Publications

Gobel, M. S., & Miyamoto, Y. (in press). Self- and other-orientation in high rank: A cultural psychological approach to social hierarchy. Personality and Social Psychology Review. (link)

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Park, J., Kitayama, S., & Miyamoto, Y. (in press). When high subjective social status becomes a burden: A Japan–US comparison of biological health markers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (link)

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Choi, J. H., O'Donnell, C. D., Phan, V. N., Coe, C. L., & Miyamoto, Y. (accepted). Role of the valuation of nervousness in cortisol responses to psychosocial stress task and task performance in European American and East Asian Students. Biological Psychology. (pdf)

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Maeng, A., Lee, H. S., & Miyamoto, Y. (in press). Culture and trait inferences from facial cues. Culture and Brain. (pdf)

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Choi, J. H., & Miyamoto, Y. (in press). Cultural differences in rumination and psychological correlates: The role of attribution. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (link)

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Yoo, J., Martin, J., Niedenthal, P., & Miyamoto, Y. (2022). Valuation of emotion underlies cultural variations in cardiovascular stress responses. Emotion, 22, 1801–1814. (link)

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Choi, J. H., & Miyamoto, Y. (2022). Cultural differences in self-rated health: The role of influence and adjustment. Japanese Psychological Research, 64, 156-169. (pdf)

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Ryff, C. D. (2022). Culture and health: Recent developments and future directions. Japanese Psychological Research, 64, 90-108. (pdf)

 

Yoo, J., & Miyamoto, Y., Lee, J., & Evers, U., & Wong, N. (2021). Does materialism hinder relational well-being? The role of culture and social motives. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 241-261.

 

Choi, J. H., Miyamoto, Y., & Ryff, C. (2020). A cultural perspective on functional limitations and well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 1378-1391.

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Coe, C. L., Miyamoto, Y., Love, G. D., Karasawa, M., Kawakami, N., Kitayama, S., & Ryff, C. D. (2020). Cultural and life style practices associated with low inflammatory physiology in Japanese adults. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 90, 385-392.

 

Wilken, B., & Miyamoto, Y. (2020). Protestant and Buddhist differences in noninfluence strategies of emotion regulation and their links to depressive symptoms. Emotion, 20, 804-817.

 

Park, J., Kitayama, S., Miyamoto, Y., & Coe, C. L. (2020). Feeling bad is not always unhealthy: Culture moderates the link between negative affect and diurnal cortisol profiles. Emotion, 20, 721-733.

 

Clobert, M., Sims, T. L., Yoo, J., Miyamoto, Y., Markus, H. R., Karasawa, M., & Levine, C. (2020). Feeling excited or taking a bath: Do distinct pathways underlie the positive affect-health link in the US and Japan? Emotion, 20, 164-178.

 

Komiya, A., Ozono, H., Watabe, M., Miyamoto, Y., Ohtsubo, Y., & Oishi, S. (2020). Socio-ecological hypothesis of reconciliatory tactics: Cultural, individual, and situational variations in willingness to accept apology or compensation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1761.

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Kitayama, S. (2018). Cultural differences in correspondence bias are systematic and multifaceted. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 497-498.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Yoo, J., Levine, C. S., Park, J., Boylan, J. M., Sims, T., Markus, H. R., Kitayama, S., Kawakami, N., Karasawa, M., Coe, C. L., Love, G. D., & Ryff, C. D. (2018). Culture and social hierarchy: Self- and other-oriented correlates of socioeconomic status across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 427-445.

 

Kitayama, S., Park, J., Miyamoto, Y., Date, H., Boylan, J. M., Markus, H. R., Karasawa, M., Kawakami, N., Coe, C. L., Love, G. D., & Ryff, C. D. (2018). Behavioral adjustment moderates the link between neuroticism and biological health risk: A US–Japan comparison study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 809-822.

 

Yoo, J., & Miyamoto, Y. (2018). Cultural fit of emotions and health implications: A psychosocial resources model. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12, e12372. 

 

Ma, X., Tamir, M., & Miyamoto, Y. (2018). Socio-cultural instrumental approach to emotion regulation: Culture and the regulation of positive emotions. Emotion, 18, 138-152.

