Masaki Yuki

TL;DR: A study of self-construal involving 5 cultures shows that differences between these cultures are captured mostly by the extent to which people see themselves as acting as independent agents, whereas gender differences are best summarized by the whether people regard themselves as emotionally related to others.

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: This article found that the central theme of East Asian group behavior is cooperation within a group; this is represented cognitively as an interpersonal network among the members, with the emphasis on the relational self.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the hypothesis that facial cues in different parts of the face are weighted differently when interpreting emotions and found that individuals in cultures where emotional subduction is the norm (such as Japan) would focus more strongly on the eyes than the mouth when interpreting others' emotions.

TL;DR: A new 7-dimensional model of self-reported ways of being independent or interdependent is developed and validated across cultures and will allow future researchers to test more accurately the implications of cultural models of selfhood for psychological processes in diverse ecocultural contexts.