学術論文

in press

2026

  • [55] Toyama, A., Kunisato, Y., Yamashita, Y., & Suzuki, S. (2026) Cognitive Behavioral Assessment Toolbox (CBAT): An Open-Source Platform Supporting Experiments in Computational Psychiatry. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.Link

2025

  • [54] Matsumoto, K., Hamatani, S., Mizuno, Y., Maeno, A., Kasai, M., Watanabe, K., Kamashita, R., Sunami, N., Ikeda, M., Nagata, S., Inoue, M., Kimura, Y., Yokoo, M., Kunisato, Y., Akasaki, Y., Nakamura, M.(2025). Self-Help cognitive behavioral therapy for gaze anxiety in young adults: Protocol of a 3-arms, multicenter, randomized controlled Trial. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports.2025;0:e70236. Link

  • [53] Buchanan, E. M.,…Kunisato, Y.,…Lewis, S.C. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 10, 182–201. Link

  • [52] Kowal, M.,…Kunisato, Y.,…Prazeres, F. (2025). Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries. Scientific Data, 12, 1103. Link

  • [51] Soda, T., Toyama, A., Takeda, M., Kunisato, Y., & Yamashita, Y. (2025). Reliability and Validity of the DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure in Japan: Insights into General and Specific Psychiatric Symptom Assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1–13. Link

  • [50] Pfuhl, G.,…Kunisato, Y., …Piotr Sorokowski, P.(2025). A preliminary study on the role of personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases on self-reported health across countries. Public Health, 242, 220–227. Link

  • [49] Omizu, T. and Kunisato. Y.(2025). Exploring Effective Intervention Strategies for Depression as a Complex System: Targeted Interventions through Network Simulations. Japanese Psychological Research, 67(2), 147-161. Link Code

  • [48] Kashihara, J., Sugawara, D., Kunisato, Y., Takebayashi, Y., Nakajima, S., Ito, M.(2025). Possible Futures for the Psychological Network Approach: Agenda for Clinical Scientists. Japanese Psychological Research, 67(2), 132-146. Link

2024

  • [47] Matsumoto, K., Hamatani, S., Kunisato, Y., Mizuno, Y. (2024). Components of cognitive–behavioural therapy for mitigating core symptoms in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analys. BMJ Ment Health, 27(1),e301303. Link

  • [46] Ishizu, K.,Ohtsuki, T., Shimoda, Y., Kunisato, Y.(2024). ACT in school settings: A pilot study of ACT-based universal group psycho-educational program among Japanese early adolescents. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 34, 100851. Link[Link](

2023

  • [45] Toyama, A., Katahira, K., Kunisato, Y. (2023). Examinations of Biases by Model Misspecification and Parameter Reliability of Reinforcement Learning Models. Computational Brain & Behavior, 6, 651–670. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-023-00175-4

  • [44] Hamatani, S., Matsumoto, K., Kunisato, Y., Okawa, S., Yamashita, M., Mizuno, Y. (2023). Dismantling cognitive-behavioral therapy components for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adolescents and adults: protocol for a network meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 13(4):e068547. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068547

  • [43] Buchanan, E. M., … Kunisato, Y., … Primbs, M. (2023). The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10, 87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7

2022

  • [42] Kowal, M.,… Kunisato, Y., …Zumárraga-Espinosa, M.(2022) Predictors of Enhancing Human Physical Attractiveness: Data from 93 Countries. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(6), 455-474. Link

  • [41] Dorison, C.A., … Kunisato, Y.,… Nicholas A. Coles (2022). In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries. Affective Science, 3(3), 577-602. link

  • [40] Hasegawa, A., Oura, S., Yamamoto, T., Kunisato, Y., Fukui, Y.(2022) Preliminary validation of the self-report measure assessing experiences of negative independent and dependent event frequency in japanese university students. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. Link

  • [39] Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22), e2111091119. Link

  • [38] Somatori, K. & Kunisato, Y. (2022) Metacognitive Ability and the Precision of Confidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, section Cognitive Neuroscience，16, 10.3389/fnhum.2022.706538 Link

