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Shinobu Kitayama publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shinobu Kitayama sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 253 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Shinobu Kitayama D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shinobu Kitayama sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

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

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

  • Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?

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

  • 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

  • Cultures and Selves: A Cycle of Mutual Constitution

    Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

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

    Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel Rose Markus;Masaru Kurokawa

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

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

  • The cultural matrix of social psychology

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

  • Handbook of Cultural Psychology

    Shinobu Kitayama;Dov Cohen

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

    Shinobu Kitayama;Batja Mesquita;Mayumi Karasawa

  • 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

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

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

  • A Collective Fear of the Collective: Implications for Selves and Theories of Selves

    Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

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

    Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

  • The Cultural Psychology of Personality

    Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

  • 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

  • Emotion and culture : empirical studies of mutual influence

    Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel Rose Markus

  • Culture and basic psychological principles

    Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama;Rachel J. Heiman

  • Cultural Constructions of Happiness: Theory and Empirical Evidence

    Yukiko Uchida;Vinai Norasakkunkit;Shinobu Kitayama

  • Models of agency: sociocultural diversity in the construction of action.

    Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University
Yuri Miyamoto
Yuri Miyamoto Hitotsubashi University
Carol D. Ryff
Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Norito Kawakami
Norito Kawakami University of Tokyo
Yukiko Uchida
Yukiko Uchida Kyoto University
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carolyn Yoon
Carolyn Yoon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ayse K. Uskul
Ayse K. Uskul University of Sussex
Shihui Han
Shihui Han Peking University
Igor Grossmann
Igor Grossmann University of Waterloo

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