Ryozo YOSHINO
Professor, Survey Research Group, Department of Data Science
E-mail: yoshino
Education: Bachelor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Tokyo University,1980
Ph.D. Degree of Psychology, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Cognitive Science Group, University of California, Irvine, 1988.
Degree: Ph.D. Degree of Psychology, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Cognitive Science Group, University of California, Irvine, 1988, Title of Ph.D. Dissertation: Formal Representations of Spatial Knowledge.
Employment: 1989 Assistant Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics.
1992 Associate Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
2005 Professor, Department of Data Science, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Honors &
Awards: 		(1) The Most Distinguished Scholarship Award Paper, 1986, School of Social Sciences, University of California, "A reconsideration on the Young - Householder theorem".
(2) The Most Distinguished Scholarship Award Paper, 1988, School of Social Sciences, University of California, "On the possible and stable psychophysical laws".
(3) The Distinguished Paper Award (Hayashi Prize), The Japanese Association of Behaviormetrics(1992).
Research
Fields:		 Mathematical Psychology, Social Survey, Cross-National Comparative Survey.
Research
Themes:		 Cross-National Comparative Survey of National Character, Trust, Cultural Manifold Analysis (CULMAN)

Selected Papers
(1)Yoshino, R. (1989): Formal Representations of Spatial Knowledge, Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Irvine, Dissertation Abstract International A: The Humanities & Social Sciences, 49, 2164-A. Order #DA8820226
(2)Yoshino, R. (1991): A note on cognitive maps: an optimal representation of spatial knowledge, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 35 , 371-393.
(3)Yoshino, R. (1989): On the possible and stable psychophysical laws, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 33, 68-90.
(4)Yoshino, R. (1989): On the degree of stability of psychophysical laws, Behaviormetrika, 25, 49-63.
(5)Yoshino, R. (1992): Superculture as a frame of reference for cross-national comparisons of national characters, Behaviormetrika, 19 , 23-41.
(6)Yoshino, R. (1992): The BIGHT model and its application to the analysis of free-answer responses in social survey, Behaviormetrika, 19 , 83-96.
(7)Yoshino, R. (1993): Magical numbers of human short-term memory, Behaviormetrika, 20, 171-186.
(8)Yoshino, R. (1995): Complementary scaling for cross-national analyses of national character, Behaviormetrika, 22, 62-79.
(9)Yoshino, R. (1998): A social quantum theory for the analysis of public opinion survey data, Behaviormetrika, 25 (2), 111-132.
(10)Yoshino, R. and Hayashi, C. (2002): An overview of cultural link analysis of national character, Behaviormetrika, 29 (2), 125-141.
(11)Yoshino, R. (2002): A Time to Trust: - A study of peoples' sense of trust from a viewpoint of cross-national and longitudinal study on National Character -, Behaviormetrika, 29 (2), 231-260.
(12)Yoshino, R. (2005): Trust and National Character- Japanese sense of trust, cross-national and longitudinal surveys-, Comparative Sociology, 4 (3-4), 417-450.
(13)Yoshino, R. (2005): East Asia Value Survey| A Behaviormetric Study of Civilization on Cultural Manifold AnalysisiCULMANj-, The Japanese Journal of Behaviormetrics, 32 (1), 133-146.
(14)Yoshino, R. (2006): A social value survey of China - on the change and stability in the Chinese globalization -, Behaviormetrika, 33(2), 111-130.
(15)Yoshino, R. (2009): Reconstruction of trust on a cultural manifold:sense of trust in longitudinal and cross-national surveys of national character, Behaviormetrika, 36, 2, 115-147 .
(16)Yoshino, R., Nikaido K. and Fujita, T. (2009): Cultural manifold analysis (CULMAN) of national character:paradigm of cross-national survey, Behaviormetrika, 36, 2, 89-113 .

Selected Publications (Books)
(1)Hayashi, C., Suzuki, T., Mizuno, K., Yoshino, R., et al.(1992): Japanese National Character, Idemitsu-shoten, Tokyo (in Japanese).
(2)Yoshino, R. (Ed.) (1996): A Comparative Survey of Seven Countries, Idemitsu-shoten, Tokyo (in Japanese).
(3)Hayashi, C., Schevch, E.K., Yoshino, R. et al. (1996): Quantitative Social Research, Leske+Budrich.
(4)Yoshino, R.(2001) Kokoro wo Hakaru (Measurement of Mind: Data Science on Individuals and Groups, in Japanese), Asakura-shoten, Tokyo.
(5)Yoshino, R., Chino, N. and Yamagishi, K.(2007): Mathematical Psychology, Baihuu-kan, Tokyo. (in Japanese).
(6)Yoshino, R. (Ed.) (2007): East Asia Value Survey - Data Science , Bense-syuppan, Tokyo. (in Japanese).

Membership of Academic Societies
Science Council of Japan iassociate member), International Institution of Sociology (IIS), JAPOR (the Japanese Association of Public Opinion Researchers), WAPOR (World Association of Public Opinion Researchers), The Behaviormetric Society of Japan, The Japanese Association of Psychology, The Japanese Association of Information Archeology, The Japanese Association of Cognitive Science, The Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, Japanese Association for Social Research.

Professional Services
Part-time lecturer at Tokyo Institute of Technology (-2007, Statistics) and at University of Sacred Heart (Mathematics). A regent (1994-) and chief secretary (2006-2009); a member of the editorial board (1991-2006) (an associate editor (2000-2003) of Behaviormetrika; chief editor of Japanese Journal of Behaviormetrics (2003-2006) of The Behaviormetric Society of Japan. A member of the information committee of Japan Psychological Association (1999-2002). A member of the editorial board of Japan Information Archeology (1995-). A member of the committee of cross-national survey of youth (1997-1999). Ministry of General Affairs. A member of the committee of cross-national comparative survey on gender equality (2002-2003), Cabinet Office. A member of the committee of official statistics, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2007-2008), A guest researcher, NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Education Policy), Ministry of Education, Cultural, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Association for Social Research (Regent 2008-), Associate member of the Science Council of Japan (2007-).

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