Tokyo (Course: “Research Method in Social Psychology III”)
