Book

  1. Gobara, A., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Yoshimura, N., & Yamada, Y. (in press). Font illusions. In A. G. Shapiro & D. Todorovic (Eds.), The Oxford compendium of visual illusions. Oxford University Press.

Refereed articles

In-principle acceptance in Registered Reports

  1. Fawcett, J. M., Levy, B. J., Bergström, Z. M., Bulevich, J. B., Clark, C. A., Hertel, P. T., Hulbert, J. C., MacLeod, C. M., Todorovic, D., van Schie, K., & The Memory Control Consortium (accepted in principle). A Multisite Registered Replication of the Think/No-Think Effect. XXXXX. 

Published paper

  1. Uchikawa, N., Miura, K., & Sasaki, K. (in press). Allocation bias in past and future words. Japanese Psychological Research.
  2. Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Tirado, C., Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Hinojosa, J., Parzuchowski, M., Marszalek, M., Tejada, J., Rečka, K., Klein, N., Briseño-Sánchez, G., & Kundrát, J. (in press). The vertical symphony: How pitch perception shapes spatial and affective mapping across cultures. Cognitive Processing.
  3. Yasuda, R., & Sasaki, K. (in press). True or false: The effect of numerical magnitude on sense of agency. Consciousness and Cognition.
  4. Zhu, S., Sasaki, K., Jiang, Y., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2026). Culturally embodied cognition: Space–valence metaphor in the context of history, residence altitude, and revered objects. Quality & Quantity, 1-22.
  5. Han, J., Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., Takashima, K., & Yamada, Y. (2026). Robust Medusa effect across facial manipulations. Cognition, 270, 106419.
  6. Yoshida, T., Hatakeyama, S., Sasaki, K., Hori, H., Takaoka, Y., & Matsushita, M. (accepted). Influence of patient information cognitive support on physiotherapists’ thinking in rehabilitation planning. The transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers A
  7. Ikeda, A., Yonemitsu, F., Yoshimura, N., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (in press). The open science platforms fighting clandestine abuses of piracy and phishing: Case of Open Science Framework. Journal of Trial and Error.
  8. Zhu, S., Sasaki, K., Jiang, Y., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2025). Age-related vertical space-valence metaphors. Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 23(2).
  9. Buchanan, E. M., … Sasaki, K., … Lewis, S. C. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour. 
  10. Yamamoto, T., Tsuji, H., Yamaji, S., Kobayashi, M., Sasaki, K., Aso, N., & Sugiura, Y. (2025). CradleCoach: a smartphone and stuffed animal-based system for teaching neonate holding based on midwife-inspired motions. SICE Journal of Control Measurement and System Integration, 18(1). 
  11. Kuroki, D., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2025). The relationships of viewing time for the cluster image with aesthetic evaluation and the sensitivity of trypophobia. VISION, 37(3), 121–136.
  12. Yamada, Y., & Sasaki, K. (2025). The uncanny valley phenomenon: Where is the categorical boundary between categorization difficulty and categorization failure? Qeios, 7.
  13. Guo, W., Ikeda, A., Takashima, K., Masuda, Y., Ueda, K., Ariga, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2025). Social distancing between personal belongings during the COVID-19 pandemic. F1000Research, 12, 199.
  14. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2025). Affective reactions evoked by masks with an implied mouth. Perception, 54(5), 309–317.
  15. Takashima, K., Miura, A., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Ikeda, A., & Yamada, Y. (2025). Does direct gaze at online meetings enhance the illusion of transparency? The Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  16. Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2025). Sense of object ownership changes with sense of agency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51, 50–69.
  17. Ikeda, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2024). Evolution of perceived vulnerability to infection in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qeios, 6.
  18. Ikeda, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2024).Human-to-human contagion of moral disgust based on physical contact. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 15(2), 37-40.
