Staff profile

Dr Emiko S. Kashima

Associate Professor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Psychological Science
Department of Psychology

Biological Science 2, Room 121, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA SHU NE., PhD Illinois.

Membership of professional Associations

Association for Psychological Science; Asian Association of Social Psychology; International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology; International Academy of Intercultural research

Area of study

Psychology

Brief Profile

Emi Kashima received her PhD in social, organisational, and individual-differences psychology from the University of Illinois. Her research interests concern broadly the social, cognitive, and motivational processes that contribute to the development and change of culture - the knowledge that are shared by a large group of people. Emi's current research focuses on culture and psychological threats, implicit processes of threat reaction, effects of language use on cognition, and acculturation.

Emi is currently Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology and the Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, and is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, and Social and Personality Psychololgy Compass.   

Research specialisation

- Social psychology

Teaching Units

PSY3PYA Psychology 3A

PSY1CFP Clinical Foundations of Psychological Science

PSY2SOC Social Psychology

PSY3RSA Research Project 3A

PSY3RSB Research Project 3B

PSY4HNA Honours Psychology

PSY4HNB Honours Psychology

Recent Publications

Chapters in books/reports

Kashima, E. S. (2008). The psychological process of coping with threat and its cultural maintenance function. In R. M. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition across cultures (pp. 443-469). Elsevier/ Academic Press.

Halloran, M. & Kashima, E. S. (2006). Culture, social identity and the individual. In T. Postmes & J. Jetten (Eds.), Individuality and the group: Advances in social identity (pp. 137-154). Sage Press.

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., & Clark, A. (2002). Interpersonal dynamics of the self: The doubly distributed approach. In J. Forgas & K. Williams (Eds.), The social self: Cognitive, interpersonal, and intergroup perspectives (pp. 233-251). New York: Psychology Press.

Kashima, Y. & Kashima, E. S., & Aldridge, J. (2001). Towards cultural dynamics of self-conceptions. In C. Sedikides & M. B. Brewer (Eds.), Individual self, relational self, and collective self: Partners, opponents, or strangers? (pp. 277-298). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Papers in refereed journals

Kashima, E. S., Hardie, E. A., Wakimoto, R., & Kashima, Y. (in press). Culture- and gender-specific implications of relational and collective contexts on spontaneous self-descriptions.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. doi:10.1177/0022022110362754

Kashima, E. S., & Pillai, D. (in press). Identity development in cultural transition: The role of need for closure. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. doi:10.1177/0022022110362749

Meegan, C. K. & Kashima, E. S. (2010). The emotional and self-esteem consequences of perceiving discrimination against a new identity group. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13, 195–201.

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E. S., Bain, P., Lyons, A., Tindale, R. S., Robins, G., Vears, C., & Whelan, J. (2010). Communication and essentialism: Grounding the shared reality of a social category. Social Cognition, 28, 306-328.

Kashima, E. S. (2010). Culture and terror Management: What is “culture” in cultural psychology and Terror Management Theory?" Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 164-173.

Sakurai, T., McCall-Wolf, F., & Kashima, E. S. (2010). Building intercultural links: The impact of a multicultural intervention program on social ties of international students in Australia. Special issue on Applied Acculturation Research: Working with and for Communities. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34, 176-185.

Kashima, E. S. & Hitokoto, H. (2009). Cultural similarities and differences in social identification in Japan and Australia. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 71-81.

Matsumoto, D., Yoo, S. H., Nakagawa, S., & 37 Members of the Multinational Study of Cultural Display Rules (2008). Culture, emotion regulation, and adjustment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 925-937.

Igarashi, T., Kashima, Y., Kashima, E. S., Farsides, T., Kim, U., Strack, F., Werth, L., & Yuki, M. (2008). Culture, trust, and social networks. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11, 88-101.

Kashima, E.S., & Loh, E. (2006). International students’ acculturation: Effects of international, conational, and local ties and need for closure. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 30, 471-485.

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E. S., Kim, U., & Gelfand, M. (2006). Describing the social world: Object-centered versus process-centered descriptions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 388-396.

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E.S., Chiu, C-Y., Farsides, T., Gelfand, M., Hong, Y.Y., Kim, U., Strack, F., Worth, L., Yuki, Y., and Yzerbyt, V. (2005). Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 147-169.

Kashima, E. S., Halloran, M., Yuki, M., & Kashima, Y. (2004). The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 384-392.

Halloran, M., & Kashima, E. S.(2004). Social identity and worldview validation: The influence of ingroup identity primes on mortality salience effects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 915-925.

Kashima, Y., Kokubo, T., Kashima, E. S., Boxall, D., Yamaguchi, S., & MacRae, K. (2004). Culture and self: Are There Within-Culture Differences in Self between Metropolitan Areas and Regional Cities? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 816-823.

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E. S., Farsides, T., Kim, U., Strack, F. Worth, L. & Yuki, M. (2004). Culture and context-sensitive self: The amount and meaning of context-sensitivity of phenomenal self differ across cultures. Self and Identity, 3, 125-141.

Kashima, Y., & Kashima, E. S. (2003). Individualism, GNP, and pronoun drop: Is individualism determined by climate and economic affluence, or does language use play a role? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34, 125-134.

McAuley, P. C., Bond, M.H., & Kashima, E. S. (2002). Towards defining situations objectively: A culture-level analysis of role dyads in Hong Kong and Australia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33, 363-379.

