Culturally-Tuned Neurobiology: The Role of Culture and Selective Attention on East-West Differences in Social Anxiety and Emotion Expression

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21K13680
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Basic Section 10010:Social psychology-related
Research Institution	Kobe Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	クリーグアレグザンダー・ウィリアム神戸学院大学, グローバル・コミュニケーション学部, 講師 (10869275)
Project Period (FY)	2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status	Granted (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000) Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000) Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Keywords	Social Anxiety / Culture / East-West Comparison
Outline of Research at the Start	The overall purpose of the proposed study is to examine whether Japanese nationals and European Americans differ in self-reported social anxiety, independent/interdependent self-construals, and selective attention toward social threat, and how self-construals and selective attention may help explain higher social anxiety among Japanese nationals. Both correlational and experimental methods will be used to address this overall purpose.