2026 Kerry Kawakami: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	35	6573	6113	394	378	66	13053

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

2398
Citations
On the nature of prejudice: Automatic and controlled processes

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

2148
Citations
Intergroup Contact: The Past, Present, and the Future

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

1275
Citations
Why can't we just get along? Interpersonal biases and interracial distrust.

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

1086
Citations
Mimicry and Prosocial Behavior

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

1063
Citations
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

924
Citations
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

336
Citations
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: Examination of the Relationship between Measures of Intergroup Bias

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

268
Citations
Racial Prejudice and Stereotype Activation

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

261
Citations
Ethnicity and Perceived Discrimination in Toronto: Another Look at the Personal/Group Discrimination Discrepancy

Kenneth L. Dion;Kerry Kawakami

194
Citations
Social Identity and Affect as Determinants of Collective Action: Toward an Integration of Relative Deprivation and Social Identity Theories

Kerry Kawakami;Kenneth L. Dion

193
Citations
Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies

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

187
Citations
Effect of Social Category Priming on Personal Attitudes

Kerry Kawakami;John F. Dovidio;Ap Dijksterhuis

169
Citations
The Reliability of Implicit Stereotyping

Kerry Kawakami;John F. Dovidio

169
Citations
Intergroup Perception and Cognition: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Social Categorization

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

165
Citations
Automatic Stereotyping: Category, Trait, and Behavioral Activations

Kerry Kawakami;Heather Young;John F. Dovidio

165
Citations
The impact of salient self-identities on relative deprivation and action intentions

Kerry Kawakami;Kenneth L. Dion

161
Citations
Mind the Gap: Increasing Associations Between the Self and Blacks With Approach Behaviors

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

140
Citations
Kicking the habit: Effects of nonstereotypic association training and correction processes on hiring decisions

Kerry Kawakami;John F. Dovidio;Simone van Kamp

139
Citations
An eye for the I : preferential attention to the eyes of ingroup members

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

138
Citations
Disinhibition of stereotyping: Context, prejudice, and target characteristics

Kerry Kawakami;Russell Spears;John F. Dovidio

11
Citations
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

8
Citations
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

0
Citations
Author Correction: Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies.

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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Dovidio Yale University

Elizabeth W. Dunn University of British Columbia

Russell Spears University of Groningen

Ad van Knippenberg Radboud University

Rob W. Holland Radboud University

Ap Dijksterhuis Radboud University

Samuel L. Gaertner University of Delaware

External Links

Personal website of Kerry Kawakami

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