Database for Young Researchers

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: Lectures on general topics in social psychology, with a special focus on aiming toward building social justice and fairness.
Specific issues include resolution of prejudices and intergroup conflict, understanding the role of culture in norm-abiding behavior and moral judgments, and communication and inter-cultural contact. 

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of social psychology

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On the basis of theoretical perspectives and experimental methodologies adopted from the study of social cognition, our research program examines potential sources and consequences of (mis-)understandings of leagal concepts among lay people. Specific research topics include judgment of responsibility and punishment, moral judgment and its cultural bases, and the influence of prejudices on legal jdugment.

Web Page: http://www.psy.sis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/klab/english/index.html

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Potency for Training: Lecture of general sociology of law

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of social psychology

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I welcome the person who is interested in a psychological study of the law with a background of the law in particular.

Acceptance: MS

Potency for Training: Function of social convention human error

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: 

Welcoming Message: 
In our laboratory, it is possible to make researches on extensive norm in terms of social psychology. We focus on the fundamental studies such as factors to let laws work socially and becoming mere facade of rules including law.

Acceptance: MS

Potency for Training: Supervision of research in applied ethics.

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: 

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You will get an opportunity to do philosophical research on ethical issues in contemporary Japanese society.

Acceptance: * not available

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Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: The lecture of general sociology of law

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of sociology of law

Welcoming Message: 
I cover it from fieldwork to a theory.

Web Page: http://www.cc.toin.ac.jp/juri/fj03/

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training:  Training and supervision of defense service for criminal case and juvenile case.

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Communication between the defendant and the defense counsel in the criminal case

Welcoming Message: 
I am conducting the researches on criminal defense, interview of the suspect, lay judge system, criminal procedure of elderly people and intelectually disabeled people, juvenile justice.

Acceptance:  * not available

Potency for Training:  Research on people’s attitude toward law and legal systems

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of sociology of law

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I conduct empirical studies of law and the psychology, particularly focusing on how laws and social norms are established and possible to be changed.

Acceptance: MS, AbS

Potency for Training: Empirical Research on the Criminal Justice System

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: 

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Analysing the Criminal Justice System in Japan, especially impacts of victims' viewpoints on the criminal procedure, and the impacts/issues of the Lay Judge System.

Acceptance: MS

Potency for Training: ADR

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of sociology of law

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Applied Sociology of Law　Based on Integrating Theory and Research

Web Page: http://post.kyoto-su.ac.jp/s/w020/w020a050.php?k_cd=K3999983595

Acceptance:  * not available

Potency for Training: sociological theories, doctrinal history,social research methodology

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: assessing public opinion survey, method of public opinion survey

Welcoming Message: 
sociological theories based on action theories (Weber, Schutz, Dewey etc.), deliberative democracy, and social problems (Poverty and Crimes).

Web Page: https://kimuramasato.wordpress.com/

Acceptance: * not available

Potency for Training:  Training of Practical Law and Education, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mock Trial

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: 

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It is possible to practice law education, civil education or social education in any stages of schools. I also accept to conduct a evaluation and analyzing for these kinds of education. Moreover, I support to facilitate researches on law education not only in Japan but also wherever in the world. Original educational materials enable the research of educational training on ADR, law counseling and Saiban-in-Saiban (a mixed tribunal of professional judges and lay judges).

Acceptance: * not available

Potency for Training: Legal Consciousness, Legal Knowledge, How to use Legal Resources

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Legal Consciousness and Legal Knowledge

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I work on "Law and Society Studies" based on Sociological/Psychological perspectives; e.g. personality and legal consciousness and behavior, the quality of law-related tests (Classical/IRT test theory,) educational methods for practice-oriented legal training focusing on skills and mind, and so on.

Acceptance: * not available

Potency for Training: The lecture of general pedagogy, Citizenship Education, Carrier Education

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of pedagogy

Welcoming Message: 
Education is a foundation for creating a desirable society!!

Web Page: http://www.ido-labo.com

Acceptance: MS, DS, AbS

Potency for Training: Statement credibility assesment, Forensic interview

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Credibility assesment of confessions and eyewitness testimony

Welcoming Message: 
We conduct research on credibility assesment of confesssion and eyewitness testimony using the qualitative methodology, such as discurse analysis.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: Training of analysis of eyewitness testimonies and confessions, Supervision of criminal victims' support

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Evaluation and expert testimony on forensic interviews

Welcoming Message: 
We conduct research on criminal and forensic psychology concerning psychology of criminals, suspects and victims. We especially focus on analysis of forensic interviews with discursive psychology.

Acceptance: PhD

Potency for Training: Statement analysis, Psychological experiment

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Credibility of statements

Welcoming Message: 
Statement analysis from a viewpoint of statements generated through communication. Psychological experiments from an ecological view of humans who act with a body in environment.

