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David Matsumoto is affiliated with San Francisco State University in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Social Sciences, and Neuroscience, with notable contributions in Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics including Cultural Differences and Values, Emotions and Moral Behavior, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology, Face Recognition and Perception, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, and the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Recent publications by David Matsumoto include the following papers:

  • Facial width-to-height ratios and deception skill, 2021, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Effects of multiple discrete emotions on risk-taking propensity, 2022, Current Psychology
  • A Half-Century Assessment of the Study of Culture and Emotion, 2022, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • An initial investigation into the nature and function of rapport in investigative interviews, 2021, Applied Cognitive Psychology

David Matsumoto collaborates frequently with several co-authors. Their most common collaborators include:

  • Hyisung C. Hwang
  • Matthew A. Wilson
  • Matthew Wilson
  • Mai Helmy

Their scholarly work is often published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Research
  • The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Current Psychology

Best Publications

  • Culture, emotion regulation, and adjustment.

    David Matsumoto;Seung Hee Yoo;Sanae Nakagawa

  • Cultural similarities and differences in display rules

    David Matsumoto

  • The spontaneous expression of pride and shame: Evidence for biologically innate nonverbal displays

    Jessica L. Tracy;David Matsumoto

  • Matsumoto and Ekman's Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion (JACFEE): Reliability Data and Cross-National Differences

    Michael Biehl;Dawn A. Matsumoto;Paul Ekman;Valerie Hearn

  • American-Japanese cultural differences in intensity ratings of facial expressions of emotion

    David Matsumoto;Paul Ekman

  • Gender differences in judgments of multiple emotions from facial expressions.

    Judith A. Hall;David Matsumoto

  • Cultural Influences on the Perception of Emotion

    David Matsumoto

  • Culture and self: An empirical assessment of Markus and Kitayama’s theory of independent and interdependent self‐construals

    David Matsumoto

  • National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures

    A. Terracciano;A. M. Abdel-Khalek;N. Ádám;L. Adamovová

  • Ethnic differences in affect intensity, emotion judgments, display rule attitudes, and self-reported emotional expression in an American sample

    David Matsumoto

  • Toward a New Generation of Cross-Cultural Research.

    David Matsumoto;Seung Hee Yoo

  • The handbook of culture and psychology.

    David Matsumoto

  • A New Test to Measure Emotion Recognition Ability: Matsumoto and Ekman's Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition Test (JACBART)

    David Matsumoto;Jeff LeRoux;Carinda Wilson-Cohn;Jake Raroque

  • The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology

    David Ricky Matsumoto

  • Facial expressions of emotion.

    David Matsumoto;Dacher Keltner;Michelle N. Shiota;Maureen O'Sullivan

  • Variations of emotional display rules within and across cultures: A comparison between Canada, USA, and Japan.

    Sarah Safdar;Wolfgang Friedlmeier;David Matsumoto;Seung Hee Yoo

  • Spontaneous facial expressions of emotion of congenitally and noncongenitally blind individuals.

    David Matsumoto;Bob Willingham

  • American-Japanese Cultural Differences in the Recognition of Universal Facial Expressions

    David Matsumoto

  • The contribution of individualism vs. collectivism to cross-national differences in display rules*

    David Matsumoto;Sachiko Takeuchi;Sari Andayani;Natalia Kouznetsova

  • Culture, context, and behavior.

    David Matsumoto

  • Culture and Psychology

    David Ricky Matsumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman University of California, San Francisco
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Fons J. R. van de Vijver Tilburg University
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven
René Mõttus
René Mõttus University of Edinburgh
Anu Realo
Anu Realo University of Warwick
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jérôme Rossier
Jérôme Rossier University of Lausanne
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Martin Bäckström
Martin Bäckström Lund University
Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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