Dr. A.K.M. Rezaul Karim :: Faculty Profile

Biography

Dr. Rezaul Karim is a young and dedicated Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D. in (Experimental) Psychology from Kanazawa University, Japan. He is an internationally trained vision scientist as well as a neuroscientist, having experience of working in collaboration with reputed international scientists. He received his postdoctoral training in Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation ...

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Degree Name	Group/Major Subject	Board/Institute	Country	Passing Year
Ph.D.	Psychology (Experimental)	Kanazawa University	Japan	2010
Masters	Psychology (Core: Adv. Edu. Psy.; Ancillary: Adv. Soc. Psy.)	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	1997
Bachelor	Psychology	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	1996
H.S.C	Science	Board of Rajshahi	Bangladesh	1993
S.S.C	Science	Board of Rajshahi	Bangladesh	1991

Title	Organization	Location	From Date	To Date
Reviewer	Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice (an APA journal)	USA	Apr 2018	Present
Professor	Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Oct 2017	Present
Member, Editorial Board	EC Psychology and Psychiatry	USA	Mar 2017	Present
Reviewer	SciTechnol	USA	Mar 2016	Present
Reviewer	PeerJ	USA	Dec 2015	Present
Reviewer	Personality and Individual Differences, Elsevier	UK; USA	Nov 2015	Present
Postdoctoral Scientist	Envision Research Institute, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)	USA	Jan 2015	Jan 2017
Member, Editorial Board	Universal Journal of Psychology	USA	Jul 2014	Present
Member, Editorial and Advisory Board	International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies	India	Dec 2013	Present
Professor	Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Oct 2013	Oct 2017
Associate Professor	Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Dec 2010	Oct 2013
Assistant Professor	Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Feb 2004	Dec 2010
Lecturer	Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Apr 2002	Feb 2004
Lecturer	Institute of Education and Research (IER)), University of Dhaka	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Oct 2000	Apr 2002

Research Interest

Subject	Description	Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator)
No research interest is found

Project/Research Supervision

Level of Study	Title	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor(s)	Name of Student(s)	Area of Research	Current Completion
No project/research supervision is found

Project/Research Work

Subject	Project Name	Source of Fund	From Date	To Date	Collaboration
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neurorehabilitation	Tactile Object Understanding and Characterization	Envision Research Institute, Wichita, USA	26-01-2016	25-01-2017	Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, USA
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neurorehabilitation	Tactile Object Understanding and Characterization	Envision Research Institute, Wichita, USA	26-01-2015	25-01-2016	Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco; University of California, San Francisco, USA
Psychology	Loneliness and Self-disclosure in Young Adults as Related to Gender, Gender-based Relationships in Family and Marital Status	University Grants Commission of Bangladesh	09-01-2013	08-01-2014
Psychology	The Asymmetric Nature of Visual Spatial Perception	COE, Kanazawa University, Japan	01-04-2009	31-03-2010
Psychology	The Asymmetric Nature of Visual Spatial Perception	COE, Kanazawa University, Japan	01-04-2008	31-03-2009

Invited Talk

SL	Invited Talk
No invited talk is found

SL	Collaboration & Membership Name	Membership Year	Expire Year
1	Member, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), USA	2016
2	Member, Vision Society of Japan (VSJ)	2007	2009
3	Member, Japanese Universities Alumni Association in Bangladesh (JUAAB)	2007
4	Member, South Asian Association of Psychologists (SAAP)	2000
5	Member, Bangladesh Psychological Association (BPA)	2000

