Education

2002

B. A. in Psychology, Keio University

2004

M. A. in Cognitive Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2007

Ph. D. in Cognitive Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Positions

2018,4-2020,3

Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Yasuda Women's University, Hiroshima, Japan.

2020,4-

Associate professor, Faculty of Psychology, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.

Publications

Preprints

• Honda, H., Kubo, T., Hisamatsu, R., Ohmoto, Y., Ikeda, K., & Ueda, K. (2024). The occurrence of a particular state is a predictor of successful travel consultation. PsyArXiv. (link)

• Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2023). The psychological link between decisions and communicative behavior based on verbal probabilities. PsyArXiv. (link)

• Kagawa, R. Honda, H., & Nosato, H. (2023). The impact of the balance between trust in advice and confidence in human judgment on advice utilization. PsyArXiv. (link)

• Shirasuna, M., Kagawa, R., & Honda, H. (2023). "One-second wait": A simple and effective intervention to boost judgment accuracy. PsyArXiv. (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. (link)

International journal

• Honda, H., Kagawa, R., & Shirasuna, M. (2024). The nature of anchor-biased estimates and its application to the wisdom of crowds. Cognition, 246, 105758. doi; 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105758 (link)

• Iwatani, S., Honda, H., Otaki, Y., & Ueda, K. (2023). Effect of asking questions and providing knowledge on attitudes toward organic foods among Japanese consumers. Frontiers in Psychology, 14: 1274446. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1274446 (link)

• Tokunaga, C., Otaki, Y., Honda, H., & Otaki, M. (2023). Exploration of appropriate media to influence sustainable on-site sanitation choices in Sri Lanka- visualization with still images or a video. Heliyon, 9, e21209. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21209 (link)

• Shirasuna, M., & Honda, H. (2023). Can individual subjective confidence in "training" questions predict group performance in "test" questions? PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0280984. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280984 (link)

• Otaki, Y., Iwatani, S., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2022). Using nudges for water demand management: A field experiment for water conservation. PLOS WATER, 1(10), e0000057. doi: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000057 (link)

• Fujisaki, I., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2022). A simple cognitive method to improve the prediction of matters of taste by exploiting the within-person wisdom-of-crowd effect. Scientific Reports, 12, 12413. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-16584-7 (link)

• 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. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11900-7 (link)

• Otaki, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2022). What are the most effective neighborhood ranges for social comparison to improve water use efficiency? Frontiers in Water, 4: 821896. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2022.821896 (link)

• Onuki, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2021). What stimuli are necessary for anchoring effects to occur? Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 602372. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602372 (link)

• Honda, H., Matsunaga, S., & Ueda, K. (2020). Special number or a mere numerical array? Effect of repdigits on judgments and choices. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 01551. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01551 (link)

• Onuki, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2020). Self-initiated actions under different choice architectures affect framing and target evaluation even without verbal manipulation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 01449. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01449 (link)

• Otaki, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2020). Water demand management: Visualising a public good. PLOS ONE, 15(6) : e0234621. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234621 (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. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12806 (link)

• Otaki, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2019). Historical self-comparison of water consumption as a water demand management tool. Water, 11(4): 844. doi: 10.3390/w11040844 (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: 02552. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02552 (link)

• Fujisaki, I., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2018). Diversity of inference strategies can enhance the wisdom-of-crowds effect. Palgrave Communications, 4(1): 107. doi: 10.1057/s41599-018-0161-1 (link)

• Honda, H., Fujisaki, I., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2018). Typicality or fluency? A Comparison of two hypotheses about cognitive effects of Japanese script. Experimental Psychology, 65(4), 210-217. doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000405 (link)

• Honda, H., Washida, Y., Sudo, A., Wajima, Y., Awata, K., & Ueda, K. (2017). The difference in foresight using the scanning method between experts and non-experts. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 199, 18-26. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.03.005 (link)

• Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2017). Memory-based simple heuristics as attribute substitution: Competitive tests of binary choice inference models. Cognitive Science, 41(S5), 1093-1118. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12395 (link)

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2017). Communicative functions of directional verbal probabilities: Speaker’s choice, listener’s inference, and reference points. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10), 2141-2158. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1225779 (link)

• Honda, H., Ogawa, M., Murakoshi, T., Masuda, T., Utsumi, K., Nei, D., & Wada, Y. (2015). Variation in risk judgment on radiation contamination of food: Thinking trait and profession. Food Quality and Preference, 46, 119-125. doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.07.014 (link)

