Koji J. Takahashi

Koji Takahashi is a Golub Capital Social Impact Postdoctoral Fellow in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

 

Dr. Takahashi’s research aims to understand what makes people resistant to persuasive messages about important issues and how to make them more receptive. His expertise is on the role of beliefs, social identities, and emotions in shaping how people respond to information about topics such as racial equity, health, and climate change. He applies this to understand persuasion in DEI trainings, health clinics, classrooms, and online news. He uses both surveys and experiments to understand these processes online, in the lab, and in the field.

 

Dr. Takahashi received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and his B.S. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Before starting graduate school, Dr. Takahashi worked as a research fellow for Children Now, a California nonprofit dedicated to developing and advocating for state-level policies to improve children’s health, education, and welfare. In his time at the University of Michigan, he worked as a statistics consultant for the Department of Psychology, as a graduate student instructor for a graduate-level advanced statistics course, and as a writing coach for the Preparation Initiative at the Ross School of Business, which supports underrepresented students as they apply for and work towards their BBA.