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Yukiko Uchida ｜ Associate Professor ｜ Cultural Psychology Social Psychology
My research has focused on cultural variations in emotion and social relationships. In the course of my research in cultural psychology, I have suggested that daily practices and meanings construct our psychological functions and self-systems. In particular, my research examines the meanings of happiness and unhappiness; people's experience of emotions and understanding of others'; and the roles of emotional support and social relationships. My cross-cultural studies examine how participation in meaningful cultural practices fosters these psychological processes.
Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, 2003
Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003-2005
Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, 2003-2004
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2004-2005
Assistant Professor, Koshien University, 2005-2008
Assistant Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, 2008-
Kyoto University Ph.D.（Social Psychology）
Selected publications:
Boiger, M., Mesquita,B., Uchida, Y., & Barrett, L. F. (2013). Condoned or condemned - the situational affordance of anger and shame in the US and Japan. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 540-553.
Uchida, Y. (2013). Happiness in Japan and a proposal for a sustainable society. Environmental Research Quarterly, 169, 44-52.
Uchida, Y., & Ogihara, Y. (2012). Personal or interpersonal construal of happiness: A cultural
psychological perspective. International Journal of Wellbeing, 2(4), 354-369. doi:10.5502/ijw.v2.i4.5
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Park, J., Haslam, N., Shimizu, H., Kashima, Y. & Uchida, Y. (2013). More Human Than Others, but Not Always Better: The Robustness of Self-Humanizing Across Cultures and Interpersonal Comparisons. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Oishi, S., Kesebir, S., Miao, F. F., Talhelm, T., Endo,Y., Uchida, Y., Shibanai, Y., & Norasakkunkit, V. (2013). Residential mobility increases motivation to expand social network:But why? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 217-223.
Uchida, Y., & Takemura, K. (2012). Working on social ties: Social psychological approach toward extension officers in agricultural communities. Tokyo: Soshinsha (in Japanese).
Uchida, Y., Endo, Y., & Shibanai, Y. (2012). Well-being and social relationship styles:
Effects of quantity and quality of social relationships.
Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 52, 63-75.
Uchida, Y., & Ogihara, Y. (2012). Cultural construal of happiness: Cultural psychological perspectives and future direction of happiness research. Japanese Psychological Review, 55, 26-42.
Norasakkunkit, V., Uchida, Y., & Toivonen, T. (2012). Caught between culture, society, and globalization: Youth marginalization in postindustrial Japan. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6/5, 361-378.
Norasakkunkit, V., & Uchida, Y., (2012). Marginalized Japanese youth in post-industrial Japan: Motivational patterns, self-perceptions, and the structural foundations of shifting values. In Trommsdorff, G., & Chen, X. (Eds). Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development. pp.211-234. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Uchida, Y. (2011). Happiness in Japanese culture: Psychological and social requirements for reconstruction in Japan. Planning Administration, 34, 21-26.
Uchida, Y., Endo, Y. & Shibanai, Y. (in press). Well-being and styles of social relationships: An analysis of the effects of the number and quality of social relationships. Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Norasakkunkit, V., & Uchida, Y., (2011). Psychological Consequences of
Post-Industrial Anomie on Self and Motivation Among Japanese Youth. Journal of
Social Issues, 67, 774-786.
Toivonen, T., Norasakkunkit, V., & Uchida, Y. (in press). Unable to Conform, Unwilling to Rebel? Youth, Culture and Motivation in Globalizing Japan. Frontiers in Cultural Psychology.
Bastian, B., Kuppens,P., Hornsey, M. J., Park, J., Koval, P., & Uchida, Y. (2012). Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood. Emotion, 12, 69-80.
Uchida, Y., Takemura, K., & Yoshikawa, S. (2011). The coordination roles of extension officers within Japanese agricultural communities. Sociotechnica, 8, 194-203.
Norasakkunkit, V., Kitayama, S., & Uchida Y. (in press). Social anxiety and holistic cognition: Self-focused social anxiety in the United States and Other-focused social anxiety in Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Wilken, B., Miyamoto, Y., & Uchida, Y. (in press). Cultural influences on preference consistency: Consistency at the individual and collective levels. Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Uchida, Y. (2011). “A holistic view of happiness: Belief in the negative side of happiness is more prevalent in Japan than in the United States.,” Psychologia, 53, 236-245.
Uchida, Y. (2011). Sympathy in Japanese cultural context: A cross-cultural perspective, Iwanami Science Journal “Kagaku” 81, No.1, pp 51-52.
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.
Uchida, Y. (2011). Extension Activities within Japanese Agricultural Communities: Perspectives from social psychology. Journal of Agriculture and Extension, 47, 48-51.
Uchida, Y., Townsend, S.S.M., Markus, H. R., & Bergsieker, H. B. (2009). Emotions as Within or Between People? Cultural Variation in Lay Theories of Emotion Expression and Inference. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 35, 1427-1439.
Uchida, Y., & Kitayama, S. (2009). Happiness and unhappiness in east and west: Themes and variations. Emotion, 9, 441-456.
Uchida, Y. (2009). Culture and mind. In Y. Endo (Ed.) Social Psychology, pp. 161-180. Minerva Publishing, CO. LTD. (Japanese)
Uchida, Y. (2008). Mutual constitution between culture and mind: Theory and methodology in cultural psychology. Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 9, 46-63 .
Uchida, Y. (2008). Contingencies of self-worth in Japanese culture: Validation of Japanese Contingencies of Self-Worth scale. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 79, 3, 250-256.
Uchida, Y., Kitayama, S., Mesquita, B., Reyes, J. A. S., & Morling, B (2008). Is Perceived emotional support beneficial? Well-being and health in independent and interdependent cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 741-754.
Uchida, Y. (2008). Culture and emotion: Cross-cultural analysis and implications for organizational theory. Organizational Science, 41, 48-55.
Tsai, J. L., Louie, J Y., Chen, E. E., & Uchida, Y. (2007). Learning what feelings to desire: Socialization of ideal affect through children's storybooks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 17-30.
Kitayama, S., Uchida, Y., & Niiya, Y. (2007). Culture and Emotion: Japanese current issues. In K. Fujita (Ed.). Emotional Science, pp173-210 Kyoto University Press. (Japanese)
Kitayama, S., Duffy, S., & Uchida, Y. (2007). Self as cultural mode of being. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology, pp 136-174. Guilford Press.
Markus, H. R., Uchida, Y., Omoregie, H., Townsend, S., & Kitayama, S. (2006). Going for the gold: Sociocultural models of agency in Japanese and American contexts. Psychological Science, 17, 103-112.
Mondillon, L., Niedenthal, P. M., Brauer, M., Rohman, A., Dalle, N., & Uchida, Y. (2005). ''Cultures'' of power and beliefs about power and emotional experience. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1112-1122.
Kitayama, S., & Uchida, Y. (2005). Interdependent Agency: An Alternative System for Action. In R. Sorrentino, D. Cohen, J.M. Olson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.)., Culture and social behavior: The Ontario Symposium, (Vol. 10), pp137-164. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum
Uchida, Y., Norasakkunkit, V., & Kitayama, S. (2004). Cultural constructions of happiness: Theory and empirical evidence. Journal of Happiness Studies, 5, 3, 223-239.
Kitayama, S., & Uchida, Y. (2003). When implicit and explicit self-evaluations fail to converge: evaluating self and friend in two cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 476-482.
Uchida, Y., & Kitayama, S. (2001). Development and validation of a sympathy scale. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 72, 4, 275-282.
