Sakiko Yoshikawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sakiko Yoshikawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sakiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoshikawa |
| SIGNATURE | YOSHIKAWA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0122-2006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Facial expression adaptation impairs perceived social signal across expressions
Facial expressions provide crucial cues for assessing others’ internal states, leading to appropriate responses to maintain social harmony. This study investigated how social signals evoked by facial expressions are perceived, focusing on their automatic triggering and relationship to the representations of the expressions by using adaptation aftereffect paradigm. Participants evaluated their perceived need for help and their motivation to provid…
Baccarat gamblers follow trends rather than adhere to the gambler's fallacy
This study investigated the cognitive biases underlying baccarat gambling behaviors through an analysis of 17,970,830 games played by 6625 customers in a casino. Baccarat, a popular high-stakes game in East Asia, involves predicting the outcome of two hands, where the results are inherently unpredictable, similar to the structure of games such as roulette. In contrast to existing theories predicting the emergence of the gambler's fallacy-or negat…
Altered emotional mind–body coherence in older adults
Coherence between subjective experience and bodily responses in emotion is assumed to have a positive influence on well-being, which might be particularly valuable in late adulthood. Previous studies of young adults' continuous subjective, behavioral, and physiological responses to emotional films reported emotional mind-body coherence. In contrast, research regarding emotional coherence in older adults has been scarce. In this study, we examined…
Rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value
Swift detection of faces with emotional meaning underlies fruitful social relationships. Although previous studies using a visual search paradigm have demonstrated rapid detection of emotional facial expressions, whether it is attributable to emotional/motivational significance remains to be clarified. We examined this issue by excluding the influence of visual factors on the rapid detection of faces with emotional meaning. First, participants we…
Rapid Detection of Neutral Faces Associated With Emotional Value Among Older Adults
The results suggest that acquired emotional value promotes the detection of value-associated neutral faces among older adults who succeed at learning. It is therefore possible that the ability to detect faces that evoke emotions is preserved in older adults
A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces
Previous long-term memory (LTM) research found that angry faces were more poorly recognised when encoded with averted vs. direct gaze, while memory for happy faces was unaffected by gaze. Contrastingly, working memory (WM) accuracy for angry faces was unaffected by gaze, but WM was enhanced for happy faces with averted vs. direct gaze. Because the LTM study was conducted in an Eastern culture (Japan) with Japanese faces, while the WM study was co…
Farming cultivates a community-level shared culture through collective activities
It has been suggested that the well-known cultural differences in interdependence across cultures are linked to economic activities, such as farming. However, the underlying processes of how such psychological tendencies are shared among people in a society has not been sufficiently investigated. This article addresses the multilevel processes of how psychological characteristics are shared among people. We focus on collective activities that go …
Beyond personality traits
The ability to perceive a person's dominance plays an important role in survival and pro-social behavior. Perceived dominance has been investigated via assessments of facial expressions in 1-on-1 interaction situations, with expressions of anger and disgust judged to be more dominant. Given that human social interactions are complex, and multiple individuals interact at the same time, we investigated perceptions of trait dominance (an individual'…
Recognition Memory for Faces and Scenes
Previous studies have suggested that face memory is unique; however, evidence is inconclusive. To further explore this issue, we investigated recognition memory for unfamiliar faces and scenes. Participants (n = 123) intentionally memorized the stimuli and then engaged in recognition tests. Recognition was measured following short (20 minutes) and long (3 weeks) retention intervals. Encoding strategies and intelligence were also measured. Recogni…
Polling the face
Previous work has shown that individuals agree across cultures on the traits that they infer from faces. Previous work has also shown that inferences from faces can be predictive of important outcomes within cultures. The current research merges these two lines of work. In a series of cross-cultural studies, the authors asked American and Japanese participants to provide naïve inferences of traits from the faces of U.S. political candidates (Stud…
Anti-expressions
The perceptual/cognitive processing for emotional facial expressions is effective compared to that for neutral facial expressions. To investigate whether this effectiveness can be attributed to the expression of emotion or to the visual properties of the facial expressions, we used computer morphing to develop a form of control stimuli. These "anti-expressions" changed the features in emotional facial expressions in the opposite direction from ne…
Emotion Elicitation Effect of Films in a Japanese Sample
Films are effective stimuli to elicit emotions. A set of films to elicit specific emotions was developed in a previous study (Gross & Levenson, 1995), and emotional reactions to them were investigated in Western participants. In this study, we investigated whether these films have a similar capacity to elicit emotions in a Japanese sample. Thirty-one Japanese participants viewed 8 films selected to elicit specific emotions (amusement, anger, cont…
Enhanced perceptual, emotional, and motor processing in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion 1
Dynamic facial expressions of emotion constitute natural and powerful media compared with static ones. However, little is known about the processing of dynamic facial expressions of emotion. In this paper, we describe the results of our recent neuroimaging and psychological studies on this issue. A neuroimaging study was conducted to investigate brain activity while viewing dynamic facial expressions. The results revealed that the broad region of…
Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness
Polling the face
Previous work has shown that individuals agree across cultures on the traits that they infer from faces. Previous work has also shown that inferences from faces can be predictive of important outcomes within cultures. The current research merges these two lines of work. In a series of cross-cultural studies, the authors asked American and Japanese participants to provide naïve inferences of traits from the faces of U.S. political candidates (Stud…
