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Prof. Takeshi Hamamura
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Address:	Rm 344, Sino Building,
	Department of Psychology,
	The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
	Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong

Phone:	(852) 3163-4246
Fax:	(852) 2603-5019
E-mail:	hamamura at psy.cuhk.edu.hk
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Research

Research Interests

Cultural psychology, motivations, cognition, and social relation, psychological consequences of wealth.

Representative Publications

Hamamura, T., Meijer, Z., Heine, S. J., Kamaya, K., & Hori, I. (2009). Approach-avoidance motivation and information processing: cross-cultural analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 454-462.>

Hamamura, T., Heine, S. J., & Paulhus, D. L. (2008). Cultural differences in response styles: The role of dialectical thinking. Personality and Individual Difference, 44, 932-942.

Hamamura, T., & Heine, S. J. (2008). Approach and avoidance motivation across cultures. In A. J. Elliot. (Eds.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation, (pp. 549-562). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hamamura, T., Heine, S. J., & Takemoto, T. (2007). Why the better than average effect is a worse than average measure of self-enhancement: An investigation of conflicting findings from studies of East Asian self-evaluations. Motivation and Emotion, 31, 247-259.

Heine, S. J., & Hamamura, T. (2007). In search of East Asian self-enhancement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 4-27.

Heine, S. J., Kitayama, S., & Hamamura, T. (2007). Inclusion of additional studies yields different conclusions: Comment on Sedikides, Gaertner, & Vevea (2005), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 10, 49-58.

Teaching

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