Gen Nakao & Fumio Watanabe (Eds.) (2023). The study of intercultural competence: Case studies of different cultural systems. Shinyosha. (In Japanese: 中尾元（編著）・渡辺文夫（監修） (2023). 『異文化間能力研究： 異なる文化システムとの事例分析』新曜社。ISBN: 978-4-7885-1802-5) [Link]
Gen Nakao (2022). A Study of Intercultural Competence Through the Life Story Research Method: A Dialogue with a Manager of a Long-Standing Company in Japan. Otemon Gakuin University Press/Maruzen. (In Japanese: 中尾元（2022).『異文化間能力のライフストーリー的研究―日本の長寿企業経営者との対話』 追手門学院大学出版会/丸善出版（発売所）。) [Link]
Personality and cognitive traits of intercultural competence
(A thesis written in Japanese: パーソナリティと認知的特性からみた異文化間能力)
Committee: Prof. Yukiko Uchida (advisor), Prof. Jun Saiki, Prof. Yasuko Funabiki
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Abstract & Committee's comment in Japanese
Fabian Schunk, Gisela Trommsdorff, Natalie Wong, and Gen Nakao (2022). Different functions of emotion regulation in linking harmony seeking and rejection avoidance to life satisfaction and social support in Germany, Hong Kong, and Japan. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. [Referred article: Link]
Nakao, G. (2022). Navigating the self, life, and career: Revisiting the theories of multicultural career competences. Otemon Business Management Review, 28 (2), 49-55. [Link]
Nakao, G. (2022). A Preliminary Brief Report on the Therapeutic Orientation Questionnaire (TOQ): What Does a Discrepancy Between a Student’s Preferences for Theoretical Orientation Mean?. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 9(10), 1–3. [Referred article: Link]
Murata, Aiko; Watanabe, Junji; Nakao, Gen; Deguchi, Yasuo (2022). Measuring individual differences of Self-as-We: Reliability and validity of revised version of the Self-as-We scale. Prospectus, 21, 17-29. [Link]
Nakao, G. (2022). The elephant in the room: Revisiting Joiner's theoretical perspective on suicide. Otemon Business Management Review, 28 (1), 1-7. [Link]
Nakao, G. (2022). Struggles and strategies of foreign-born counselors: A qualitative inquiry into Japanese counselors. In MUKAI, Y.; PINHEIRO, K. U.; LIRA, K. T.; Lira, M. T.; TAKANO, Y. (Eds.). Múltiplas faces de pesquisa japonesa internacional: integralização e Convergência [Multiple faces of international Japanese research: integration and convergence] (pp. 516-533). 1st ed., Campinas: Pontes Editores. [Referred article] (PDF: Publisher website)
Schunk, F., Trommsdorff, G., Wong, N. and Nakao, G. (2021). Associations Between Emotion Regulation and Life Satisfaction Among University Students From Germany, Hong Kong, and Japan: The Mediating Role of Social Support. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 745888. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745888 [Referred article: Link]
De Almeida, I., Nakao, G. (2021). Amae: An emotion to understand the Japanese psyche. Otemon Business Management Review, 27 (1), 143-152. [Link]
Nakao, G. (2021). Cultivating the Sense-of-the-Other/Sense of Community: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Psychotherapy with High-Risk, Urban Adolescents. Current Urban Studies, 9, 196-205. doi: 10.4236/cus.2021.92012. [Referred article: Link]
Nakao, G. (2021). The life story method: Epistemological and disciplinary intersections of humanities and social science. Humanities × Society, Vol. 1, 125-137. (In Japanese: 「ライフストーリー研究の方法論――認識論（epistemology）としての人文 × 社会科学の交差点」『人文×社会』Vol. 1, 125-137.) [Link]
Nakao, G. (2021). The sense of reality, human behaviors, and acculturation in the era of real-virtual fusion: Do you feel nausea in front of computer? Consultant, vol. 290, The Japan Civil engineering Consultants Association. (In Japanese: 「リアル・バーチャル融合時代の現実感覚・行動・文化変容：あなたはパソコンの前で『嘔吐』するか？」『Consultant (一般社団法人 建設コンサルタンツ協会 協会誌)』2021年1月 290号) [Invited article: Link]
De Almeida, I., Nakao, G. (2020). AMAE: UMA EMOÇÃO PARA COMPREENDER A PSIQUE JAPONESA [AMAE: AN EMOTION TO UNDERSTAND THE JAPANESE PSYCHE]. Estudos Japoneses, 44, 39-50. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo. [Refereed article: Link]
Nakao, G. (2021). The relationship between mood disorders and creativity: Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and people in creative job fields. Otemon Business Management Review, 26 (2), 1-9. [Link]
