Takemura, K., Fukushima, S., Uchida, Y., Asano, S., & Okuda, N. (2026). Residential mobility as a contextual factor undermining social norms for cooperation: Multilevel analyses of community data in Japan. Cities, 176, 107187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2026.107187 [Press release in Japanese]
Watanabe, Y., Nakayama, M., Takemura, K., & Uchida, Y. (2025). Enhancing work engagement through generative AI conversations: A controlled trial on the positive and negative feedback in high vs. Low relational mobility environments. Current Psychology, 44, 13692-13706. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08129-8
Huang, K.-J., Uchida, Y., Takemura, K., Fukushima, S., Aida, J., Hanazato, M., & Kanamori, M. (2025). Paradoxical effects of community social cohesion on mental health and help-seeking among older adults: The role of reputation concern and socioeconomic status. Social Science & Medicine, 380, 118234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118234
Ackerman, J. M., Samore, T., Fessler, D. M. T., Kupfer, T. R., Choi, S., Merrell, W. N., Aarøe, L., Aavik, T., Acabado, S., Akello, G., Alfian, I. N., Al-Shawaf, L., Alvarez, M. M., Ammann, J., Arikan, G., Asha, S. A., Astobiza, A. M., Baeza-Ugarte, C. G., Barclay, P., ... Takemura, K., ... & Žeželj, I. (2025). I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 128, 737-750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020
Ou, C., Lou, N. M., Maheshka, C., Shi, M., Takemura, K., Cheung, B., & Heine, S. J. (2025). Healthy sleep durations appear to vary across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, e2419269122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419269122
Watanabe, Y., Nakayama, M., Takemura, K., & Uchida, Y. (2025). AI feedback and workplace social support in enhancing occupational self-efficacy: A randomized controlled trial in Japan. Scientific Reports, 15, 11301. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94985-0
Koga, C., Takemura, K., Shin, Y., Fukushima, S., Uchida, Y., & Yoshimura, Y. (2024). Assessing the social atmosphere: A multilevel analysis of social connection and participation. Cities, 154, 105408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105408
Suzuki, S., Takemura, K., & Fujiwara, K. (2025). Satisfaction with cultural attractions: Interaction effect of tourists’ regulatory focus and cultural attractions’ interpretation tools. Tourism Recreation Research, 50, 1206-1220. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2024.2386870
Andersson, P. A., Vartanova, I., Vastfjall, D., Tinghog, G., ... Takemura, K., ... & Eriksson, K. (2024). Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies. Scientific Reports, 14, 5591. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55815-x
Domae, H., Nakayama, M., Takemura, K., Watanabe, Y., Gobel, M. S., & Uchida, Y. (2024). Antecedents and consequences of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic: A natural experiment in Japan. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 11, 314. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02770-7
Willis, G. B., Uchida, Y., García-Castro, J. D., & Takemura, K. (2024). High relational mobility is associated with perceiving more economic inequality in everyday life. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 27, 348-359. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12597
Uchida, Y., Kanamori, M., Fukushima, S., & Takemura, K. (2024). Interdependent culture and older adults' well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities. Current Opinion in Psychology, 55, 101729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101729
Kanamori, M., Stickley, A., Takemura, K., Kobayashi, Y., Oka, M., Ojima, T., Kondo, K., & Kondo, N. (2024). Community gender norms, mental health, and suicide ideation and attempts among older Japanese adults: A cross-sectional study. International Psychogeriatrics, 36, 385-395. https://doi.org/10.1017/S104161022300087X
Watanabe, Y., Takemura, K., Nakayama, M., Gobel, M. S., Domae, H., & Uchida, Y. (2023). Person-organization fit in Japan: A longitudinal study of the effects of clan culture and interdependence on employee well-being. Current Psychology, 43, 15445-15458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05389-0
Fujiwara, K., & Takemura, K. (2023). A socio-ecological context moderates the association between communication skills and friendship satisfaction: Possible role of relational mobility. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 27, 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12579
