**Affiliation**
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University

**Employment History**
Associate professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2018
Lecturer, School of Human Sciences, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, 2016
Assistant professor, Faculty of Psychology, Meiji Gakuin University, 2012

**Educational History**
Ph.D. in Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, 2011
M.A. in Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, 2008
B.A. in Education, Faculty of Education, Kyoto University, 2006

**Research Interests**
Social-emotional development
Cognitive development

**Recent Main Publications**
Mizokawa, A. (2018). Association between children’s theory of mind and responses to insincere praise. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1684.
Mizokawa, A. & Lecce, S. (2017). Sensitivity to criticism and theory of mind: A cross cultural study on Japanese and Italian children. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 159-171.
MIzokawa, A. (2015). Theory of mind and sensitivity to teacher and peer criticism among Japanese children. Infant and Child Development, 24, 189-205.
Mizokawa, A. (2013). Relationships between maternal emotional expressiveness and children’s sensitivity to teacher criticism. Frontiers in Psychology. 4:807.
Mizokawa, A. (2013). Children's understanding of emotion regulation and others' mind in the preschool years and the elementary school years. Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan. (in Japanese)
Mizokawa, A. (2011). Young children’s understanding of pretend crying: The effect of context. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29, 489-503.