Shinobu Kitayama (; born March 9, 1957) is a Japanese social psychologist and the Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

. He is also the Social Psychology Area Chair and Director of the Culture & Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the

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of the Attitudes and Social Cognition section of the ''

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology The ''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association that was established in 1965. It covers the fields of social and personality psychology. The edi ...

''. He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

and his doctorate from the

. Together with Mayumi Karasawa, he discovered the birthday-number effect, the subconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers in the date of their birthday over other numbers. Prof. Kitayama is best known for his work on the social psychology of culture as it relates to the self. He and Hazel Rose Markus have argued that Western selves are constructed as independent from others, and people from many East Asian cultures construct interdependent selves, based on the fundamental relatedness of individuals to each other. These differently constructed selves deeply affect how people see the world, how they experience emotions, how they organize their experience, and what they value.

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at Social Psychology Network * 1957 births Living people Japanese psychologists People from Shizuoka (city) Kyoto University alumni University of Michigan alumni University of Michigan Department of Psychology faculty Academic journal editors Social psychologists Japanese emigrants to the United States Cultural psychologists APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipients {{Japan-academic-bio-stub