2026 Shinobu Kitayama: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	94	786	688	493	419	253	90129

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2010 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2009 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Shinobu Kitayama is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research is centered primarily within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. The scientist's scholarly work extends across subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The scientist's research interests cover a range of topics, notably:

Cultural Differences and Values
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Social and Intergroup Psychology
COVID-19 and Mental Health
Behavioral Health and Interventions
COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
Social Representations and Identity

Shinobu Kitayama has authored several papers, among which recent notable publications include:

"Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response," 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
"Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition," 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
"Mandated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination predicts flattened curves for the spread of COVID-19," 2020, Science Advances
"Social value shift in favour of biodiversity conservation in the United States," 2020, Nature Sustainability
"Varieties of interdependence and the emergence of the Modern West: Toward the globalizing of psychology," 2022, American Psychologist

The venues where Shinobu Kitayama most frequently publishes include:

Biological Psychology
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Emotion
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Nature Human Behaviour

The scientist also has book publications, notably "Culture, Mind, and Brain" published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Frequent collaborators in their work are:

Cristina Salvador
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Qinggang Yu
Martha K. Berg
Carol M. Worthman

Recognition of Shinobu Kitayama's contributions includes fellowships from major scholarly organizations:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2010
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2009

Best Publications

Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.

Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

32841
Citations
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

5562
Citations
Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?

Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman;Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

3460
Citations
Individual and collective processes in the construction of the self: Self-enhancement in the United States and self-criticism in Japan.

Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel Rose Markus;Hisaya Matsumoto;Vinai Norasakkunkit;Vinai Norasakkunkit

2321
Citations
Cultures and Selves: A Cycle of Mutual Constitution

Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

1972
Citations
Culture, emotion, and well-being: Good feelings in Japan and the United States.

Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel Rose Markus;Masaru Kurokawa

1595
Citations
Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture

T. Talhelm;X. Zhang;S. Oishi;C. Shimin

1545
Citations
The cultural matrix of social psychology

Alan Page Fiske;Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel Rose Markus;Richard E. Nisbett

1324
Citations
Handbook of Cultural Psychology

Shinobu Kitayama;Dov Cohen

1232
Citations
Cultural affordances and emotional experience: Socially engaging and disengaging emotions in Japan and the United States.

Shinobu Kitayama;Batja Mesquita;Mayumi Karasawa

1144
Citations
Divergent consequences of success and failure in japan and north america: an investigation of self-improving motivations and malleable selves.

Steven J. Heine;Shinobu Kitayama;Darrin R. Lehman;Toshitake Takata

1124
Citations
Perceiving an Object and Its Context in Different Cultures A Cultural Look at New Look

Shinobu Kitayama;Sean Duffy;Tadashi Kawamura;Jeff T. Larsen

1115
Citations
A Collective Fear of the Collective: Implications for Selves and Theories of Selves

Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

1064
Citations
The cultural construction of self and emotion: Implications for social behavior.

Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

1024
Citations
The Cultural Psychology of Personality

Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

1024
Citations
Some Neo-Darwinian Decision Rules for Altruism: Weighing Cues for Inclusive Fitness as a Function of the Biological Importance of the Decision

Eugene Burnstein;Christian Crandall;Shinobu Kitayama

955
Citations
Emotion and culture : empirical studies of mutual influence

Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel Rose Markus

843
Citations
Culture and basic psychological principles

Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama;Rachel J. Heiman

827
Citations
Cultural Constructions of Happiness: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Yukiko Uchida;Vinai Norasakkunkit;Shinobu Kitayama

806
Citations
Models of agency: sociocultural diversity in the construction of action.

Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

804
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University

Yuri Miyamoto Hitotsubashi University

Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison

Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Ayse K. Uskul University of Sussex

Igor Grossmann University of Waterloo

Shihui Han Peking University

Anthony P. King The Ohio State University

Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University

Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University

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