Farming cultivates a community-level shared culture through collective activities
It has been suggested that the well-known cultural differences in interdependence across cultures are linked to economic activities, such as farming. However, the underlying processes of how such psychological tendencies are shared among people in a society has not been sufficiently investigated. This article addresses the multilevel processes of how psychological characteristics are shared among people. We focus on collective activities that go …
Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness
Enhanced perceptual, emotional, and motor processing in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion 1
Dynamic facial expressions of emotion constitute natural and powerful media compared with static ones. However, little is known about the processing of dynamic facial expressions of emotion. In this paper, we describe the results of our recent neuroimaging and psychological studies on this issue. A neuroimaging study was conducted to investigate brain activity while viewing dynamic facial expressions. The results revealed that the broad region of…
Emotion Elicitation Effect of Films in a Japanese Sample
Films are effective stimuli to elicit emotions. A set of films to elicit specific emotions was developed in a previous study (Gross & Levenson, 1995), and emotional reactions to them were investigated in Western participants. In this study, we investigated whether these films have a similar capacity to elicit emotions in a Japanese sample. Thirty-one Japanese participants viewed 8 films selected to elicit specific emotions (amusement, anger, cont…
Anti-expressions
The perceptual/cognitive processing for emotional facial expressions is effective compared to that for neutral facial expressions. To investigate whether this effectiveness can be attributed to the expression of emotion or to the visual properties of the facial expressions, we used computer morphing to develop a form of control stimuli. These "anti-expressions" changed the features in emotional facial expressions in the opposite direction from ne…
Polling the face
Previous work has shown that individuals agree across cultures on the traits that they infer from faces. Previous work has also shown that inferences from faces can be predictive of important outcomes within cultures. The current research merges these two lines of work. In a series of cross-cultural studies, the authors asked American and Japanese participants to provide naïve inferences of traits from the faces of U.S. political candidates (Stud…
Recognition Memory for Faces and Scenes
Previous studies have suggested that face memory is unique; however, evidence is inconclusive. To further explore this issue, we investigated recognition memory for unfamiliar faces and scenes. Participants (n = 123) intentionally memorized the stimuli and then engaged in recognition tests. Recognition was measured following short (20 minutes) and long (3 weeks) retention intervals. Encoding strategies and intelligence were also measured. Recogni…
Beyond personality traits
The ability to perceive a person's dominance plays an important role in survival and pro-social behavior. Perceived dominance has been investigated via assessments of facial expressions in 1-on-1 interaction situations, with expressions of anger and disgust judged to be more dominant. Given that human social interactions are complex, and multiple individuals interact at the same time, we investigated perceptions of trait dominance (an individual'…
Farming cultivates a community-level shared culture through collective activities
It has been suggested that the well-known cultural differences in interdependence across cultures are linked to economic activities, such as farming. However, the underlying processes of how such psychological tendencies are shared among people in a society has not been sufficiently investigated. This article addresses the multilevel processes of how psychological characteristics are shared among people. We focus on collective activities that go …
A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces
Previous long-term memory (LTM) research found that angry faces were more poorly recognised when encoded with averted vs. direct gaze, while memory for happy faces was unaffected by gaze. Contrastingly, working memory (WM) accuracy for angry faces was unaffected by gaze, but WM was enhanced for happy faces with averted vs. direct gaze. Because the LTM study was conducted in an Eastern culture (Japan) with Japanese faces, while the WM study was co…
Rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value
Swift detection of faces with emotional meaning underlies fruitful social relationships. Although previous studies using a visual search paradigm have demonstrated rapid detection of emotional facial expressions, whether it is attributable to emotional/motivational significance remains to be clarified. We examined this issue by excluding the influence of visual factors on the rapid detection of faces with emotional meaning. First, participants we…
Rapid Detection of Neutral Faces Associated With Emotional Value Among Older Adults
The results suggest that acquired emotional value promotes the detection of value-associated neutral faces among older adults who succeed at learning. It is therefore possible that the ability to detect faces that evoke emotions is preserved in older adults
Altered emotional mind–body coherence in older adults
Coherence between subjective experience and bodily responses in emotion is assumed to have a positive influence on well-being, which might be particularly valuable in late adulthood. Previous studies of young adults' continuous subjective, behavioral, and physiological responses to emotional films reported emotional mind-body coherence. In contrast, research regarding emotional coherence in older adults has been scarce. In this study, we examined…
Facial expression adaptation impairs perceived social signal across expressions
Facial expressions provide crucial cues for assessing others’ internal states, leading to appropriate responses to maintain social harmony. This study investigated how social signals evoked by facial expressions are perceived, focusing on their automatic triggering and relationship to the representations of the expressions by using adaptation aftereffect paradigm. Participants evaluated their perceived need for help and their motivation to provid…
Baccarat gamblers follow trends rather than adhere to the gambler's fallacy
This study investigated the cognitive biases underlying baccarat gambling behaviors through an analysis of 17,970,830 games played by 6625 customers in a casino. Baccarat, a popular high-stakes game in East Asia, involves predicting the outcome of two hands, where the results are inherently unpredictable, similar to the structure of games such as roulette. In contrast to existing theories predicting the emergence of the gambler's fallacy-or negat…
Psychology (14 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Communication (6 works) · Facial expression (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Anger (4 works)