Shinobu Kitayama

Cultural Neuroeconomics of Intertemporal Choice (2009)

Takahashi, Taiki, Hadzibeganovic, Tarik, Cannas, Sergio, Makino, Takaki, Fukui, Hiroki, Kitayama, Shinobu

According to theories of cultural neuroscience, Westerners and Easterners may have distinct styles of cognition (e.g., different allocation of attention). Previous research has shown that Westerners...

Cultural neuroeconomics of intertemporal choice (2009)

Takahashi, Taiki, Hadzibeganovic, Tarik, Cannas, Sergio, Makino, Takaki, Fukui, Hiroki, Kitayama, Shinobu

According to theories of cultural neuroscience, Westerners and Easterners may have distinct styles of cognition (e.g., different allocation of attention). Previous research has shown that Westerners...

Minimal Social Cues in the Dictator Game (2008)

Rigdon, Mary, Ishii, Keiko, Watabe, Motoki, Kitayama, Shinobu

This paper reports results of an incentivized laboratory experiment manipulating an extremely weak social cue in the Dictator Game. Prior to making their decision, we present dictators with a simple...

Cultural Neuroeconomics of Intertemporal Choice (2008)

Takahashi, Taiki, Hadzibeganovic, Tarik, Cannas, Sergio, Makino, Takaki, Fukui, Hiroki, Kitayama, Shinobu

According to theories of cultural neuroscience, Westerners and Easterners may have distinct styles of cognition (e.g., different allocation of attention). Previous research has shown that Westerners...

Cultural constructions of happiness: theory and emprical evidence (2004)

Uchida, Yukiko, Norasakkunkit, Vinai, Kitayama, Shinobu

In a review of recent cross-cultural evidence on happiness and well-being, the authors identified substantial cultural variations in (1) cultural meanings of happiness, (2) motivations underlying...

Collective and personal processes in regulating emotions : Emotion and self in Japan and the US (2004)

Kitayama, Shinobu, Karasawa, Mayumi

The main goal of this volume is to present, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on emotion regulation. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that...

ATTENTION AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN AFFECT AND COGNITION: EMOTIONAL TONE AND EXPECTANCY JOINTLY DETERMINE ACCURACY IN WORD PERCEPTION. (1987)

KITAYAMA, SHINOBU

Emotional tone has been shown to either enhance or impair the accuracy with which a briefly shown word is perceived. In this dissertation a mechanism underlying these effects is proposed. It is...

Minimal Social Cues in the Dictator Game

Rigdon, Mary, Ishii, Keiko, Watabe, Motoki, Kitayama, Shinobu

This paper reports results of an incentivized laboratory experiment manipulating an extremely weak social cue in the Dictator Game. Prior to making their decision, we present dictators with a simple...

Ecocultural basis of cognition: Farmers and fishermen are more holistic than herders

Uskul, Ayse K., Kitayama, Shinobu, Nisbett, Richard E.

It has been proposed that social interdependence fosters holistic cognition, that is, a tendency to attend to the broad perceptual and cognitive field, rather than to a focal object and its...

Ecoculture, social interdependence and holistic cognition: Evidence from farming, fishing and herding communities in Turkey

Uskul, Ayse K, Nisbett, Richard E, Kitayama, Shinobu

It has been hypothesized that interdependent (versus independent) social orientations breed more holistic (versus analytic) cognitions. If so, farming and small-scale fishing, which require more...

Cultural neuroeconomics of intertemporal choice

Takahashi, Taiki, Hadzibeganovic, Tarik, Cannas, Sergio, Makino, Takaki, Fukui, Hiroki, Kitayama, Shinobu

According to theories of cultural neuroscience, Westerners and Easterners may have distinct styles of cognition (e.g., different allocation of attention). Previous research has shown that Westerners...

Minimal social cues in the dictator game

Rigdon, Mary, Ishii, Keiko, Watabe, Motoki, Kitayama, Shinobu

Giving to others is individually costly, yet generates benefits to the recipient. Such altruistic behavior has been well documented in experimental games between unrelated, anonymous individuals....