English

• Education

・2018 M.A. Department of Psychology, Graduate school of Education, Hiroshima University, Japan.
・2016 B.A.  Department of Psychology, Graduate school of Education, Hiroshima University, Japan.

• Laboratory

・Cognitive Psychology Laboratory (Hiroshima Univeristy) 【Japanese website link】
・Takashi Nakao 【google schlor link】

Research interests

• Emotion regulation

I am interested in what types of emotion regulation strategies can be effective in alleviating negative emotions. I also want to examine the factors (e.g., working memory) that promote the effectiveness of emotion regulation. Although emotion regulation strategy is generally considered adaptive by observing the attenuation of negative emotion and/or promotion of mental health, it can be considered that whether emotion regulation is adaptive should be determined by considering the purpose and context. I would like to examine the cost and benefit of emotion regulation in consideration of context and goal by using experience sampling and physio-psychological experiments.

• Emotion and interoception

It is assumed that interoceptive awareness (or interoceptive sensitivity) is involved in emotional awareness, which in turn, promotes emotion regulation. Our findings showed that people with high interoceptive sensitivity are better at reappraisal and distraction. Contrary to these findings, it has been reported that excessive interoceptive sensitivity impairs emotional regulation. Based on these findings, I would like to examine a tipping point or context in which interoceptive sensitivity promotes emotional regulation.

• Mindfulness and decentering

Decentering is a core treatment component of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). I am interested in the possibility that emotion regulation enhances decentering. Although our results indicated that reappraisal increases decentering, several hypotheses about the mechanism by which reappraisal enhances decentering can be assumed. I would like to examine this mechanism further, in the future.

• Calmness and peace of mind

In the Oriental region, including Japan, low arousal positive emotions (e.g., calmness) are often valued and preferred. So far, studies on emotion regulation have examined many ways to reduce negative emotion; however, few studies have been conducted on how to facilitate calm emotion. I would like to examine this point from the viewpoint of intra-personal and inter-personal emotion regulation.

Presentations in International Conferences

1. 1. 【accepted】Ryota Kobayashi, Tatsuru Honda, Junya Hashimoto, Shiho Kashihara, Yasuhiro Iwasa, Kazuki Yamamoto, Jianhong Zhu, Tsuyoshi Kawahahara, Risa Nakagawa, Mayo Anno, Mai Hanaoka, Ayano Ikeda, Ryosuke Hiramoto, Takashi Nakao (2020). Emotion Regulation and Decentering: the effect of reappraisal tendency and ability on decentering. 32^nd  International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic, July, 19-24.
   2. Ryota Kobayashi & Jun Shigematsu (2019). What cognitive emotion regulation strategies influence decentering? 58th Conference of Taiwanese Psychological Association, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, November, 2-3, 2019. 【poster】
   3. Junya Hashimoto, Ryota Kobayashi, Shiho Kashihara, Ryosuke Hiramoto, Yusuke Haraguchi, Tatsuru Honda, Norika Ishida, Ayaka Okazaki, Kazumi Kishimoto, Honami Nakano, Hiroki Horinouchi, Jianhong Zhu, Yueze Sun, Kazuki Yamamoto, Shushi Namba, Makoto Miyatani, & Takashi Nakao. (2019). The relationship between time perspective and the mood repair effect of positive autobiographical memory. 58th Conference of Taiwanese Psychological Association, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, November, 2-3, 2019.
   4. Ryota Kobayashi, Tatsuru Honda, & Takashi Nakao. (2019). Effects of cognitive reappraisal ability and frequency on mental health. The 21st European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), La Pirámide de Arona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, September 25-28, 2019. 【poster】
   5. Tatsuru Honda, Ryota Kobayashi, Takashi Nakao (2019). Is Interoceptive Accuracy Related to Cognitive Reappraisal Ability? The 21st European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), La Pirámide de Arona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, September 25-28, 2019.
   6. Hashimoto, J., Kobayashi, R., Kashihara, S., Hiramoto, R., Haraguchi, Y., Ishida, N., Okazaki, A., Kishimoto, K., Nakano, H., Horinouchi, H., Honda, T., Zhu, J., Sun, Y., Yamamoto, K., Nakao, T., Kanayama, N., Miyatani, M. (2019). Does the degree of positivity of autobiographical memories cause a difference in the mood repair effect between voluntary and involuntary retrieval in depressed people? The 21st European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), La Pirámide de Arona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, September 25-28, 2019.
   7. Hiramoto, R., Hashimoto, J., Kobayashi, R., Kashihara, S., Haraguchi, Y., Ishida, N., Okazaki, A., Kishimoto, K., Nakano, H., Horinouchi, H., Honda, T., Zhu, J., Sun, Y., Yamamoto, K., Nakao, T. (2019, Sep). Long range temporal correlation during resting state predicts embodied sense of ownership?. The 21st European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), La Pirámide de Arona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, September 25-28, 2019.
   8. Namba, S., Kabir, R. S., Matuda, K., Noguchi, Y., Kambara, K., Kobayashi, R., Shigematsu, J., Miyatani, M., and Nakao, T. Strangers who love fiction: fantasy component of interpersonal reactivity associated with empathic accuracy. The 6th World Congress on Positive Psychology, Melbourne, July 18-21, 2019.
   9. Ryota KOBAYASHI, Ken’ichiro NAKASHIMA, Makoto MIYATANI, & Takashi NAKAO (2019). Interpersonal emotion regulation contagion: reappraisal and distraction influences reappraisal and distraction of others. International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland, July 10-13, 2019.
   10. Kobayashi Ryota, Nakashima Ken’ichiro, Miyatani Makoto, & Nakao Takashi. (2019). Interpersonal emotion regulation facilitates relationship satisfaction with friends: An actor–partner interdependence model study. Annual Convention of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP2019),Portland, USA, February 7-9, 2018 【poster】
   11. Kobayashi Ryota, Miyatani Makoto, & Nakao Takashi. (2018). The relationship between self-control and emotion regulation strategies: Cognitive reappraisal, distraction, and expressive suppression. 6th Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS2018), Hong Kong, December 18-20, 2018. 【Proceedings pp. 245-253】【poster】
   12. Kobayashi Ryota, Miyatani Makoto, & Nakao Takashi. (2018). Effect of positive reappraisal: Does reappraisal mediate the relationship between metacognitive awareness and anxiety? Annual Convention of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP2018), Atlanta, USA, March 1-3, 2018
   13. Kobayashi Ryota, Miyatani Makoto, & Nakao Takashi. (2017). Working Memory Capacity Influences the Effect of Distraction. The Asian Conference on Psychology the Behavioral Sciences, Kobe, Japan, March, 2017
   14. Namba Shushi, Russell Kabir, Fukuda Nao, Kobayashi Ryouta, Miyatani Makoto, Nakao Takashi. (2017). The initiating ability of facial components and their combinations: testing the facial feedback hypothesis with prior feeling states. the International Society for Research on Emotion. St. Louis, USA, July, 2017
   15. Miyagi Madoka, Mizuochi Ryohei, Yang Wanlu, Kashihara Shiho, Kobayashi Ryota, Hiramoto Ryosuke,…Nakao Takashi. Personality trait of novelty seeking predicts the degree of choice-induced preference change. OR29-14-1. The 31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), July 24-29, 2016, Pacifico Yokohama,Yokohama, Japan