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Refereed articles

In-principle acceptance in Registered Reports

  1. Fawcett, J. M., Levy, B. J., Bergström, Z. M., Bulevich, J. B., Clark, C. A., Hertel, P. T., Hulbert, J. C., MacLeod, C. M., Todorovic, D., van Schie, K., & The Memory Control Consortium (accepted in principle). A Multisite Registered Replication of the Think/No-Think EffectXXXXX

Published paper

  1. Oka, T., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Mori, Y., Sasaki, K., Hamada, H. T., Yamagata, M., & Yamada, Y. (2023). Autonomous, bidding, credible, decentralized, ethical, and funded (ABCDEF) publishing. F1000Research, 12, 877. 

  2. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). The superiority of up/down over left/right in metaphorical association with emotion. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science

  3. Sasaki, K., Kobayashi, M.*, Nakamura, K.*, & Watanabe, K. (2023). The evasive truth: Do mere exposures at the subliminal and supraliminal levels drive the illusory truth effect? Royal Society Open Science, 10: 201791. (*equal contribution)

  4. Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Takahashi, K., Sasaki, K., & Ariga, A. (2023). Backward illusory line motion: Visual motion perception can be influenced by retrospective stimulationJournal of Vision, 23(6):6, 1-11.

  5. Suzuki, C., Shirai, N., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Imura, T. (2023). Preschool children aged 4 to 5 years show discomfort with trypophobic images. Scientific Reports, 13:2768. Link

  6. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). SPARKing: Sample-size planning after the results are known. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17:912338. Link

  7. Yoshimura, N., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022). Robustness of the aging effect of smiling against vertical facial orientation. F1000Research, 11:404. Link

  8. Mori, Y., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022). Trinity Review: Integrating Registered Reports with research ethics and funding reviews. BMC Research Notes, 15:184. Link

  9. Iseki, S., Sasaki, K., & Kitagami, S. (2022). Development of a Japanese version of the Psychological Ownership Scale. PeerJ10:e13063. Link

  10. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021). The clone devaluation effect: Does duplication of local facial features matter? BMC Research Notes, 14: 400. Link

  11. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021). The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity. PLOS ONE, 16: e0254396. Link

  12. Yang, J., Wu, X., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2021). No significant association of repeated messages with changes in health compliance in the COVID-19 pandemic: A registered report on the extended parallel process model. PeerJ9:e11559. Link

  13. Hidaka, S., Sasaki, K., Kawagoe, T., Asai, N., & Teramoto, W. (2021). Bodily ownership and agency sensations in a natural state. Scientific Reports11: 8651. Link

  14. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Boosting immunity of the Registered Reports system in psychology to the pandemicFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics5:607257. Link

  15. Yang, J., Wu, X., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Changing attitudes to health compliance through repetition of persuasive messages in the COVID-19 pandemicPeerJ8:e10318. (Stage 1) Link

  16. Yonemitsu, F., Ikeda, A., Yoshimura, N., Takashima, K., Mori, Y., Sasaki, K., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Warning ‘Don’t spread’ vs. ‘Don’t be a spreader’ to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society Open Science7: 200793 Link

  17. Yamada, Y., Xu, H., & Sasaki, K. (2020). A dataset for the perceived vulnerability to disease scale in Japan before the spread of COVID-19. F1000Research, 9:334. Link

  18. Zhu, S., Sasaki, K., Jiang, Y., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Trypophobia as an urbanized emotion: Comparative research in ethnic minority regions of China. PeerJ8:e8837. Link

  19. Sasaki, K., Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Spatial congruency bias in identifying objects is triggered by retinal position congruence: Examination using the Ternus-Pikler illusionScientific Reports, 10: 4630. Link

  20. Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Murata, A., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Ikeda, A., Hinojosa, J. A., Watanabe, K., Parzuchowski, M., Tirado, C., & Ospina, R. (2020). Your face and moves seem happier when I smile. Facial action influences the perception of emotional faces and biological motion stimuliExperimental Psychology67, 14-22. Link

  21. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019). Crowdsourcing visual perception experiments: A case of contrast threshold. PeerJ7:e8339. Link 

