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Kerry Kawakami

Kerry Kawakami

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
35
Citations
13053
World Ranking
6572
National Ranking
394

Kerry Kawakami publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kerry Kawakami sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 66 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Kerry Kawakami D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kerry Kawakami sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kerry Kawakami is affiliated with York University in Canada and specializes in research across psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences. Their work primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

Their research covers several main topics including:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior

Kawakami has contributed research published in varied scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Recent publications highlight Kawakami's emphasis on social cognition and cultural psychology. Notable papers are:

  • "Perceiving ingroup and outgroup faces within and across nations," 2022, British Journal of Psychology
  • "Cultural differences in perceiving transitions in emotional facial expressions: Easterners show greater contrast effects than westerners," 2021, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • "Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Other-Groups Bias Effects: Recognizing Majority and Minority Outgroup Faces," 2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science

Kawakami frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Xia Fang
  • Kimmo Eriksson
  • Pontus Strimling
  • Jan B. Engelmann
  • Hyun Euh

Kawakami's disciplinary focus centers on various branches of psychology and social sciences with significant contributions to understanding cognitive and social processes involved in moral and emotional judgment.

Recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Implicit and explicit prejudice and interracial interaction.

    John F. Dovidio;Kerry Kawakami;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • On the nature of prejudice: Automatic and controlled processes

    John F. Dovidio;Kerry Kawakami;Craig Johnson;Brenda Johnson

  • Intergroup Contact: The Past, Present, and the Future

    John F. Dovidio;Samuel L. Gaertner;Kerry Kawakami

  • Why can't we just get along? Interpersonal biases and interracial distrust.

    John F. Dovidio;Samuel E. Gaertner;Kerry Kawakami;Gordon Hodson

  • Mimicry and Prosocial Behavior

    Rick B. van Baaren;Rob W. Holland;Kerry Kawakami;Ad van Knippenberg

  • Just say no (to stereotyping): effects of training in the negation of stereotypic associations on stereotype activation.

    Kerry Kawakami;John F. Dovidio;Jasper Moll;Sander Hermsen

  • Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism

    Kerry Kawakami;Kerry Kawakami;Kerry Kawakami;Elizabeth Dunn;Elizabeth Dunn;Elizabeth Dunn;Francine Karmali;Francine Karmali;Francine Karmali;John F. Dovidio;John F. Dovidio;John F. Dovidio

  • Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: Examination of the Relationship between Measures of Intergroup Bias

    John F. Dovidio;Kerry Kawakami;Kelly R. Beach

  • Racial Prejudice and Stereotype Activation

    Kerry Kawakami;Kenneth L. Dion;John F. Dovidio

  • Ethnicity and Perceived Discrimination in Toronto: Another Look at the Personal/Group Discrimination Discrepancy

    Kenneth L. Dion;Kerry Kawakami

  • Social Identity and Affect as Determinants of Collective Action: Toward an Integration of Relative Deprivation and Social Identity Theories

    Kerry Kawakami;Kenneth L. Dion

  • Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies

    Kimmo Eriksson;Kimmo Eriksson;Pontus Strimling;Michele Gelfand;Junhui Wu

  • Effect of Social Category Priming on Personal Attitudes

    Kerry Kawakami;John F. Dovidio;Ap Dijksterhuis

  • The Reliability of Implicit Stereotyping

    Kerry Kawakami;John F. Dovidio

  • Intergroup Perception and Cognition: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Social Categorization

    K. Kawakami;D.M. Amodio;K. Hugenberg

  • Automatic Stereotyping: Category, Trait, and Behavioral Activations

    Kerry Kawakami;Heather Young;John F. Dovidio

  • The impact of salient self-identities on relative deprivation and action intentions

    Kerry Kawakami;Kenneth L. Dion

  • Mind the Gap: Increasing Associations Between the Self and Blacks With Approach Behaviors

    Curtis E. Phills;Kerry Kawakami;Emmanuel Tabi;Daniel Nadolny

  • Kicking the habit: Effects of nonstereotypic association training and correction processes on hiring decisions

    Kerry Kawakami;John F. Dovidio;Simone van Kamp

  • An eye for the I : preferential attention to the eyes of ingroup members

    Kerry Kawakami;Amanda Williams;David Sidhu;Becky L. Choma

  • Disinhibition of stereotyping: Context, prejudice, and target characteristics

    Kerry Kawakami;Russell Spears;John F. Dovidio

  • Cultural differences in perceiving transitions in emotional facial expressions: Easterners show greater contrast effects than westerners

    Xia Fang;Xia Fang;Gerben A. van Kleef;Kerry Kawakami;Disa A. Sauter

  • Strategies to reduce prejudice and stereotyping: The impact of social cognitive and social contextual factors

    A.F.M. van Knippenberg;D. Mooren;K.L. Kawakami

  • Author Correction: Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies.

    Kimmo Eriksson;Kimmo Eriksson;Pontus Strimling;Michele Gelfand;Junhui Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Elizabeth W. Dunn
Elizabeth W. Dunn University of British Columbia
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Ad van Knippenberg
Ad van Knippenberg Radboud University
Rob W. Holland
Rob W. Holland Radboud University
Ap Dijksterhuis
Ap Dijksterhuis Radboud University
Samuel L. Gaertner
Samuel L. Gaertner University of Delaware

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