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Yuri Miyamoto is affiliated with Hitotsubashi University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, focusing primarily on cultural differences, social psychology, and psychological well-being. Their scholarly output comprises 24 publications in psychology, with specific emphasis on social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their research explores various themes such as cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, stress responses and cortisol, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Yuri Miyamoto's recent peer-reviewed papers include:

  • "Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures," 2023, American Psychologist
  • "Self- and Other-Orientation in High Rank: A Cultural Psychological Approach to Social Hierarchy," 2023, Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • "Cultural Differences in Rumination and Psychological Correlates: The Role of Attribution," 2022, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Does Materialism Hinder Relational Well-Being? The Role of Culture and Social Motives," 2020, Journal of Happiness Studies
  • "Cultural and life style practices associated with low inflammatory physiology in Japanese adults," 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Miyamoto include Jeong Ha Choi, Maya Tamir, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, Carol D. Ryff, and Jan Cieciuch. These collaborations indicate a strong interdisciplinary approach, ranging from social psychological theory to clinical and cultural applications.

Their work has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Japanese Psychological Research
  • Emotion
  • American Psychologist
  • Personality and Social Psychology Review

Yuri Miyamoto's research investigates how cultural factors shape psychological processes, particularly through the lens of emotion regulation, social hierarchy, rumination, and well-being. Their studies often address mechanisms underlying psychological health disparities across cultures and the social motives that influence individual and group behavior.

Best Publications

  • The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception.

    Richard E. Nisbett;Yuri Miyamoto

  • Culture and the Physical Environment Holistic Versus Analytic Perceptual Affordances

    Yuri Miyamoto;Richard E. Nisbett;Takahiko Masuda

  • Cultural Practices Emphasize Influence in the United States and Adjustment in Japan

    Beth Morling;Shinobu Kitayama;Yuri Miyamoto

  • Dampening or savoring positive emotions: a dialectical cultural script guides emotion regulation.

    Yuri Miyamoto;Xiaoming Ma

  • Culture and mixed emotions: co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions in Japan and the United States.

    Yuri Miyamoto;Yukiko Uchida;Phoebe C. Ellsworth

  • Cultural variation in correspondence bias: the critical role of attitude diagnosticity of socially constrained behavior.

    Yuri Miyamoto;Shinobu Kitayama

  • Cultural differences in the dialectical and non-dialectical emotional styles and their implications for health.

    Yuri Miyamoto;Carol D. Ryff

  • Social status and anger expression: The cultural moderation hypothesis.

    Jiyoung Park;Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel R. Markus;Christopher L. Coe

  • Heterogeneity of long-history migration explains cultural differences in reports of emotional expressivity and the functions of smiles

    Magdalena Rychlowska;Magdalena Rychlowska;Yuri Miyamoto;David Matsumoto;Ursula Hess

  • Clarifying the links between social support and health: Culture, stress, and neuroticism matter

    Jiyoung Park;Shinobu Kitayama;Mayumi Karasawa;Katherine Curhan

  • Cultural differences in hedonic emotion regulation after a negative event.

    Yuri Miyamoto;Xiaoming Ma;Amelia G. Petermann

  • Culture and social hierarchy: Self- and other-oriented correlates of socioeconomic status across cultures.

    Yuri Miyamoto;Jiah Yoo;Cynthia S. Levine;Jiyoung Park

  • The Role of Utility Value in Achievement Behavior: The Importance of Culture

    Olga G. Shechter;Amanda M. Durik;Yuri Miyamoto;Judith M. Harackiewicz

  • Expression of Anger and Ill Health in Two Cultures An Examination of Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk

    Shinobu Kitayama;Jiyoung Park;Jennifer Morozink Boylan;Yuri Miyamoto

  • Negative emotions predict elevated interleukin-6 in the United States but not in Japan

    Yuri Miyamoto;Jennifer Morozink Boylan;Christopher L. Coe;Katherine B. Curhan

  • American and Japanese Women Use Different Coping Strategies During Normal Pregnancy

    Beth Morling;Shinobu Kitayama;Yuri Miyamoto

  • Just how bad negative affect is for your health depends on culture.

    Katherine B. Curhan;Tamara Sims;Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

  • Subjective and objective hierarchies and their relations to psychological well-being: A U.S./Japan comparison

    Katherine B. Curhan;Cynthia S. Levine;Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

  • Culture and Analytic Versus Holistic Cognition: Toward Multilevel Analyses of Cultural Influences

    Yuri Miyamoto

  • Varieties of Resilience in MIDUS.

    Carol Ryff;Elliot Friedman;Thomas Fuller-Rowell;Gayle Love

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carol D. Ryff
Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University
Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maya Tamir
Maya Tamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Matsumoto
David Matsumoto San Francisco State University
Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Shanmukh V. Kamble
Shanmukh V. Kamble Karnatak University
Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
Eva Gilboa-Schechtman Bar-Ilan University

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