東北大学 大学院教育学研究科・教育学部

研究

教員紹介渡邉祥子

渡邉祥子 特任助教 WATANABE, Shoko

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教育情報アセスメント
担当分野
教育情報デザイン論
研究内容
Research on changes in social identity and formation of intergroup and interdisciplinary trust
社会的アイデンティティの変容と集団間・学際的信頼構築に関する研究
Broadly, my research examines how individuals navigate conflicting ideas and uncertainties regarding their worldviews and social identities. I study a variety of topics including loneliness and social isolation, predictors and consequences of religious deidentification, and mechanisms that drive (or disrupt) interdisciplinary collaborations. Additionally, I study how people evaluate reconciliatory efforts in interpersonal conflicts and how group-based connections and trust develop over time. I explore these topics in laboratory and online experiments using social cognitive and behavioral approaches, as well as secondary data analyses using structural equation modeling (SEM).
私の研究は、個人が自身の世界観や社会的アイデンティティに関する相克や不確実性をどのように乗り越えていくのかを解明することを目的としています。研究テーマは多岐にわたり、孤独や社会的孤立、宗教的アイデンティティの喪失・変容における規定要因とその帰結、そして学際的協働を推進（あるいは阻害）するメカニズムなどを対象としています。加えて、対人紛争における和解への取り組みがどのように評価されるのか、またチームの繋がりや信頼が時間の経過とともにどのように構築されるのかについても探求しています。手法としては、社会認知および行動科学的知見に基づいたラボ・オンライン実験に加え、構造方程式モデリング（SEM）を用いた二次データ分析を組み合わせて研究を展開しています。
主要業績
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
  • Sharp, C. A., & Watanabe, S. (registered report accepted in principle).“We don't want your thoughts and prayers”: Group differences in perceptions of petitionary prayer. Archive for the Psychology of Religion.
  • Sharp, C. A., & Watanabe, S. (in press). The 2025 IAPR Conference at the University of Birmingham: Highlighting the cross-disciplinarity of the psychology of religion. Archive for the Psychology of Religion.
  • Watanabe, S., & Todd, N. R. (2026). One trajectory does not fit all: Understanding religious deidentification with longitudinal patterns of religious doubt and engagement. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 36(1): 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2521564
  • Todd, N. R., Watanabe, S., & Blackburn, A. M. (2026). Examining the religious residue among racial-ethnically diverse sexual minorities. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 36(1): 252-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2521571
  • Watanabe, S., Kašparová, P., Łazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, E., Perez, J., Tanton, T., & Waite, H. (2025). Voices in the (interdisciplinary) wilderness: Reflections from a psychology cross-training project for theologians. Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology, 4(3): 5-20.
  • Seo, M., Watanabe, S., Kim, Y-H., & Laurent, S. M. (2024). Interdependent versus independent inconsistency: Cultural differences in how East Asian and Western people attribute hypocrisy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(8): 2043-2067. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001608
  • Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., … Watanabe, S., … van Elk, M., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2023). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 13(3): 237-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
  • Watanabe, S., Weiner D. S., & Laurent, S. M. (2022). Schadenfreude for undeserved misfortunes: The unexpected consequences of endorsing a strong belief in a just world. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101: Article 104336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104336
  • Watanabe, S., & Laurent, S. M. (2021). Past its prime? A methodological overview and critique of religious priming research in social psychology. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 6(1-2): 31-55. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.38411
  • Watanabe, S., & Laurent, S. M. (2021). Volition speaks louder than action: Offender atonement, forgivability, and victim valuation in the minds of perceivers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(6): 1020-1036. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220953996
  • Watanabe, S., & Laurent, S. M. (2021). Disgust toward interracial couples: Mixed feelings about Black-White race mixing. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(5): 769-779. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620939411
  • Gupta, S., Watanabe, S., & Laurent, S. M. (2021). Psychological predictors of vaccination intentions among U.S. undergraduates and online panel workers during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. PLOS ONE, 16(11): e0260380. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260380
  • Watanabe, S., & Laurent, S. M. (2020). Feeling bad and doing good: Forgivability through the lens of uninvolved third parties. Social Psychology, 51(1): 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000390

Edited Special Issues
  • Sharp, C. A., Daughton, A., & Watanabe, S. (Eds.). (forthcoming in Fall 2028). The role of religion in human flourishing within social relationships [Special issue]. Journal of Psychology and Theology.
  • Sharp, C. A., Daughton, A., & Watanabe, S. (Eds.). (forthcoming in Fall 2026). Understanding human conceptions of divine realities: Exploring the intersection between psychology and theology [Special issue]. Journal of Psychology and Theology.

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