Kotabe 1 Hiroki P. Kotabe Vita Department of Psychology University of Chicago 5848 S. University Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 hkotabe@uchicago.edu (215) 901-8008 EDUCATION 2014 present University of Chicago Working towards joint Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Department of Psychology) and Behavioral Science (Center for Decision Research, Booth School of Business) 2011 2014 University of Chicago M.A. in Cognitive Psychology 2009 2011 Columbia University Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Psychology, 4.0 GPA 2004 2008 Temple University B.A. magna cum laude in Media Studies POSITIONS 2011 present Doctoral Researcher, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2011 Volunteer Math and English Teacher, Faridabad, India 2010 2011 Lead Research Assistant (full-time, salaried) at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School; New York, NY 2010 2011 Lead Research Assistant for Drs. Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Lawrence H. Yang, Columbia University, New York, NY 2010 Research Assistant (part-time) at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School, New York, NY 2009 2010 Research Assistant for Drs. Baruch Eitam and E. Tory Higgins at the Higgins Lab, Columbia University, New York, NY
Kotabe 2 2009 Research Assistant for Dr. Janet Metcalfe at the Metacognition and Memory Lab, Columbia University, New York, NY 2008 2009 Assistant Search Planner at Neo@Ogilvy, New York, NY 2008 Intern at Havas Worldwide, 4A s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP), New York, NY GRANTS AND AWARDS 2015 Amos Tversky Independent Research Grant, Center for Decision Research ($3,000) 2015 Qualtrics $10K SurveyMod Competition, honorable mention 2013 Hillel J. Einhorn Research Grant, University of Chicago Booth School of Business ($2,000) 2012 Sidney Davidson Award, University of Chicago Booth School of Business ($5,000) 2011 Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (five-years full tuition + $116,000) RESEARCH STATEMENT I am generally interested in self-regulatory processes and environmental effects on selfregulatory processes. I take an integrative approach that leads me to work in several psychological areas. * Equal contributions JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (in press). On integrating the components of self-control. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Kotabe, H. P. (2014). The world is random: A cognitive perspective on perceived disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 606. Hofmann, W., & Kotabe, H. P. (2013). On treating effort as a dynamically varying cost
Kotabe 3 input [Peer commentary on the paper An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance, by R. Kurzban, A. Duckworth, J. Kable, & J. Myers]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 692 693. Hofmann, W., & Kotabe, H. P. (2013). Teaching & learning guide for: A general model of preventive and interventive self-control. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 775 779. Yang, L. H.*, Purdie-Vaughns, V.*, Kotabe, H. P., Link, B. G., Saw, A., Wong, G., & Phelan, J. C. (2013). Culture, threat, and mental illness stigma: Identifying culturespecific threat among Chinese American groups. Social Science and Medicine, 88, 56 67. Hofmann, W., Kotabe, H. P., & Luhmann, M. (2013). The spoiled pleasure of giving in to temptation. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 733 742. Hofmann, W., & Kotabe, H. P. (2012). A general model of preventive and interventive self-control. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 707 722. BOOK CHAPTERS Hofmann, W., Kotabe, H. P., Vohs, K. D., & Baumeister, R. F. (2015). Desire and desire regulation. In W. Hofmann & L. F. Nordgren (Eds.), The Psychology of Desire (pp. 61 81). New York, NY: Guilford Press. Hofmann, W., & Kotabe, H. P. (2013). Desire and desire regulation: Basic processes and individual differences. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of Emotion Regulation (2nd ed.) (pp. 346 360). New York, NY: Guilford Press. WORKING PAPERS Kotabe, H. P., Righetti, F., & Hofmann, W. (2015). Anticipated emotions guide selfcontrol judgments. Manuscript submitted for publication. Kotabe, H. P., Kardan, O. & Berman, M. G. (2015). The order of disorder: Decomposing visual disorder and its effect on cheating. Manuscript in preparation. Kotabe, H. P., Kardan, O. & Berman, M. G. (2015). The nature-disorder paradox. Manuscript in preparation. Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2015). How depletion operates in an integrative theory of self-control. Chapter in preparation.