• Honda, H., Ogawa, M., Murakoshi, T., Masuda, T., Utsumi, K., Park, S., Kimura, A., Nei, D., & Wada, Y. (2015). Effect of visual aids and individual differences of cognitive traits in judgments on food safety. Food Policy, 55, 33-40. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.05.010 (link)

• Honda, H., & Matsuka, T. (2014). On the role of rarity information in speaker's choice of frame. Memory and Cognition, 42(5), 768-779.  doi: 10.3758/s13421-014-0399-9 (link)

• Honda, H., Abe, K., Matsuka, T., & Yamagishi, K. (2011). The role of familiarity in binary choice inferences. Memory and Cognition, 39 (5), 851-863. doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0057-9 (link)

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2009). Perceived certainty based on verbal probability phrases: Effect of directionality and its dependence on method. Japanese Psychological Research, 51(4), 266-273. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5884.2009.00409.x (link)

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2006). Directional verbal probabilities: Inconsistencies between preferential judgments and numerical meanings. Experimental Psychology, 53(3), 161-170. doi:10.1027/1618-3169.53.3.161 (link)

Japanese journal (with English abstract)

• Honda, H., Iwatani, S., Otaki, Y., & Ueda, K. (2022). Nudge vs. Boost: How can a person/people become more rational? Cognitive Studies, 29(3), 390-403. doi: 10.11225/cs.2022.023 (link)

• Shirasuna, M., Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2022). Rationality that is speculated from the history of heuristic studies: Investigations of human intelligence through interactions between cognition and environment. Cognitive Studies, 29(3), 404-414. doi: 10.11225/cs.2022.028 (link)

• Inoue, S., Honda, H., Mori, K., Maeda-Yamamoto, M., Shiina, T., Magariyama, Y., Nagai, N, Wada, Y. (2018). How to be understood “Scientific” Information? — Analysis based on individual differences of comprehension of food function and cognitive traits Cognitive Studies, 25(1), 7-25. doi:10.11225/jcss.25.7 (link)

• Honda, H., Matsui, T., Ohmoto, Y., & Ueda, K. (2018). Interaction in travel consultation between a shop clerk and a customer: Analyses of estimation of internal states and nonverbal behaviors from the difference in shop clerk's skill. IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, 101-D, 275-283. doi:10.14923/transinfj.2017HAP0005 (link)

• Fujisaki, I., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2017). The wisdom of crowds in heuristics : Theoretical analyses of adaptive nature from the perspective of collective decision making. Cognitive Studies, 24(3), 284-299. doi:10.11225/jcss.24.284 (link)

• Shirasuna, M., Matsuka, T., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2017). Familiarity-matching: Experimental study on cognitive processes and ecological rationality. Cognitive Studies, 24(3), 328-343. doi:10.11225/jcss.24.328 (link)

• Sudo, A., Fujiwara, N., Tokuda, K., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2017). A computational concept invention model represented by time-varying semantic network and its implementation. Cognitive Studies, 24 (1), 33-51. (link)

• Mori, K., Honda, H., Nagai, N., & Wada, Y. (2016). Relationship between understanding of food function and individual differences in nutritional knowledge. Advances in Consumer Studies, 22 (1/2), 49-68.

• Matsubara, K., Sugiyama, H., Murakoshi, T., Masuda, T., Honda, H., & Wada, Y. (2015). Relationship between cognitive traits and performance of elderly in cyberspace. The Journal of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, 69 (9), J271-J277. (link)

• Matsuka, T., Honda, H., & Yoshikawa, S. (2010). Rethinking prototype theory of category learning. Cognitive Studies, 17 (1), 95-109. (link)

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2009). Does a frame leak information?: Effect of difference in frame use on inference about speaker's reference point. Cognitive Studies, 16 (2), 241-250. (link)

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2006). The directionality of verbal probability expressions: Features in the vague probability information.Cognitive Studies, 13, 139-141. (link)

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2006). The vagueness and the directionality of verbal probability expressions: The properties of probability information and their effects on decision making. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 76, 519-526. (link)

awards

• Distinguished Presentation Award, Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology in 2022 (for two presentations)

• Distinguished Presentation Award, Japanese Cognitive Science Society in 2021 (for two presentations)

• Nojima Hisao Award in 2020, Japanese Cognitive Science Society

• Distinguished paper award in 2018, Japanese Cognitive Science Society

• Honorable oral presentation award, Association of Behavioral Economic and Finance in 2018

