Mariko Kikutani
Biographic Data
| ID | 216619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariko Kikutani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kikutani |
| SIGNATURE | KIKUTANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kanazawa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3580-4426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cultural Difference In Nonverbal Expressivity Is Moderated By The Extent of Subjective Self-Construal
This research comprises two studies that examined cultural differences in nonverbal expressivity between Japan and Korea. While prior research has highlighted East–West contrasts, less attention has been given to distinctions within collectivistic cultures. Employing the psychological construct of self-construal (subjective, objective, and autonomous selves), which is thought to distinguish Japanese and Korean cultures, we investigated how these …
Cognitive and Behavioral Variations within the Collectivistic Cultural Sphere
Cross-cultural psychology research often incorporates a division of East and West, contrasting people in East-Asian collectivistic and Western individualistic cultures. However, the extent of such trait should differ within the individualistic or collectivistic group, and looking into behavioral variations occurring within the individual or collectivistic cultural sphere is also very important for the cross-cultural research. To contribute to thi…
The relationship between script memory for everyday events and schizotypy
Individuals with higher schizotypy seem to associate unrelated behaviors to an event, forming script memory with irrelevant information, maybe due to the schizotypy symptom of having peculiar thoughts. The newly created test must be validated using a clinical population to expand its potential to be used in clinical research
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health
Performing single leisure activity simultaneously requires mental, physical, and social effort. This research aimed to represent the extent of the three components using numerical scores and examined whether the scores are related to mental health. To determine the component scores, 1200 Japanese participants of varied ages chose activities they had ever experienced from 97 choices. They rated each of them regarding their mental, physical, and so…
Detecting emotion in speech expressing incongruent emotional cues through voice and content
This research investigated how we detect emotion in speech when the emotional cues in the sound of voice do not match the semantic content. It examined the dominance of the voice or semantics in the perception of emotion from incongruent speech and the influence of language on the interaction between the two modalities. Japanese participants heard a voice emoting anger, happiness or sadness while saying "I'm angry", "I'm pleased" or "I'm sad", wh…
The Interactive Influence of Life Stressor and Sleep Disturbance on Depression
The present study investigated how life stressors and sleep disturbances interactively affect depressive symptoms among university students. Based on a hypothesis that sleep disturbance can be a cause of depression, a statistical model is established which expects that life stressors impact depressive symptoms indirectly rather than directly by increasing sleep disturbances, while sleep disturbances directly work to increase depressive symptoms. …
Perception of Hidden Confidence in Neutral Expressions
Even when a person is portraying a neutral expression, their internal feelings can be reflected subtly on their face, and observers can perceive them. A previous study took facial photographs of female models while wearing attractive and unattractive clothing. Although the models displayed neutral expressions for both cases, their faces while wearing attractive clothing were perceived as more attractive because, it was argued, the attractive clot…
Influence of Culture on Categorical Structure of Emotional Words
This study targeted individuals from Korea and Japan to investigate whether their concepts of emotion can be classified as more prototypical (central concepts) and less typical exemplars (peripheral concepts), and how they distinguish them. In Study 1, participants listed examples of "emotion," and the most frequently reported words were defined as central and others as peripheral concepts. Five central and five peripheral concepts chosen from St…
Concerns about losing face moderate the effect of visual perspective on health-related intentions and behaviors
Visualizing oneself engaging in future actions has been shown to increase the likelihood of actually engaging in the visualized action. In three studies, we examined the effect of perspective taken to visualize a future action (first-person vs. third-person) as a function of the degree to which individuals worry about others' evaluation of themselves (face) and whether the visualized behavior is public or private. Across all studies, the effect o…
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health
Performing single leisure activity simultaneously requires mental, physical, and social effort. This research aimed to represent the extent of the three components using numerical scores and examined whether the scores are related to mental health. To determine the component scores, 1200 Japanese participants of varied ages chose activities they had ever experienced from 97 choices. They rated each of them regarding their mental, physical, and so…
Concerns about losing face moderate the effect of visual perspective on health-related intentions and behaviors
Visualizing oneself engaging in future actions has been shown to increase the likelihood of actually engaging in the visualized action. In three studies, we examined the effect of perspective taken to visualize a future action (first-person vs. third-person) as a function of the degree to which individuals worry about others' evaluation of themselves (face) and whether the visualized behavior is public or private. Across all studies, the effect o…
Influence of Culture on Categorical Structure of Emotional Words
This study targeted individuals from Korea and Japan to investigate whether their concepts of emotion can be classified as more prototypical (central concepts) and less typical exemplars (peripheral concepts), and how they distinguish them. In Study 1, participants listed examples of "emotion," and the most frequently reported words were defined as central and others as peripheral concepts. Five central and five peripheral concepts chosen from St…
Detecting emotion in speech expressing incongruent emotional cues through voice and content
This research investigated how we detect emotion in speech when the emotional cues in the sound of voice do not match the semantic content. It examined the dominance of the voice or semantics in the perception of emotion from incongruent speech and the influence of language on the interaction between the two modalities. Japanese participants heard a voice emoting anger, happiness or sadness while saying "I'm angry", "I'm pleased" or "I'm sad", wh…
The Interactive Influence of Life Stressor and Sleep Disturbance on Depression
The present study investigated how life stressors and sleep disturbances interactively affect depressive symptoms among university students. Based on a hypothesis that sleep disturbance can be a cause of depression, a statistical model is established which expects that life stressors impact depressive symptoms indirectly rather than directly by increasing sleep disturbances, while sleep disturbances directly work to increase depressive symptoms. …
Perception of Hidden Confidence in Neutral Expressions
Even when a person is portraying a neutral expression, their internal feelings can be reflected subtly on their face, and observers can perceive them. A previous study took facial photographs of female models while wearing attractive and unattractive clothing. Although the models displayed neutral expressions for both cases, their faces while wearing attractive clothing were perceived as more attractive because, it was argued, the attractive clot…
Cognitive and Behavioral Variations within the Collectivistic Cultural Sphere
Cross-cultural psychology research often incorporates a division of East and West, contrasting people in East-Asian collectivistic and Western individualistic cultures. However, the extent of such trait should differ within the individualistic or collectivistic group, and looking into behavioral variations occurring within the individual or collectivistic cultural sphere is also very important for the cross-cultural research. To contribute to thi…
The relationship between script memory for everyday events and schizotypy
Individuals with higher schizotypy seem to associate unrelated behaviors to an event, forming script memory with irrelevant information, maybe due to the schizotypy symptom of having peculiar thoughts. The newly created test must be validated using a clinical population to expand its potential to be used in clinical research
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health
Performing single leisure activity simultaneously requires mental, physical, and social effort. This research aimed to represent the extent of the three components using numerical scores and examined whether the scores are related to mental health. To determine the component scores, 1200 Japanese participants of varied ages chose activities they had ever experienced from 97 choices. They rated each of them regarding their mental, physical, and so…
The Cultural Difference In Nonverbal Expressivity Is Moderated By The Extent of Subjective Self-Construal
This research comprises two studies that examined cultural differences in nonverbal expressivity between Japan and Korea. While prior research has highlighted East–West contrasts, less attention has been given to distinctions within collectivistic cultures. Employing the psychological construct of self-construal (subjective, objective, and autonomous selves), which is thought to distinguish Japanese and Korean cultures, we investigated how these …
Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Collectivism (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)