Yuko Okumura

Biographic Data

ID5137524
NAMEYuko Okumura
GIVEN NAMESYuko
FAMILY NAMEOkumura
SIGNATUREOKUMURA Y
AFFILIATIONSNTT (Japan)
ORCID0000-0002-2389-5818
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • 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

    Open AccessYuko Okumura, Shunya Taguchi et al.ARTICLESocial Development2024References: 8

    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…

  • Comprehension of Null and Pronominal Object Sentences in Japanese-speaking Children

    Yuko Okumura, Yuriko Oshima-Takane et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2023

    In successful communication, it is critical to have the ability to identify what a speaker is referring to from previously mentioned information. This ability requires the identification of the topic initially introduced by lexical forms and its continuity in discourse expressed by anaphora such as null and pronominal forms in the subsequent sentences. While Japanese-speaking children are frequently provided with pronominal and null forms, especi…

  • A robot is watching me

    Open AccessYuko Okumura, Takashi Hattori et al.ARTICLEChild Development2023Cited by: 2References: 10

    Since robots are becoming involved in children's lives, it is urgent to determine how children perceive robots. The present study assessed whether Japanese 5-year-olds care about their reputation when interacting with a social robot. Children were given stickers and asked to divide them between themselves and an absent recipient. Results revealed that children (N = 112, 55 boys, 57 girls) strategically shared more stickers when being watched by a…

  • How do Children Evaluate the Gossiper of Negative Gossip

    Open AccessAsami Shinohara, Yasuhiro Kanakogi et al.ARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research2021

    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

    Open AccessAsami Shinohara, Yasuhiro Kanakogi et al.ARTICLESocial Development2021References: 6

    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

    Open AccessYuko Okumura, Yasuhiro Kanakogi et al.ARTICLECognition2020