Miki Toyama
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miki Toyama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miki |
| FAMILY NAME | Toyama |
| SIGNATURE | TOYAMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tsukuba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5883-0002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Predictive Relationship Between Dispositional Nostalgia and Identity Formation Among Emerging Adults
Nostalgia, a complex emotion rooted in the past, has been associated with positive psychological functions, including greater self-understanding and motivation. This study examined how dispositional nostalgia relates to identity formation in emerging adulthood, using the dual-cycle model that distinguishes subdimensions of exploration and commitment. Specifically, we conducted a short-term longitudinal study over a three-month period with 309 Jap…
Can persistence improve creativity? The effects of implicit beliefs about creativity on creative performance
Prior research suggests that people have implicit beliefs about creativity that are often incomplete and may not be consistent with current empirical evidence. We conducted four studies to examine whether recognizing the importance of persistence in creativity leads to better creative performance. First, in a pilot study, a questionnaire survey of 199 people showed that people value flexible but not persistent thinking in creativity. In Studies 1…
Mental Contrasting Strategies Promote the Pursuit of Difficult Goals
We examined whether mental contrasting inhibits the pursuit of difficult goals in an Eastern culture—Japan—rooted in self-improvement. Our pilot study found that, compared with American participants, Japanese participants did not perceive a difficult situation as a cue to abandon their goal and pursue alternative objectives. Studies 1a–1c found that mental contrasting encouraged Japanese participants to pursue difficult goals. When Japanese parti…
Development of Past Self-Continuity Scale from Narrative and Essentialist Perspectives
It is essential to understand the perception of self-continuity across time to understand the nature of personal identity and its development. To fill a gap in existing psychological research, this study introduces a novel scale designed to measure past self-continuity from narrative and essentialist perspectives. We developed and validated the Past Self-Continuity Scale through four studies involving Japanese university students, adults, and hig…
Two Aspects of Past Self-Continuity from Narrative and Essentialist Perspectives
Self-continuity, the sense of connection between one's past and present self, is at the core of identity. However, differences between two perspectives on self-continuity, the narrative perspective and the essentialist perspective, remain unexplored. This study investigates whether these two perspectives represent distinct facets of past self-continuity. We examined the relationship between self-continuity and factors such as acceptance of the pa…
The mediating effect of beliefs about difficulties in the relation between grit and persistence
The Effect of Episodic Future Thinking on Learning Intention
We examined the effects of episodic future thinking related to achieving important learning goals on university students' learning intentions. Japanese university students ( N = 70) participated in this experiment. Participants in the episodic future thinking condition were asked to imagine and describe events they would experience if they achieved their goals. In the semantic future thinking condition, we asked participants to describe their fut…
Episodic Future Thinking Reduces Delay Discounting of Gains and Losses
We examined the moderating effect of regulatory foci on the efficacy of episodic future thinking in reducing delay discounting. We hypothesized that the impact of imagining positive future events (vs. recent positive events) on delay discounting of gains would be stronger for individuals with a high promotion focus than for those with a high prevention focus (Hypothesis 1). Conversely, the effects of imagining adverse future events (vs. recent ne…
Beyond the here and now
Beyond our own experience in the “here and now,” humans are capable of imagining temporally and spatially distant situations, incorporating the perspectives of others, and considering hypothetical situations rather than real ones. This process of self-projection into temporal, spatial, social, or hypothetical reality is called mental simulation (MS). Because of the limitations of human imagination, the more distant a situation becomes in time, pl…
Can Regulatory Fit Improve Elementary School Students’ Performance? Effects of Different Types of Regulatory Fit
Previous studies have demonstrated the effect of regulatory fit on Japanese elementary school students (aged 9-12 years). The hypotheses were that promotion focused students tend to show good performance related to speed when they use an eager manner; on the other hand, prevention focused students tend to show good performance related to accuracy when they use a vigilant manner. In Study 1, the class teacher assessed their student's regulatory fo…
