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Toshikazu Hasegawa

Toshikazu Hasegawa

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Psychology
Japan
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
9660
World Ranking
5454
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Toshikazu Hasegawa is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research focuses on a range of interdisciplinary topics, including primate behavior, social psychology, and cultural studies, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes notable papers published between 2021 and 2024. Among these are:

  • Face-to-face configuration in Japanese macaques functions as a platform to establish mutual engagement in social play, 2021, Animal Cognition
  • Longitudinal study of personal space in autism, 2024, Child Neuropsychology
  • Testosterone promotes dominance behaviors in the Ultimatum Game after players' status increases, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Attention to live eye contact in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, 2022, Autism Research
  • Changes in salivary cortisol and testosterone levels in male chimpanzees during the process of reunion with group members, 2023, acta ethologica

Hasegawa frequently collaborates with several coauthors, evidencing ongoing partnerships that support their research agenda. These frequent coauthors include:

  • Sean Lee
  • Hironori Akechi
  • Yukiko Kikuchi
  • Yoshikuni Tojo
  • Atsuko Saito

The venues that commonly feature their work reflect a range of scientific audiences and interdisciplinary approaches. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Animal Cognition
  • Child Neuropsychology
  • Autism Research

Their research spans multiple subfields of study, pointing to diverse academic interests and expertise. These subfields include:

  • Cultural Studies
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Genetics

The scientist's main research topics highlight a blend of behavioral science and evolutionary perspectives, with particular focus on both human and animal subjects. These main topics are:

  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Virology and Viral Diseases

Best Publications

  • Jealousy and the nature of beliefs about infidelity: Tests of competing hypotheses about sex differences in the United States, Korea, and Japan

    David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford;Lee A. Kirkpatrick;Jae C. Choe

  • Demography, female life history, and reproductive profiles among the chimpanzees of Mahale

    Toshisada Nishida;Nadia Corp;Miya Hamai;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Group extinction and female transfer in wild chimpanzees in the Mahale National Park, Tanzania.

    Toshisada Nishida;Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Yukio Takahata

  • Direct gaze captures visuospatial attention

    Atsushi Senju;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Reflexive orienting in response to eye gaze and an arrow in children with and without autism

    Atsushi Senju;Yoshikuni Tojo;Hitoshi Dairoku;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific

    Thomas E. Currie;Thomas E. Currie;Simon J. Greenhill;Russell D. Gray;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Oxytocin promotes social bonding in dogs.

    Teresa Romero;Miho Nagasawa;Kazutaka Mogi;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Dialects in wild chimpanzees

    John C. Mitani;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Julie Gros-Louis;Peter Marler

  • Attention to Eye Contact in the West and East: Autonomic Responses and Evaluative Ratings

    Hironori Akechi;Atsushi Senju;Helen Uibo;Yukiko Kikuchi

  • Genetics of cognition: outline of a collaborative twin study.

    Margie Wright;Eco De Geus;Juko Ando;Michelle Luciano;Michelle Luciano

  • Absence of contagious yawning in children with autism spectrum disorder

    Atsushi Senju;Makiko Maeda;Yukiko Kikuchi;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Absence of spontaneous action anticipation by false belief attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder

    Atsushi Senju;Victoria Southgate;Yui Miura;Tomoko Matsui

  • Rhythmic synchronization tapping to an audio-visual metronome in budgerigars

    Ai Hasegawa;Kazuo Okanoya;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Yoshimasa Seki

  • 'Autistic' traits in non-autistic Japanese populations: relationships with personality traits and cognitive ability.

    Yura Kunihira;Atsushi Senju;Atsushi Senju;Hitoshi Dairoku;Hitoshi Dairoku;Akio Wakabayashi

  • Demographic study of a large-sized unit-group of chimpanzees in the mahale mountains, Tanzania: A preliminary report

    Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Toshisada Nishida

  • Does perceived direct gaze boost detection in adults and children with and without autism? The stare-in-the-crowd effect revisited.

    Atsushi Senju;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Yoshikuni Tojo

  • Opportunistic and restrictive matings among wild chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania

    Toshikazu Hasegawa;Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa

  • Familiarity bias and physiological responses in contagious yawning by dogs support link to empathy.

    Teresa Romero;Akitsugu Konno;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Eye contact does not facilitate detection in children with autism.

    Atsushi Senju;Kiyoshi Yaguchi;Yoshikuni Tojo;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Deviant gaze processing in children with autism: an ERP study

    Atsushi Senju;Yoshikuni Tojo;Kiyoshi Yaguchi;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Auditory-visual intermodal matching of small numerosities in 6-month-old infants.

    Tessei Kobayashi;Kazuo Hiraki;Kazuo Hiraki;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Is anyone looking at me? Direct gaze detection in children with and without autism

    Atsushi Senju;Yukiko Kikuchi;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Yoshikuni Tojo

  • Baby arithmetic: one object plus one tone.

    Tessei Kobayashi;Kazuo Hiraki;Kazuo Hiraki;Ryoko Mugitani;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Faces Do Not Capture Special Attention in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Change Blindness Study

    Yukiko Kikuchi;Atsushi Senju;Yoshikuni Tojo;Hiroo Osanai

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Senju
Atsushi Senju Birkbeck, University of London
Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya University of Tokyo
Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments
Narelle K. Hansell
Narelle K. Hansell University of Queensland
Richard W. Byrne
Richard W. Byrne University of St Andrews
Michelle Luciano
Michelle Luciano University of Edinburgh
Kazuo Fujita
Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University
Toshio Yamagishi
Toshio Yamagishi Hitotsubashi University
Timo Stein
Timo Stein University of Amsterdam
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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