  19. Imura, T., Suzuki, C., Kasahara, M., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Shirai, N. (2024). Effects of cluster size on trypophobic discomfort in children aged 4–9 years. Scientific Reports, 14: 16528
  20. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2024). Questionable peer review practices. Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal, 34, 59-63
  21. Oka, T., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Mori, Y., Sasaki, K., Hamada, H. T., Yamagata, M., & Yamada, Y. (2023). Autonomous, bidding, credible, decentralized, ethical, and funded (ABCDEF) publishing. F1000Research, 12: 877.
  22. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). The superiority of up/down over left/right in metaphorical association with emotion. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 42, 11-18.
  23. Sasaki, K., Kobayashi, M.*, Nakamura, K.*, & Watanabe, K. (2023). The evasive truth: Do mere exposures at the subliminal and supraliminal levels drive the illusory truth effect? Royal Society Open Science, 10: 201791. (*equal contribution)
  24. Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Takahashi, K., Sasaki, K., & Ariga, A. (2023). Backward illusory line motion: Visual motion perception can be influenced by retrospective stimulation. Journal of Vision, 23(6):6, 1-11.
  25. Suzuki, C., Shirai, N., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Imura, T. (2023). Preschool children aged 4 to 5 years show discomfort with trypophobic images. Scientific Reports, 13:2768. 
  26. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). SPARKing: Sample-size planning after the results are known. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17:912338. 
  27. Yoshimura, N., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022). Robustness of the aging effect of smiling against vertical facial orientation. F1000Research, 11:404. 
  28. Mori, Y., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022). Trinity Review: Integrating Registered Reports with research ethics and funding reviews. BMC Research Notes, 15:184. 
  29. Iseki, S., Sasaki, K., & Kitagami, S. (2022). Development of a Japanese version of the Psychological Ownership Scale. PeerJ, 10:e13063. 
  30. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021). The clone devaluation effect: Does duplication of local facial features matter? BMC Research Notes, 14: 400. 
  31. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021). The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity. PLOS ONE, 16: e0254396. 
  32. Yang, J., Wu, X., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2021). No significant association of repeated messages with changes in health compliance in the COVID-19 pandemic: A registered report on the extended parallel process model. PeerJ, 9:e11559. 
  33. Hidaka, S., Sasaki, K., Kawagoe, T., Asai, N., & Teramoto, W. (2021). Bodily ownership and agency sensations in a natural state. Scientific Reports, 11: 8651. 
  34. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Boosting immunity of the Registered Reports system in psychology to the pandemic. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 5:607257. 
  35. Yang, J., Wu, X., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Changing health compliance through message repetition based on the extended parallel process model in the COVID-19 pandemic. PeerJ, 8:e10318.  
  36. Yonemitsu, F., Ikeda, A., Yoshimura, N., Takashima, K., Mori, Y., Sasaki, K., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Warning ‘Don’t spread’ vs. ‘Don’t be a spreader’ to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society Open Science, 7: 200793 Link
  37. Yamada, Y., Xu, H., & Sasaki, K. (2020). A dataset for the perceived vulnerability to disease scale in Japan before the spread of COVID-19. F1000Research, 9:334. 
  38. Zhu, S., Sasaki, K., Jiang, Y., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Trypophobia as an urbanized emotion: Comparative research in ethnic minority regions of China. PeerJ, 8:e8837. 
  39. Sasaki, K., Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Spatial congruency bias in identifying objects is triggered by retinal position congruence: Examination using the Ternus-Pikler illusion. Scientific Reports, 10: 4630. 
  40. Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Murata, A., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Ikeda, A., Hinojosa, J. A., Watanabe, K., Parzuchowski, M., Tirado, C., & Ospina, R. (2020). Your face and moves seem happier when I smile. Facial action influences the perception of emotional faces and biological motion stimuli. Experimental Psychology, 67, 14-22. 