  • [37] Hasegawa, A., Oura, S., Yamamoto, T., Kunisato, Y., Matsuda, Y., & Adachi, M. (2022) Causes and consequences of stress generation: Longitudinal associations of negative events, aggressive behaviors, rumination, and depressive symptoms. Current Psychology.link

2021

  • [36] Hasegawa, A., Somatori, K., Nishimura, H., Hattori, Y., & Kunisato, Y. (2021). Depression, rumination, and impulsive action: A latent variable approach to behavioral impulsivity. The Journal of Psychology, 155(8), 717-737. link

  • [35] Kashihara, J., Takebayashi, Y., Kunisato, Y., & Ito, M. (2021) Classifying patients with depressive and anxiety disorders according to symptom network structures: A Gaussian graphical mixture model-based clustering. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0256902. Link

  • [34] Wang K., … Kunisato, Y.,…Moshontz, H. (2021) A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1089–1110.Link

  • [33] Shimono, Y., Hasegawa, A., Tsuchihara, K., Tanaka, K., Matsuda, Y., & Kunisato, Y.(2021) Longitudinal association between autistic traits and affinity for hikikomori in Japanese university students. Current Psychology, 41, 8842–8849. Link

  • [32] van Doorn, J., van den Bergh, D., Dablander, F., van Dongen, N., Derks, K., Evans, N., Gronau, Q., Haaf, J., Kunisato, Y., Ly, A., Marsman, M., Sarafoglou, A., Stefan, A., & Wagenmakers, EJ.(2021) Strong public claims may not reflect researchers’ private convictions. Significance, 18(1), 44-45.Link Pre Print

2020

  • [31] Kato, A., Kunisato, Y., Katahira, K., Okimura, T., & Yamashita, Y. (2020) Computational Psychiatry Research Map (CPSYMAP): a New Database for Visualizing Research Papers. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 1360.Link

  • [30] Katahira, K., Kunisato, Y., Okimura, T., & Yamashita, Y. (2020) Retrospective surprise: A computational component for active inference. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 96, 102347. Link

  • [29] Katahira, K., Kunisato, Y., Yamashita, Y., & Suzuki, S. (2020) Commentary: “A robust data-driven approach identifies four personality types across four large data sets”. Frontiers in Big Data, 3(8). Link

2019

  • [28] Nishiguchi, Y., Sakamoto, J., Kunisato, Y., & Takano, K. (2019) Linear Ballistic Accumulator Modeling of Attentional Bias Modification Revealed Disturbed Evidence Accumulation of Negative Information by Explicit Instruction. Frontiers in Psychology,10, 2447. Link

  • [27] Yokomitsu, K., Sakai, T., Irie, T., Tayama, J., Furukawa, H., Himachi, M., Kanazawa, J., Koda, M., Kunisato, Y., Matsuoka, H., Takada, T., Takahashi, F., Takahashi, T., & Osawa, K. (2019). Gambling symptoms, behaviors, and cognitive distortions in Japanese university students. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 14, 51. Link

  • [26] Hasegawa, A., Somatori, K., Nishimura, H., Hattori, Y., & Kunisato, Y. (2019). Associations between self-reported impulsivity and a latent variable of impulsive action constructed from three laboratory tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 10, 3. Link

2018

  • [25] Hasegawa, A., Kunisato, Y., Morimoto, H., Nishimura, H., & Matsuda, Y. (2018). Depressive rumination and urgency have mutually enhancing relationships but both predict unique variance in future depression: A longitudinal study. Cogent Psychology, 5: 1450919.ß Link

  • [24] Hasegawa, A., Kunisato, Y., Morimoto, H., Nishimura, H., & Matsuda, Y. (2018). How do rumination and social problem solving intensify depression? A longitudinal study. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 36, 1, 28-46. Link

  • [23] Takagaki, K., Okamoto, Y., Jinnin, R., Mori, A., Nishiyama, Y., Yamamura, T., Yokoyama, S., Shiota, S., Okamoto, Y., Miyake, Y., Ogata, A., Kunisato, Y., Shimoda, H., Kawakami, N., Furukawa, T. A., & Yamawaki. (2018). Enduring effects of a five-week behavioral activation program for subthreshold depression among late adolescents: an exploratory randomized controlled trial. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment , 14, 2633-2641. Link