Acceptance: MS

Potency for Training: Testimony Analysis

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Testimony Analysis

Welcoming Message:
There are two aspects in our researches. One is to distinguish real experiences from falsehoods through time course of testimonies. Another is to development and evaluate a new correctional activity for persons with mental retardation after their crimes based on Clinical Developmental Psychology.

Acceptance:  MS, DS, PhD

Potency for Training: Training and supervision of the evaluation for the eyewitness and earwitness testimony and identification.

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Psychological evaluation of reliability of eyewitness and earwitness testimony and identification.

Welcoming Message: 
Our graduate program for the study of eyeitness and earwitness memory and identification enable us to explore the factors and mechanisms that influences the accuracy of their memory and identification performances. These factors include emotion, schema, weapon focus, misinformation, lie, and so on. Baisic research on basic memory processes are also welcomed.

Acceptance:  MS

Potency for Training:  Training of the statement credibility analysis with eyewitnesses and suspects

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Experimental aproaches to the credibility of eyesitness testimones,and procedure of statement analysis.

Welcoming Message: 
Experimental analysis of identification procedures with eyewitnesses, and the method of statement analysis.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD

Potency for Training: Supervision of forensic interviews with eyewitnesses

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Evaluation and expert testimony on forensic interviews.

Welcoming Message: 
Using the methodologies of cognitive psychology, we conduct research on various topics, such as eyewitness testimony, as well as basic research into autobiographical memory, affect and memory, etc.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: Cognitive Psychology

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Evaluation and expert testimony on eyewitness testimony.

Welcoming Message: 
Using the methodologies of cognitive and applied cognitive psychology, we conduct research on eyewitness testimony, such as face identification, as well as basic research into human memory and cognition.

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Potency for Training: effect of attention on perception and cognition

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Effect of attention on eyewitness

Welcoming Message: 
The research how attention have an effect on eyewitness.

Acceptance: * not available　

Potency for Training: The lecture of general psychology

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of psychology

Welcoming Message: 
I hope psychology, "law and human sciences", and their researches will be well known in our society.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: Psyhological insights for law; Legal thinking for psychologists

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing psychological insight in previous stage of appraisal, Introduction of relevant appraiser

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Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: The lecture and exercises of legal informatics, especiallly on computer-based textual processing in the legal context

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Insight and knowledge of legal informatics

Welcoming Message: I welcome those who are interested in the deposition analysis using computer technologies.

Web Page: http://www.lawpsych.org/

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Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

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Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Evaluation of eyewitness' memory. Effects of emotional information on eyewitness and Saiban-in.

Welcoming Message: 
In our lab, we conduct experimantal researches on eyewitness memory and judgment of Saiban-in. Researchers who are interested in both basic and applied researches are welcome.

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Acceptance: *not available

Potency for Training: The lecture of criminal procedure

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: providing insight and knowledge of criminal procedure

Acceptance: MS, DS, AbS

Potency for Training: Psychological findings cocnerning decision making, opinion formation, and opinion alteration by lay participants (saiban-in)

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Social surveys on the opinions and social attutides held by potential jurors (saiban-in) 

Welcoming Message: 
I can conduct research by experiment, questionnaire survey, and social survey, in the field of social psychology and law. I can also do researches on experimental group decision making and questionnaire surveys.

Web Page: http://jp.linkedin.com/in/fujitamasahiro

Acceptance: MS, DS, AbS

Potency for Training: Legal controle of interrogation, Investigation and trial legal issues

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Legal evaluation/professional opinion for criminal procedure issues

Welcoming Message: My research topics is widely spread. For examples, investigative procedure, surveillance investigation technology, disclosure of evidence, cyber crime and investigation, civil-judge system, fitness(competence) of defendant, stay of proceedings, fact finding, miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction and exoneration.

Web Page: http://imak.exblog.jp

Naoko Yamada (Professor) Affiliation： School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University Research Field： Criminal Procedure Law Keyword： Comperative Criminal Law (mainly Japan & England), Recording of Interviews, Disclosure of Prosecution Unused Materials, Proper Use of the Recorded Video of Interviews Under the Saiban-in System

Acceptance: MS, DS, AbS

Potency for Training: Study for rectification of the power between prosecutors and defendants, through all stages of the criminal procedure to the goal of 'realizing fair trail and prevention of miscarriage of justice'.

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion:

Welcoming Message: From the view point of the comparative criminal procedure law, study and make a proposal to improve existing Japanese Criminal Justice System with the global standards.

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Potency for Training: The lecture of criminal procedure law

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of criminal procedure law

Welcoming Message: 
We make a study on theory and operation of Criminal Procedure Law with academic knowledge of Law and Psychology.

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Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD *full occupancy for AbS(1)

Potency for Training: Training and supervision of forensic interviews with vulnerable witness including suspects.

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Evaluation and expert testimony on forensic interviews.

