Shinobu Kitayama

Institution University of Michigan Current Position Professor of Psychology, Director of the Culture and Cognition Program Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Michigan, 1987 Research Interests Culture/Ethnicity Emotion Self/Identity Social Cognition Laboratory Home Page Culture and Cognition Laboratory   Shinobu Kitayama Department of Psychology East Hall, University of Michigan 530 Church Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 United States Home Page Phone: (734) 647-6786 My research revolves around cultural differences and similarities in a variety of mental processes such as self, emotion and cognition. I have focused on comparing people from Asian countries such as Japan, the Philippines, and China with Americans. Books: Kitayama, S., & Cohen, D. (Eds.). (2007). Handbook of cultural psychology. New York: Guildford Press. Journal Articles: Heine, S. J., Kitayama, S., Lehman, D. R., Takata, T., Ide, E., Lueng, C., & Matsumoto, H. (2001). Divergent consequences of success and failure in Japan and North America: An investigation of self-improving motivations and malleable selves. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 599-615. Heine, S. J., Lehman, D. R., Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1999). Is there a universal need for positive self-regard? Psychological Review, 106, 766-794. Ishii, K., Reyes, J. A., & Kitayama, S. (2003). Spontaneous attention to word content versus emotional tone: Differences among three cultures. Psychological Science, 14, 39-46. Kitayama, S. (2002). Cultural and basic psychological processes--Toward a system view of culture: Comment on Oyserman et al. (2002). Psychological Bulletin, 128, 189-196. Kitayama, S., Duffy, S., Kawamura, T., & Larsen, J. T. (2003). Perceiving an object and its context in different cultures: A cultural look at New Look. Psychological Science, 14, 201-206. Kitayama, S., Markus, H. R., Matsumoto, H., & Norasakkunkit, V. (1997). Individual and collective processes in the construction of the self: Self-enhancement in the United States and self-criticism in Japan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1245-1267. Kitayama, S., Snibbe, A. C., Markus, H. R., & Suzuki, T. (2004). Is there any "free" choice? Self and dissonance in two cultures. Psychological Science, 15(8), 527-533. Kitayama, S., & Uchida, Y. (2003). Explicit self-criticism and implicit self-regard: Evaluating self and friend in two cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 476-482. Markus, H., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253. Masuda, T., & Kitayama, S. (2003). Perceiver-induced constraint and attitude attribution in Japan and the US: A case for the cultural dependence of the correspondence bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Miyamoto, Y., & Kitayama, S. (2002). Cultural variation in correspondence bias: The critical role of attitude diagnosticity of socially constrained behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1239-1248. Morling, B., Kitayama, S., & Miyamoto, Y. (2003). American and Japanese women use different coping strategies during normal pregnancy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 114-128. Snibbe, A. C., Kitayama, S., Markus, H. R., & Suzuki, T. (2003). They saw a game: A Japanese and American (football) field study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34, 581-595.

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