  22. Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., & Yamada, Y. (2019). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009). Japanese Psychological Review, 63, 262-271. (in Japanese) Link

  23. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Kosugi, K. E., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Close, and ye shall find: Eye closure during thinking enhances creativity. Palgrave Communications, 4:80. Link

  24. Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Autobiographical memory triggered by onomatopoeiaThe Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 36, 197-205. (in Japanese) Link

  25. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Trypophobia: From the past to the future Cognitive Studies, 25, 50-62. (in Japanese) Preprint

  26. Yamada, Y., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Involuntary protection against dermatosis: A preliminary observation on trypophobiaBMC Research Notes, 10:658. Link

  27. Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Avoidance of novelty contributes to the uncanny valleyFrontiers in Psychology8:1792. Link

  28. Ohtake, Y., Okumura, Y., Gobara, A., Yonemitsu, F., Naka, K., Sasaki, K., Watanabe, N., Fujita, S., Hattori, T., Yamada, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2017). Supporting mother-child picture book reading with a search system at a public library. The Science of reading, 59, 134-148. (in Japanese)

  29. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Regular is longer. i-Perception, 8, 1-7. Link

  30. Sasaki, K.*, Yamada, Y.*, Kuroki, D., & Miura, K. (2017). Trypophobic discomfort is spatial-frequency dependent. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13, 224-231.(*equal contribution) Link

  31. Xue, Y., Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Viscid onomatopoeiae alter visual disgust. Cognitive Studies, 24, 360-375.(in Japanese)

  32. Kawabe, T., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). When categorization-based stranger avoidance explains the uncanny valley: A comment on MacDorman and Chattopadhyay (2016). Cognition, 161, 129-131. Link arXiv

  33. Kishimoto, R., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Ojiro, Y., Nam, G., Miura, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). When a silhouette appears male: Observer’s own physical fitness governs social categorization of sexually ambiguous stimuli. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 7, 17-20. Link

  34. Yamamoto, K., Sasaki, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). The number-time interaction depends on relative magnitude in the suprasecond rangeCognitive Processing, 17, 59-65. Link

  35. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2016). Emotion biases voluntary vertical action only with visible cues. Acta Psychologica163, 97-106. Link

  36. Ojiro, Y., Gobara, A., Nam, G., Sasaki, K., Kishimoto, R., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2015). Two replications of “Hierarchical encoding makes individuals in a group seem more attractive (2014; Experiment 4)”The Quantitative Methods for Psychology11, r8-r11. Link

  37. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2015). Post-determined emotion: motor action retrospectively modulates emotional valence of visual imagesProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282: 20140690. Link

  38. Sasaki, K., Taya, S., & Miura, K. (2014). Numbers increasing to the right contract perceived time. International Journal of Affective Engineering13, 279-284. Link

  39. Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Kunieda, S., & Wada, Y. (2014). Scents boost preference for novel fruitsAppetite, 81, 102-107. Link

  40. Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., & Miura, K. (2014). Time-to-contact estimation modulated by implied friction. Perception43, 223-225. Link

  41. Sasaki, K., Yamamoto, K., & Miura, K. (2013). The difference in speed sequence influences perceived durationPerception42, 198-207. Link

  42. Sasaki, K., Seno, T., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2012). Emotional sounds influence vertical vection. Perception41, 875-877. Link

Preprints

  1. Yasuda, R., & Sasaki, K. (2024, February 24). Sense of agency based on the numerical magnitude of action-outcomesPsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bmz3y

  2. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2023, August 17). Emotional reactions evoked by masks with an implied mouth. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/adrpw

  3. Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023, April 21). Sense of object ownership changes with sense of agencyPsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8nsp3

  4. Guo, W., Ikeda, A., Takashima, K., Masuda, Y., Ueda, K., Ariga, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023).
    Social distancing between personal belongings during the COVID-19 pandemic. F1000Research12(199), 199.

