Developmental Psychology Lab. Hokkaido University

The Developmental Psychology Lab (DPL) in the Graduate School of Education, is a premier education research facility at Hokkaido University, Japan.

About US

We explore the developmental process and related problems in the period of puberty and adolescence.

Our research team, led by Hiromichi KATO, Ph.D, has a wide range of research interests revolving around human development and its related problems in the period of puberty and adolescence.

Our team explores human development by examining these problems in depth. We do not view problems as a failure in development, but instead as outcomes of development. Therefore, we focus on the period of puberty, in which most of these developmental problems are likely to emerge.

The goal of our team is to portray a new image of pubertal development from the perspective of investigating developmental problems. We want to encourage students to join us in this research area.

Foreign students are more than welcome to join us. If you are interested to be part of our research team, please feel free to contact me by email.

katou[a]edu.hokudai.ac.jp

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Hiromichi KATO

Keywords

Developmental Psychology, Puberty, Adolescence, Classroom Disruption, School Bullying, Delinquency, Conduct problems, Self- injury, School refusal, Popularity in classroom, Self-Esteem, Self formation, Family Process, Help seeking, Inconsiderate Public Behavior, School Adaptation. Critical Thinking Disposition, Longitudinal Study etc.

International Students & Researchers

Han jeonghee（Chungnam National University, South Korea, 28th Dec in 2023 to Jan 22 in 2024）

Aleš Bučar Ručman. Associate Professor, University of Maribor,

Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, Slovenija (16th June in 2023)

Carrie Lee Ho. Senior Lecturer, Ruskin University, UK. (Former University of Saint Joseph, Macau, 28th on Sept to 6th on Oct in 2019)

劉宇晋（Wuhan University, China, Mar to Aug in 2019)

Nawal Benzaouia (National Higher Institute for Training and Research on Special Needs Education, Paris, Mar-May in 2019）

Bamkin, Sam (Senior Lecture, De Montfort University, England, 2018, 2019)

Shu yue (Capital Normal University, China, 2018.9-2019.3)

Joonas Kauppinen（University of Eastern Finland, Finland, 2016.8-2017.8）

梁澗溪（Beijing Normal University, China, 2015.7−2016.7）

Yuejiang Hou（Nanjing University, China, 2015.7-2016.3）