Profile

WAKIMOTO Ryutaro

Associate Professor, School of Information and Communication,
Meiji University

SDGs theme

Research fields:
Social psychology

Research themes:
Relation between defensiveness and social behavior, and belief concerning childcare

[Keywords]
Terror management theory, self-esteem, and defensiveness

Main books and papers:
◆Mortality Salience and Mobile Voice Calling: A Case of a Massive Natural Disaster (Joint authorship), Communication Research, SAGE journals, 2020
◆“Naze Hito wa Komatta Kangae ya Kodo ni Torawareru no ka? – Sonzaikyoi Kanri Riron kara Yomitoku Ningen to Shakai” (Why are people caught up in troubling thoughts and behavior? – human beings and society interpreted from terror management theory) Chitose Press, 2019
◆Effects of mortality salience on subjective temporal distance of achievement-relevant events: A comparative examination between self-enhancement and self-consistency strivings, No.18, pp.131-144, Journal of information and communication studies, 2018