Daiki Hiraoka's Research Information
Last modified at Jan 5, 2024
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Research
Research
My main research focus is on the mechanisms and factors of emotions and stress that arise during pregnancy and parenting. In particular, I have taken an interdisciplinary approach to the response to infant crying, including neuroimaging, neuroendocrinology, experimental psychological methods, and longitudinal data modeling. While responding to crying is essential for survival, it sometimes causes stress and abusive behavior in caregivers. I have focused in particular on the fact that the same individual may feel differently about crying depending on circumstances and experiences, and have found that empathy and physiological responses to crying can be altered in the same individual depending on the availability of cognitive resources. These results indicate that cognitive functions play an essential roles in parenting, especially in dealing with distress emotions in infants, and at the same time suggest that the response to crying is by no means automatic.
At least in my country, there is a pervasive social illusion that parents, especially mothers, can love their children and engage perfectlly parenting behavior from the outset simply by being mothers. In reality, however, this is not always the case, and there are individual differences and changes within individuals over short and long time windows.
Through the elucidation of such flexible caregiver psychology and brain changes, we will provide assistance to parents who are struggling with child-rearing and practice parenting full of wellbeing.
News
News
Our research about the within-individual relationship between mother-to-infant bonding and postpartum depressive symptoms was published by Psychological Medicne (Janurary, 2024).
Our research about the longitudinal changes of attntional bias toward infant crying was published by Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience (September, 2023).
Our research about the effects of cannabis use during pregnancy on children's cognitive development was published by Developmental Cognitive Neurosicence (April, 2023).
A Statement Regarding the Retraction of My Paper
A Statement Regarding the Retraction of My Paper
I am writing to address the recent retraction of a paper where I served as the first author due to misconduct in the peer review process. I am committed to the principles of integrity, transparency, and accountability in my research work, and I believe it's crucial to clarify my position on this matter.
The issues that led to the retraction were the result of actions taken independently by three co-authors in the peer review process, without my involvement. Despite my position as the first author, I was not involved of these actions and had no part in them.
I deeply regret the impact this incident may have had on the scientific community.
Thank you for your understanding as I work to move forward from this unfortunate incident.
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Plans
Affiliation:
University of Denver, Department of Psychology
University of Fukui Faculty of Advanced Researches Research Center for Child Mental Development
Research Keywords: Crying, Parenting, Child maltreatment
Skills: R, Longitudnal analysis, Posture, ELISA, Genotyping, DNA methylation analysis, HRV...
E-mail: hiraoka.daiki.54r[at]gmail.com
daiki.hiraoka[at]du.edu
Work/Research Experience
Work/Research Experience
2023. 4 - present Visiting researcher, University of Denver
2022. 7 - present Assistant professor, University of Fukui
2020. 4 - 2022. 6 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences
2018. 4 - 2020. 3 Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences
2017. 4 - 2019. 3 Research Assistant, Kyoto University Design School
2015. 4 - 2018. 3 Teaching Assistant, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
2015. 4 - 2020. 3, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
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