Yuri Miyamoto is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a social and cultural psychologist conducting research on (1) cultural differences in emotion and cognition and their implications for health, (2) multilevel influences of culture and social hierarchy, and (3) acculturation processes.
Early Life and Educational Background
Miyamoto was born in Japan. During her childhood and adolescence, she has lived in the United States and Singapore as well as in Japan. She earned her B.A. in the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies at Kyoto University in 1998 and her M.A. in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University in 2001. She earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 2006. Her mentors in the graduate programs included Shinobu Kitayama, Norbert Schwarz, Richard Nisbett, and Phoebe Ellsworth.
Professional Career
Miyamoto has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the...
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Miyamoto, Y. (2013). Culture and analytic versus holistic cognition: Toward multilevel analyses of cultural influences. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 131–188.
Miyamoto, Y., & Ma, X. (2011). Dampening or savoring positive emotions: A dialectical cultural script guides emotion regulation. Emotion, 11, 1346–1357.
Miyamoto, Y., & Wilken, B. (2010). Culturally contingent situated cognition: Influencing others fosters analytic perception in the U.S. but not in Japan. Psychological Science, 21, 1616–1622.
Miyamoto, Y., Boylan, J. M., Coe, C. L., Curhan, K., Levine, C. S., Markus, H. R., Park, J., Kitayama, S., Kawakami, N., Karasawa, M., Love, G. D., & Ryff, C. (2013). Negative emotions predict elevated interleukin-6 in the United States but not in Japan. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 34, 79–85.
Miyamoto, Y., Ma, X., & Petermann, A. G. (2014). Cultural differences in hedonic emotion regulation after a negative event. Emotion, 14, 804–815.
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Miyamoto, Y. (2020). Miyamoto, Yuri. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_254
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