  41. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019). Crowdsourcing visual perception experiments: A case of contrast threshold. PeerJ, 7:e8339. 
  42. Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., & Yamada, Y. (2019). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009). Japanese Psychological Review, 63, 262-271. (in Japanese) 
  43. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Kosugi, K. E., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Close, and ye shall find: Eye closure during thinking enhances creativity. Palgrave Communications, 4:80. 
  44. Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Autobiographical memory triggered by onomatopoeia. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 36, 197-205. (in Japanese) 
  45. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Trypophobia: From the past to the future Cognitive Studies, 25, 50-62. (in Japanese) 
  46. Yamada, Y., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Involuntary protection against dermatosis: A preliminary observation on trypophobia. BMC Research Notes, 10:658. 
  47. Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Avoidance of novelty contributes to the uncanny valley. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1792. 
  48. Ohtake, Y., Okumura, Y., Gobara, A., Yonemitsu, F., Naka, K., Sasaki, K., Watanabe, N., Fujita, S., Hattori, T., Yamada, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2017). Supporting mother-child picture book reading with a search system at a public library. The Science of reading, 59, 134-148. (in Japanese)
  49. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Regular is longer. i-Perception, 8, 1-7. 
  50. Sasaki, K.*, Yamada, Y.*, Kuroki, D., & Miura, K. (2017). Trypophobic discomfort is spatial-frequency dependent. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13, 224-231.(*equal contribution) 
  51. Xue, Y., Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Viscid onomatopoeiae alter visual disgust. Cognitive Studies, 24, 360-375.(in Japanese)
  52. Kawabe, T., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). When categorization-based stranger avoidance explains the uncanny valley: A comment on MacDorman and Chattopadhyay (2016). Cognition, 161, 129-131.  arXiv
  53. Kishimoto, R., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Ojiro, Y., Nam, G., Miura, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). When a silhouette appears male: Observer’s own physical fitness governs social categorization of sexually ambiguous stimuli. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 7, 17-20. 
  54. Yamamoto, K., Sasaki, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). The number-time interaction depends on relative magnitude in the suprasecond range. Cognitive Processing, 17, 59-65. 
  55. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2016). Emotion biases voluntary vertical action only with visible cues. Acta Psychologica, 163, 97-106. 
  56. Ojiro, Y., Gobara, A., Nam, G., Sasaki, K., Kishimoto, R., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2015). Two replications of “Hierarchical encoding makes individuals in a group seem more attractive (2014; Experiment 4)”. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 11, r8-r11. 
  57. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2015). Post-determined emotion: motor action retrospectively modulates emotional valence of visual images. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282: 20140690. 
  58. Sasaki, K., Taya, S., & Miura, K. (2014). Numbers increasing to the right contract perceived time. International Journal of Affective Engineering, 13, 279-284. 
  59. Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Kunieda, S., & Wada, Y. (2014). Scents boost preference for novel fruits. Appetite, 81, 102-107. 
  60. Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., & Miura, K. (2014). Time-to-contact estimation modulated by implied friction. Perception, 43, 223-225. 
  61. Sasaki, K., Yamamoto, K., & Miura, K. (2013). The difference in speed sequence influences perceived duration. Perception, 42, 198-207. 
  62. Sasaki, K., Seno, T., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2012). Emotional sounds influence vertical vection. Perception, 41, 875-877. 