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Using the methodologies of cognitive and developmental psychology, we conduct research on various topics, such as eyewitness testimony, child testimony, cognitive processes in lay judges, as well as basic research into memory development, autobiographical memory, development in communication, etc.

Web Page: http://cogpsy.let.hokudai.ac.jp/~nakalab/

Acceptance: *not available

Potency for Training:  Criminal Procedure Law

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Criminal Procedure Law

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We research principally Criminal Investigation, Trial by "Saiban-in"(Lay Juges) and Miscarriage of Justice

Acceptance: MS, DS

Potency for Training: Basic theory on substantive criminal law as premises of Law and Psychology

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Validity of the sentencing guidelines and circumstances in criminal cases

Welcoming Message: 
We conduct research on Law and Psychology from a viewpoint of substantive criminal law theories, such as criminal responsibility, criminal sanction and so on.

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Kazumasa Akaike (Professor) Affiliation： Faculty of Law, Ryukoku University Research Field： Criminal Policy Keyword：

Acceptance: MS, AbS

Potency for Training: Lecture of general criminology

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of criminology

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I study the role of ex-offenders in the recovery of those who have committed crimes

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD

Potency for Training: legal education, social understanding

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of developmental psychology

Welcoming Message: 
Using the methodologies of developmental psychology, we conduct research on various topics, such as legal education, social understanding, social judgment, etc.

Web Page: http://homepage2.nifty.com/psyche/english.html

Acceptance: * not available

Potency for Training:  Intoroduction about psychological mechanisms on decision-making by lay-judges

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of law and sociology of law

Welcoming Message: 
Investigating some aspects of Lay-Judge System from a perspective of Psychology, and Making policy recommendation based on those investigations.

Acceptance:  * not available

Potency for Training: The lecture of general psychology

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of cognitive psychology

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I'm interested in researches on reliability of eyewitness testimony.  

Acceptance:  * not available

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Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: 

Welcoming Message: 
On the basis of theoretical perspectives and experimental methodologies adopted from the study of social cognition, our research program examines potential sources and consequences of (mis-)understandings of leagal concepts among lay people. Specific research topics include judgment of responsibility and punishment, moral judgment and its cultural bases, and the influence of prejudices on legal jdugment.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: Training and advise of research methodology for the sociology of religion, advice for cult consultation

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Students and young researchers can study the methodology and ethics of research on contemporary religious studies through the perspective of sociology and area studies in East and South East Asia. And welcome the students who have the practical interest of cult prevention and recovery.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD

Potency for Training: The lecture of general psychology

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of social psychology

Welcoming Message: 
Our research program examines the characteristic features of discussion and of judgment process in Saiban-in-Seido (a mixed tribunal of professional judges and lay judges) in terms of social cognition.

Web Page: http://www.utokyo-socpsy.com/index.html

Acceptance: * not available

Potency for Training: Psychological effects of trauma, Damage of Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Analysis by qualitative method: Trajectory Equifinality Approach(TEA)  which can grasp process and genesis 

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Qualitative clinical assessment

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Using the methodologies of clinical and life-span developmental psychology, I conduct qualitative research on experiences of persons concerned.

Acceptance: * not available

Potency for Training:  Forensic interviews with children

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Evaluation and expert testimony on forensic interviews.

Welcoming Message: 
I am interested in features of child testimony. Especially, I focus on the effect of an adult interviewer on child testimony.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: Moral and legal development

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The fluctuations in legal consciousness during adolescence are considered as products of human evolution.

Acceptance: MS, DS, PhD, AbS

Potency for Training: Law and Medicine, Dispute Resolution

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of Law and Society research

Welcoming Message: 
Research and Develpnment of Training Program concerning Medical Dispute Resolution and Law.

Acceptance:  * not available

Potency for Training: juror decision making, eyewitness memory   

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Providing insight and knowledge of cognitive psychology

Welcoming Message: 
We investigate means to obtain accurate eyewitness memory by using the methodologies of cognitive psychology.

Acceptance:  * not available

Potency for Training: Forensic interviews for non-native speakers

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion:  Providing insight and knowledge of psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology

Welcoming Message: 
This study examines aspects of communication relevant to witness interviews between a native interviewer and non-native interviewees, with the aim of drafting more precise methods for interviewing non-native speakers.

Acceptance:* not available

Potency for Training: Psychotherapy for adults with neurodevelopmental disorders

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion:  Providing insight and knowledge of clinical psychology

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 I am interested in clinical psychology based supoort for suspended criminals with neurodevelopmental disorders traits in coorperation with lawters and caseworkers.

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Potency for Training: Recovery from sexual abuse victim in childhood, and negative prescription and period of exclusion for right of indemnification

Potency for Expert Witness, Appraisal, and Expert's Opinion: Investigating issues for civil liability and for period of exclusion in terms of recovery of victims' resilience.

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