Masaki Yuki, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Behavioral Science
/Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences
Hokkaido University
N10 W7 Kita-ku, Sapporo
Hokkaido 060-0810
Japan
Phone: +81-11-706-4169
Fax: +81-11-706-3066
Email: myuki@let.hokudai.ac.jp
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Tokyo, 1999
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Research Topics
- Relational mobility: A socio-ecological approach to culture and social
psychological processes: How do characteristics of socio-ecological enviroment affect psychological
and behavhioral tendencies of people who reside there? We attempt to answer
this question, by specifically focusing on the effects of a factor we call
relational mobility. Relational mobility is defined as the degree to which there is an availability
of options in a given society or social context regarding interpersonal
relationships and social groups, such as opportunities to acquire new,
maintain current, and sever old relationships and memberships. We have
shown that relational mobility has profound effects on the levels of similarity
and self-disclosure between friends, self-enhancement, and trust in strangers
(Yuki, Schug, Horikawa, Takemura, Sato, Yokota, & Kamaya, 2007; Schug, Yuki, Horikawa, & Takemura, 2009; Falk, Heine, Yuki, & Takemura, 2009; Schug, Yuki, & Maddux, 2010; Yuki & Schug, 2012)
- Cross-cultural differences in group processes: Previous studies have shown that, contrary to the widely-held belief,
North Americans, who are known to be individualistic, are also no less
group-oriented than East Asians. However, are the kind/quality of group
behaviors and underlying psychological processes the same or different
between the two cultural groups? We have proposed and shown that they are
actually different; East Asians look at the ingroup as a bounded interperonal
network among the members, and are motivated to maintain intragroup harmony
(intragroup relationship orientation), whereas North Americans, consistent
with social identity theory, tend to regard the ingroup as a homogenous
entity, and are motivated to gain/maintain higher ingroup status relative
to outgroups (intergroup comparison orientation)(Yuki, 2003; Yuki, Maddux, Brewer, & Takemura, 2005; Brewer & Yuki, 2007; Takemura, Yuki, & Ohtubo, 2010; Yuki, 2011)
- Cross-cultural differences in emotion recognition: A test of hypothesis that, when judging other's emotions, Americans tend
to put importance on the shape of the person's mouth, whereas Japanese
tend to emphasize the shape of the eyes (Yuki, Maddux, & Masuda, 2007)
- The ripple effect: Cross-cultural differences in the perception of consequences
of events: (Maddux & Yuki, 2006)
Publications (in English)
(*I will be happy to send you copies of the papers and manuscripts upon
request.)
- Yuki, M. & Schug, J. (2012). Relational mobility: A socio-ecological
approach to personal relationships. In O. Gillath, G.E. Adams, & A.D.
Kunkel (Eds.), Relationship science: Integrating evolutionary, neuroscience, and sociocultural
approaches (pp. 137-152). Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association.
- Yuki, M. (2011). Intragroup relationships and intergroup comparisons
as two sources of group-based collectivism. In, R.M. Kramer, G.J. Leonardelli,
& R.W. Livingston (Eds.), Social cognition, social identity, and intergroup relations: A Festschrift
in honor of Marilynn Brewer (pp. 247-266). New York: Taylor & Francis. [Book info (Talor & Francis)][Amazon.com]
- Takemura, K., Yuki, M., & Ohtsubo, Y. (2010). Attending inside or outside:
A Japan-US comparison of spontaneous memory of group information. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13, 303-307. [View abstract + full text (Journal site)]
- Yuki, M., & Yokota, K. (2009). The primal warrior: Outgroup threat
priming enhances intergroup discrimination in men but not women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 271-274. [View abstract + full text (Journal site)]
- Schug, J., Yuki, M., Horikawa, H., & Takemura, K. (2009). Similarity
attraction and actually selecting similar others: How cross-societal differences
in relational mobility affect interpersonal similarity in Japan and the
United States. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 95-103. [download from journal site]
- Igarashi, T., Kashima, Y., Kashima, E. S., Farsides, T., Kim, U., Strack,
F., Werth, L., & Yuki, M. (2008). Culture, trust and social networks.
Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11, 88-101. [Abstract] [PDF]
- Yuki, M., Schug, J., Horikawa, H., Takemura, K., Sato, K., Yokota, K.,
& Kamaya, K. (2007). Development of a scale to measure perceptions of relational mobility in society. CERSS Working Paper 75, Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences,
Hokkaido University. [Full working paper download]
- Takemura, K., Yuki, M., Kashima, E.S., & Halloran, M. (2007). A cross-cultural
comparison of behaviors and independent/interdependent self-views. In A.B.I.
Bernardo, M.C. Gastardo-Conaco, & M.E.C.D. Liwag (Eds.), The self, relationships, and subjective well-being in Asia:
Psychological, social, and cultural perspectives (pp. 105-121). Seoul, Korea: Kyoyook-Kwahak-Sa. [abstract (PDF)]
- Brewer, M. B., & Yuki, M. (2007). Culture and social identity. In S.
Kitayama, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology (pp. 307-322). New York: Guilford. [Amazon.com]
- Yuki, M., Maddux, W.W. & Masuda, T. (2007). Are the windows to the
soul the same in the East and West? Cultural differences in using the eyes
and mouth as cues to recognize emotions in Japan and the United States.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 303-311. [Full paper download from the Hokkaido University site][Journal site]
- Takemura, K. & Yuki, M. (2007). Are Japanese groups more competitive
than Japanese individuals? A cross-cultural validation of the interindividual-intergroup
discontinuity effect. International Journal of Psychology, 42, 27-35. [PDF] [Journal site]
- Maddux, W.W., & Yuki, M. (2006). The gripple effecth: Cultural differences
in perceptions of the consequences of events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 669-683. [PDF]
- Yuki, M., Maddux, W.W., Brewer, M.B., & Takemura, K. (2005). Cross-cultural
differences in relationship- and group-based trust. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 48-62. [PDF] [Journal site]
- Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Chiu, C-Y., Farsides, T., Gelfand, M., Hong,
Y-Y., Kim, U., Strack, F., Werth, L., Yuki, M., Yzerbyt, V. (2005). Culture,
Essentialism, and Agency: Are Individuals Universally Believed to Be More
Real Entities Than Groups? European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 147-169.
[abstract + full text (Journal site)]
- Liu, J.H., Goldstein-Hawes, R., Hilton, D., Huang, L.L., Gastardo-Conaco,
C., Pittolo, F., Hong, Y.Y., Dresler-Hawke, E., Ward, C., Abraham, S.,
Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Ohashi, M., Yuki, M., & Hidaka, Y. (2005).
Social representations of events and people in world history across 12
cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36, 171-191. [abstract + full text (Journal site)]
- Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Farsides, T., Kim, U., Strack, F., Worth, L.,
& Yuki, M. (2004). Culture and context-sensitive self: The amount and
meaning of context-sensitivity of phenomenal self differ across cultures.
Self and Identity, 3, 125-141. [abstract + full text (Journal site)]
- Kashima, E.S., Halloran, M., Yuki, M. & Kashima, Y. (2004). The effects
of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing
Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 384-392.
[abstract + full text (Journal site)]
- Yuki, M. (2003). Intergroup comparison versus intragroup relationships: A cross-cultural
examination of social identity theory in North American and East Asian cultural contexts. Social Psychology Quarterly, 66, 166-183. [abstract (PDF)] [full text (Journal site)]
- Yuki, M. & Yamaguchi, S. (1996). Long-Term Equity within a Group: An application
of the seniority norm in Japan. In H. Grad, A. Blanco, & J. Georgas (Eds.), Key issues in cross-cultural psychology:
Selected papers from the Twelfth International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural
Psychology (pp. 288-297). Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger. [pdf]
- Kashima, Y., Yamaguchi, S., Kim, U., Choi, S.C., Gelfand, M.J., & Yuki, M. (1995).
Culture, gender, and self: A perspective from individualism-collectivism research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 925-937. [abstract (PDF)]
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