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Can Regulatory Fit Improve Elementary School Students’ Performance? Effects of Different Types of Regulatory Fit
Previous studies have demonstrated the effect of regulatory fit on Japanese elementary school students (aged 9-12 years). The hypotheses were that promotion focused students tend to show good performance related to speed when they use an eager manner; on the other hand, prevention focused students tend to show good performance related to accuracy when they use a vigilant manner. In Study 1, the class teacher assessed their student's regulatory fo…
The mediating effect of beliefs about difficulties in the relation between grit and persistence
The Effect of Episodic Future Thinking on Learning Intention
We examined the effects of episodic future thinking related to achieving important learning goals on university students' learning intentions. Japanese university students ( N = 70) participated in this experiment. Participants in the episodic future thinking condition were asked to imagine and describe events they would experience if they achieved their goals. In the semantic future thinking condition, we asked participants to describe their fut…
Episodic Future Thinking Reduces Delay Discounting of Gains and Losses
We examined the moderating effect of regulatory foci on the efficacy of episodic future thinking in reducing delay discounting. We hypothesized that the impact of imagining positive future events (vs. recent positive events) on delay discounting of gains would be stronger for individuals with a high promotion focus than for those with a high prevention focus (Hypothesis 1). Conversely, the effects of imagining adverse future events (vs. recent ne…
Beyond the here and now
Beyond our own experience in the “here and now,” humans are capable of imagining temporally and spatially distant situations, incorporating the perspectives of others, and considering hypothetical situations rather than real ones. This process of self-projection into temporal, spatial, social, or hypothetical reality is called mental simulation (MS). Because of the limitations of human imagination, the more distant a situation becomes in time, pl…
Can persistence improve creativity? The effects of implicit beliefs about creativity on creative performance
Prior research suggests that people have implicit beliefs about creativity that are often incomplete and may not be consistent with current empirical evidence. We conducted four studies to examine whether recognizing the importance of persistence in creativity leads to better creative performance. First, in a pilot study, a questionnaire survey of 199 people showed that people value flexible but not persistent thinking in creativity. In Studies 1…
Mental Contrasting Strategies Promote the Pursuit of Difficult Goals
We examined whether mental contrasting inhibits the pursuit of difficult goals in an Eastern culture—Japan—rooted in self-improvement. Our pilot study found that, compared with American participants, Japanese participants did not perceive a difficult situation as a cue to abandon their goal and pursue alternative objectives. Studies 1a–1c found that mental contrasting encouraged Japanese participants to pursue difficult goals. When Japanese parti…
Development of Past Self-Continuity Scale from Narrative and Essentialist Perspectives
It is essential to understand the perception of self-continuity across time to understand the nature of personal identity and its development. To fill a gap in existing psychological research, this study introduces a novel scale designed to measure past self-continuity from narrative and essentialist perspectives. We developed and validated the Past Self-Continuity Scale through four studies involving Japanese university students, adults, and hig…
Two Aspects of Past Self-Continuity from Narrative and Essentialist Perspectives
Self-continuity, the sense of connection between one's past and present self, is at the core of identity. However, differences between two perspectives on self-continuity, the narrative perspective and the essentialist perspective, remain unexplored. This study investigates whether these two perspectives represent distinct facets of past self-continuity. We examined the relationship between self-continuity and factors such as acceptance of the pa…
Predictive Relationship Between Dispositional Nostalgia and Identity Formation Among Emerging Adults
Nostalgia, a complex emotion rooted in the past, has been associated with positive psychological functions, including greater self-understanding and motivation. This study examined how dispositional nostalgia relates to identity formation in emerging adulthood, using the dual-cycle model that distinguishes subdimensions of exploration and commitment. Specifically, we conducted a short-term longitudinal study over a three-month period with 309 Jap…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research (3 works) · Creativity (2 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Essentialism (2 works)