Chishima, Y., Minoura, Y., Uchida, Y., Fukushima, S., & Takemura, K. (2023). Who commits to the community? Person-community fit, place attachment, and participation in local Japanese communities. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 86, Article 101964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.101964
Uchida, A., Ise, T., Minoura, Y., Hitokoto, H., Takemura, K., & Uchida, Y. (2022). Correspondence between feelings towards neighbors and appearance of neighborhood: Analysis by combining a mail survey and Google Street View. Psychologia, 64, 112-135. https://doi.org/10.2117/psysoc.2021-B023
Takahashi, T., Asano, S., Uchida, Y., Takemura, K., Fukushima, S., Matsushita, K., & Okuda, N. (2022). Effects of forests and forest-related activities on the subjective well-being of residents in a Japanese watershed: An econometric analysis through the capability approach. Forest Policy and Economics, 139, 102723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102723
Komori, M., Takemura, K., Minoura, Y., Uchida, A., Iida, R., Seike, A., & Uchida, Y. (2022). Extracting multiple layers of social networks through a 7-month survey using a wearable device: A case study from a farming community in Japan. Journal of Computational Social Science, 5, 1069-1094. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-022-00162-y
Cheung, B. Y., Takemura, K., Ou, C., Gale, A., & Heine, S. J. (2021). Considering cross-cultural differences in sleep duration between Japanese and Canadian university students. PLoS ONE, 16, e0250671. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250671
Eriksson, K., Strimling, P., Gelfand, M., Wu, J., ...Takemura, K., ... & Van Lange, P. (2021). Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies. Nature Communications, 12, Article number 1481. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21602-9
Fukushima, S., Uchida, Y., & Takemura, K. (2021). Do you feel happy when other members look happy? Moderating effect of community-level social capital on interconnection of happiness. International Journal of Psychology, 56, 642-653. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12744
Uchida, Y., Takemura, K., & Fukushima, S. (2020). How do socio-ecological factors shape culture? Understanding the process of micro-macro interactions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 115-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.033
Suzuki, S., Hamamura, T., & Takemura, K. (2019). Emotional fortification: Indulgent consumption and emotion reappraisal and their implications for well-being. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 18, 25-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.1746
Uchida, Y., Takemura, K., Fukushima, S., Saizen, I., Kawamura, Y., Hitokoto, H., Koizumi, N., & Yoshikawa, S. (2019). Farming cultivates a community-level shared culture through collective activities: Examining contextual effects with multilevel analyses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 1-14. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pspa0000138
Fukushima, S., Takemura, K., Uchida, Y., Asano, S., & Okuda, N. (2018). Trust within a community is a double-edged sword: Trust has a positive individual-level effect and a negative contextual effect on subjective well-being. Psychologia, 61, 113-123. https://doi.org/10.2117/psysoc.2019-B011
Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Agey, E., Alami, S., An, X.-F., Ananyeva, K. I., Atkinson, Q. D., Broitman, B. R., Conte, T. J., Flores, C., Fukushima, S., Hitokoto, H., Kharitonov, A. N., Onyishi, C. N., Onyishi, I. E., Romero, P. P., Schrock, J. M., Snodgrass, J. J., Sugiyama, L. S., Takemura, K., Townsend, C., Zhuang, J.-Y., Aktipis, C. A., Cronk, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2018). Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, 9702-9707. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805016115
Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Alami, S., An, X.-F., Ananyeva, K. I., Fukushima, S., Hitokoto, H., Kharitonov, A. N., Koster, J. M., Onyishi, C. N., Onyishi, I. E., Romero, P. P., Takemura, K., Zhuang, J.-Y., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2018). Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, 8322-8327. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1808418115
Hamamura, T., & Takemura, K. (2018). Common view by whom? Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 21, 331-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12341
鈴木智子・竹村幸祐・浜村武 (2018). 結果またはプロセス重視のサービス・リカバリーに対する評価と行為同定の関係 流通研究, 21, 67-75. https://doi.org/10.5844/jsmd.21.1_67
Suzuki, S., Takemura, K., & Hamamura, T. (2018). Relationship between the evaluation of outcome- versus process-oriented service recovery and action identification. Journal of Marketing & Distribution, 21, 67-75 (in Japanese).
