Yoshiaki Imai

Biographic Data

ID8818697
NAMEYoshiaki Imai
GIVEN NAMESYoshiaki
FAMILY NAMEImai
SIGNATUREIMAI Y
AFFILIATIONSRyutsu Keizai University
ORCID0000-0002-1738-398X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Effects of recalling episodes of influencing attempts on cognition in Japan

    Open AccessYoshiaki ImaiARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

    This study examined the power-cognition relationships in Japan, considering the differences related to interpersonal influence from Western cultures. Participants were instructed to recall episodes of influencing others (high-power condition) or being influenced by others (low-power condition), think about managing a group as a leader, or recall the summary of a drama or movie as a control condition. In Study 1, participants in the high-power con…

  • College students and religious groups in Japan

    Open AccessKiyoshi Ando, Shoji Tsuchida et al.ARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research1998

    Almost 9,000 Japanese college students completed a questionnaire designed to tap: how they were approached by religious groups and how they reacted to them; how they perceived “mind control” techniques which they believed were adopted by some religious groups; and how their psychological needs were related to their reactions to the attempt to influence them by religious groups. About 20% of respondents listed religion‐related requests as making t…

  • Effects of influence strategies, perceived social power and cost on compliance with requests

    Yoshiaki ImaiARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research1991

    The present study investigated the effects of influence strategies, social power of the influencing agent and cost to comply on compliance with requests. Undergraduate students were required to imagine that one of their friends and an upperclassman in their university's extra curricular activity club were influencing agents and that the agents had asked them to lend a notebook for a final exam and to lend some money. The experimental design was a…

  • The relationship between perceived social power and the perception of being influenced

    Yoshiaki ImaiARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research1989

    Social power is an important attribute of the influencing agent in an interpersonal influence situation. The present study investigated the structure of the influencing agent's social power as perceived by the influence target and the relationship between perceived social power and the perception of being influenced. The Perceived Social Power Scale (PSPS) was devised, and its reliability and validity were assessed to be moderately high. The soci…