 

Yoo, J., Miyamoto, Y., Rigotti, A., & Ryff, C. D. (2017). Linking positive affect to blood lipids: A cultural perspective. Psychological Science, 28, 1468-1477.

 

Miyamoto, Y. (2017). Culture and social class. Current Opinion in Psychology, 18, 67-72.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Ma, X., & Wilken, B. (2017). Cultural variation in pro-positive versus balanced systems of emotions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 15, 27-32.

 

Boylan, J. M., Tsenkova, V. K., Miyamoto, Y., & Ryff, C. D. (2017). Psychological resources and glucoregulation in Japanese adults: Findings from MIDJA. Health Psychology, 36, 449-457.

 

Tominaga, H., Uchida, Y., Miyamoto, Y., & Yamasaki, T. (2017). Negative affect during a collective (but not an individual) task is associated with holistic attention in East Asian cultural context. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1283.

 

Yoo, J., Miyamoto, Y., & Ryff, C. D. (2016). Positive affect, social connectedness, and healthy biomarkers in Japan and the U.S. Emotion, 16, 1137-1146.  

 

Levine, C. S., Miyamoto, Y., Markus, H. R., Park, J., Kitayama, S., Kawakami, N., Karasawa, M., Boylan, J. M., Coe, C. L., Love, G. D., & Ryff, C. D. (2016). Culture and healthy eating: The role of independence and interdependence in the United States and Japan. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1335-1348.

 

Eisen, C., Ishii, K., Miyamoto, Y., Ma, X., & Hitokoto, H. (2016). To accept one’s fate or be its master: Culture, control, and workplace choice. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 936.

 

Rychlowska, M., Miyamoto, Y., Matsumoto, D., Hess, U., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Kamble, S., Muluk, H., Masuda, T., & Niedenthal, P. (2015). Heterogeneity of long-history migration explains cultural differences in reports of emotional expressivity and the functions of smiles. Proceeding of National Academy of Science, 112, E2429-E2436.

 

Ryff, C. D., Miyamoto, Y., Boylan, J. M., Coe, C. L., Karasawa, M., Kawakami, N., Kan, C., Love, G. D., Levine, C. S., Markus, H. R., Park, J., & Kitayama, S. (2015). Culture, inequality, and health: Evidence from the MIDUS and MIDJA comparison. Culture and Brain, 3, 1-20.

 

Kitayama, S., Park, J., Boylan, J. M., Miyamoto, Y., Levine, C. S., Markus, H. R., Karasawa, M., Coe, C. L., Kawakami, N., Love, G. D., & Ryff, C. (2015). Anger expression and ill-health in two cultures: An examination of inflammation and cardiovascular risk. Psychological Science, 26, 211-220.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Ma, X., & Petermann, A. G. (2014). Cultural differences in hedonic emotion regulation after a negative event. Emotion, 14, 804-815.

 

Curhan, K. B., Sims, T., Markus, H.R., Kitayama, S., Karasawa, M., Kawakami, N., Love, G., Coe, C. L., Miyamoto, Y., & Ryff, C.D. (2014). Just how bad negative affect is for your health depends on culture. Psychological Science, 25, 2277-2280.

 

Ishii, K., Miyamoto, Y., Rule, N. O., & Toriyama, R. (2014). Physical objects as a vehicle of cultural transmission: Maintaining harmony and uniqueness through colored geometric patterns. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 175-188.

 

Curhan, K. B., Levine, C. S., Markus, H. R., Kitayama, S., Park, J., Karasawa, M., Kawakami, N., Love, G. D., Coe, C. L., Miyamoto, Y., & Ryff, C. D. (2014). Subjective and objective hierarchies and their relations to psychological well-being: A US/Japan comparison. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 855-864.

 

Kan, C., Kawakami, N., Karasawa, M., Love, G. D., Coe, C. L., Miyamoto, Y., Ryff, C. D., Kitayama, S., Curhan, K. B., & Markus, H. R. (2014). Psychological resources as mediators of the association between social class and health: Comparative findings from Japan and the U.S. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21, 53-65.

 

Uchida, Y., Ueno, T., & Miyamoto, Y. (2014). You were always on my mind: The importance of “significant others” in the attenuation of retrieval‐induced forgetting in Japan. Japanese Psychological Research, 56, 263-274.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Boylan, J. M., Coe, C. L., Curhan, K., Levine, C. S., Markus, H. R., Park, J., Kitayama, S., Kawakami, N., Karasawa, M., Love, G. D., & Ryff, C. (2013). Negative emotions predict elevated interleukin-6 in the United States but not in Japan. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 34, 79-85.