Preprints

  1. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2026, September 16). Abstract concepts map differently onto the body in humans and generative AI. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2fvce_v1
  2. Uchikawa, N., Miura, K., & Sasaki, K. (2026, April 19). Allocation bias in past and future words. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k2g7u_v2
  3. Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., & Yamada, Y. (2026, March 24). Selective reproduction of spatial–emotional mappings in large language models. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jtfxk_v2
  4. Buchanan, E. M., … Sasaki, K., … Lewis, S. C. (2024, August 04). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. OSF Preprints. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/q4fjy
  5. Yasuda, R., & Sasaki, K. (2024, February 24). Sense of agency based on the numerical magnitude of action-outcomes. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bmz3y
  6. Murray, S., … Sasaki, K., … Schmidt, K. (2024, January 26). A cross-cultural study of everyday moral experiences. PsyArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jktnv
  7. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2023, August 17). Emotional reactions evoked by masks with an implied mouth. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/adrpw
  8. Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023, April 21). Sense of object ownership changes with sense of agency. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8nsp3
  9. Guo, W., Ikeda, A., Takashima, K., Masuda, Y., Ueda, K., Ariga, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023).
    Social distancing between personal belongings during the COVID-19 pandemic. F1000Research, 12(199), 199.
  10. Oka, T., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Mori, Y., Sasaki, K., Hamada, H. T., Yamagata, M., & Yamada, Y. (2022, October 14). Autonomous, bidding, credible, decentralized, ethical, and funded (ABCDEF) publishing. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t4kcm
  11. Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Takahashi, K., Sasaki, K., & Ariga, A. (2022, May 25). Backward illusory line motion: Visual motion perception produced by retrospective attention. SSRN. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4119161
  12. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022, February 28). SPARKing: Sampling planning after the results are known. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ngz8k
  13. Ikeda, A., Yonemitsu, F., Yoshimura, N., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022, January 27). The Open Science Foundation clandestinely abused for malicious activities in unintended manners. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xtuen
  14. Mori, Y., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2021, September 22). Trinity Review: Integrating registered reports with ethics and research funding reviews. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tx5v6
  15. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021, March 1st). The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x8ugt 
  16. Yang, J., Wu, X., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, October 17). Changing health compliance through message repetition based on the extended parallel process model in the COVID-19 pandemic. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e46nz. 
  17. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, August 26). Regularity ≠ symmetry: A comment on Makin, Rahman, and Bertamini (2020). PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fqmce.
  18. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, August 12). The superiority of up/down over left/right in metaphorical association with emotion. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e8mvw.
  19. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, July 8). The pandemic threatens the Registered Reports system as well as human lives. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6wdaz
  20. Yonemitsu, F., Ikeda, A., Yoshimura, N., Sasaki, K., Takashima, K., Qian, K., Mori, Y. & Yamada, Y. (2020, May 4). Warning “Don’t spread” vs. “Don’t be a spreader” to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u4z3e. 
  21. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, February 9). Experimental psychologists also want to submit papers comfortably. PsyArXiv, doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ezaq2 
  22. Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Murata, A., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Ikeda, A., Hinojosa, J. A., Watanabe, K., Parzuchowski, M., Tirado, C., & Ospina, R. (2020, February 4). Your face and moves seem happier when I smile. Facial action influences the perception of emotional faces and biological motion stimuli.
    PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4uvdq. 
  23. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019, December 15). No relation between vertical-valence metaphor and height: An empirical answer to Liu, Zhu, and Wang (2019). PsyArXiv, doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gra6s
  24. Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., & Yamada, Y. (2019, November 29). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009). PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4qnfk. 
  25. Zhu, S., Sasaki, K., Jiang, Y., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019, August 30). Trypophobia as an urbanized emotion: Comparative research in ethnic minority regions of China. PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/u54vb. 
  26. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019, March 30). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009). PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/rfvp2. 
  27. Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018, Nov. 1). Invisible but Unpleasant: Unconscious emotional processing of trypophobic objects. PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/5xshq 
  28. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Kosugi, K. E., & Yamada, Y. (2018, Mar. 21). Close, and ye shall find: Eye closure during thinking enhances creativity. PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/uq6mg 
  29. Sasaki, K., Ono, F., & Yamada, Y. (2017, October 31). The bright side of negative experience: Preexposure to negative image improves non-judging attitude in mindfulness meditation. PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/q6vpr​  
  30. Kawabe, T., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). When categorization-based stranger avoidance explains the uncanny valley: A comment on MacDorman and Chattopadhyay (2016). arXiv, arXiv:1609.03191v2. 