Conference papers

Kashima, E. S., & Meegan, C. The narrative of group vitality and its well-being benefits in the context of group-based discrimination. Paper presented in a symposium, “Understanding and buffering the consequences of social inequality: Asian and pacific perspectives” (Chaired by Allan Bernardo) at the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, 11-16 July 2010, Melbourne, Australia.

Kashima, E. S. The implications of having high versus low cognitive closure among international students. Paper presented in the symposium “International students: From diagnosis of psycho-cultural adaptation to intervention programs” (Chaired by Pawel Boski) at the 20th Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), 7-10 July 2010, Melbourne, Australia.

Kashima, E. S. The quadripartite self model: A suggested conceptual refinement for the two-part and three-part models. Paper presented in the symposium “Culture and self: Current issues” (Chaired by Cigdem Kagitcibasi) at the 20th Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), 7-10 July 2010, Melbourne, Australia.

Kashima, E. S., & Pourliakas, A. Mortality salience and the task representation in a joint coordination task. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, in Perth, April 2010.

Kashima, E. S., & Kashima, Y. Culture and Language: Contextualizing and Decontextualizing Linguistic Practice (January, 2008). Paper presented in a symposium, “The Importance of Linguistic Practice in Social and Cultural Cognition” (Chaired by Tiane L. Lee, Susan T. Fiske, and Virginia S. Y. Kwan), at the SPSP conference.

Kashima, E.S. Individual- and group-level predictors of immigrant adjustment in Australia. Paper presented in a symposium on Multilevel Analysis in Cross-Cultural Psychology (Chaired by E. Kashima), at 18th Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Isle of Spetses, Greece. 11-15 July 2006.

Kashima, E.S. The role of heritage language use in the maintenance of culture and identity: the case of second-generation Australian immigrants. Paper presented at the 10th meeting of the ICLASP. Bonn, Germany. 15-17 June, 2006.

Kashima, E.S., & Kashima, Y. Does mass media affect stereotype even when exemplar information is available? Paper presented at the Symposium on communication and intergroup relations (Chaired by R. Sutton) at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, in Townsville, April 2005.

Older Publications

Kashima, Y., Woolcock, J., & Kashima, E. S. (2000). Group impressions as dynamic configurations: The tensor product model of group impression formation and change. Psychological Review, 107, 914-942.

Kashima, E. S., & Hardie, E. A. (2000). Development and validation of the relational, individual, and collective self-aspects (RIC) scale. Journal of Asian Social Psychology, Special Issue on Culture and Self, 3, 19-48.

Kashima, E. S., Kashima, Y., & Hardie, E. A. (2000). Self-typicality and group identification: Evidence for their separateness. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 3, 97-110.

Kashima, E. S. & Kashima, Y. (1999). Culture and language in social context. In J. Adamopoulos & Y. Kashima (Eds.), Social behavior in cultural contexts (pp. 189-201). Thausand Oakes, CA: Sage.

Kashima, Y. & Kashima, E. S. (1999). Culture, connectionism, and the self. In J. Adamopoulos & Y. Kashima (Eds.), Social behavior in cultural contexts (pp. 77-92). Thausand Oakes, CA: Sage.

Kashima, E. S., & Kashima, Y. (1998). Culture and language: The case of cultural dimensions and personal pronoun use. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29, 461-486.

Kashima, Y. & Kashima, E. S. (1998). "Bunka to kouseikan" [Culture and the conception of justice]. In K. Tanaka (Ed.), “Shakaiteki kosei no shinrigaku” (pp. 173-192). Kyoto, Japan: Nakanishiya Shuppan. (In Japanese)

Kashima, Y. & Kashima, E. S. (1997). "Nichijyoteki shinrigainen nitsuite" [On folk psychology]. In S. Kitayama & K. Kashiwagi (Eds.), "Bunka, kokoro, koudou: Bunkashinrigaku no seika to kadai" [Culture, mind, behaviour: Achievement and future prospects of cultural psychology] (pp. 240-260). Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo University Press. (In Japanese)

Kashima, E. S., & Kashima, Y. (1997). Practice of the self in conversations: Pronoun drop, sentence co-production, and contextualization of the self. In K. Leung, Y. Kashima, U.Kim, & S. Yamaguchi (Eds.), Proceedings of the inaugural conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology (pp 161-174). Chichester: Wiley.

Kashima, E. S., & Kashima, Y. (1993). Perceptions of general variability of social group. Social Cognition, 11, 1-21.

Kashima, Y., Siegal, M., Tanaka, J., & Kashima, E. S. (1992). Do people believe behaviours are consistent with attitudes? Towards a cultural psychology of attribution processes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 1-14.

Kashima, Y. & Kashima, E. S. (1987). Individual differences in intention formations, Journal of Social Psychology, 128, 711-720.

Humphreys, L.G., Davey, T.C. & Kashima, E. (1986). Experimental measures of cognitive privilege/deprivation and some of their correlates. Intelligence, 10, 355-376.

Triandis, H.C., Kashima, Y., Shimada, E., & Villareal, M. (1986). Acculturation indices as a means of confirming cultural differences. International Journal of Psychology, 21, 43-70.  

Research projects

  1. A cross-cultural investigation of threat reactions in Australia and Asia
  2. The implicit cognitive/affective/motivational processes of threat and their links to brain activities
  3. Effects of language use on cognition
  4. Threats and automatic coordination
  5. Stereotype threat and personality moderators
  6. Immigrants and international students in Australia
  7. Cultural tightness