Yasuhiro Kanakogi
Biographic Data
| ID | 346238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasuhiro Kanakogi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasuhiro |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanakogi |
| SIGNATURE | KANAKOGI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osaka University of Human Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0636-1619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Face‐Looking as a Real‐Time Process in Mind‐Mindedness
Maternal mind‐mindedness refers to a caregiver's tendency to respond to their infants as individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, desires, and beliefs. Although previous studies have focused on maternal speech in quantifying mind‐mindedness, maternal mind‐mindedness should manifest not only as mind‐related comments but also through non‐verbal behaviors during infant‐mother interactions. In this study, we investigated the relationship betwee…
Expectations about forgiven versus rejected transgressors among preschoolers
Forgiveness is indispensable for restoring damaged interpersonal relationships. Research suggests that young children develop an understanding of the emotional and behavioral effects of forgiveness on victims during their preschool years. However, it remains unclear how children expect forgiven versus rejected transgressors to feel and behave. This study evaluated preschoolers’ expectations about four aspects of forgiven and rejected transgressor…
Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third‐Party Punishment in 6‐Year‐Olds
Individuals across cultures believe repeat offenders deserve greater punishment than first‐time offenders, which is also widely accepted in today's judicial system. Although previous studies indicate that children consider the transgressor's past behaviors, the effect of repeated transgressions on costly third‐party punishment remains unknown. We aimed to investigate the effects of repeated transgressions on third‐party punishment in 6‐year‐olds.…
How are mental state references represented in English and Japanese picture books? An analysis of the frequency of emotional and cognitive words and their relation to the self or others
The text of picture books is a fertile source through which young children learn about mental states. By focusing on English and Japanese books ( N = 100; for children aged 3–5 years) as respective representatives of independent and interdependent cultures, the present study examined the cultural differences in the use of two types of mental state language: emotion and cognition. While our findings revealed no cultural differences in emotional wo…
People Copy Success More Than Failure in Social Learning
Social learning is a fundamental mechanism for efficiently transferring and coordinating norms, skills, and sophisticated cultural information to individuals. However, the psychological mechanisms underlying social learning remain unclear. To investigate this, we recruited adult participants ( N = 103), who observed a model's performance in a two-choice reward-searching task. Two cues were used to determine the reward, with both cues possessing a…
Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities
Throughout history, individuals believed to have extraordinary capabilities were generally highly ranked in their communities; this suggests a universal "extraordinary-dominant expectation" in human minds, which may play a key role in religious thought, even in modern societies. This study shows that 5-6-year-old children, who begin to understand real-world causalities regarding how the body and mind of human beings work, predict that individuals…
Third-party punishment by preverbal infants
Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal across cultures. However, its emergence in ontogeny remains unknown. We developed a participatory cognitive paradigm using gaze-contingency techniques, in which infants can use their gaze to affect agents displayed on a monitor. In this paradigm, fixation on an agent triggers the event of a stone crushing the agent. Throughout five experiments (total N = 120…
Social touch in mother–infant interaction affects infants’ subsequent social engagement and object exploration
Infants’ social touch with caregivers has been considered a means of regulating infant physiological and emotional state. In non-human mammals, such regulatory function also facilitates infant exploration and social behavior. However, the types of social touch in human mother–infant interaction that contribute to specific behavioral responses toward people and objects remain unclear. Using a pre- and post-task design, this study investigated the …
How do Children Evaluate the Gossiper of Negative Gossip
In this study, we investigated how children evaluate gossipers. There are two conflicting ways in which children evaluate the gossiper of negative gossip about another person. One is that they perceive the gossiper of negative gossip as bad because saying something negative about another person can be seen as indirect aggression. The other is that they perceive the gossiper of negative gossip as good because such gossip is beneficial to regulate …
Children manage their reputation by caring about gossip
Individuals engage in reputation management by adjusting their behaviour in front of others. As gossip plays an important role in human society, individuals need to concern themselves with not only a present observer's evaluations but also non‐present people's impressions. In this study, we investigated whether 4‐ and 8‐year‐old children ( N = 144) would adjust their sharing behaviours when presented with the possibility of an observer's gossipin…
Ostension affects infant learning more than attention
Preverbal infants affirm third-party interventions that protect victims from aggressors
The link between perception and action in early infancy
The ability to understand the actions of others is crucial for all social species. Recent electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies indicate that understanding the actions of others is mediated by the mirror neuron system (MNS), in which an observed action is mapped onto the observer's own motor representation of that action. Although there has been considerable progress in elucidating the mechanisms and functions of the direct‐matching proce…
Preverbal infants affirm third-party interventions that protect victims from aggressors
Third-party punishment by preverbal infants
Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal across cultures. However, its emergence in ontogeny remains unknown. We developed a participatory cognitive paradigm using gaze-contingency techniques, in which infants can use their gaze to affect agents displayed on a monitor. In this paradigm, fixation on an agent triggers the event of a stone crushing the agent. Throughout five experiments (total N = 120…