Journal Article
1	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Likova, L. T. : Haptic aesthetics in the blind: A behavioral and fMRI investigation, Electronic Imaging, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Society for Imaging Science and Technology , pp.1 -10 , 2018 . View More
2	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Family and school environment in relation to adolescents emotional intelligence and future aspiration, Indian Journal of Positive Psychology , vol.9 , no.3 , pp.413-422 , 2018 . View More
3	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Assessing psychometric properties of Family Environment Scale in Bangladeshi culture, Jagannath University Journal of Life and Earth Sciences, , vol.4 , no.1 , pp.1-11 , 2018 .
4	Karim, A. K. M. R., Proulx, M. J., de Sousa, A. A., Karmaker, C., Rahman, A., Karim, F. and Nigar, N. : The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing, Scientific Reports (impact factor:4.122) , vol.7 Nature , 2017 . View More
5	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Emotional Intelligence Scale: assessing its psychometric characteristics in Bangladeshi culture, The International Journal of Indian Psychology , vol.4 , no.2 , pp.87-105 , 2017 . View More
6	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Factor Structure for Children Hopelessness Scale in Bangladeshi Culture: Exploratory and Confirmatory Study, Jagannath University Journal of Psychology , vol.7 , no.1 , pp.1-12 , 2017 .
7	Karim, A. K. M. R., Proulx, M. J. and Likova, L. T. : Anticlockwise or clockwise? A dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality model for directionality bias in visuospatial functioning, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (impact factor:9.420) , vol.68 , pp.669-693 , 2016 . View More
8	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : The psychometric properties of School Engagement Scale in Bangladeshi culture, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology , vol.42 , no.1 , pp.143-153 , 2016 . View More
9	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Begum, T. : The Parental Bonding Instrument: a psychometric measure to assess parenting practices in the homes in Bangladesh, Asian Journal of Psychiatry (impact factor:1.932) , vol.25 , pp.231-239. , 2016 . View More
10	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Begum, T. : The How I Think questionnaire: assessing its psychometric properties in Bangladeshi culture, Asian Journal of Psychiatry (impact factor:1.932) , vol.21 , pp.9-16 , 2016 . View More
11	Sagar, M. M. H., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Nigar, N. : Psychometric Properties of the Bangla Version Operational Police Stress Questionnaire, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology , vol.41 , no.2 , pp.242-250. , 2015 . View More
12	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Validation of the Future Aspiration Scale in Bangladeshi culture, The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.39 , pp.59-73. , 2015 .
13	Sagar, M. M. H., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Nigar, N. : Factor structure for Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Org) in Bangladeshi culture, Universal Journal of Psychology , vol.2 , no.9 , pp.265-272 , 2014 . View More
14	Sagar, M. M. H. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : The psychometric properties of Satisfaction with Life Scale for police population in Bangladeshi culture, The International Journal of Social Sciences , vol.28 , no.1 , pp.24-31 , 2014 . View More
15	Sagar, M. M. H. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Subjective variables have no impact on subjective well-being of polices, International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies , vol.1 , no.10 , pp.157-160 , 2014 . View More
16	Nigar, N., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Sagar, M. M. H. : The Bangla version of the Miller Social Intimacy Scale: an exploratory study, Universal Journal of Psychology , vol.2 , no.8 , pp.241-247 , 2014 . View More
17	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Nigar, N. : The Internet Addiction Test: assessing its psychometric properties in Bangladeshi culture, Asian Journal of Psychiatry (impact factor:1.932) , vol.10 , pp.75-83 , 2014 . View More
18	Shahnaz, I. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : The impact of internet addiction on life satisfaction and life engagement in young adults, Universal Journal of Psychology , vol.2 , no.9 , pp.273-284 , 2014 . View More
19	Shahnaz, I. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Life satisfaction as a determinant of life engagement, Bangladesh Psychological Studies , vol.24 , pp.1-16 , 2014 . View More
20	Shahnaz, I. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Gender difference in internet addiction among young adults, Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.38 , pp.111-122. , 2014 . View More
21	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Validation of the Hostility Scale in Bangladeshi culture, Jagannath University Journal of Psychology , vol.5 , no.1 , pp.21-30 , 2014 .
