Joni Y Sasaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 187476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joni Y Sasaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joni Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Sasaki |
| SIGNATURE | SASAKI J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Independent and Interdependent Self-Construal Revisited
This study examined the relationship between independent and interdependent self-construals, as measured by the Self-Construal Scale (SCS), to evaluate the independence of these constructs, and their associations with analytic-holistic thinking (Analysis-Holism Scale; AHS), Big Five personality traits, and subjective well-being across five cultural groups. Participants included 440 individuals from Korea ( n = 109), Canada ( n = 256; 90 European,…
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them
Culture is typically studied as socialized and learned. Yet lay intuitions may hold that culture is associated with biology via perceptions of race, presenting a problem for those who study culture: There may be a mismatch between how psychologists study culture and how their research is interpreted by lay audiences. This article is a call to researchers to recognize this mismatch as a problem and to critically evaluate the way we study culture. …
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Similar to the person–culture match hypothesis, which suggests when a person's traits match the prevalent traits in the broader culture it increases well-being (Fulmer et al., Citation2010)
Trauma in Mixed vs. Monoracial Emerging Adults in Hawaiʻi
The reemergence of Yellow Peril
The anti-Asian sentiment in Canada and the U.S during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic centers on perceptions of East and Southeast Asians as “health hazards”, due to their alleged animal-eating habits, uncleanliness, and tendency to spread diseases. In a preregistered study, we demonstrated that for East and Southeast Asians in Canada and the U.S., their belief that society holds the Asian health hazard stereotype was associated with …
Valuing high arousal negative states increases negative responses toward outgroups across cultures
Previous research demonstrates that the more people experience anger, fear, and other high arousal negative states (HAN) on average, the more prejudice and harm they express toward outgroups. Here we demonstrate that valuing HAN-above and beyond actually experiencing HAN-increases people's likelihood of engaging in harm toward cultural outgroups in everyday life. In Study 1, U.S. European Americans ( N = 227) read hypothetical scenarios in which …
The Cost of Being “True to Yourself” for Mixed Selves
A growing population of biculturals—who identify with at least two cultures—often frame switch, adapting their behavior to their shifting cultural contexts. We demonstrate that frame switching biculturals are perceived as inauthentic by majority Americans and consequently seen as less likable, trustworthy, warm, and competent compared to biculturals who do not frame switch or a neutral control (Studies 1–3, N = 763). In Study 2, describing the bi…
Zahra or Zoe, Arjun or Andrew? Bicultural baby names reflect identity and pragmatic concerns
Baby naming among ethnic minorities is a complex cultural decision, reflecting both identity and pragmatic concerns. Implications for studies of acculturation and identity, and future research directions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Too Asian? The model minority stereotype in a Canadian context
Breaches of Trust Change the Content and Structure of Religious Appeals
Considerable work suggests that social and environmental pressures can influence religious commitment, the content of beliefs, and features of ritual. Some ecologically minded theories of religion posit that crosscultural variation in beliefs and practices can be partly explained by their utility in addressing persistent threats to cooperation and coordination. However, little experimental work has assessed whether or not socioecological pressure…
Explaining agency detection within a domain-specific, culturally attuned model
Agents, or objects that appear to act with intentions, are readily perceived (Heider & Simmel, 1944), even when no agent is actually there, and may be characterized as “supernatural” (Barrett, 2000
Nature, Nurture, and Their Interplay
Cultural neuroscience research examines how psychological processes are affected by the interplay between culture and biological factors, including genetic influences, patterns of neural activation, and physiological processes. In this review, we present foundational and current empirical research in this area, and we also discuss theories that aim to explain how various aspects of the social environment are interpreted as meaningful in different…
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
With the rise of globalization, culture mixing increasingly occurs not only between groups and individuals belonging to different cultures but also within individuals. Biculturals, or people who are part of two cultures, are a growing population that has been studied in recent years; yet, there is still much to learn about exactly how their unique experiences of negotiating their cultures affect the way they think and behave. Past research has at…