Norasakkunkit, V., Uchida, Y., & Takemura, K. (2017). Evaluating distal and proximal explanations for withdrawal: A rejoinder to Varnum and Kwon's "The ecology of withdrawal." Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 2085. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02085
竹村幸祐・内田由紀子・福島慎太郎 (2017). 生業グループの社会関係資本と普及指導員の活動: 農業者グループおよび漁業者グループのリーダー調査による検討 農業普及研究, 45, 79-92.
Takemura, K., Uchida, Y., & Fukushima, S. (2017). The social capital of farming and fishing groups and extension officers' activities: Analysis of data from a survey of group leaders. Journal of Agricultural Extension Research, 45, 79-92 (in Japanese with an English abstract).
笹川果央理・中山真孝・内田由紀子・竹村幸祐 (2017). メンタルヘルス不調による休職者の自己価値の随伴性 心理学研究, 88, 431-441. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.88.15066
Sasagawa, K., Nakayama, M., Uchida, Y., & Takemura, K. (2017). Contingencies of self-worth in employees on medical leave due to mental health disorders. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 88, 431-441 (in Japanese with an English abstract). https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.88.15066
Lu, M., Hamamura, T., Doosje, B., Suzuki, S., & Takemura, K. (2017). Culture and group-based emotions: Could group-based emotions be dialectical? Cognition and Emotion, 31, 937-949.
Takemura, K., & Suzuki, S. (2017). Self-expression and relationship formation in high relational mobility environments: A study of dual users of American and Japanese social networking sites. International Journal of Psychology, 52, 251–255. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.88.15066
Takemura, K., Hamamura, T., Guan, Y., & Suzuki, S. (2016). Contextual effect of wealth on independence: An examination through regional differences in China. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00384
Fujiwara, K., Takemura, K., & Suzuki, S. (2016). When a smile does no good: Creativity reduction among avoidance- vs. approach-oriented individuals in dyadic interactions. International Journal of Innovation Management, 20, 1640007.
笹川果央理・竹村幸祐・内田由紀子 (2015). 自己価値の随伴性と従業員の心理的健康 ストレス科学研究, 30, 131-137. https://doi.org/10.5058/stresskagakukenkyu.30.131
Sasagawa, K., Takemura, K., & Uchida, Y. (2015). The relationship between contingencies of self-worth and workers’ mental health. Stress Science Research, 30, 131-137 (in Japanese with an English abstract). https://doi.org/10.5058/stresskagakukenkyu.30.131
Falk, C. F., Heine, S. J., Takemura, K., Zhang, C. X. J., & Hsu, C.-W. (2015). Are implicit self-esteem measures valid for assessing individual and cultural differences? Journal of Personality, 83, 56-68.
Ida, T., Takemura, K., & Sato, M. (2015). Inner conflict between nuclear power generation and electricity rates: A Japanese case study. Energy Economics, 48, 61-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2014.11.019
Takemura, K., Uchida, Y., & Fujino, M. (2014). Extension officers as social coordinators: Comparisons between agricultural and fishing communities in Japan. Psychologia, 57, 245-258. https://doi.org/10.2117/psysoc.2014.245
Takemura, K. (2014). Being different leads to being connected: On the adaptive function of uniqueness in "open" societies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45, 1579-1593. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022114548684 | Full text (post-print)
Takemura, K., Uchida, Y., & Yoshikawa, S. (2014). Roles of extension officers to promote social capital in Japanese agricultural communities. PLoS ONE, 9, e91975. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091975
鈴木智子・竹村幸祐 (2014). サービス業のグローバル・ブランディングに関する再考: ユニバーサル・スタジオの事例から マーケティングジャーナル, 33, 108-126.
Suzuki, S., & Takemura, K. (2014). Global branding in the service industry revisited: The case of Universal Studio Japan. Japan Marketing Journal, 33, 108-126 (in Japanese).
Falk, C. F., Heine, S. J., & Takemura, K. (2014). Cultural variation in the minimal group effect. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45, 265-281.