22	Nigar, N. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Impact of internet addiction on social intimacy and life style of young adults, Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.38 , pp.99-110 , 2014 . View More
23	Mahmud, A. Y., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Mahmud, S. H. : Affective state of ethnic community as related to gender and marital status, Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.22 , no.2 , pp.155-161 , 2013 . View More
24	Karim, A. K. M. R., Sharafat, T. and Mahmud, A. Y. : Cognitive emotion regulation in children as related to parenting style, family type and gender, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Science) , vol.39 , no.2 , pp.211-220 , 2013 . View More
25	Ansary, T. M. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Cognitive emotion regulation in children as predicted by parents’ marital adjustment and their nature of affect, Bangladesh Psychological Studies , vol.21 , pp.1-16 , 2011 . View More
26	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Kojima, H. : The what and why of perceptual asymmetries in the visual domain, Advances in Cognitive Psychology (impact factor:1.452) , vol.6 , pp.103-115 , 2010 . View More
27	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Kojima, H. : Configurational asymmetry in vernier offset detection, Advances in Cognitive Psychology (impact factor:1.452) , vol.6 , pp.66-78 , 2010 . View More
28	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Kojima, H. : Perceptual asymmetry in vernier offset discrimination: A similar trend between the cardinal and oblique orientations, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science , vol.29 , no.1 , pp.1-16 , 2010 . View More
29	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Kojima, H. : Perceptual learning of spatial position in the visual domain, Human and Socio-environmental Studies , vol.16 , pp.1 - 11 , 2008 .
30	Matsumoto, D., Hossain, M. S., Uddin, M. K., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Mahmud, S. H. : Ethnic and gender equalities in emotion regulation, Bangladesh Psychological Studies , vol.17 , pp.27-36 , 2007 . View More
31	Karim, A. K. M. R. : The study of brain and behavior: A necessity of the age of brain competition, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.64/65 , no.1/2 , pp.163-182 , 2007/2008 . View More
32	Sorcar, N. R., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Shahinuzzaman, M. : Development of norms for the Seguin Form Board Test for Bangladeshi children, The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.30 , pp.49-60 , 2006 . View More
33	Hossain, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Human values and type of governance in education sector, The Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.14 , no.1 , pp.107-117 , 2005 . View More
34	Dively, J., Gilbreath, D., Cosgrove, P., Rinker, A., Leininger, J., Vernon, A., Hossain, M. S., Karim, A. K. M. R., Huq, M. and Mahmud, S. H. : Substance abuse across cultures: Bangladesh and America, Indian Journal of Psychological Issues , vol.12 , no.1 & 2 , pp.4 - 19 , 2004 . View More
35	Karim, A. K. M. R and Islam, M. Z. : Self-esteem of managerial personnel and some organizational variables, The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.28 , pp.73 - 92 , 2004 . View More
36	Karim, A. K. M. R., Islam, S. and Seraj, M. S. : Self-concept and family structure: a comparison between the children of joint and nuclear families, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.61 , no.2 , pp.171-182 , 2004 .
37	Sorcar, N. R., Uddin, M. K. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : A scale for measuring attitude towards satellite television, The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.27 , pp.43-50 , 2003 . View More
38	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Rahman, H. : Education system-linked differences in basic areas of value system, The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.25 , pp.57-64 , 2001 . View More
39	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Banu, S. : A scale for measuring study habits of secondary school students, The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology , vol.24 , pp.15 - 25 , 2000 . View More
40	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. : Psychometric properties of school motivation inventory in Bangladeshi culture: Exploratory and confirmatory study, Journal of Behavioural Sciences , vol.30 , no.2 , pp.42-61 , 2020 .
41	Karim, A. K. M. R., Proulx, M. J., de Sousa, A. A. and Likova, L. T. : Neuroplasticity and crossmodal connectivity in the normal, healthy brain, Psychology & Neuroscience , vol.14 , no.3 APA , pp.298–334 , 2021 . View More
42	Karim, A. K. M. R., Prativa, S. and Likova, L.T. : Perception and appreciation of tactile objects: The role of visual experience and texture parameters, Journal of Perceptual Imaging , vol.4 , no.3 Society for Imaging Science and Technology , pp.030405-1–030405-20 , 2021 . View More
43	Karim, A.K.M. R., Proulx, M.J., de Sousa, A.A. and Likova, L.T. : Do we enjoy what we sense and perceive? A dissociation between aesthetic appreciation and basic perception of environmental objects or events., Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience (accepted) Springer , 2022 .

