Kosuke Takemura

TL;DR: Two experiments explored differences in depersonalized trust (trust toward a relatively unknown target person) across cultures, finding that Americans trusted ingroup members more than outgroups members; however, the existence of a potential indirect relationship link increased trust for outgroup members more for Japanese than for Americans.

TL;DR: Japanese socialized and/or immersed in Hokkaido were nearly as likely as European Americans in North America to associate happiness with personal achievement, to show a personal dissonance effect wherein self-justification is motivated by a threat to personal self-images, and to commit a dispositional bias in causal attribution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that the preference for similarity between friendship partners was higher in the USA than in Japan, and a measure of relational mobility mediated the cultural difference in similarity, supporting their hypothesis.

TL;DR: Assessing relational mobility and shame proneness towards friends and strangers in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom found that Japanese subjects were more shame-prone than their British and American counterparts, and this relationship partially mediated the cultural differences in shame pronounceeness.

TL;DR: The authors found that Japanese and Asian-Canadians were more selfcritical than Euro-canadians, both under high and low-attentional load, and this cultural difference was partially mediated by relational mobility.