Book
- 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
- Buchanan, E. M., … Sasaki, K., … Lewis, S. C. (accepted in principle). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. XXXXX.
- 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
- Yamada, Y., & Sasaki, K. (2025). The uncanny valley phenomenon: Where is the categorical boundary between categorization difficulty and categorization failure? Qeios, 7.
- 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.
- Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (in press). Affective reactions evoked by masks with an implied mouth. Perception.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ikeda, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2024). Evolution of perceived vulnerability to infection in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qeios, 6.
- 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.
- 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
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2024). Questionable peer review practices. Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal, 34, 59-63
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). SPARKing: Sample-size planning after the results are known. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17:912338.
- Yoshimura, N., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022). Robustness of the aging effect of smiling against vertical facial orientation. F1000Research, 11:404.
- 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.
- Iseki, S., Sasaki, K., & Kitagami, S. (2022). Development of a Japanese version of the Psychological Ownership Scale. PeerJ, 10:e13063.
- 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.
- Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021). The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identity. PLOS ONE, 16: e0254396.
- 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.
- Hidaka, S., Sasaki, K., Kawagoe, T., Asai, N., & Teramoto, W. (2021). Bodily ownership and agency sensations in a natural state. Scientific Reports, 11: 8651.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019). Crowdsourcing visual perception experiments: A case of contrast threshold. PeerJ, 7:e8339.
- 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)
- 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.
- Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Autobiographical memory triggered by onomatopoeia. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 36, 197-205. (in Japanese)
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Trypophobia: From the past to the future Cognitive Studies, 25, 50-62. (in Japanese) Preprint
- Yamada, Y., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Involuntary protection against dermatosis: A preliminary observation on trypophobia. BMC Research Notes, 10:658.
- Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Avoidance of novelty contributes to the uncanny valley. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1792.
- 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)
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Regular is longer. i-Perception, 8, 1-7.
- Sasaki, K.*, Yamada, Y.*, Kuroki, D., & Miura, K. (2017). Trypophobic discomfort is spatial-frequency dependent. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13, 224-231.(*equal contribution)
- Xue, Y., Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Viscid onomatopoeiae alter visual disgust. Cognitive Studies, 24, 360-375.(in Japanese)
- 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
- 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.
- Yamamoto, K., Sasaki, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). The number-time interaction depends on relative magnitude in the suprasecond range. Cognitive Processing, 17, 59-65.
- Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2016). Emotion biases voluntary vertical action only with visible cues. Acta Psychologica, 163, 97-106.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sasaki, K., Taya, S., & Miura, K. (2014). Numbers increasing to the right contract perceived time. International Journal of Affective Engineering, 13, 279-284.
- Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Kunieda, S., & Wada, Y. (2014). Scents boost preference for novel fruits. Appetite, 81, 102-107.
- Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., & Miura, K. (2014). Time-to-contact estimation modulated by implied friction. Perception, 43, 223-225.
- Sasaki, K., Yamamoto, K., & Miura, K. (2013). The difference in speed sequence influences perceived duration. Perception, 42, 198-207.
- Sasaki, K., Seno, T., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2012). Emotional sounds influence vertical vection. Perception, 41, 875-877.
Preprints
- 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
- 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
- Murray, S., … Sasaki, K., … Schmidt, K. (2024, January 26). A cross-cultural study of everyday moral experiences. PsyArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jktnv
- 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
- 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
- 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. - 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
- 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
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022, February 28). SPARKing: Sampling planning after the results are known. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ngz8k
- 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
- 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
- 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 published in PLOS ONE
- 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. published in PeerJ
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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. published in Royal Society Open Science
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, February 9). Experimental psychologists also want to submit papers comfortably. PsyArXiv, doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ezaq2 published in Japanese Cognitive Science Society Technical Report
- 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. published in Experimental Psychology - 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
- 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. published in Japanese Psychological Review
- 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. accepted in PeerJ
- 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. accepted in principle in Japanese Psychological Review
- Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018, Nov. 1). Invisible but Unpleasant: Unconscious emotional processing of trypophobic objects. PsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/5xshq
- 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 published in Palgrave Communications
- 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
- 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. published in Cognition
Unrefereed articles
- 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).
- 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.
- Nakashima, R., Sasaki, K., & Itaguchi Y. (2023). Editorial: Psychonomic research of body and action, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science.
- 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.
- Sasaki, K. (2023). Introducing our Research. Journal of Informatics, 57, 141-147.
- Sasaki, K. (2023). Challenges for undergraduate education of reproducibility in psychology. Cognitive Studies, 30, 161-167.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kimura, T., Sasaki, K., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). View from familiar angles promotes preference for objects. IEICE technical report, 120, 65-70.
- 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)
- Amano, N., Sasaki, K., Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Avoidance reaction caused by visual disgust. IEICE technical report, 119, 65-69. (in Japanese)
- Xu, H., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y, (2019). Visuo-tactile trypophobia. IEICE technical report, 119, 19-24. (in Japanese)
- Sasaki, K. (2018). Science of disgust: Psychological mechanism of avoidance of strange objects . IEICE technical report, 117, 75-78. (in Japanese)
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). A study in Trypophobia. IEICE technical report, 117, 21-22. (in Japanese)
- Yamamoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Space-valence associations and reaction time―the relationship between body parts―. IEICE technical report, 117, 13-16. (in Japanese)
- 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)
- 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)
- Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). Contrast measurements can be crowdsourced. IEICE technical report, 116, 53-56. (in Japanese)
- 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.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- The uncanny valley involves avoidance of novelty −Toward a society in which androids and humans can live together− Press release (Date: 16, November, 2017)
- 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)