  5. Oka, T., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Mori, Y., Sasaki, K., Hamada, H. T., Yamagata, M., & Yamada, Y. (2022, October 14). Autonomous, bidding, credible, decentralized, ethical, and funded (ABCDEF) publishing. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t4kcm published in F1000 Research

  6. Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Takahashi, K., Sasaki, K., & Ariga, A. (2022, May 25). Backward illusory line motion: Visual motion perception produced by retrospective attention. SSRN. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4119161 published in Journal of Vision

  7. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022, February 28). SPARKing: Sampling planning after the results are known. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ngz8k published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

  8. Ikeda, A., Yonemitsu, F., Yoshimura, N., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022, January 27). The Open Science Foundation clandestinely abused for malicious activities in unintended mannersPsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xtuen

  9. Mori, Y., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2021, September 22). Trinity Review: Integrating registered reports with ethics and research funding reviews. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tx5v6 published in BMC Research Notes

  10. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021, March 1st). The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identityPsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x8ugt published in PLOS ONE

  11. Yang, J., Wu, X., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, October 17). Changing health compliance through message repetition based on the extended parallel process model in the COVID-19 pandemicPsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e46nz. published in PeerJ

  12. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, August 26). Regularity ≠ symmetry: A comment on Makin, Rahman, and Bertamini (2020)PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fqmce.

  13. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, August 12). The superiority of up/down over left/right in metaphorical association with emotion. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e8mvw.

  14. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, July 8). The pandemic threatens the Registered Reports system as well as human livesPsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6wdaz

  15. Yonemitsu, F., Ikeda, A., Yoshimura, N., Sasaki, K., Takashima, K., Qian, K., Mori, Y. & Yamada, Y. (2020, May 4). Warning “Don’t spread” vs. “Don’t be a spreader” to prevent the COVID-19 pandemicPsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u4z3e. published in Royal Society Open Science

  16. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, February 9). Experimental psychologists also want to submit papers comfortablyPsyArXiv, doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ezaq2 published in Japanese Cognitive Science Society Technical Report

  17. Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Murata, A., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Ikeda, A., Hinojosa, J. A., Watanabe, K., Parzuchowski, M., Tirado, C., & Ospina, R. (2020, February 4). Your face and moves seem happier when I smile. Facial action influences the perception of emotional faces and biological motion stimuli.
    PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4uvdq. published in Experimental Psychology

  18. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019, December 15). No relation between vertical-valence metaphor and height: An empirical answer to Liu, Zhu, and Wang (2019)PsyArXiv, doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gra6s

  19. Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., & Yamada, Y. (2019, November 29). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009)PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4qnfk. published in Japanese Psychological Review

  20. Zhu, S., Sasaki, K., Jiang, Y., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019, August 30). Trypophobia as an urbanized emotion: Comparative research in ethnic minority regions of ChinaPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/u54vb. accepted in PeerJ

  21. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019, March 30). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009)PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/rfvp2. accepted in principle in Japanese Psychological Review

  22. Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018, Nov. 1). Invisible but Unpleasant: Unconscious emotional processing of trypophobic objectsPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/5xshq 

  23. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Kosugi, K. E., & Yamada, Y. (2018, Mar. 21). Close, and ye shall find: Eye closure during thinking enhances creativityPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/uq6mg published in Palgrave Communications

  24. Sasaki, K., Ono, F., & Yamada, Y. (2017, October 31). The bright side of negative experience: Preexposure to negative image improves non-judging attitude in mindfulness meditationPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/q6vpr​  

  25. Kawabe, T., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). When categorization-based stranger avoidance explains the uncanny valley: A comment on MacDorman and Chattopadhyay (2016)arXiv, arXiv:1609.03191v2. published in Cognition

Unrefereed articles

  1. Tsuji, H., Yamamoto, T., Yamaji, S., Kobayashi, M., Sasaki, K., Aso, N., & Sugiura, Y. (2024). Smartphone-based teaching system for neonate soothing motions. 2024 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 178-183.

  2. Nakashima, N., Sasaki, K., & Itaguchi Y. (2023). Editorial: Psychonomic research of body and actionThe Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science.

  3. Yoshida, T., Hatakeyama, S., Sugimoto, A., Hori, H., Sasaki, K., Takaoka, Y., & Matsushita, M (2022). Supporting Clinical Reasoning of Novice Physiotherapists by Presenting Focus Points in Medical Information. Proceedings of HCG Symposium 2023, No.B-5-3. 