Will you remember me? Cultural differences in own-group face recognition biases
Gene–Culture Interaction
Research has demonstrated that certain genotypes are expressed phenotypically in different forms depending on the social environment. To examine sensitivity to cultural norms regarding emotion regulation, we explored the expression of the oxytocin receptor polymorphism ( OXTR) rs53576, a gene previously related to socioemotional sensitivity, in conjunction with cultural norms. Emotional suppression is normative in East Asian cultures but not in A…
At the intersection of culture and religion
Religion helps people maintain a sense of control, particularly secondary control-acceptance of and adjustment to difficult situations--and contributes to strengthening social relationships in a religious community. However, little is known about how culture may influence these effects. The current research examined the interaction of culture and religion on secondary control and social affiliation, comparing people from individualistic cultures …
Religion and Well-being
Research suggests that religiosity, or the importance of religion in one's life, may be related to well-being, but little is known about how culture and genes may play a role in this relationship. Given that religion in a North American cultural context tends to emphasize social affiliation less than in an East Asian cultural context and that some people may be genetically predisposed to be more socially sensitive than others, the way religion is…
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
With the rise of globalization, culture mixing increasingly occurs not only between groups and individuals belonging to different cultures but also within individuals. Biculturals, or people who are part of two cultures, are a growing population that has been studied in recent years; yet, there is still much to learn about exactly how their unique experiences of negotiating their cultures affect the way they think and behave. Past research has at…
At the intersection of culture and religion
Religion helps people maintain a sense of control, particularly secondary control-acceptance of and adjustment to difficult situations--and contributes to strengthening social relationships in a religious community. However, little is known about how culture may influence these effects. The current research examined the interaction of culture and religion on secondary control and social affiliation, comparing people from individualistic cultures …
Religion and Well-being
Research suggests that religiosity, or the importance of religion in one's life, may be related to well-being, but little is known about how culture and genes may play a role in this relationship. Given that religion in a North American cultural context tends to emphasize social affiliation less than in an East Asian cultural context and that some people may be genetically predisposed to be more socially sensitive than others, the way religion is…
Will you remember me? Cultural differences in own-group face recognition biases
Breaches of Trust Change the Content and Structure of Religious Appeals
Considerable work suggests that social and environmental pressures can influence religious commitment, the content of beliefs, and features of ritual. Some ecologically minded theories of religion posit that crosscultural variation in beliefs and practices can be partly explained by their utility in addressing persistent threats to cooperation and coordination. However, little experimental work has assessed whether or not socioecological pressure…
Nature, Nurture, and Their Interplay
Cultural neuroscience research examines how psychological processes are affected by the interplay between culture and biological factors, including genetic influences, patterns of neural activation, and physiological processes. In this review, we present foundational and current empirical research in this area, and we also discuss theories that aim to explain how various aspects of the social environment are interpreted as meaningful in different…
Gene–Culture Interaction
Research has demonstrated that certain genotypes are expressed phenotypically in different forms depending on the social environment. To examine sensitivity to cultural norms regarding emotion regulation, we explored the expression of the oxytocin receptor polymorphism ( OXTR) rs53576, a gene previously related to socioemotional sensitivity, in conjunction with cultural norms. Emotional suppression is normative in East Asian cultures but not in A…
At the intersection of culture and religion
Religion helps people maintain a sense of control, particularly secondary control-acceptance of and adjustment to difficult situations--and contributes to strengthening social relationships in a religious community. However, little is known about how culture may influence these effects. The current research examined the interaction of culture and religion on secondary control and social affiliation, comparing people from individualistic cultures …
Religion and Well-being
Research suggests that religiosity, or the importance of religion in one's life, may be related to well-being, but little is known about how culture and genes may play a role in this relationship. Given that religion in a North American cultural context tends to emphasize social affiliation less than in an East Asian cultural context and that some people may be genetically predisposed to be more socially sensitive than others, the way religion is…