• Honorable poster presentation award, Association of Behavioral Economic and Finance in 2018

• Distinguished Presentation Award, Japanese Cognitive Science Society in 2018

• Distinguished paper award in 2017, Japanese Cognitive Science Society

• Best paper award at the 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology

• Distinguished presentation award, Annual Meeting of the Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance in 2017

• Indow Tarow Awards in 2016

• Distinguished presentation award, HCG Symposium in 2014

• Distinguished presentation award, Japanese Society for Sensory Evaluation in 2013

• Distinguished presentation award, Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society in 2011

• Distinguished paper award, The 2006 Annual Conference of Japan Psychological Association

• Distinguished research paper award in 2005, from Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

• Distinguished presentation Award, in the 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society

conference Presentations

• Honda, H., Kagawa, R., & Shirasuna, M. (2023). Nudging or boosting group: Utilizing anchoring effects for enhancing wisdom of crowds. 1er Colloque international à distance NUDGES et ÉDUCATION, in Virtual.

• Shirasuna, M., Kagawa, R. , & Honda, H. (2023). One-second wait: boosting to improve workers’ accuracy with less their workload. 1er Colloque international à distance NUDGES et ÉDUCATION, in Virtual.

• Honda, H., Kagawa, R., & Shirasuna, M. (2023). Effective utilization of anchor-biased estimates for the wisdom of crowds. 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

• Kagawa, R., Honda, H., & Nosato, H. (2023). The Impact of the balance between trust in advice and confidence in human judgment on advice utilization. 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

• Shirasuna, M., Kagawa, R. , & Honda, H. (2023). A one-second wait improves judgment accuracy: A mouse tracking reveals cognitive processes during choice behaviors. 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

• Honda, H., Kagawa, R., & Shirasuna, M. (2022). Utilization of anchoring bias for wisdom of crowds. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in San Diego, California, USA.

• Kagawa, R., Honda, H., & Nosato, H. (2022). Relationship between performance of machine learning and algorithm aversion. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in San Diego, California, USA.

• Shirasuna, M., Kagawa, R., & Honda, H. (2022). Waiting for one second improves accuracy: Experimental examinations based on mouse trajectories during binary choice tasks. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in San Diego, California, USA.

• Kagawa, R., Shirasuna, M., Ikeda, A., Sanuki, M., Honda, H., & Nosato, H. (2022). A simple and cost-effective intervention that promotes the optimal allocation of cognitive resources. 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Ontario, Canad

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

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

• Gu, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2022). Do you trust an impassive doctor? Effects of verbal probabilities with facial expressions and trust on decision making. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Virtual.

• Gu, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2020). When do you rather believe in their face? Numerical interpretation of verbal probabilities with facial expressions. 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Virtual.

• Fujisaki, I., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2019). How do we harness others’ opinions? An investigation on self-other discrepancies. 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• Gu, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2019). “It is possible” makes you “happy”: The explicit and implicit associations between verbal probabilities and emotional valence. 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• Honda, H., Fujisaki., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2019). How can diverse memory improve group decision making? 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• 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. 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• Onuki, Y., Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2019). Shift of probability weighting by joint and separate evaluations: Analyses of cognitive processes based on behavioral experiment and cognitive modeling. 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• Chen, Q., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2019). Influence of linguistic tense marking on temporal discounting: From the perspective of asymmetric tense marking in Japanese. 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• Fujisaki, I., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2018). Diversity of inference strategies can enhance the wisdom-of-crowds effect. 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in New Orleans, LA.

• Gu, Y., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2018). Words save a life: How verbal probability expressions and emotion affect people's donation. 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in New Orleans, LA.

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

• Onuki, Y., Honda, H., Shingaki, N., & Ueda, K. (2018). Do different anchors generate the equivalent anchoring effect? Comparison of the effect size among different anchors. 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Madison, WI.

• Maekawa, T., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2018). Measure of the ability dominance of tournament systems and subjective judgment. 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology, in Chiangmai, Thailand.

• Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2017). Rethinking decision processes from a communicative perspective. 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Vancouver, Canada.

• Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2017). Decisions based on verbal probabilities: Decision bias or decision by sampling? 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in London, England.

• Fujisaki, I., Honda, H., & Ueda, K. (2017). On an effective and efficient method for exploiting "wisdom of crowds in one mind" 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in London, England.