  4. Sasaki, K. (2023). Introducing our ResearchJournal of Informatics, 57, 141-147.

  5. Sasaki, K. (2023). Challenges for undergraduate education of reproducibility in psychologyCognitive Studies, 30, 161-167.

  6. Ueda, K., Masuda, Y., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). Reproducibility: Whatʼs the Right Research to Do? The journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers106, 321-325.

  7. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2022). Eerie smile: Masks with a printed mouth evoke negative emotional reactionIEICE technical report, 122, 1-6.

  8. Yoshida, T., Hatakeyama, S., Hori, H., Sasaki, K., & Matsushita, M (2022). Supporting risk management for physiotherapists in acute care hospitals. Proceedings of HCG Symposium 2022, No.B-5-3. 

  9. Hatakeyama, S., Yoshida, T., Hori, H., Sasaki, K., & Matsushita, M (2022). A Step-by-Step Examination of the Clinical Reasoning Process for Effective Education of Inexperienced Physiotherapists. Proceedings of HCG Symposium 2022, No.B-5-4.

  10. Kimura, T., Sasaki, K., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). View from familiar angles promotes preference for objectsIEICE technical report, 120, 65-70.

  11. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Experimental psychologists also want to submit papers comfortably. The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology Technical Report, COGPSY-TR-007, 1-6. (in Japanese)

  12. Amano, N., Sasaki, K., Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Avoidance reaction caused by visual disgustIEICE technical report, 119, 65-69. (in Japanese)

  13. Xu, H., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y, (2019). Visuo-tactile trypophobiaIEICE technical report, 119, 19-24. (in Japanese)

  14. Sasaki, K. (2018). Science of disgust: Psychological mechanism of avoidance of strange objects IEICE technical report, 117, 75-78. (in Japanese)

  15. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). A study in TrypophobiaIEICE technical report, 117, 21-22. (in Japanese)

  16. Yamamoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Space-valence associations and reaction time―the relationship between body parts―IEICE technical report, 117, 13-16. (in Japanese)

  17. Ohtake, Y., Gobara, A., Naka, K., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Okumura, Y., Watanabe, N., Hattori, T., Yamada, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2017). Pitarie: The Effect of an Intervention Assisting Mothers with Picture Book SearchIEICE technical report, 116, 109-114. (in Japanese)

  18. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). Contrast measurements can be crowdsourcedIEICE technical report, 116, 53-56. (in Japanese)

  19. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Kuroki, D., & Miura, K. (2016). Can discomfort from trypophobia-inducing images be based on spatial frequency? The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 35, 87-88.

  20. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2014). Emotion formed by postdictive integration of visuo-somatic information. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 33, 129-130. (Summary of Awarded Presentation)

  21. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Kunieda, S., & Wada, Y. (2014). Unaware olfactory information enhances preference for novel fruits. VRSJ Research Report, 19, 103-108. (in Japanese)

  22. Sasaki, K., Yamamoto, K., & Miura, K. (2013). Temporal change in numerical magnitude influences time perception. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 32, 133-134. (Summary of Awarded Presentation)

  23. Sasaki, K., Taya, S., & Miura, K. (2013). Increase in numerical magnitude from left-to-right shortens perceived time. Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, 113-116.

  24. Uchiyama, T., Sasaki, K., Nakama, N., Otsuka, N., Arasuna, S., Wu, W., Ye, X., Yang, C., & Miura, K. (2013). The effects of feedback on task performance; Focus on self-esteem and task difficulty. Kyushu University Psychological Research, 14. 19-24. (in Japanese)

  25. Yamamoto, K., Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Extrinsic motivation underlies precise temporal production. Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, 91-94.

Others

  1. Yamada, Y., Qian, K., & Sasaki, K. (2022). The psychology of insect-triggered emotions: Perceiving, consuming, and researchingthe nature and insects57, 34-37. (in Japanese)

  2. The uncanny valley involves avoidance of novelty  Toward a society in which androids and humans can live together  Press release (Date: 16, November, 2017) Link

  3. Future Motor Action Rewrites Emotion Evoked by Previous Event: Emotion Modified by Swiping Up or Down on a Screen Discovered! − Press release (Date: 25, March, 2015) Link

 

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