Journal

• [Japanese] Shirasuna, M., Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (accepted). Rationality that is speculated from the history of heuristic studies: Investigations of human intelligence through interactions between cognition and environment. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. 

• Honda, H., Kagawa, R., & Shirasuna, M. (2022). On the round number bias and wisdom of crowds in different response formats for numerical estimation. Scientific Reports. 12, 8617. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11900-7 [link]

• Shirasuna, M., Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2020). Familiarity-matching: An ecologically rational heuristic for the relationships-comparison task. Cognitive Science. 44(2), e12806. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12806 [link]

• Honda, H., Shirasuna, M., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2018). Do people explicitly make a frame choice based on the reference point? Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2552. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02552 [link]

• [Japanese] Shirasuna, M., Matsuka, T., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2017) Familiarity-Matching: Experimental Study on Cognitive Processes and Ecological Rationality. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 24(3), 328-343. https://doi.org/10.11225/jcss.24.328 [English abstract]

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Preprint

• Shirasuna, M., & Honda, H. (2022). Can individual subjective confidence in prior questions predict group performance in future questions? PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fpw6m [link]

• Kagawa, R., Shirasuna, M., Ikeda, A., Sanuki, M., Honda, H., & Nosato, H. (2022). One-second Boosting: A Simple and Cost-effective Intervention for Data Annotation in Machine Learning. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ctqgd [link]

• Shirasuna, M., & Honda, H. (2021). Do low-confidence individuals decrease group judgments’ accuracy? Investigations in terms of the wisdom of crowds framework. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xnk4p [link]

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International conference paper

• Shirasuna, M., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2019). Can a forward posture enhance willingness to change one’s own attitude in decision making? ~Nudging with embodied cognition approach~. In A. Goel, C. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3361). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [abstract link] [full paper link]

• Honda, H., Shirasuna, M. (presenting author), Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2018). Speakers’ choice of frame based on reference point: With explicit reason or affected by irrelevant prime? In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1806-1811). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [link]

• Shirasuna, M., Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2017). Familiarity-matching in decision making: Experimental studies on cognitive processes and analyses of its ecological rationality. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3143-3148). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [link]

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International conference presentation

• Shirasuna, M., & Honda, H. (2022). How do individuals’ confidence about their judgments affect group judgments? Medium-level confidence will decrease accuracy. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

• Honda, H., Kagawa, R., & Shirasuna, M. (2022). Response format in numerical estimations and the wisdom of crowds. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

• Shirasuna, M., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2019). Can a forward posture enhance willingness to change one’s own attitude in decision making? ~Nudging with embodied cognition approach~. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Montreal, Canada.

• Honda, H., Shirasuna, M. (presenting author), Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2018). Speakers’ choice of frame based on reference point: With explicit reason or affected by irrelevant prime? Poster presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Madison, WI.

• Shirasuna, M., Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2017). Familiarity-matching in decision making: Experimental studies on cognitive processes and analyses of its ecological rationality. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in London, England.

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Domestic conference, Symposium, Other presentations (all in Japan):

23 presentations 

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​Honors

• [Dec, 2021] The 53rd LNest Grant L-RAD Award (by Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.).

• [Nov, 2018] 3rd "Psychological experiment for children, experience-type workshop (theme: cognitive bias)" ideathon Best Planning Award (with 3 collaborators), from The Japanese Psychonomic Society.

• [Jun, 2016] Distinguished research paper award in 2015, from Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba University.

• [Mar, 2016] Academic Achievement Award from Faculty of Letter, Chiba University.

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Theses (English)

• [Doctor] Shirasuna, M. (2021). The adaptive use of heuristics: Investigations of human inferential strategies in a new task structure. [link]

• [Master] Shirasuna, M. (2018). Familiarity-matching  ~ inferences based on familiarity and investigations of inference processes using statistical model.