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Shuhei Iimura, Ph.D.
Shuhei Iimura received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Chuo University, Japan, in 2019. He is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and the Director of the Developmental Psychology Lab at Soka University, Tokyo, Japan. He has conducted a series of studies on how people with different levels of environmental sensitivity or plasticity change in response to their environment. He has published several peer-reviewed articles and books. He serves as a editorial board member of Humanities & Social Science Communications (2024-present).
Recent Publications
Iimura, S., & Yano, K. (2024). The general factor of environmental sensitivity: Relationships with the general factor of personality. Evolutionary Psychology, 22(2), 1-10. doi: 10.1177/14747049241254727 [Link]
Iimura, S.*, Takasugi, S.*, Yasuda, M., Saito, Y., & Morifuji, M. (2023). Interactions between environmental sensitivity and gut microbiota are associated with biomarkers of stress-related psychiatric symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders, 339, 136-144. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.016 *equal contribution [Link]
Deno, M., Iimura, S., Endo, T. (2023). Reliability and validity of the Emotion as a Child Scale in Japanese children and adolescents: Focusing on children’s anger. Current Psychology, 42, 8112-8124. doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02136-1 [Link]
Iimura, S.*, Yano, K.*, & Ishii, Y. (2023). Environmental sensitivity in adults: Psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale 10-Item Version. Journal of Personality Assessment, 105(1), 87-99. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2022.2047988 *equal contribution [Link]
Iimura, S., & Takasugi, S. (2022). Sensory processing sensitivity and gastrointestinal symptoms in Japanese adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), 9893. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19169893 [Link]
Iimura, S., Deno, M., Kibe, C., & Endo, T. (2022). Beyond the diathesis-stress paradigm: Effect of the environmental sensitivity x pubertal tempo interaction on depressive symptoms. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022(185-186), 123-143. doi: 10.1002/cad.20456 [Link]
Iimura, S. (2022). Sensory-processing sensitivity and COVID-19 stress in young population: The mediating role of resilience. Personality and Individual Differences, 184, 111183. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111183 [Link]
Iimura, S. (2021). Highly sensitive adolescents: The relationship between weekly life events and weekly socioemotional well-being. British Journal of Psychology, 112(4),1103-1129. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12505 [Link]
Iimura, S. & Kibe, C. (2020). Highly sensitive adolescent benefits in positive school transitions: Evidence for vantage sensitivity in Japanese high-schoolers. Developmental Psychology, 56(8), 1565-1581. doi: 10.1037/dev0000991 [Link]
Iimura, S. (2020). Developmental trajectories of event centrality and socio-emotional well-being after transition to high school. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38(4), 497-511. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12333 [Link]