Seiji Takaku, PhD Faculty - Full-Time Office of the Provost and VP for Academic Affairs Professor of Psychology Institutional Research and Assessment Coordinator Phone: 949-480-4058 Fax: 949-480-4261 Email: stakaku@soka.edu

• Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
• M.A., California State University, Long Beach
• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

• At SUA since 2002
• 2000 - 2002, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Minnesota State University, Mankato

• Apology and forgiveness
• Cross-cultural studies on interpersonal & intergroup conflict resolutions
• Motivation theories in psychology and Weiner's theory of attribution in particular

• A Cross-National Examination of the Perpetrator - Victim Account Estimation Bias as a Function of Different Types of Accounts, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2010 
• A cross-cultural study on victim's responses to apology in interpersonal and intergroup conflicts, Tohoku Psychologica Folia, 2008
• Conflicts and forgiveness. In K. Ohbuchi (Ed.), Social Psychology of Conflict. Kyoto: Kitaoji Shobo, 2008
• Reducing "road rage": An application of the dissonance-attribution model of interpersonal forgiveness, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2006
• What can Eastern philosophies teach us about psychology of human conflict? Daibyaku-Renge, Seikyo Shimbun Press, 2005
• Immigration and ethnic conflict in comparative perspective. The Psychology of Ethnic and Cultural Conflict, Westport, CA: Greenwood, 2004
• Perception and interpretation of terrorism, justice, and peace: Three cultures and two sides of one coin.  Psychology of Ethnic and Cultural Conflict, Westport, CA: Greenwood, 2004
• A cross-cultural examination of the effects of apology and perspective taking on forgiveness, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2001
• The effects of apology and perspective taking on interpersonal forgiveness: Introducing a dissonance-attribution model of interpersonal forgiveness, Journal of Social Psychology, 2001
• Culture and status influences on account-giving: Comparison between the U.S.A. and Japan, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2000    

• Introduction to Psychology
• Personality Psychology
• Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Attribution, Motivation, & Emotion
• CORE I & II
• Introduction to Pacific Basin
• Learning Cluster: Lies, Excuses, and Apologies
• Learning Cluster: Exploring Forgiveness.
• Learning Cluster: Detecting Lies and Deceits

• Professor of the Year Award, 2010
• Recipient of the Arthur H. Brayfiled Most Meritorious Dissertation of the Year Award from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA., 2000
• Nominated for the most outstanding master's thesis of the year, California State University, Long Beach, 1997
• Magna Cum Laude from UCLA, 1993

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