Assistant Professor, Akita International University
Affective science, cultural psychology,
media psychology, moral judgment
Research Interests:
• the emotion of horror towards real events: foundational research
• elicitor qualia
• action tendencies
• cognitive effects (e.g., cognitive accommodation, denial)
• differentiability from similar emotions states (fear, disgust, awe)
• effects of horrific news events on public attitudes
• emotional granularity and differentiating emotion concepts
• the influence of emotion on moral judgments
• the effect of digital culture on psychological processes
Biography
Education
2017 Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Master’s Degree (Cognitive and Behavioral Science)
2005 The College of William and Mary
Bachelor of Arts (Major: Philosophy; Minor: Religious Studies)
GPA: 3.86 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
University Teaching Experience
2014 – present Teaching Assistant, Oral Presentations for Cognitive Science
Kyoto University
Awards, Grants and Honors
2019 Japanese Society of Social Psychology Graduate Student Support Fund for International Conference Presentations
2018 The Kyoto University Foundation Travel Grant for International Presentations
2017 Japanese Psychological Association Travel Grant
2016 Association for Psychological Science Travel Award
2015 Japanese Psychological Association Travel Grant
2014 Japanese Government Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship for Graduate Studies (2014-2020)
2005 Phi Beta Kappa
Publications
Taylor, P.M. & Uchida, Y. (2019). Awe or horror: Differentiating two emotional responses to schema-incongruence. Cognition and Emotion. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2019.1578194
Nakayama, M., Ueda, Y., Taylor, P.M., Tominaga, H., & Uchida, Y. (2017). Cultural Psychology as a Form of Memory Research. In T. Tsukiura & S. Umeda (Eds.). Memory and the Social Context, pp. 381-295. Tokyo: Springer Japan. doi: 10.1007/978-4-431-56591-8_16
Nakayama, M., Nozaki, Y., Taylor, P.M., Uchida, Y., & Keltner, D. (under review). Individual and Cultural Differences in Predispositions to Feel Positive and Negative Aspects of Awe.
Nakayama, M., Yanagisawa, K., Taylor, P., Uchida, Y. (under review). Is awe a mixed emotion? The co-occurrence of positive and negative appraisals during in vivo experiences of awe.
Symposia Talks
Taylor, P.M. & Uchida, Y. (2019, April). Is horror an emotion? An empirical dissociation of horror from fear, disgust, and awe. Presentation as the Conflict and Morality Symposium at the 2019 Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Sydney, Australia.
Taylor, P.M. (2018, July). Appraisals of fate during the emotion awe mediate the effect of vastness on cognitive accommodation. Presentation at the 2018 Ohio State University Symposium on Social Psychology, Columbus, Ohio.
Taylor, P.M., Uchida, Y., & Keltner, D. (2016, July). An overlap of self-conscious and socially engaging emotions: Social awe as a trigger for self-reflection and evaluation in Japan. In Arimitsu, K. (Chair), Cross-cultural comparisons of positive self-conscious emotions. Symposium conducted at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.
Taylor, P.M., Uchida, Y., & Keltner, D. (2016, August). Fear and respect: Intra-cultural variations in Japanese awe and what they reveal about American understandings of awe. In Nakayama, M. (Chair), Are meanings of awe shared across cultures? Symposium conducted at the 23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nagoya, Japan.
Conference Poster Presentations
Taylor, P.M., Nakayama, M., Nozaki, Y. & Uchida, Y. (2018, September). The role of fate in schema change: Fate attributions mediate the effect of vastness on cognitive accommodation. Poster presented at the 82nd Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Sendai, Japan.
Taylor, P.M., & Uchida, Y. (2018, March). Differences in the Structure of the Small Self in Awe Versus Horror. Poster presented at the Emotion Pre-Conference of the 19th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention, Atlanta.
Taylor, P.M., & Uchida, Y. (2018, March). Appraisals of Responsibility and Control: Fate in Awe, Chance in Horror. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention, Atlanta.
Taylor, P.M. & Uchida, Y. (2017, January). Moral Intuitions Higher in Horror than in Awe. Poster to be presented at the 18th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Taylor, P.M. & Uchida, Y. (2017, January). Awe and Horror as Distinct Emotional Experiences to Vast and Incomprehensible Experiences. Poster to be presented at the Emotion Preconference of 18th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Nakayama, M., Taylor, P.M., Stancato, D., Monroy, M., Uchida, Y., & Keltner, D. (2016, August). Does self-construal affect worldview affirmation after meaning threats? Social effects reported more in Japan, but personal effects reported more in the US. Oral presentation at the 23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nagoya, Japan.
Taylor, P.M., Nakayama, M., Uchida, Y., & Keltner, D. (2016, May). Social awe in the corporate context: Awe towards executives is associated with commitment to the company. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Association for Psychological Science Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.
Taylor, P.M., Uchida, Y., & Keltner, D. (2016, January). Fear and respect in feelings of awe: A positive cognitive emotion in the US and a socially-engaging emotion in Japan. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention, San Diego, CA, USA.
Taylor, P.M. & Uchida, Y. (2015, September). Cultural differences in emotional construals of awe: A positive emotion in Japan but with elements of fear in Japan. Poster presented at the 79th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Nagoya, Japan.