竹村幸祐・浜村武・鈴木智子 (2013). 社会心理学・文化心理学的視座からの日中関係の検討: 好意的申し出への反応における内集団バイアス 組織科学, 46, 45-55. https://doi.org/10.11207/soshikikagaku.46.4_45
Takemura, K., Hamamura, T., & Suzuki, S. (2013). Examination of Japan-China relations from social and cultural psychological perspective: In-group bias and a refusal of small gift acceptance. Organizational Science, 46, 45-55 (in Japanese with an English abstract). https://doi.org/10.11207/soshikikagaku.46.4_45
Yuki, M., Sato, K., Takemura, K., & Oishi, S. (2013). Social ecology moderates the association between self-esteem and happiness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 741-746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.02.006
Sznycer, D., Takemura, K., Delton, A. W., Sato, K., Robertson, T., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2012). Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: An adaptationist and ecological approach. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 352-370. https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000213
[The first three authors contributed equally to this article.]
竹村幸祐・佐藤剛介 (2012). 幸福感に対する社会生態学的アプローチ 心理学評論, 55, 47-63. https://doi.org/10.24602/sjpr.55.1_47
Takemura, K., & Sato, K. (2012). Socio-ecological approach to happiness. Japanese Psychological Review, 55, 47-63 (in Japanese with an English abstract).
佐藤剛介・結城雅樹・竹村幸祐 (2011). 幸福感の規定因に対する社会生態学的環境の干渉効果: 社会状況間比較による検討 北海道心理学研究, 34, 21-33.
Sato, K., Yuki, M., & Takemura, K. (2011). The moderating effect of socio-ecology on the determinants of happiness: A cross-situational comparison. The Annals of the Hokkaido Psychological Society, 34, 21-33 (in Japanese).
内田由紀子・竹村幸祐・吉川左紀子 (2011). 農村社会における普及指導員のコーディネート機能 社会技術研究論文集, 8, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.3392/sociotechnica.8.194
Uchida, Y., Takemura, K., & Yoshikawa, S. (2011). The coordination roles of extension officers within Japanese agricultural communities. Sociotechnica, 8, 194-203 (in Japanese with an English abstract).
Takemura, K., Yuki, M., & Ohtsubo, Y. (2010). Attending inside or outside: A Japanese-US comparison of spontaneous memory of group information. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13, 303-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01327.x
Falk, C.F., Heine, S.J., Yuki, M., & Takemura, K. (2009). Why do Westerners self-enhance more than East Asians? European Journal of Personality, 23, 183-203.
Schug, J., Yuki, M., Horikawa, H., & Takemura, K. (2009). Similarity attraction and actually selecting similar others: How cross-societal differences in relational mobility affect interpersonal similarity in Japan and the United States. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 95-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2009.01277.x
竹村幸祐・有本裕美 (2008). 「北の大地」における相互独立的自己: 北海道での認知的不協和実験 実験社会心理学研究, 48, 40-49. https://doi.org/10.2130/jjesp.48.40
Takemura, K., & Arimoto, H. (2008). Independent self in Japan's "Northern frontier": An experiment of cognitive dissonance in Hokkaido. Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 40-49 (in Japanese with an English abstract).
Takemura, K., & Yuki, M. (2007). Are Japanese groups more competitive than Japanese individuals? A cross-cultural validation of the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect. International Journal of Psychology, 42, 27-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207590500411534
Kitayama, S., Ishii, K., Imada, T., Takemura, K., & Ramaswamy, J. (2006). Voluntary settlement and the spirit of independence: Evidence from Japan's "Northern frontier". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 369-384. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.369
Yuki, M., Maddux, W. W., Brewer, M. B., & Takemura, K. (2005). Cross-cultural differences in relationship- and group-based trust. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 48-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167204271305
内田由紀子・竹村幸祐 (2012). 農をつなぐ仕事: 普及指導員とコミュニティへの社会心理学的アプローチ 創森社 Amazon
Uchida, Y., & Takemura, K. (2012). Working on social ties: Social psychological approach toward extension officers in agricultural communities. Tokyo: Soshinsha (in Japanese).