Tsai, Yu-Ting, & Nakao, G. (2020). Experiential family therapy and its application: A case study of Ordinary People. Otemon Business Management Review, 26 (1), 79-88. [Link]
Baena Lupiáñez, M. D. C., & Nakao, G. (2020). Music of the Openings’ Japanese Animes as a Tool for People with Reduced Visibility: The Case of Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). Otemon Business Management Review, 25 (2), 31-44. [Link]
Nakao, G. (2020). A multi-pathway perspective on depression: The psychopathology of George in “A Single Man.” Otemon Business Management Review, 25 (2), 45-50. [Link]
Nakao, G. (2019). The premises, classification, and future tasks of intercultural competence: Conceptual frameworks and perspectives. Intercultural Education, 50, 111-123. (In Japanese: 「異文化間能力の前提、資質の類型と実証的課題：これまでの枠組みと今後の展望について」『異文化間教育』50, 111-123.) [Refereed article: Abstract]
Nakao, G. (2019). Examining culture shock from anthropological, psychoanalytic, behavioristic, and
cognitivistic frameworks. Otemon Business Management Review, 25 (1), 97-103. [Link]
Nakao, G. (2015, Spring). The “audience effect” of poster presentations: Interactions that can improve researchers’ understandings of their own empirical studies. Newsletter of SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research) Japan. [Invited article: Link]
Ponterotto, J. G., Fietzer, A. W., Fingerhut, E. C., Woerner, S., Stack, L., Magaldi-Dopman, D., Rust, J., Nakao, G., Tsai, Y-T., Black, N., Alba, R., Desai, M., Frazier, C., LaRue, A., & Liao, P-W. (2014). Development and initial validation of the multicultural personality inventory (MPI). Journal of Personality Assessment, 96, 544-558. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2013.843181 [Refereed article: Link]
Nakao, G. (2013, Spring). Becoming cross-culturally competent in globalizing societies: Insights from the international entrepreneur for mental health providers. International Psychology Bulletin, 17(2), 29-30. [Invited article by Division 52 of American Psychological Association: Link]
Nakao, G. (2011). Theory and case analysis paper: Person-centered and Gestalt therapy for Jaylin. A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MSEd, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University.
Nakao, G. & Uchida, Y. (under review). Cultural similarities and differences in intercultural competence: theory and empirical findings from Japan and the US.
Nakao, G. (in press). Cultural self-costrual. In Encyclopedia of Group Dynamics. [Invited dictionary item] (In Japanese: 中尾元 (印刷中) 「文化的自己観」『グループ・ダイナミックス事典』丸善出版。[被招待事典項目]）
Nakao, G., & Uchida, Y. (2023). Culture and communication. In S. Okamoto (Ed.), Social psychology from the perspective of communication studies. Nakanishiya Press. (In Japanese: 中尾元・内田由紀子 (2023). 「文化とコミュニケーション」岡本真一郎（編）『コミュニケーションの社会心理学―伝える，関わる，動かす』pp. 173-189, ナカニシヤ出版。）
Fabian Schunk, Gisela Trommsdorff, Natalie Wong, and Gen Nakao (2024). Cyber- and Traditional Bullying as Global Challenges? Findings from Germany, Hong Kong, and Japan. In Carola Hommerich & Masato Kimura (Eds.)., Sustainable Societies. Sophia University Press. [Link]
Nakao, G. (in press). Utilizing interpersonal psychotherapy with high-risk, urban adolescents: An autoethnographic case study of the sense-of-the-other/sense of community. In W. Jean-Charles (Ed.), Trauma, meaning, self-care and gratitude. Pompano Beach, FL: Educa Vision Inc.
Nakao, G. (2022). Intercultural competence, intercultural tolerance, and agency in Encyclopedia of Intercultural Education. [Invited dictionary items] (In Japanese: 中尾（2022）「異文化間能力（大項目）」「異文化間トレランス」「エージェンシー」『異文化間教育学事典』異文化間教育学会 [被招待事典項目])
Nakao, G. (in prep). Book chapters of Survey, Müller-Lyer experiment, Questionnaire method, and Simulated Society Game.
Uchida, Y., Hitokoto, H., & Nakao, G. (2016). Health and culture. In K. Otake (Ed.), Psychology of Wellness and health: Actualizing positive health (pp. 193-212). Nakanishiya Press. (In Japanese: 内田由紀子・一言英文・ 中尾元「第13章 健康と文化」大竹恵子(編著)『保健と健康の心理学：ポジティブ・ヘルスの実現』ナカニシヤ出版).
Suchday, S., Ramanayake, N. P., Benkhoukha, A., Santoro, A. F., Marquez, C., & Nakao, G. (2014). Ayurveda: An alternative health perspective in the United States. In R. A. R. Gurung (Ed.), Multicultural approaches to health and wellness in America, Volume 1: Key issues and medical systems (pp.151-170). Westport, CT: Praeger.