People Copy Success More Than Failure in Social Learning
Social learning is a fundamental mechanism for efficiently transferring and coordinating norms, skills, and sophisticated cultural information to individuals. However, the psychological mechanisms underlying social learning remain unclear. To investigate this, we recruited adult participants ( N = 103), who observed a model's performance in a two-choice reward-searching task. Two cues were used to determine the reward, with both cues possessing a…
The link between perception and action in early infancy
The ability to understand the actions of others is crucial for all social species. Recent electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies indicate that understanding the actions of others is mediated by the mirror neuron system (MNS), in which an observed action is mapped onto the observer's own motor representation of that action. Although there has been considerable progress in elucidating the mechanisms and functions of the direct‐matching proce…
Preverbal infants affirm third-party interventions that protect victims from aggressors
Ostension affects infant learning more than attention
Social touch in mother–infant interaction affects infants’ subsequent social engagement and object exploration
Infants’ social touch with caregivers has been considered a means of regulating infant physiological and emotional state. In non-human mammals, such regulatory function also facilitates infant exploration and social behavior. However, the types of social touch in human mother–infant interaction that contribute to specific behavioral responses toward people and objects remain unclear. Using a pre- and post-task design, this study investigated the …
How do Children Evaluate the Gossiper of Negative Gossip
In this study, we investigated how children evaluate gossipers. There are two conflicting ways in which children evaluate the gossiper of negative gossip about another person. One is that they perceive the gossiper of negative gossip as bad because saying something negative about another person can be seen as indirect aggression. The other is that they perceive the gossiper of negative gossip as good because such gossip is beneficial to regulate …
Children manage their reputation by caring about gossip
Individuals engage in reputation management by adjusting their behaviour in front of others. As gossip plays an important role in human society, individuals need to concern themselves with not only a present observer's evaluations but also non‐present people's impressions. In this study, we investigated whether 4‐ and 8‐year‐old children ( N = 144) would adjust their sharing behaviours when presented with the possibility of an observer's gossipin…
Third-party punishment by preverbal infants
Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal across cultures. However, its emergence in ontogeny remains unknown. We developed a participatory cognitive paradigm using gaze-contingency techniques, in which infants can use their gaze to affect agents displayed on a monitor. In this paradigm, fixation on an agent triggers the event of a stone crushing the agent. Throughout five experiments (total N = 120…
Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities
Throughout history, individuals believed to have extraordinary capabilities were generally highly ranked in their communities; this suggests a universal "extraordinary-dominant expectation" in human minds, which may play a key role in religious thought, even in modern societies. This study shows that 5-6-year-old children, who begin to understand real-world causalities regarding how the body and mind of human beings work, predict that individuals…
How are mental state references represented in English and Japanese picture books? An analysis of the frequency of emotional and cognitive words and their relation to the self or others
The text of picture books is a fertile source through which young children learn about mental states. By focusing on English and Japanese books ( N = 100; for children aged 3–5 years) as respective representatives of independent and interdependent cultures, the present study examined the cultural differences in the use of two types of mental state language: emotion and cognition. While our findings revealed no cultural differences in emotional wo…
People Copy Success More Than Failure in Social Learning
Social learning is a fundamental mechanism for efficiently transferring and coordinating norms, skills, and sophisticated cultural information to individuals. However, the psychological mechanisms underlying social learning remain unclear. To investigate this, we recruited adult participants ( N = 103), who observed a model's performance in a two-choice reward-searching task. Two cues were used to determine the reward, with both cues possessing a…
Face‐Looking as a Real‐Time Process in Mind‐Mindedness
Maternal mind‐mindedness refers to a caregiver's tendency to respond to their infants as individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, desires, and beliefs. Although previous studies have focused on maternal speech in quantifying mind‐mindedness, maternal mind‐mindedness should manifest not only as mind‐related comments but also through non‐verbal behaviors during infant‐mother interactions. In this study, we investigated the relationship betwee…
Expectations about forgiven versus rejected transgressors among preschoolers
Forgiveness is indispensable for restoring damaged interpersonal relationships. Research suggests that young children develop an understanding of the emotional and behavioral effects of forgiveness on victims during their preschool years. However, it remains unclear how children expect forgiven versus rejected transgressors to feel and behave. This study evaluated preschoolers’ expectations about four aspects of forgiven and rejected transgressor…
Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third‐Party Punishment in 6‐Year‐Olds
Individuals across cultures believe repeat offenders deserve greater punishment than first‐time offenders, which is also widely accepted in today's judicial system. Although previous studies indicate that children consider the transgressor's past behaviors, the effect of repeated transgressions on costly third‐party punishment remains unknown. We aimed to investigate the effects of repeated transgressions on third‐party punishment in 6‐year‐olds.…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works) · Cognition (2 works)