Yukiko Uchida

Yukiko Uchida

Professor

Specialty field:Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology

My research has focused on cultural variations in emotion and social relationships. In the course of my research in cultural psychology, I have suggested that daily practices and meanings construct our psychological functions and self-systems. In particular, my research examines the meanings of happiness and unhappiness; people’s experience of emotions and understanding of others’; and the roles of emotional support and social relationships. My cross-cultural studies examine how participation in meaningful cultural practices fosters these psychological processes.

E-Mail: uchida.yukiko.6m*kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Biography

2003
Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
2003-2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2003-2004
Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan
2004-2005
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
2005-2008
Assistant Professor, Koshien University
2008-2011
Assistant Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University
2011-2019
Associate Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University
2019
Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University
2019.9 – 2020.5
Berggruen Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2022
Professor, Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society
2023
Director/ Professor, Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society

Books/papers

Award

2012
Outstanding Paper Award: Japan Association for Planning Administration
Uchida, Y. (2011). Happiness in Japanese culture: Psychological and social requirements for reconstruction in Japan. Planning Administration, 34, 21-26.
2013
Outstanding Paper Award: Japan Group Dynamics Association
Uchida, Y., Endo, Y., & Shibanai, Y. (2012). Well-being and social relationship styles: Effects of quantity and quality of social relationships. Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 52, 63-75.
2015
Agricultural Extension Research Society of Japan Award (encouraging prize)
2015
Most Outstanding Female Researchers Award, Kyoto University (Tachibana award)
2015
Outstanding Paper Award: The Japanese Psychological Association
Uchida, Y., & Ueno, T., & Miyamoto, Y. (2014). You were always on my mind: The importance of ‘significant others’ in the attenuation of retrieval-induced forgetting in Japan.
Japanese Psychological Research.56, 263–274
2016
International Contributions to Psychology; Awards for Distinguished Early and Middle Career Contributions (The Japanese Psychological Association)
2021
Asian Association of Social Psychology Misumi Award (Runners up)
Krys, K., Zelenski, J. M., Capaldi, C. A., Park, J., van Tilburg, W., van Osch, Y., Haas, B. W., Bond, M. H., Dominguez-Espinoza, A., Xing, C., Igbokwe, D. O., Kwiatkowska, A., Luzniak-Piecha, M., Nader, M., Rizwan, M., Zhu, Z., & Uchida Y. (2019).
Putting the “We” into well‐being: Using collectivism‐themed measures of well‐being attenuates well‐being’s association with individualism. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22(3), 256-267. doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12364,.
2022年1月
APS Fellows, Association for Psychological Science (APS)

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