Misumi Award History

Misumi Award is established jointly by the Japanese Group Dynamics Association and the Asian Association for Social Psychology in honor of Professor Jyuji Misumi, a long time president of JGDA who made great contributions to the development of social psychology in Asia.

The award is given to the author(s) of the article in the Asian Journal of Social Psychology of which contribution to the development of social psychology in Asia is most prominent.

The selection committee consists of three members of the Asian Association for Social Psychology and two members of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association.

Misumi Award Grant

The Award is granted each year. The ceremony for granting the Award and the prize of $1,000 takes place at the Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology.

One paper is selected for the Misumi Award each year from the papers published in the previous year’s volume of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology. The selection procedure is:

  1. Each committee member nominates up to two papers as candidates for the Award. The commitee member cannot nominate or vote for any paper writen by him/her self or his/her direct students, or whose senior author has already received the Misumi Award.
  2. A list of nominated papers is distributed to the committee members. Each committee member evaluates each paper in the list on a five point scale (five being the highest score). Members do not evaluate papers where they may have a conflict of interest.
  3. The Chair of the committee distributes a list of average scores of the nominated papers (without the authors’ names and the titles) to the members.
  4. The committee decides how many papers (up to a maximum of 3) to select as the final candidates of the Award, based on the average scores.
  5. The committee discusses the shortlisted papers and each member ranks the final candidates. The paper that receives the highest average score on the final vote is selected for the Award

Misumi Award Winners

2020 — Yang, Z., & Xin, Z. (2020). Income inequality and interpersonal trust in China. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23(3), 253-263.

2019 — Li, W. Q., Li, L. M. W., & Li, M. (2019). Residential mobility reduces ingroup favouritism in prosocial behaviour. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22(1), 3-17.

2019 — Chang, C. T., Lee, Y. K., & Cheng, Z. H. (2017). Baby face wins? Examining election success based on candidate election bulletin via multilevel modeling. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 20(2), 97-112.

2019 — Dou, K., Wang, Y. J., Li, J. B., Li, J. J., & Nie, Y. G. (2018). Perceiving high social mindfulness during interpersonal interaction promotes cooperative behaviours. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 21(1-2), 97-106.

2017 — Mark Rubin, Milen Milanov and Stefania Paolini (2016). Uncovering the diverse cultural bases of social identity: Ingroup ties predict self-stereotyping among individualists but not among collectivists. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 19 (3), 225–234.

2016 — Mengsi Xu, Zhiai Li, Junhua Zhang, Lijing Sun, Lingxia Fan, Qinghong Zeng and Dong Yang (2015). Social exclusion influences attentional bias to social information. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 18 (3), 199-208.

2015 – Young-Hoon Kim, Chi-Yue Chiu, Sinhae Cho, Evelyn W. M. Au and Sunyoung Nicole Kwak (2013). Aligning inside and outside perspectives of the self: A cross-cultural difference in self-perception. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 17(x),

2014 – Hirofumi Hashimoto and Toshio Yamagishi. (2012). Two faces of interdependence: Harmony seeking and rejection avoidance. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 16(x),

2013 – Toshio Yamagishi, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Karen S. Cook, Toko Kiyonari, Mizuho, Shinada, Nobuhiro Mifune, Keigo Inukai, Haruto Takagishi, Yutaka Horita & Li Yang (2012). Modesty in self-presentation: A comparison between the USA and Japan. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 15(x),

2012 – Nobuhiko Goto & Minoru Karasawa (2011). Identification with a wrongful subgroup and the feeling of collective guilt. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 14(x),

2011 — Wolfgang Wagner, Nicole Kronberger, Motohiko Nagata, Ragini Sen, Peter Holtz and Fátima Flores Palacios (2010). Essentialist theory of ‘hybrids’: From animal kinds to ethnic categories and race. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13(4), 232-246.

2010 — Yoshihisa Kashima, Paul Bain, Nick Haslam, Kim Peters, Simon Laham, Jennifer Whelan, Brock Bastian, Stephen Loughnan, Leah Kaufmann and Julian Fernando (2009). Folk theory of social change. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12 (4), 227-246.

2009 — James H. Liu, Li-Li Huang, Catherine McFedries (2008). Cross-sectional and longitudinal differences in social dominance orientation and right wing authoritarianism as a function of political power and societal change. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11 (2), 116-126.

2008 — Kenji Noguchi (2007). Examination of the content of individualism/collectivism scales in cultural comparisons of the USA and Japan. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 10 (3), 131-144.

2007 — Yuriko Zemba (2006). Responses to organizational harm: Mechanism of blaming managers as proxies for a culpable organization. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 9 (3), 184–194.
Elizabeth A. Hardie, Christine Crichley & Zoe Morris (2006). Self-coping complexity: Role of self-construal in relational, individual and collective coping styles and health outcomes. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 9(3), 224-235.

2006 — Sau-Lai Lee, Chi-Yue Chiu & Tsz-Kit Chan (2005). Some boundary conditions of the expressor culture effect in emotion recognition: Evidence from Hong Kong Chinese perceivers. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 8(3), 224-243.

2005 — Li-Li Huang, James H. Liu, & Maanling Chang (2004). The double identity’ of Taiwanese Chinese: A dilemma of politics and culture rooted in history. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 7, Issue 2.
Michael W. Morris, Kwok Leung, & Sheena S. Iyengar (2004). Person perception in the heat of conflict: Negative trait attributions affect procedural preferences and account for situational and cultural differences. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 7, Issue 2.

2004 — Kuang-Hui Yeh, & Olwen Bedford (2003). A test of the Dual Filial Piety model. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 6, Issue 3.

2003 — Liu J. H., Lawrence B., Ward C., & Abraham S. (2002). Social representations of history in Malaysia and Singapore: On the relationship between national and ethnic identity. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 5, Issue 1.

2002 — David Matsumoto & Cenita Kupperbusch (2001). Idiocentric and allocentric differences in emotional expression, experience, and the coherence between expression and experience. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 4, Issue 2.

2001 — James S. Uleman, Eun Rhee, Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Gun Semin & Midori Toyama (2000). The relational self: Closeness to ingroups depends on who they are, culture, and the type of closeness. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 3, Issue 1.
Sik Hung Ng, Cynthia S. F. Loong, James H. Liu & Ann Weatherall (2000). Will the young support the old? An individual-and family-level study of filial obligations in two New Zealand cultures. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 3, Issue 2.

2000 — Takano, Y. & Osaka, E. (1999). An unsupported common view: Comparing Japan and the U.S. on individualism/collectivism. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 2, Issue 3.

1999 — Yamaguchi, S. (1998). Biased risk perceptions. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 1, Issue 2.