Takahashi, T., Asano, S., Uchida, Y., Takemura, K., Fukushima, S., Matsushita, K., & Okuda, N. (in press). Nature and happiness levels: New SWB domains for rivers, a lake, and forests. In J. Mullings, T. J. Paul, L. Dunn, S. Arbor, & J. Meeks-Gardener (Eds). Well-being across the globe - new perspectives - concepts, correlates and geography [Working Title]. IntechOpen.
[peer-reviewed book chapter]
竹村幸祐 (2018). 文化 松田幸弘（編著） 経営・ビジネス心理学 ナカニシヤ出版 pp. 195-208.
竹村幸祐・横田晋大 (2016). 集団間関係 北村英哉・内田由紀子（編著） 社会心理学概論 ナカニシヤ出版 pp. 183-206.
竹村幸祐・結城雅樹 (2014). 文化への社会生態学的アプローチ 山岸俊男（編著）文化を実験する: 社会行動の文化・制度的基盤 勁草書房 pp. 91-140.
竹村幸祐・鈴木智子・藤原健 (2014). サービスの実証的合理性理解: 定量心理学調査 小林潔司・原良憲・山内裕（編著）日本型クリエイティブ・サービスの時代: 「おもてなし」への科学的接近 日本評論社 pp. 97-113.
鈴木智子・竹村幸祐 (2014). 日本型クリエイティブ・サービスのグローバル展開事例 小林潔司・原良憲・山内裕（編著）日本型クリエイティブ・サービスの時代: 「おもてなし」への科学的接近 日本評論社 pp. 153-171.
Yuki, M., & Takemura, K. (2013). Intergroup comparison and intragroup relationships: Group processes in the cultures of individualism and collectivism. In M. Yuki & M. B. Brewer (Eds.), Frontiers of culture and psychology: Culture and group processes (pp. 38-65). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Suzuki, S., & Takemura, K. (2013). Culture and social media: Exploration of differences between the U.S. and Japan. In T. Bondarouk & M. R. Olivas-Lujan (Eds.), Social media in strategic management (pp. 245-258). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
[peer-reviewed book chapter]
竹村幸祐 (2012). 関係流動性と独自性欲求 鈴木公啓（編著） パーソナリティ心理学概論: 性格理解への扉 ナカニシヤ出版 pp.164-165.
Takemura, K. (2012). Relational mobility and need for uniqueness. In T. Suzuki (Ed.), Introduction to personality psychology (pp. 164-165). Kyoto, Japan: Nakanishiya Shuppan (in Japanese).
竹村幸祐 (2008). 自己概念と文化: 認知的不協和現象の国間比較および国内地域間比較による検討 下斗米淳（編） 自己心理学6: 社会心理学へのアプローチ 金子書房 pp. 85-86.
Takemura, K. (2008). Self-concept and culture: An investigation into national and regional differences in cognitive dissonance. In A. Shimotomai (Ed.), Self psychology 6: An approach to social psychology (pp. 85-86). Tokyo: Kaneko shobo (in Japanese).
Takemura, K., Yuki, M., Kashima, E. S., & Halloran, M. (2007). A cross-cultural comparison of behaviors and independent/interdependent self-views. In A.B.I. Bernardo, M.C. Gastardo-Conaco, & M.E.C.D. Liwag (Eds.), The self, relationships, and subjective well-being in Asia: Psychological, social, and cultural perspectives (pp. 105-121). Seoul, Korea: Kyoyook-Kwahak-Sa. Abstract | Full text (post-print)
[peer-reviewed book chapter]
竹村幸祐 (2007). 日本人の集団主義を支える制度と心: 心理学実験による検討 煎本孝・高橋伸幸・山岸俊男（編著） 集団生活の論理と実践: 互恵性を巡る心理学および人類学的検討 北海道大学出版会 pp. 156-170.
Takemura, K. (2007). Institutions and psychological mechanisms behind Japanese collectivism. In T. Irimoto, N. Takahashi, & T. Yamagishi (Eds.), Logics and practices of social groups: Psychological and anthropological approach to reciprocity (pp. 156-170). Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press (in Japanese).
Kadushin, C. (2011). Understanding social networks: Theories, concepts, and findings. New York: Oxford University Press.
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