Publications

Kusakabe, H., & Yuki, M. (preprint). Relational mobility and the sharing of positive and negative reputation across societies. In PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sykjn_v1

Li, W. Q., Suzuki, S., Ishiyama, A., Kavanagh, C., & Yuki, M. (2026). Social ecology of concealing prosocial behaviours: The role of relational mobility. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 29(2).  https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70087

Li, W.-Q., Ishiyama, A., & Yuki, M. (2025). Do negative attitudes toward deviance predict direct and indirect social control? The moderating role of culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 00220221251393620. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221251393620

Easterbrook, M. J., Grigoryan, L., Smith, P. B., Koc, Y., Lun, V. M. C., Papastylianou, D., Torres, C., Efremova, M., Hassan, B., Abbas, A., al-Selim, H., Anderson, J., Cross, S. E., Delfino, G. I., Gamsakhurdia, V., Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc, D., Gul, P., Gunsoy, C., … Chobthamkit, P. (2025). The social cure properties of groups across cultures: Groups provide more support but have stronger norms and are less curative in relationally immobile societies. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(7), 780–791. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241230847

Zhou, X., English, A. S., Wei, L., Yudiarso, A., Dash, A., Tipandjan, A., Biddle, A., Nam, B. H., Boonroungrut, C., Chettiar, C., Daniele, P., Dubrov, D., Grigoryev, D., Šakan, D., Oliver, E., Medosevic - Korjenic, E., Fabricio Licoa Campos, A., Novaes, F., Maricchiolo, F., … Zhang, X. (2025). Understanding perceived COVID-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion: A cross-cultural study in 32 countries. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 107(102198), 102198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102198

Kusakabe, H., Maeda, Y., & Yuki, M. (2024). Where does the cultural difference in rejection avoidance come from? The role of relational mobility and reputational expectation. Japanese Journal of Social Psychology, 40(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.14966/jssp.2023-025

Ito, A., Maeda, Y., Gobel, M., Uchida, Y., & Yuki, M. (preprint). Prestige leadership is more likely to emerge in high job mobility environments. In PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5axnt_v1

Irving, B., Kavanagh, C., Fischer, R., & Yuki, M. (2024). Dance for the dead: The role of top-down beliefs for social cohesion and anxiety management in naturally occurring collective rituals. PloS One, 19(3), e0291655. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291655

Zhou, X., English, A. S., Kulich, S. J., Zheng, L., Alves, T., Aquino, S. D., Batić Očovaj, S., Belen, H., Biddle, A., Boonroungrut, C., Campos, A. F. L., Castro, R., Chettiar, C., Chobthamkit, P., Cowden, R. G., Dubrov, D., F. Falavarjani, M., Farid, T., Geeraert, N., … Zhang, X. (2024). COVID‐19 cases correlate with greater acceptance coping in flexible cultures: A cross‐cultural study in 26 countries. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12919

Maeda, Y., & Yuki, M. (2023). Mediating effects of relational mobility on cultural differences in pride and embarrassment in success. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 94(5), 402–412. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.94.22032

Lun, V. M.-C., Smith, P. B., Grigoryan, L., Torres, C., Papastylianou, A., Lopukhova, O. G., Sunar, D., Easterbrook, M. J., Koc, Y., Selim, H. A., Chobthamkit, P., Chaleeraktrakoon, T., Gul, P., Perez Floriano, L., Diaz-Loving, R., Kwantes, C. T., Yuki, M., Ogusu, N., van Osch, Y., … Hakobjanyan, A. (2023). Need for approval from others and face concerns as predictors of interpersonal conflict outcome in 29 cultural groups. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 58(3), 258–271. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12895

Nayani, F. Z., Yuki, M., Maddux, W. W., & Schug, J. (2023). Lay theories about emotion recognition explain cultural differences in willingness to wear facial masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4(100089), 100089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100089

Lang, M., Xygalatas, D., Kavanagh, C. M., Craciun Boccardi, N. A., Halberstadt, J., Jackson, C., Martínez, M., Reddish, P., Tong, E. M. W., Vázquez, A., Whitehouse, H., Yamamoto, M. E., Yuki, M., & Gomez, A. (2022). Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups: A cross-cultural examination. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(7), 1739–1759. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211016961

Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M. J., Koc, Y., Lun, V. M.-C., Papastylianou, D., Grigoryan, L., Torres, C., Efremova, M., Hassan, B., Abbas, A., Ahmad, A. H., al-Bayati, A., Selim, H. A., Anderson, J., Cross, S. E., Delfino, G. I., Gamsakhurdia, V., Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc, D., … Chobthamkit, P. (2021). Is an emphasis on dignity, honor and face more an attribute of individuals or of cultural groups? Cross-Cultural Research, 55(2–3), 95–126. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397120979571

Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M. J., al-Selim, H., Lun, V. M. C., Koc, Y., Gul, P., Papastylianou, D., Grigoryan, L., Torres, C., Efremova, M., Hassan, B., Ahmad, A. H., al-Bayati, A., Anderson, J., Cross, S. E., Delfino, G. I., Gamsakhurdia, V., Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc, D., … Chobthamkit, P. (2020). Sex differences in self-construal and in depressive symptoms: Predictors of cross-national variation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(7–8), 616–635. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120939655

Milfont, T. L., Thomson, R., & Yuki, M. (2020). Does relational mobility vary across national regions? A within-country examination. PloS One, 15(7), e0235172. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235172

Yuki, M., & Schug, J. (2020). Psychological consequences of relational mobility. In Current Opinion in Psychology (Vol. 32). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.029

Yamamoto, S., & Yuki, M. (2019). What causes cross-cultural differences in reactions to the Trolley Problem? A cross-cultural study on the roles of relational mobility and reputation expectation. The Japanese Journal of Social Psychology, 35(3), 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.14966/jssp.1733 

Thomson, R., Yuki, M., Talhelm, T., Schug, J., Kito, M., Ayanian, A. H., Becker, J. C., Becker, M., Chiu, C. Y., Choi, H. S., Ferreira, C. M., Fülöp, M., Gul, P., Houghton-Illera, A. M., Joasoo, M., Jong, J., Kavanagh, C. M., Khutkyy, D., Manzi, C., … Visserman, M. L. (2018). Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(29). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713191115

Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Easterbrook, M. J., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Abuhamdeh, S., Cendales Ayala, B., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., Torres, A., Camino, L., Bond, M. H., Nizharadze, G., Amponsah, B., Schweiger Gallo, I., Prieto Gil, P., Lorente Clemares, R., Campara, G., Espinosa, A., … Lay, S. (2018). Being oneself through time: Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures. Self and Identity: The Journal of the International Society for Self and Identity, 17(3), 276–293. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2017.1330222

Newman, D. B., Schug, J., Yuki, M., Yamada, J., & Nezlek, J. B. (2018). The negative consequences of maximizing in friendship selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(5), 804–824. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000141

Yamada, J., Kito, M., & Yuki, M. (2017). Passion, Relational Mobility, and Proof of Commitment: A Comparative Socio–Ecological Analysis of an Adaptive Emotion in a Sexual Market. Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior, 15(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704917746056

Kavanagh, C., & Yuki, M. (2017). Culture and group processes. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 5(4). https://doi.org/10.9707/2307-0919.1154

Kito, M., Yuki, M., & Thomson, R. (2017). Relational mobility and close relationships: A socioecological approach to explain cross-cultural differences. Personal Relationships, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12174

Smith, P. B., Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Owe, E., Easterbrook, M. J., Brown, R., Bourguignon, D., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., Kreuzbauer, R., Cendales Ayala, B., Yuki, M., Zhang, J., Lv, S., Chobthamkit, P., Jaafar, J. L., Fischer, R., Milfont, T. L., Gavreliuc, A., Baguma, P., … Harb, C. (2016). Individual and culture-level components of survey response styles: A multi-level analysis using cultural models of selfhood. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 51(6), 453–463. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12293

Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Becker, M., Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M. J., Brown, R., González, R., Didier, N., Carrasco, D., Cadena, M. P., Lay, S., Schwartz, S. J., Des Rosiers, S. E., Villamar, J. A., Gavreliuc, A., Zinkeng, M., Kreuzbauer, R., Baguma, P., Martin, M., … Bond, M. H. (2016). Beyond the “east-west” dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 145(8), 966–1000. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000175

Thomson, R., Yuki, M., & Ito, N. (2015). A socio-ecological approach to national differences in online privacy concern: The role of relational mobility and trust. Computers in Human Behavior, 51, 285–292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.04.068

Oishi, S., Schug, J., Yuki, M., & Axt, J. (2015). The psychology of residential and relational mobilities. In Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 5 (pp. 221–272). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190218966.003.0005

Yamada, J., Kito, M., & Yuki, M. (2015). Relational mobility and intimacy in friendships and romantic relationships: A cross-societal study between Canada and Japan. Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55(1), 18–27. https://doi.org/10.2130/jjesp.1409

Sato, K., Yuki, M., & Norasakkunkit, V. (2014). A Socio-Ecological Approach to Cross-Cultural Differences in the Sensitivity to Social Rejection: The Partially Mediating Role of Relational Mobility. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45(10). https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022114544320

Sato, K., & Yuki, M. (2014). The association between self-esteem and happiness differs in relationally mobile vs. stable interpersonal contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1113. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01113

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(4), 741–746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.02.006

Yuki, M., & Takemura, K. (2013). Intergroup Comparison and Intragroup Relationships. In Culture and Group Processes (pp. 38–65). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199985463.003.0003

Yuki, M., & Brewer, M. B. (Eds.). (2013). Culture and Group Processes. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199985463.001.0001

Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Lee, S. W. S., Easterbrook, M., Gadre, T., Zhang, X., Gheorghiu, M., Baguma, P., Tatarko, A., Aldhafri, S., Zinkeng, M., Schwartz, S. J., Des Rosiers, S. E., Villamar, J. A., Mekonnen, K. H., Regalia, C., … Jalal, B. (2013). Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(1), 24–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022111430255

Yuki, M., & Schug, J. (2012). Relational mobility: A socioecological approach to personal relationships. In O. Gillath, G. Adams, & A. Kunkel (Eds.), Relationship Science: Integrating Evolutionary, Neuroscience, and Sociocultural Approaches (pp. 137–151). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/13489-007

Yuki, M. (2011). Intragroup relationships and intergroup comparisons as two sources of group-based collectivism. In Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations (1st Edition, pp. 247–266). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203816790-14

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(4), 303–307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839x.2010.01327.x

Schug, J., Yuki, M., & Maddux, W. (2010). Relational Mobility Explains Between- and Within-culture Differences in Self-disclosure to Close Friends. Psychological Science, 21(10). https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610382786

Yokota K., & Yuki M. (2009). Intergroup threat and intragroup interdependence: multiplicity of psychological processes behind ingroup favoritism, and their distinct elicitors. Shinrigaku kenkyu [The Japanese Journal of Psychology], 80(3), 246–251. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.80.246

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 USA. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12(2), 95–103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839x.2009.01277.x

Falk, C. F., Heine, S. J., Yuki, M., & Takemurá, K. (2009). Why do westerners self-enhance more than East Asians? European Journal of Personality, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/per.715

Yuki, M., & Yokota, K. (2009). The primal warrior: Outgroup threat priming enhances intergroup discrimination in men but not women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(1), 271–274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.018

Igarashi, T., Kashima, Y., Kashima, E. S., Farsides, T., Kim, U., Strack, F., Werth, L., & Yuki, M. (2008). Culture, trust, and social networks. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11(1), 88–101. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839x.2007.00246.x

Takemura, K., Yuki, M., Maddux, W., & Ohtsubo, Y. (2007). Two types of collectivism: Intragroup relationship orientation in japan and intergroup comparison orientation in the United States. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007/54. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1021242

Yuki, M., Schug, J., Horikawa, H., Takemura, K., Sato, K., Yokota, K., & Kamaya, K. (2007). Development of a scale to measure perceptions of relational mobility in society. Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido  University. https://lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp/cerss/en/ workingpaper/2007-working-paper-series/

Yuki, M., Maddux, W. W., & Masuda, T. (2007). Are the windows to the soul the same in the East and West? Cultural differences in using the eyes and mouth as cues to recognize emotions in Japan and the United States. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(2), 303–311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2006.02.004

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: Journal International de Psychologie, 42(1), 27–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207590500411534

Brewer, M. B., & Yuki, M. (2007). Culture and social identity. Handbook of Cultural Psychology, 307322, 1–47.

Maddux, W. W., & Yuki, M. (2006). The “ripple effect”: cultural differences in perceptions of the consequences of events. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(5), 669–683. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167205283840

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Chiu, C.-Y., Farsides, T., Gelfand, M., Hong, Y.-Y., Kim, U., Strack, F., Werth, L., Yuki, M., & Yzerbyt, V. (2005). Culture, essentialism, and agency: are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? European Journal of Social Psychology, 35(2), 147–169. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.237

Liu, J. H., Goldstein-Hawes, R., Hilton, D., Huang, L.-L., Gastardo-Conaco, C., Dresler-Hawke, E., Pittolo, F., Hong, Y.-Y., Ward, C., Abraham, S., Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Ohashi, M. M., Yuki, M., & Hidaka, Y. (2005). Social representations of events and people in world history across 12 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36(2), 171–191. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022104272900

Yuki, M., Maddux, W. W., Brewer, M. B., & Takemura, K. (2005). Cross-cultural differences in relationship- and group-based trust. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 31(1), 48–62. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167204271305

Kashima, E. S., Halloran, M., Yuki, M., & Kashima, Y. (2004). The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(3), 384–392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2003.07.007

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Farsides, T., Kim, U., Strack, F., Werth, L., & Yuki, M. (2004). Culture and context-sensitive self: The amount and meaning of context-sensitivity of phenomenal self differ across cultures. Self and Identity: The Journal of the International Society for Self and Identity, 3(2), 125–141. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576500342000095a

Yuki, M. (2003). Intergroup comparison versus intragroup relationships: A cross-cultural examination of social identity theory in north American and east Asian cultural contexts. Social Psychology Quarterly, 66(2), 166. https://doi.org/10.2307/1519846

Kashima, Y., Yamaguchi, S., Kim, U., Choi, S.-C., Gelfand, M. J., & Yuki, M. (1995). Culture, gender, and self: A perspective from individualism-collectivism research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(5), 925–937. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.69.5.925