Unrefereed articles

  1. Sasaki, K. (2025). I who know others am wise; I who know myself am enlightened?. Cognitive Studies, 32, 1-3.
  2. Tsuji, H., Yamamoto, T., Kobayashi, M., Sasaki, K., Aso, N., & Sugiura, Y. (2025). CradlePosture: Camera-Based Approach for Estimating Neonate’s Posture Based on Caregiver’s Holding Behaviors. 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII).
  3. Tsuji, H., Yamamoto, T., Yamaji, S., Kobayashi, M., Sasaki, K., Aso, N., & Sugiura, Y. (2024). Smartphone-based teaching system for neonate soothing motions. 2024 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 178-183.
  4. Nakashima, R., Sasaki, K., & Itaguchi Y. (2023). Editorial: Psychonomic research of body and action, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science.
  5. Yoshida, T., Hatakeyama, S., Sugimoto, A., Hori, H., Sasaki, K., Takaoka, Y., & Matsushita, M (2022). Supporting Clinical Reasoning of Novice Physiotherapists by Presenting Focus Points in Medical Information. Proceedings of HCG Symposium 2023, No.B-5-3.
  6. Sasaki, K. (2023). Introducing our Research. Journal of Informatics, 57, 141-147.
  7. Sasaki, K. (2023). Challenges for undergraduate education of reproducibility in psychology. Cognitive Studies, 30, 161-167.
  8. Ueda, K., Masuda, Y., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). Reproducibility: Whatʼs the Right Research to Do? The journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 106, 321-325.
  9. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2022). Eerie smile: Masks with a printed mouth evoke negative emotional reaction. IEICE technical report, 122, 1-6.
  10. Yoshida, T., Hatakeyama, S., Hori, H., Sasaki, K., & Matsushita, M (2022). Supporting risk management for physiotherapists in acute care hospitals. Proceedings of HCG Symposium 2022, No.B-5-3. 
  11. Hatakeyama, S., Yoshida, T., Hori, H., Sasaki, K., & Matsushita, M (2022). A Step-by-Step Examination of the Clinical Reasoning Process for Effective Education of Inexperienced Physiotherapists. Proceedings of HCG Symposium 2022, No.B-5-4.
  12. Kimura, T., Sasaki, K., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). View from familiar angles promotes preference for objects. IEICE technical report, 120, 65-70.
  13. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Experimental psychologists also want to submit papers comfortably. The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology Technical Report, COGPSY-TR-007, 1-6. (in Japanese)
  14. Amano, N., Sasaki, K., Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Avoidance reaction caused by visual disgust. IEICE technical report, 119, 65-69. (in Japanese)
  15. Xu, H., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y, (2019). Visuo-tactile trypophobia. IEICE technical report, 119, 19-24. (in Japanese)
  16. Sasaki, K. (2018). Science of disgust: Psychological mechanism of avoidance of strange objects . IEICE technical report, 117, 75-78. (in Japanese)
  17. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). A study in Trypophobia. IEICE technical report, 117, 21-22. (in Japanese)
  18. Yamamoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Space-valence associations and reaction time―the relationship between body parts―. IEICE technical report, 117, 13-16. (in Japanese)
  19. Sasaki, K., Ono, F., & Yamada, Y. (2017, October 31). The bright side of negative experience: Preexposure to negative image improves non-judging attitude in mindfulness meditation. PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/q6vpr​ (Preprint) 
  20. Ohtake, Y., Gobara, A., Naka, K., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Okumura, Y., Watanabe, N., Hattori, T., Yamada, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2017). Pitarie: The Effect of an Intervention Assisting Mothers with Picture Book Search. IEICE technical report, 116, 109-114. (in Japanese)
  21. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). Contrast measurements can be crowdsourced. IEICE technical report, 116, 53-56. (in Japanese)
  22. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Kuroki, D., & Miura, K. (2016). Can discomfort from trypophobia-inducing images be based on spatial frequency? The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 35, 87-88.
  23. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2014). Emotion formed by postdictive integration of visuo-somatic information. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 33, 129-130. (Summary of Awarded Presentation)
  24. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Kunieda, S., & Wada, Y. (2014). Unaware olfactory information enhances preference for novel fruits. VRSJ Research Report, 19, 103-108. (in Japanese)
  25. Sasaki, K., Yamamoto, K., & Miura, K. (2013). Temporal change in numerical magnitude influences time perception. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 32, 133-134. (Summary of Awarded Presentation)
  26. Sasaki, K., Taya, S., & Miura, K. (2013). Increase in numerical magnitude from left-to-right shortens perceived time. Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, 113-116.
  27. Uchiyama, T., Sasaki, K., Nakama, N., Otsuka, N., Arasuna, S., Wu, W., Ye, X., Yang, C., & Miura, K. (2013). The effects of feedback on task performance; Focus on self-esteem and task difficulty. Kyushu University Psychological Research, 14. 19-24. (in Japanese)
  28. Yamamoto, K., Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Extrinsic motivation underlies precise temporal production. Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, 91-94.

Others

  1. Yamada, Y., Qian, K., & Sasaki, K. (2022). The psychology of insect-triggered emotions: Perceiving, consuming, and researching. the nature and insects, 57, 34-37. (in Japanese)
  2. The uncanny valley involves avoidance of novelty  −Toward a society in which androids and humans can live together−  Press release (Date: 16, November, 2017) 
  3. Future Motor Action Rewrites Emotion Evoked by Previous Event: Emotion Modified by Swiping Up or Down on a Screen Discovered! − Press release (Date: 25, March, 2015)