 

Park, J., Kitayama, S., Markus, H. R., Coe, C. L., Miyamoto, Y., Karasawa, M., Curhan, K., Love, G. D., Kawakami, N., Boylan, J. M., & Ryff, C. D. (2013). Social status and anger expression: The cultural moderation hypothesis. Emotion, 13, 1122-1131.

 

Komiya, A., Watabe, M., Miyamoto, Y., & Kusumi, T. (2013). Cultural differences in the action effect. Social Cognition, 31, 562-577.

 

Park, J., Kitayama, S., Curhan, K., Markus, H. R., Kawakami, N., Miyamoto, Y., Love, G. D., Coe, C. L., & Ryff, C. (2013). Clarifying the links between social support and health: Culture, stress, and neuroticism matter. Journal of Health Psychology, 18, 226-235.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Knoepfler, C., Ishii, K., & Ji, L. J. (2013). Cultural variation in the focus on goals versus processes of actions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 707-719.

 

Miyamoto, Y. (2013). Culture and analytic versus holistic cognition: Toward multilevel analyses of cultural influences. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 131-188.

 

Ryff, C. D., Friedman, E., Fuller-Rowell, T., Love, G., Miyamoto, Y., Morozink, J., Radler, B., Tsenkova, V. (2012). Varieties of resilience in MIDUS. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 792-806.

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Ma, X. (2011). Dampening or savoring positive emotions: A dialectical cultural script guides emotion regulation. Emotion, 11, 1346-1357.

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Ji, L. J. (2011). Power fosters context-independent, analytic cognition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1449-1458.

 

Ishii, K., Miyamoto, Y., Niedenthal, P. M., & Mayama, K. (2011). When your smile fades away: Cultural differences in sensitivity to the disappearance of smiles. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 516-522.

 

Komiya, A., Miyamoto, Y., Watabe, M., & Kusumi, T. (2011). Cultural grounding of regret: Regret in self and interpersonal contexts. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1121-1130.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Yoshikawa, S., & Kitayama, S. (2011). Feature and configuration in face processing: Japanese are more configural than Americans. Cognitive Science, 35, 563-574.

 

Shechter, O., Durik, A. M., Miyamoto, Y., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2011). The role of utility value in achievement behavior: The importance of culture. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 303-317.

 

Wilken, B., Miyamoto, Y., & Uchida, Y. (2011). Cultural differences in the preference consistency at both individual and collective levels. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21, 346-353.

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Ryff, C. D. (2011). Cultural differences in the dialectical and non-dialectical emotional styles and their implications for health. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 22-30.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Uchida, Y., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2010). Culture and mixed emotions: Co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions in Japan and the U.S. Emotion, 10, 404-415.

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Wilken, B. (2010). Culturally contingent situated cognition: Influencing others fosters analytic perception in the U.S. but not in Japan. Psychological Science, 21, 1616-1622.

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Schwarz, N. (2006). When conveying a message may hurt the relationship: Cultural differences in the difficulty of using an answering machine. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 540-547.

 

Miyamoto, Y., Nisbett, R. E., & Masuda, T. (2006). Culture and the physical environment: Holistic versus analytic perceptual affordances. Psychological Science, 17, 113-119.

 

Nisbett, R. E., & Miyamoto, Y. (2005). The influence of culture: Holistic versus analytic perception. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 467-473.

 

Morling, B., Kitayama, S., & Miyamoto, Y. (2003). American and Japanese women use different coping strategies during normal pregnancy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1533-1546.

 

Miyamoto, Y., & Kitayama, S. (2002). Cultural variation in correspondence bias: The critical role of attitude diagnosticity of socially constrained behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1239-1248.

 

Morling, B., Kitayama, S., & Miyamoto, Y. (2002). Cultural practices emphasize influence in the U.S. and adjustment in Japan. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 311-323.

 

Kitayama, S., & Miyamoto, Y. (2000). Cultural psychology and macroscopic comparison between East and West: Significance and empirical findings. Japanese Psychological Review, 43, 57-81. (in Japanese).