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Overview

Masaki Yuki is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research has a strong focus on cultural and social psychological topics. The main themes addressed include Cultural Differences and Values, Social and Intergroup Psychology, International Student and Expatriate Challenges, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Emotions and Moral Behavior, and the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Recent publications by Masaki Yuki include:

  • Is an Emphasis on Dignity, Honor and Face more an Attribute of Individuals or of Cultural Groups? (2020) in Cross-Cultural Research
  • Sex Differences in Self-Construal and in Depressive Symptoms: Predictors of Cross-National Variation (2020) in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Does relational mobility vary across national regions? A within-country examination (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups: A cross-cultural examination (2021) in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Need for approval from others and face concerns as predictors of interpersonal conflict outcome in 29 cultural groups (2023) in International Journal of Psychology

Masaki Yuki frequently collaborates with several researchers, as evidenced by multiple co-authored papers. These frequent co-authors include Phatthanakit Chobthamkit, Natsuki Ogusu, Peter B. Smith, Matthew J. Easterbrook, and Yasin Koç.

Their publications have appeared in several notable venues repeatedly. Frequent publication outlets include PLoS ONE, Cross-Cultural Research, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, and the International Journal of Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Culture, gender, and self: A perspective from individualism-collectivism research.

    Yoshihisa Kashima;Susumu Yamaguchi;Uichol Kim;Sang-Chin Choi

  • Cross-Cultural Differences in Relationship- and Group-Based Trust

    Masaki Yuki;William W. Maddux;Marilynn B. Brewer;Kosuke Takemura

  • Beyond the 'east-west' dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

    Vivian L. Vignoles;Ellinor Owe;Maja Becker;Peter B. Smith

  • 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

    Masaki Yuki;William W. Maddux;Takahiko Masuda

  • Intergroup comparison versus intragroup relationships: A cross-cultural examination of social identity theory in North American and East Asian cultural contexts.

    Masaki Yuki

  • Relational Mobility Explains Between- and Within-Culture Differences in Self-Disclosure to Close Friends

    Joanna Schug;Masaki Yuki;William W. Maddux

  • Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat

    Robert Thomson;Masaki Yuki;Thomas Talhelm;Joanna Schug

  • Social Representations of Events and People in World History Across 12 Cultures

    James H. Liu;Rebekah Goldstein-Hawes;Denis Hilton;Li-Li Huang

  • The “Ripple Effect”: Cultural Differences in Perceptions of the Consequences of Events

    William W. Maddux;Masaki Yuki

  • Similarity attraction and actually selecting similar others: How cross-societal differences in relational mobility affect interpersonal similarity in Japan and the USA

    Joanna Schug;Masaki Yuki;Hiroki Horikawa;Kosuke Takemura

  • Relational mobility: A socioecological approach to personal relationships.

    Masaki Yuki;Joanna Schug

  • Why do Westerners self‐enhance more than East Asians?:

    Carl F. Falk;Steven J. Heine;Masaki Yuki;Kosuke Takemura

  • Culture and social identity.

    Marilynn B. Brewer;Masaki Yuki

  • Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups?

    Yoshihisa Kashima;Emiko Kashima;Chi-Yue Chiu;Thomas Farsides

  • The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem

    Emiko S. Kashima;Michael J. Halloran;Masaki Yuki;Yoshihisa Kashima

  • Culture, trust, and social networks

    Tasuku Igarashi;Yoshihisa Kashima;Emiko S. Kashima;Tomas Farsides

  • Culture and Context-sensitive Self: The Amount and Meaning of Context-sensitivity of Phenomenal Self Differ Across Cultures

    Yoshihisa Kashima;Emiko Kashima;Thomas Farsides;Uichol Kim

  • Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups

    Ellinor Owe;Vivian L. Vignoles;Maja Becker;Rupert Brown

  • The primal warrior: Outgroup threat priming enhances intergroup discrimination in men but not women

    Masaki Yuki;Kunihiro Yokota

  • Social ecology moderates the association between self-esteem and happiness

    Masaki Yuki;Kosuke Sato;Kosuke Takemura;Shigehiro Oishi

Frequent Co-Authors

Taciano L. Milfont
Taciano L. Milfont University of Waikato
Peter B. Smith
Peter B. Smith University of Sussex
Emiko S. Kashima
Emiko S. Kashima La Trobe University
Yoshihisa Kashima
Yoshihisa Kashima University of Melbourne
Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex
Vivian L. Vignoles
Vivian L. Vignoles University of Sussex
Ronald Fischer
Ronald Fischer Victoria University of Wellington
Seth J. Schwartz
Seth J. Schwartz The University of Texas at Austin
Tom Pyszczynski
Tom Pyszczynski University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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