Publications

Journal articles (English only) # Underlined is our lab members

Shimizu, Y., Ogawa, K,. Kimura, M., Fujiwara, K., & Watanabe, N. (in press). Introducing the Facial Expressions of Emotion Decoding Test with Various Intensity (FEET-I): Using the AIST Facial Expression Database 2017. Japanese Psychological Research.

Lee, S.-K., & Fujiwara, K. (2025). Movement of deception in motion capture. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 36257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-20163-x

Cheng, M., Tseng, C.-H., Fujiwara, K., Higashiyama, S., Weng, A., & Kitamura, Y. (2025). Toward an Asian-based bodily movement database for emotional communication. Behavior Research Methods, 57, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02558-2

Suzuki, S., Takemura, K., & Fujiwara, K. (2024). Satisfaction with cultural attractions: Interaction effect of tourists’ regulatory focus and cultural attractions’ interpretation tools. Tourism Recreation Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2024.2386870 

Kodama, K., Shimizu, D., & Fujiwara, K. (2024). Different effects of visual occlusion on interpersonal coordination of head and body movements during dyadic conversations. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1296521. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1296521

Shimizu, Y., Ogawa, K,. Kimura, M., Fujiwara, K., & Watanabe, N. (2024) The influence of emotional facial expression intensity on decoding accuracy: High intensity does not yield high accuracy. Japanese Psychological Research, 66(4), 521–540. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12529

Chuang, Y.-C., & Fujiwara, K. (2024). Facial mimicry in unstructured dyadic interactions: A cross-cultural study. Japanese Psychological Research, 66(4), 493–509. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12528  JPA Best paper award

Yang, X., Cheng, M., Fujiwara, K., Kitamura, Y., Shioiri, S., & Tseng, C-H. (2024). What makes a movement human-like? Japanese Psychological Research, 66(4), 473–492. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12542

Fujiwara, K., & Plusquellec, P. (2024). Association of intensity and dominance of CEOs’ smiles with corporate performance. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 13986. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63956-2

Manabe, M., Fujiwara, K., Ito, K., & Itoh, Y. (2024). The Association between Synchrony and Intellectual Productivity in a Group Discussion: A Study using the SenseChair. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, Article 229. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02566-1

Fujiwara, K., & Takemura, K. (2024). A socio-ecological context moderates the association between communication skills and friendship satisfaction: Possible role of relational mobility. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 27(1), 27–41. http://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12579 

Nishimura, K., Ito, K., Fujiwara, K., Fujita, K., & Itoh, Y. (2023). Detection of nodding of interlocutors using a chair-shaped device and investigating relationship between a divergent thinking task and amount of nodding. Quality and User Experience, 8, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41233-023-00063-6

Afifi, T., Collins, N., L., Rand, K., Otmar, C., Mazur, A., Dunbar, N. E., Fujiwara, K., Harrison, K., & Logsdon, R. (2023). Using virtual reality to improve the quality of life of older adults with cognitive impairments and their family members who live at a distance. Health Communication, 38(9), 1904–1915. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2040170

Fujiwara, K., Nomura, K., & Eto, M. (2023). Antiphase synchrony increases perceived entitativity and uniqueness: A joint hand-clapping task. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1069660.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1069660

Dunbar, N. E., Fujiwara, K., & Bernhold, Q. S. (2023). Truth-tellers' and liars' synchrony during attitude-inconsistent conversations. Frontiers in Communication, 8, Article 921446. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.921446

Fujiwara, K., Otmar, C. D., Dunbar, N. E., & Hansia, M. (2022). Nonverbal synchrony in technology-mediated interviews: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 46(4), 547–567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-022-00416-3 

Dunbar, N. E., Burgoon, J. K. & Fujiwara, K. (2022). Automated methods to examine nonverbal synchrony in dyads. Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 173, 204–217 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v173/dunbar22a.html

Fujiwara, K., Hoegen, R., Gratch, J., & Dunbar, N. E. (2022). Synchrony facilitates altruistic decision making for non-human avatars. Computers in Human Behavior, 128, Article 107079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107079

Fujiwara, K., & Daibo, I. (2022). Empathic accuracy and interpersonal coordination: behavior matching can enhance accuracy but interactional synchrony may not. The Journal of Social Psychology, 162(1), 71–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2021.1983509

Fujiwara, K., & Yokomitsu, K. (2021). Video-based tracking approach for nonverbal synchrony: A comparison of Motion Energy Analysis and OpenPose. Behavior Research Methods, 53(6), 2700–2711. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01612-7

Afifi, T. D., Collins, N., Rand, K., Fujiwara, K., Mazur, A., Otmar, C., Dunbar, N., Harrison, K., & Logsdon, R. (2021). Testing the feasibility of virtual reality with older adults with cognitive impairments and their family members who live at a distance. Innovation in Aging, 5(2), igab014. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab014

Fujiwara, K., Bernhold, Q. S., Dunbar, N. E., Otmar, C. D., & Hansia, M. (2021). Comparing manual and automated coding methods of nonverbal synchrony. Communication Methods and Measures, 15(2), 103–120. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2020.1846695

Dunbar, N. E., Giles, H., Bernhold, Q., Adams, A., Giles, M., Zamanzadeh, N., Gangi, K., Coveleski, S., & Fujiwara, K. (2020). Strategic synchrony and rhythmic similarity in lies about ingroup affiliation. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44(1), 153–172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-019-00321-2

Fujiwara, K., Kimura, M., & Daibo, I. (2020). Rhythmic features of movement synchrony for bonding individuals in dyadic interaction. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44(1), 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-019-00315-0

Yokomitsu, K., & Fujiwara, K. (2019). The communicative effects of a cup of coffee on dyadic conversation. Psychology, 10(10), 1361–1370. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2019.1010087

Fujiwara, K., Kimura, M., & Daibo, I. (2019). Gender differences in synchrony: Females in sync during unstructured dyadic conversation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(5), 1042–1054. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2587

Fujiwara, K., & Daibo, I. (2018). Affect as an antecedent of synchrony: A spectrum analysis with wavelet transform. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(12), 2520–2530. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817745861

Fujiwara, K. (2016). Triadic synchrony: Application of multiple wavelet coherence to a small group conversation. Applied Mathematics, 7(14), 1477–1483. https://doi.org/10.4236/am.2016.714126

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(4), 1640007. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919616400077

Fujiwara, K., & Daibo, I. (2016). Evaluating interpersonal synchrony: Wavelet transform toward an unstructured conversation. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 516. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00516

Fujiwara, K., & Daibo, I. (2014). The extraction of nonverbal behaviors: Using video images and speech-signal analysis in dyadic conversation. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 38(3), 377–388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-014-0183-3