Kotabe 4 PRESENTATIONS TALKS Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2015, July). How depletion operates in an integrative theory of self-control. Self-Regulation and Ego Control Conference, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN. Kotabe, H. P., Kardan, O., & Berman, M. G. (2015, April). Edges cause perceptions of environmental disorder. The 2015 Chicago Psychology Graduate Student Research Symposium (CPGSRS), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Kotabe, H. P., Righetti, F., & Hofmann, W. (2015, February). Anticipating primitive vs. self-conscious emotions differentially impacts self-control intentions. In Julia Hur & Rachel Ruttan (Co-chairs), Finding fault in failure: Mentalizing in evaluations and experiences of failure. Symposium conducted at the 16 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Long Beach, CA. Kotabe, H. P., Kardan, O., & Berman, M. G. (2014, December). What makes nature look disorderly? Social Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2014, April). Seven ways to control temptation. The Frugal Grad, a University of Chicago Panel on Financial Planning, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2014, February). How multiple affective forecasts shape self-control judgments. Behavioral Science Workshop Series, Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Kotabe, H. P., & Shah, A. K. (2013, November). Two studies on the psychology of scarcity and enjoyment. Cognitive Psychology Workshop Series, Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2013, April). Affective forecasting in self-control: Biases and boundaries. The Inaugural Kellogg-Booth Student Symposium, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2013, January). Predicting the ups and downs from acting out and avoiding temptation. In Lara K. Kammrath (Chair), Factors that predict self-control success and failure within a person across situations: It s more than just trait self-control plus state depletion. Symposium conducted at the 14 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), New Orleans, LA.
Kotabe 5 Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2012, May). Affective forecasting in incontinence. Social Psychology Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2012, April). Predicted emotions predict self-control judgments. The 2012 Chicago Psychology Graduate Student Research Symposium (CPGSRS), DePaul University, Chicago, IL. POSTERS Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2014, February). Characteristics of affective forecasts of self-control emotions and the impact of depletion. Poster presented at the 2 nd Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Preconference on Self-Regulation, Austin, TX. Kotabe, H. P., & Hofmann, W. (2012, May). Affective forecasting in self-control. Poster presented at the 5 th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation (SSM), Chicago, IL. Kotabe, H. P., Yang, L. H., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. C. (2011, August). The role of culture in mental illness stigma: Cultural beliefs influence memory of threatening information. Poster presented at the 119 th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. Kotabe, H. P., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Yang, L. H., Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. C. (2011, January). Core motivational concern in Chinese may influence memory and mental illness stigmatization. Poster presented at the 7 th Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Preconference on Cultural Psychology, San Antonio, TX. TEACHING INSTRUCTION 2016, Spring Teaching Assistant for Dr. Marc Berman, Cognitive Psychology (University of Chicago Department of Psychology) 2015, Spring Teaching Assistant for Dr. Jane Risen, Managerial Decision Making (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) 2014, Autumn Teaching Assistant for Dr. John Burrows, Strategies and Processes of Negotiation (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) 2014, Summer Teaching Assistant for Dr. Lil Mohan, Digital Marketing Strategy (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Kotabe 6 2014, Winter Teaching Assistant for Dr. George Wu, Strategies and Processes of Negotiation (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) 2014, Winter Teaching Assistant for Dr. William Goldstein, Social Psychology (University of Chicago Department of Psychology) 2013, Summer Instructor, Judgment and Decision Making in Organizations (ONPS International Summer School, Fu Jen University) 2013, Summer Instructor, Introduction to Statistics (ONPS International Summer School, Fu Jen University) 2013, Spring Teaching Assistant for Dr. Wilhelm Hofmann, Managing in Organizations (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) 2012, Spring Teaching Assistant for Dr. Wilhelm Hofmann, Managing in Organizations (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) 2010, Autumn Teaching Assistant at Psychology Instructional Laboratories (Columbia University) MENTORING 2013 present 2012 present Sarah Molouki, doctoral student in Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Anirudh Tiwathia, joint doctoral student in Behavioral Science (Booth) and Cognitive Psychology (Department of Psychology), University of Chicago SERVICE AD HOC REVIEWING PLOS ONE CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 2014, 2 nd Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Preconference on Self- Regulation, assistant organizer