Social Action Laboratory

Main Research Publications (since 2014)

Cultural Dynamics
Kashima, Y. (2014). Meaning, grounding, and the construction of social reality. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 17, 81-95. (invited contribution).

Lee, T., Gelfand, M., & Kashima, Y. (2014). The serial reproduction of conflict: Third parties escalate conflict through communication biases. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 68-72.

Stivala, A., Robins, G., Kashima, Y., & Kirley, M. (2014). Ultrametric distribution of culture vectors in an extended Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. Scientific Report, 4, 4870. DOI: 10.1038/srep04870

Kashima, Y. (2014). How can you capture cultural dynamics? Frontiers in Psychology DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00995

Kashima, E. S., Kent, S., & Kashima, Y. (2015). Life satisfaction in the new country: A multilevel longitudinal analysis of effects of culture and 5-HTT allele frequency distribution in country of origin. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(1), 50-54. DOI:10.1093/scan/nsu036

Kashima, Y., Laham, S. M., Dix, J., Levis, B., Wong, D., & Wheeler, M. (2015). Social transmission of cultural practices and implicit attitudes. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 127, 113-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.05.005

Peters, K. & Kashima, Y. (2015). A multi-modal theory of affect diffusion. Psychological Bulletin, 141 (5), 966-992. DOI: 10.1037/bul0000020

Kashima, Y. (2016). Culture and psychology in the 21st century: Conceptions of culture and person for psychology revisited. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47 (1), 4-20. [Invited contribution with commentaries]

Stivala, A., Robins, G., Kashima, Y., & Kirley, M. (2016). Diversity and community can coexist. American Journal of Community Psychology, 57, 243-254.

Skaczkowski, G., Durkin, S., Kashima, Y., & Wakefield, M. (2016). The effect of packaging, branding and labeling on the experience of unhealthy food and drink: A review. Appetite, 99, 219-234.

Brennan, E., Durkin, S. J., Wakefield, M. A., & Kashima, Y. (2016). Talking about antismoking campaigns: What do smokers talk about, and how does talk influence campaign effectiveness? Journal of Health Communication, 21 (1), 33-45. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1039675

Stivala, A., Kashima, Y., & Kirley, M. (2016). Culture and cooperation in a spatial public goods game. Physical Review E, 94, 032303.

Brennan, E., Durkin, S. J., Wakefield, M., & Kashima, Y. (2016). Why do smokers talk about antismoking campaigns? Predictors of the occurrence and content of campaign-generated conversations. Health Communication, DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1239301

Miller, T., Pfau, J., Sonenberg, L., & Kashima, Y. (2017). Logics of common ground. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 58, 859-904.

Milfont, T. L., Bain, P. G., Kashima, Y., Corral-Verdugo, V., Pasquali, C., Johansson, L. O., ... & Bilewicz, M. (2017). On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism: A 25-Nation Study. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1948550617722832.

Skaczkowski, G., Durkin, S., Kashima, Y., & Wakefield, M. (2017). Influence of premium versus value brand names on the smoking experience in a plain packaging environment: an experimental study. BMJ Open, 7(1), e014099.

Fernando, J. W., Burden, N., Ferguson, A., O’Brien, L. V., Judge, M., & Kashima, Y. (2018). Functions of utopia: How utopian thinking motivates societal engagement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(5) 779–792.

Kashima, Y., Bain, P., & Perfors, A. (2019). The psychology of cultural dynamics: What is it, what is known, and what is yet to be known? Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 499-529.  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418- 103112

Shank, D. B., Kashima, Y., Peters, K., Li, Y., Robins, G., & Kirley, M. (2019). Norm talk and human cooperation: Can we talk ourselves into cooperation? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000163 (accepted 16/08/2018)

Sustainability and Environmental Psychology
Kashima, Y., Paladino, A., & Margetts, E. A. (2014). Environmentalist identity and environmental striving. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 38, 64-75.

Fernando, J. W., Kashima, Y., & Laham, S. M. (2014). Multiple emotions: A person-centred approach to the relationship between intergroup emotion and action orientation. Emotion, 14, 722-732. DOI: 10.1037/a003103

Guy, S., Kashima, Y., Walker, I., & O’Neill, S. (2014). Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 421-429.

Rickard, L., Wiseman, J., & Kashima, Y. (2014). Barriers to effective mitigation actions on climate change: the case of senior government and business decision-makers. WIREs Climate Change. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.305

Bain, P., Milfont, T., Kashima, Y., Bilewicz, M., Doron, G., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., Gouveia, V. V., Guan, Y., Johansson, L.-O., Pasquali, C., Verdugo, V.-C., Aragones, J. I., Utsugi, A., Demarque, C., Otto, S., Park, J., Soland, M., Steg, L., González, R., Lebedeva, N., Madsen, O. J., Wagner, C., Akotia, C. S., Kurz, T., Saiz, J. L., Schultz, P. W., Einarsdóttir, G., & Saviolidis, N. M. (2016). How the co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action across the world. Nature Climate Change, 6(2), 154-157. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2814

Connor, P., Harris, E., Guy, S., Fernando, J., Burton-Shank, D., Kurz, T., Bain, P., & Kashima, Y. (2016). Interpersonal communication about climate change: How messages change when communicated through simulated online social networks. Climatic Change, 136(3-4), 463-476. DOI 10.1007/s10584-016-1643-z

Margetts, E., & Kashima, Y. (2017). Spillover between pro-environmental behaviours: the role of resources and perceived similarity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 49, 30-42.

Meis, J. & Kashima, Y. (2017). Signage as a tool for behavioral change: Direct and indirect routes to understanding the meaning of a sign. PLoS ONE, 12(8): e0182975.

Kusumi, T., Hirayama, R., & Kashima, Y. (2017). Risk perception and risk talk: The case of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear radiation risk. Risk Analysis, 37(12), 2305-2320.

O’Brien, L., Meis, J., Anderson, R. C., Rizio, S. M., Abrose, M., Bruce, G., Critchley, C. R., Dudgeon, P., Newton, P., Robins, G., & Kashima, Y. (2018). Low Carbon Readiness Index: A short measure to predict private low carbon behaviour. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 57, 34-44.

Breadsell, J., Eon, C., Morrison, G., & Kashima, Y. (2019). Interlocking practices and their influence in the home. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. (accepted 17/12/2018)

Tran, P., Judge, M., & Kashima, Y. (accepted). Commitment in Relationships: An Updated Meta-Analysis of the Investment Model. Personal Relationships. (accepted 08/01/2019)