2017

  • [22] Moriguchi, Y., Noda, T., Nakayashiki, K., Takata, Y., Setoyama, S., Kawasaki, S., Kunisato, Y., Mishima, K., Nakagome, K., Hanakawa, T. (2017). Validation of brain-derived signals in near-infrared spectroscopy through multivoxel analysis of concurrent functional magnetic resonance imaging. Human Brain Mapping, 38(10), 5274–5291. Link

  • [21] Yoshimura, S., Okamoto, Y., Matsunaga, M., Onoda, K., Okada, G., Kunisato, Y., Yoshino, A., Ueda, K., Suzuki, S., & Yamawaki, S. (2017). Cognitive behavioral therapy changes functional connectivity between medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, Journal of Affective Disorders, 15(208), 610-614. Link

2016

  • [20] Takagaki, K., Okamoto, Y., Jinnin, R., Mori, A., Nishiyama, Y., Yamamura, T., Yokoyama, S., Shiota, S., Okamoto, Y., Miyake, Y., Ogata, A., Kunisato, Y., Shimoda, H., Kawakami, N., Furukawa, A. T., & Yamawaki. (2016). Behavioral activation for late adolescents with subthreshold depression: a randomized controlled trial. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 25(11), 1171-1182. Link

  • [19] Hasegawa, A., Nishimura, H., Matsuda, Y., Kunisato, Y., Morimoto, H., & Adachi, M. (2016). Is trait rumination associated with the ability to generate effective problem solving strategies? Utilizing two versions of the Means-Ends Problem-Solving Test. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 34, 14-30. Link

2015

  • [18] Tsukue, R., Okamoto, Y., Yoshino, A., Kunisato, Y., Takagaki, K., Takebayashi, Y., Tanaka, K., Konuma, K., Tsukue, I., & Yamawaki, S. (2015) Do Individuals with Alcohol Dependence Show Higher Unfairness Sensitivity? The Relationship Between Impulsivity and Unfairness Sensitivity in Alcohol-Dependent Adults. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 39(10), 2016-2021. Link

  • [17] Nishiyama,Y., Okamoto, Y., Kunisato, Y., Okada, G., Yoshimura, S., Kanai, Y., Yamamura, T., Yoshino, A., Jinnin, R., Takagaki, K., Onoda, K., & Yamawaki, S. (2015) fMRI Study of Social Anxiety during Social Ostracism with and without Emotional Support. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0127426. Link

2014

  • [16] Machino, A., Kunisato, Y., Matsumoto, T., Yoshimura, S., Ueda, K., Yamawaki, Y., Okada, G., Okamoto, Y., & Yamawaki, S (2014) Possible involvement of rumination in gray matter abnormalities in persistent symptoms of major depression: an exploratory magnetic resonance imaging voxel-based morphometry study, Journal of Affective Disorders, 168, 229-235. Link

  • [15] Yoshino, A., Okamoto, Y., Kunisato, Y., Yoshimura, Y., Jinnin, R., Hayashi, Y., Kobayakawa, M., Doi, M., Oshita, K., Nakamura, R., Tanaka, K., Yamashita, H., Kawamoto, M., & Yamawaki, S. (2014). Distinctive spontaneous regional neural activity in patients with somatoform pain disorder: A resting-state fMRI preliminary study, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 221(3), 246-248. Link

  • [14] Toki, S., Okamoto, Y., Onoda, K., Matsumoto, T., Yoshimura, S., Kunisato, Y., Okada, G., Shishida, K., Kobayakawa, M., Fukumoto, T., Machino, A., Inagaki, M., Yamawaki, S. (2014). Hippocampal activation during associative encoding of word pairs and its relation to symptomatic improvement in depression: A functional and volumetric MRI study. Journal of Affective Disorder, 152, 462-467. Link

2013

  • [13] Yoshimura, S., Okamoto, Y., Onoda, K., Matsunaga, M., Okada, G., Kunisato, Y., Yoshino, A., Ueda, K., Suzuki, S., & Yamawaki, S. (2013). Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression changes medial prefrontal and ventral anterior cingulate cortex activity associated with self-referential processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(4), 487-493. Link

