Yoshihisa Kashima

A WEIRD Theory? On the Prevalence of Western Folk Theory of Social Change in the West and Asia

Johannes Klackl, Danielle P Ochoa, Hongfei Du, Eva Jonas, Emiko S Kashima, Getrude C Ah Gang, Yoshihisa Kashima

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

According to Western folk theory of social change, modernization of societies causes them to become less warm but more competent o..

Profiles of an Ideal Society: The Utopian Visions of Ordinary People

Julian W Fernando, Nicholas Burden, Madeline Judge, Lean O'Brien, Hollis Ashman, Angela Paladino, Yoshihisa Kashima

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

Throughout history, people have expressed the desire for an ideal society—a utopia. These imagined societies have motivated action..

Base rate neglect and conservatism in probabilistic reasoning: Insights from eliciting full distributions

Piers Douglas Lionel Howe, Andrew Perfors, Bradley Walker, Yoshihisa Kashima, Nicolas Fay

Journal article  |  2022  |  JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING

Bayesian statistics offers a normative description for how a person should combine their original beliefs (i.e., their priors) in ..

Papers Please-Predictive Factors of National and International Attitudes Toward Immunity and Vaccination Passports: Online Representative Surveys

Paul M Garrett, Joshua P White, Simon Dennis, Stephan Lewandowsky, Cheng-Ta Yang, Yasmina Okan, Andrew Perfors, Daniel R Little, Anastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Takashi Kusumi, Yoshihisa Kashima

Journal article  |  2022  |  JMIR PUBLIC HEALTH AND SURVEILLANCE

BACKGROUND: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are introducing digital passports that allow citizens to return to nor..

A Multiple Needs Framework for Climate Change Anxiety Interventions

William J Bingley, Anh Tran, Candice P Boyd, Kari Gibson, Elise K Kalokerinos, Peter Koval, Yoshihisa Kashima, Dianna McDonald, Katharine H Greenaway

Journal article  |  2022  |  AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST

Climate change anxiety is a growing problem for individual well-being the world over. However, psychological interventions to addr..

High Acceptance of COVID-19 Tracing Technologies in Taiwan: A Nationally Representative Survey Analysis

Paul M Garrett, Yu-Wen Wang, Joshua P White, Yoshihsa Kashima, Simon Dennis, Cheng-Ta Yang

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Taiwan has been a world leader in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, the Taiwan Governme..

A New Opinion Polarization Index Developed by Integrating Expert Judgments

Namkje Koudenburg, Henk AL Kiers, Yoshihisa Kashima

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Opinion polarization is increasingly becoming an issue in today's society, producing both unrest at the societal level, and confli..

Decoding explicit and implicit representations of health and taste attributes of foods in the human brain

Elektra Schubert, Daniel Rosenblatt, Djamila Eliby, Yoshihisa Kashima, Hinze Hogendoorn, Stefan Bode

Journal article  |  2021  |  NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Obesity has become a significant problem word-wide and is strongly linked to poor food choices. Even in healthy individuals, taste..

Culture and Intergroup Relations

Yoshihisa Kashima, Michel Gelfand

Book Chapter  |  2021

The Cultural Dynamics of Concept Creep

Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova, Michael Zyphur, Yoshihisa Kashima

Journal article  |  2021  |  AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST

Emerging methods for studying cultural dynamics allow researchers to investigate cultural change with newfound rigor. One change t..