The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
5848 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Hiroki Kotabe
Background
Hiroki received his BA in Media Studies from Temple University and a Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Psychology from Columbia University. After completing his BA, he worked as Assistant Search Planner at Neo@Ogilvy and more recently as Research Assistant at the Intergroup Relations and Diversity Laboratory and Senior Research Assistant at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia University . He is currently a student in the Joint PhD program at the Department of Psychology and the Center for Decision Research at Booth.
Research Interests
Hiroki is largely motivated by his desire to improve human cooperation. He wants to understand not only what facilitates human cooperation, but also what hinders it. To that end, Hiroki has begun research concerning these questions. What is the role of power (i.e., status in a social hierarchy) in human cooperation? Does power influence unfairness in perpetrators of crimes? And does it influence revenge in victims? What role does power have in the decisions of observers of a crime? What about the role of self-control in human cooperation? In what ways could self-control benefit human cooperation and in what ways could it be disadvantageous? How do our predictions about how we will feel if we succumb to our aggressive impulses or control them affect the likelihood that we will aggress? Hiroki believes that such questions are important in understanding how to improve human cooperation.
