Kodai Kusano Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi (kodai.kusano@nyu.edu)
I am a sociological social psychologist. I study intersections between individual factors (emotion, value, health) and structural (cultural, political, ecological, economic) factors. I am primarily working with Prof. Jaime Napier at NYUAD at the moment.
Education
PhD Social Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno
MA Psychology, San Francisco State University
BS Psychology / Physical Education, Southern Utah University
Research Interest
cross-cultural research, culture, emotion, cooperation, inequality
Profile
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Under Review
Kusano, K., Napier, J. L., & Jost, J. (under review). The mismeasure of culture: When measurement invariance requirements hinder cross-cultural research in psychology. [Preprint]
Giuntoli, L., Kusano, K., & Maass, A. (under review). Power distance moderates the relation between income inequality and life satisfaction: A cross-country longitudinal analysis. [Preprint]
Giuntoli, L., Kusano, K., & Maass, A. (under review). Does income inequality make us unhappy? The moderating role of power distance.
Kusano, K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (under review). Responder’s expression of prestige, not dominance, promotes proposer’s coordination in ultimatum bargaining. [Preprint] [OSF]
Kusano, K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (under review). Pride as a self-enhancing emotion: An alternative view to challenge the two-facet view. [OSF]
2023
Kusano, K., Uskul, A. K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2023). Suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic: Uncovering demographic and regional variation in the United States and associations with unemployment and depression. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666622723000576 [OSF]
2022
Kusano, K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2022). The quest for (eliciting) hubristic pride: Nomological shockwaves/networks, attributions, and social desirability across different experimental manipulations. Collabra: Psychology, 8(1), 38634. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.38634 [OSF]
Kusano, K., & Jami, W. A. (2022). Selected anomalies or overlooked variability? Modernization is associated with secularization in countries with high historical wealth but is associated with increasing religiosity in post-communist countries. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3, 100036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100036 Part of this work is accepted as an Early Career Data Blitz presentation at the SPSP Annual Convention, February 16-19, 2022 (Acceptance rate: 1.5%) with Travel Award.
2021
Kusano, K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2021). Cultural change through niche construction: A multilevel approach to investigate the interplay between cultural change and infectious disease. American Psychologist, 76(6), 962–982. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000860
2020
Kusano, K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2020). Multilevel modeling of time-series cross-sectional data reveals the dynamic interaction between ecological threats and democratic development. Royal Society Open Science, 7: 191804. This work is featured in NEVADA Today
2018
Kusano, K., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2018). Ecology of freedom: Competitive tests of the role of pathogens, climate, and natural disasters in the development of socio-political freedom. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 954. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00954
< 2017
Kusano, K., Frederiksen, S., Jones, L., Kobayashi, M., Mukoyama, Y., Yamagishi, T., Sadaki, K., & Ishizuka, H. (2013). The effects of ICT environment on teachers’ attitudes and technology integration in Japan and U.S. Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 12, 29-43.
Kusano, K., Frederiksen, S., Jones, L., Mukoyama, Y., Yamagishi, T., Sadaki, K., Ishizuka, H., & Kobayashi, M. (2012). Factors That Affect Teachers'Attitudes Toward Using Technology Through a Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Practices. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2012--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 1, 1833-1839.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Feitosa, J., Kusano, K., Schnabel, E., & Hartnell, C. (in press). Cultural change: Ecological origins, trajectories, and management. In J. Keyton (Ed.), Culture 2.0: An interdisciplinary investigation of national and organizational culture. Peter Lang.
Wildman, J. L., Kusano, K., Schnabel, E., & Stetyick, A. (in press). Looking forward to culture 2.1 and beyond. In J. Keyton (Ed.), Culture 2.0: An interdisciplinary investigation of national and organizational culture. Peter Lang.
Kemmelmeier, M., & Kusano, K. (2018). Intercultural competence: Teaching it is worthwhile. In C. L. Frisby & W. T. O’Donohue (Eds.), Cultural competence in applied psychology: Theory, science, practice, and evaluation (pp. 621-649). City: Publisher. (available upon request)
Master's Thesis
Kusano, K. (2016). Culture and cooperation: Examination of US-Japan differences in the framework of uncertainty avoidance (Unpublished master’s thesis). San Francisco State University, San Francisco. (pdf)