Yukiko Ogura joined Otaru University of Commerce.
MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY · FACULTY OF MATHEMATICAL INFORMATICS
Kameda Research Group
Exploring the fundamentally social nature of the human mind
Understanding human sociality through behavior, cognition, and computation
Humans are exceptionally sensitive to the welfare of others and to the social states around them. This social sensitivity has both constructive expressions—such as empathy and altruism—and darker ones, including envy, prejudice, and discrimination. We seek to understand the evolutionary and socio-ecological foundations of this sociality and how it is implemented in the human mind.
Our work connects insights from the humanities and social sciences with empirical findings and computational approaches in behavioral science, cognitive science, neuroscience, economics, evolutionary biology, informatics, philosophy of law, and ethics.
Research
Research themes
Three complementary lines of research on human sociality.
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Collective Intelligence
How social learning, information aggregation, and group decision-making make collectives wiser—or more fragile.
02
Justice & Social Values
The cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary foundations of distribution, fairness, norms, and social valuation.
03
Empathy
Mechanisms of understanding others, sharing affect, and social sensitivity in behavior, brains, and interaction.
What's New
News
Ryutaro Mori and Mayu Takahashi received their Ph.D. degrees and moved to new positions.
A paper by Hidezo Suganuma, Tatsuya Kameda, and colleagues was published in PNAS.