• 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. 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in London, England.

• Honda, H., Hisamatsu, R., Ohmoto, Y., & Ueda, K. (2016). Interaction in a natural environment: Estimation of customer's preference based on nonverbal behaviors. Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, in Singapore.

• Honda, H., Matsuka, T., & Ueda, K. (2016). On the adaptive nature of memory-based false belief. 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Philadelphia, PA.

• Matsuka, T., & Honda, H. (2014). On the relationships between social structures and acquired knowledge in societies. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2014), in Beijing, China.

• Tanaka, Y., Sakamoto, Y., & Honda, H. (2014). The impact of posting URLs in a disaster-related tweet on rumor spreading behavior. 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47), in Hawaii, HI.

• Honda, H., & Matsuka, T. (2012). Simple heuristic or knowledge-based inference? Model comparison of binary choice inference. 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Sapporo, Japan.

• Matsuka, T., & Honda, H. (2012). Effects of individual differences on knowledge and wisdom of society: A Social modeling approach. 13th International Conference on the Simulations and Synthesis of Living Systems, in Lansing, MI.

• Matsuka, T., Kiyokawa, S., & Honda, H. (2011). On the relationships between acquired knowledge and manifested behaviors. Annual Conference for Psychonomics Soceity, in Seatle, WA.

• Honda, H., & Matsuka, T. (2011). How is knowledge transmitted in a small world network through communicative interaction? 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Boston, MA.

• Matsuka, T., Honda, H., & Matsuura, S. (2011). Explaining representational shifts by selective attention, selective memorization, and random chance. 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Boston, MA.

• Honda, H., & Matsuka, T. (2010). Speaker's choice of frame based on rarity information. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Portland, OR.

• Matsuka, T., Honda, H., Kiyokawa, S., & Chouchourelou, A. (2009). On the knowledge organization in concept formation: An exploratory cognitive modeling study. 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, in Limassol.

• Honda, H., & Matsuka, T. (2009). The use of familiarity in inferences: An experimental study. 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Amsterdam.

• Matsuka, T., Honda, H., Kiyokawa, S., & Chouchourelou, A. (2009). Modeling high-order human intelligence with intelligence of swarm. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, in Atlanta.

• Honda, H., Yamagishi, K., Abe, K. (2008). Recognition heuristic and knowledge based inference: Unified explanation with the familiarity for objects. 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Chicago.

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2008). Probability communication with verbal expressions: The role of directionality. 29th International Congress of Psychology, in Berlin.

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2007). The directionality of verbal probability phrases: What communicative function does it perform? 21st Bi-annual Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, in Warsaw.

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2006). Cognitive processes of decisions based on verbal probability expressions -An analysis from decision reason-. 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Houston.

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2006). Implicit information in directionality of verbal probability expressions. 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Vancouver.

• Honda, H., Yamagishi, K., & Miyamoto, J. D. (2005). Preference judgments based on verbal probabilities: An analysis of directionality and numerical vagueness. 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Toronto.

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2004). Probability judgments and decisions based on verbal probability information: Unpredictability from numerical translations of verbal probability terms. 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, in Minneapolis.

• Honda, H., & Yamagishi, K. (2004). The directionality of verbal probability expressions in Japanese: Effects on decision making. 28th International Congress of Psychology, in Beijing.

Professional affiliations

• Association of Behavioral Economic and Finance

• Japanese Cognitive Science Society

• Japanese Psychological Association

• Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology

• Cognitive Science Society

• Society for Judgment and Decision Making

EDITORIAL & REVIEWER EXPERIENCE

Editorial Boards

• Cognitive Studies (2015,6 - 2019,5)

• Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2019,4 - 2023,3)

• Journal of Cognitive Science (2020, 6-) 

• Frontiers in Psychology (2023, 8-, section Cognitive Science)

• Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance (2023, 12-)

Ad Hoc Reviewer (International Journal)

• Acta Psychologica

• Behaviormetrika

• Frontiers in Psychology

• Japanese Psychological Research

• Journal of Cognitive Psychology

• Journal of Cognitive Science

• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

• Nature Climate Change

• Psychologia

• Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

• Scientific Reports

• Technological Forecasting and Social Change

• Thinking and Reasoning

Ad Hoc Reviewer (Japanese Journal)

• Cognitive Studies

• IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

• IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems

• Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology

• Japanese Journal of Psychology

• Japan Marketing Journal

• The Transactions of Human Interface Society