Conference Proceedings
1	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. "Study of adolescents’ cognitive emotion regulation, school engagement, and school motivation in relation to family and school environment." International Conference and Innovation Exhibition on Global Education Kedah Darul Aman, Malyasia: 2018 . View More
2	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Likova, L. "Object understanding and cortical functional reorganization in the blind." The 1st National Conference on Neuroscience Research in Bangladesh Dhaka: University of Dhaka, 2017 .
3	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Likova, L. "Perception and aesthetic appreciation of textures through the sense of touch: Do the blind differ from the sighted?." Envision Conference: A Multidisciplinary Low Vision Rehabilitation & Research Conference Denver: 2016 .
4	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Likova, L. "Aesthetic appreciation and perception of 3D shapes through the sense of touch in the blind and the sighted: on the properties of contour curvature and symmetry of 3D tactile shapes." Conference of the Society for Neuroscience San Diego: 2016 . View More
5	Prativa, S., Nigar, N. and Karim, A.K.M.R. "Parenting style of the working and non-working mothers: implications for cognitive-emotional functioning in offspring." The 2nd International and 4th Indian Psychological Science Congress Chandigarh: 2015 .
6	Sarkar, A. P., Nigar, N. and Karim, A. K. M. R. "Self-monitoring, self-motivation and conflict management in managerial personnel." The 2nd International and 4th Indian Psychological Science Congress Chandigarh: 2015 .
7	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Likova, L. "Tactile aesthetics in the blind and the sighted." Envision Conference: A Multidisciplinary Low Vision Rehabilitation & Research Conference Denver: 2015 . View More
8	Begum, T. and Karim, A. K. M. R. "Cognitive distortion and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescents as predicted by parental bonding." The 4th Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Conference, Mental Health Gap in Bangladesh: Resources and Response , pp. 103. Dhaka: Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Association, 2014 .
9	Shahnaz, I. and Karim, A. K. M. R. "The impact of internet addiction on life satisfaction and life engagement." The 4th Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Conference, Mental Health Gap in Bangladesh: Resources and Response , pp. 50. Dhaka: Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Association, 2014 .
10	Nigar, N. and Karim, A. K. M. R. "Affective state and cognitive emotion regulation of the abused juvenile offenders." The 4th Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Conference, Mental Health Gap in Bangladesh: Resources and Response , pp. 36. Dhaka: Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Association, 2014 .
11	Nigar, N., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Sagar, M. M. H. "The Bangla Version of the Miller Social Intimacy Scale: an exploratory study." The International Conference on Applied Statistics (ICAS) Dhaka: 2014 .
12	Sagar, M. M. H. and Karim, A. K. M. R. "Perceived stress and subjective well-being in organizational and operational police." The 4th Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Conference, Mental Health Gap in Bangladesh: Resources and Response , pp. 85. Dhaka: Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Association, 2014 . View More
13	Sagar, M. M. H., Karim, A. K. M. R. and Nigar, N. "Factor structure for Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Org) in Bangladeshi culture." The International Conference on Applied Statistics (ICAS) Dhaka: 2014 . View More
14	Uzzaman, M. A. and Karim, A. K. M. R. "The psychometric properties of the Emotional Intelligence Scale in Bangladeshi culture." The International Conference on Applied Statistics (ICAS) Dhaka: 2014 . View More
15	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Kojima, H. "Visual spatial localization as a function of position relativity of the stimulus segments." Conference of tthe Vision Society of Japan (VSJ) , pp. 30. Tokyo: The Journal of the Vision Society of Japan, 2008 . View More
16	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Kojima, H. "Visual spatial discrimination: a phenomenon affected by simple stimulus configuration." The 72nd Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA) , pp. 504. Hokkaido: Japanese Psychological Association (JPA), 2008 . View More
17	Karim, A. K. M. R. and Kojima, H. "Prevalence of visual sensitivity to position relativity of the image segments in spatial configuration." The 21 Century COE (Center of Excellence) International Symposium on Innovative Brain Science for Development, Learning, Memory and Autism , pp. 96. Kanazawa: Kanazawa University, 2008 . View More