  • [12] Takagaki, K., Okajima, I., Kunisato, Y., Nakajima, S., Kanai, Y., Ishikawa, S., & Sakano, Y. (2013). Preliminary assessment of the behavioral activation model in Japanese undergraduate students. Psychological Reports, 112(1), 47-59. Link

  • [11] Koseki, S., Noda., T., Yokoyama, S., Kunisato, Y., Ito, D., Suyama, H., Matsuda, T., Sugimura, Y., Ishihara, N., Shimizu, Y., Nakazawa, K., Yoshida, S., Arima, K., Suzuki,S. (2013). The relationship between positive and negative automatic thought and activity in the prefrontal and temporal cortices: A multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) study, Journal of Affective Disorders, 151(1), 352-359. Link

2012

  • [10] Kinoshita, A., Okamoto, Y., Okada, G., Demoto, Y., Kunisato, Y., Yoshimura, S., Onoda,K., Kamachi, M., Yamawaki, S. (2012) Sex differences in neural activation to ambiguous facial expression in happy and sad context, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 115(2), 349-359. Link

  • [9] Kunisato, Y., Okamoto, Y., Ueda, K., Onoda, K., Okada, G., Yoshimura, S., Suzuki, S., Samejima, K., Yamawaki, S. (2012) Effects of depression on reward based decision making and variability of action in probabilistic learning, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 1088-1094. Link

  • [8] Yoshino, A., Okamoto, Y., Onoda, K., Shishida, K., Yoshimura, S., Kunisato, Y., Demoto, Y., Okada, G., Toki, S., Yamashita, H., Yamawaki, S. (2012) Sadness enhances the experience of pain and affects pain-evoked cortical activities: An MEG study, The Journal of Pain,13, 628-635. Link

  • [7] Demoto, Y., Okada, G., Okamoto, Y., Kunisato, Y., Aoyama, S., Onoda, K., Munakata, A., Nomura, M., Tanaka, S. C., Schweighofer, N., Doya, K., Yamawaki, S. (2012) Neural And Personality Correlates of Individual Differences Related to the Effects of Acute Tryptophan Depletion on Future Reward Evaluation, Neuropsychobiology, 65, 55-64. Link

2011

  • [6] Okada, G., Okamoto, Y., Kunisato, Y., Aoyama, S., Nishiyama, Y., Yoshimura, S., Onoda, K., Toki, S., Yamashita, H., & Yamawaki, S. (2011) The effect of negative and positive emotionality on associative memory: An fMRI study, PLoS ONE, 6(9),e24862. Link

  • [5] Onoda, K., Okamoto, Y., Kunisato, Y., Aoyama, S., Shishida, K., Okada, G., Tanaka, SC., Schweighofer, N., Yamaguchi, S., Doya, K., & Yamawaki, S. (2011) Inter-individual discount factor differences in reward prediction are topographically associated with caudate activation, Experimental Brain Research, 212(4), 593-601. Link

  • [4] Kunisato, Y., Okamoto, Y., Okada, G., Aoyama, S., Nishiyama, Y., Onoda, K., Yamawaki, S. (2011)Personality traits and the amplitude of spontaneous low-frequency oscillations during resting state, Neuroscience Letters, 492(2), 109-113. Link

  • [3] Kunisato,Y., Okamoto, Y., Okada, G., Aoyama, S., Demoto, Y., Munakata, A., Nomura, M., Onoda, K., Yamawaki, S. (2011) Modulation of default - mode network activity by acute tryptophan depletion is associated with mood change：A resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroscience Research, 69, 129-134. Link

2010

  • [2] Matsunaga, M., Okamoto, Y., Suzuki, S., Kinoshita, A., Yoshimura, S., Yoshino, A., Kunisato, Y. & Yamawaki, S. (2010). Psychosocial functioning in patients with treatment-resistant depression after group cognitive behavioral therapy. Bmc Psychiatry, 10(1), 22. Link

  • [1] Yoshino, A., Okamoto, Y., Onoda, K., Yoshimura, S., Kunisato, Y., Demoto, Y., Okada, G, & Shigeto, Y. (2010). Sadness enhances the experience of pain via neural activation in the anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 50(3), 1194-1201. Link