Will you remember me? Cultural differences in own-group face recognition biases
Nature, Nurture, and Their Interplay
Cultural neuroscience research examines how psychological processes are affected by the interplay between culture and biological factors, including genetic influences, patterns of neural activation, and physiological processes. In this review, we present foundational and current empirical research in this area, and we also discuss theories that aim to explain how various aspects of the social environment are interpreted as meaningful in different…
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
With the rise of globalization, culture mixing increasingly occurs not only between groups and individuals belonging to different cultures but also within individuals. Biculturals, or people who are part of two cultures, are a growing population that has been studied in recent years; yet, there is still much to learn about exactly how their unique experiences of negotiating their cultures affect the way they think and behave. Past research has at…
Explaining agency detection within a domain-specific, culturally attuned model
Agents, or objects that appear to act with intentions, are readily perceived (Heider & Simmel, 1944), even when no agent is actually there, and may be characterized as “supernatural” (Barrett, 2000
Too Asian? The model minority stereotype in a Canadian context
Breaches of Trust Change the Content and Structure of Religious Appeals
Considerable work suggests that social and environmental pressures can influence religious commitment, the content of beliefs, and features of ritual. Some ecologically minded theories of religion posit that crosscultural variation in beliefs and practices can be partly explained by their utility in addressing persistent threats to cooperation and coordination. However, little experimental work has assessed whether or not socioecological pressure…
The Cost of Being “True to Yourself” for Mixed Selves
A growing population of biculturals—who identify with at least two cultures—often frame switch, adapting their behavior to their shifting cultural contexts. We demonstrate that frame switching biculturals are perceived as inauthentic by majority Americans and consequently seen as less likable, trustworthy, warm, and competent compared to biculturals who do not frame switch or a neutral control (Studies 1–3, N = 763). In Study 2, describing the bi…
Zahra or Zoe, Arjun or Andrew? Bicultural baby names reflect identity and pragmatic concerns
Baby naming among ethnic minorities is a complex cultural decision, reflecting both identity and pragmatic concerns. Implications for studies of acculturation and identity, and future research directions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
The reemergence of Yellow Peril
The anti-Asian sentiment in Canada and the U.S during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic centers on perceptions of East and Southeast Asians as “health hazards”, due to their alleged animal-eating habits, uncleanliness, and tendency to spread diseases. In a preregistered study, we demonstrated that for East and Southeast Asians in Canada and the U.S., their belief that society holds the Asian health hazard stereotype was associated with …
Valuing high arousal negative states increases negative responses toward outgroups across cultures
Previous research demonstrates that the more people experience anger, fear, and other high arousal negative states (HAN) on average, the more prejudice and harm they express toward outgroups. Here we demonstrate that valuing HAN-above and beyond actually experiencing HAN-increases people's likelihood of engaging in harm toward cultural outgroups in everyday life. In Study 1, U.S. European Americans ( N = 227) read hypothetical scenarios in which …
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Similar to the person–culture match hypothesis, which suggests when a person's traits match the prevalent traits in the broader culture it increases well-being (Fulmer et al., Citation2010)
Trauma in Mixed vs. Monoracial Emerging Adults in Hawaiʻi
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them
Culture is typically studied as socialized and learned. Yet lay intuitions may hold that culture is associated with biology via perceptions of race, presenting a problem for those who study culture: There may be a mismatch between how psychologists study culture and how their research is interpreted by lay audiences. This article is a call to researchers to recognize this mismatch as a problem and to critically evaluate the way we study culture. …
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion
Independent and Interdependent Self-Construal Revisited
This study examined the relationship between independent and interdependent self-construals, as measured by the Self-Construal Scale (SCS), to evaluate the independence of these constructs, and their associations with analytic-holistic thinking (Analysis-Holism Scale; AHS), Big Five personality traits, and subjective well-being across five cultural groups. Participants included 440 individuals from Korea ( n = 109), Canada ( n = 256; 90 European,…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (12 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)