Award Type	Title	Year	Country	Description
International	APC Award	2017	United Kingdom	Awarded by APC Waivers Department, Nature Publishing Group / Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, to support the publication of his scholarly work in Scientific Reports, a Nature Journal
International	Envision Research Grant	2016	United States	Awarded by Envision Research Institute, Wichita, Kansas, to support his fMRI study on how aesthetic perception and its neural correlates are modulated by visual experience
International	Envision Travel Grant	2016	United States	Awarded by Envision Research Institute, Wichita, Kansas, to support his participation in the Society for Neuroscience 2016, San Diego, CA, USA
International	Envision Travel Grant	2016	United States	Awarded by Envision Research Institute, Wichita, Kansas, to support his participation in the Envision Conference 2016, Grand Hyatt Regency, Denver, CO, USA
International	Envision Research Grant	2015	United States	Awarded by Envision Research Institute, Wichita, Kansas, to support his behavioral study on aesthetic perception in the blind
International	Envision Travel Grant	2015	United States	Awarded by Envision Research Institute, Wichita, Kansas, to support his participation in the Envision Conference 2015, Grand Hyatt Regency, Denver, CO, USA
International	Envision Postdoctoral Fellowship	2015	United States	Awarded by Envision Research Institute, Wichita, Kansas, to support his 2 years' Postdoctoral Study in Neuroscience & Neurorehabilitation at Envision Research Institute, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, and University of California, San Francisco, USA
International	COE Research Grant	2009	Japan	Awarded by Kanazawa University, Japan, to support his doctoral research
International	COE Travel Grant	2008	Japan	Awarded by Kanazawa University, Japan, for his participation in the Annual Conference of the Vision Society of Japan (VSJ) 2008, Tokyo, Japan
International	COE Research Grant	2008	Japan	Awarded by Kanazawa University, Japan, to support his doctoral research
International	COE Travel Grant	2008	Japan	Awarded by Kanazawa University, Japan, to support his participation in the 72nd Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA) 2008, Hokkaido University, Japan
International	Monbukagakushu Scholarship	2007	Japan	Awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan, to support his Doctoral Study in (Experimental) Psychology at the University of Kanazawa, Japan
International	Monbukagakushu Scholarship	2006	Japan	Awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan, to support his (non-degree) Predoctoral Research in Psychology at the University of Kanazawa, Japan
National	Scholarship for Training Teachers Abroad for Higher Studies	2004	Bangladesh	Awarded for 3 years by the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, to support his Ph.D. study at East London University or any university of European countries. He rejected this scholarship in order to accept Monbukagakusho Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan.
National	National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship	2000	Bangladesh	Awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, The People’s Republic of Bangladesh, to support his Master's thesis.
Local	Book Prize Award	1997	Bangladesh	Awarded by the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, for securing first position in the first class in the M.Sc. in Psychology Examination, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Local	Prof. M.U. Ahmed Trust Fund’s Gold Medal	1997	Bangladesh	Awarded by the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, for securing first position in the first class in the M.Sc. in Psychology Examination, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Local	Merit Scholarship	1991	Bangladesh	Awarded by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, for his brilliant success (1st division with star marks) in the S.S.C., Examination
Local	Merit Scholarship (Talent Pool)	1988	Bangladesh	Awarded in Grade VIII by the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Local	Special Merit Scholarship	1984	Bangladesh	Awarded by Ullapara Uazilla, Sirajgonj, Bangladesh, for placing 4th in the Intra-Upazilla Merit Test on all the students in Grade III

Name & designation Dr. A.K.M. Rezaul Karim Professor & Chairman

Department Department of Psychology Faculty of Biological Sciences

Email akm.rezaul.karim@du.ac.bd

Phone +880 2 96619(20–74) 7709