Bio

Toshio Yamagishi is Adjunct Professor at Hitotsubashi University, and Professor Emeritus at Hokkaido University, where he established the Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences and became Inaugural Director. He received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Washington. Honors Yamagishi has received include eleven prizes from academic associations in psychology, the Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science (1999), a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (2004), and Japan’s 2014 Person of Cultural Merits. His research interests go from psychology and dynamic interactions to macro social structure. His research explores trust, cooperation, altruism, reciprocity, and related issues.