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. Buchanan, E. M., … Sasaki, K., … Lewis, S. C. (accepted in principle). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languagesXXXXX.  
  2. 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 EffectXXXXX

Published paper

  1. Yamada, Y., & Sasaki, K. (2025). The uncanny valley phenomenon: Where is the categorical boundary between categorization difficulty and categorization failure? Qeios, 7.
  2. 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.
  3. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (in press). Affective reactions evoked by masks with an implied mouth. Perception.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Ikeda, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2024). Evolution of perceived vulnerability to infection in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qeios, 6.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2024). Questionable peer review practices. Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal, 34, 59-63
  10. 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.
  11. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). The superiority of up/down over left/right in metaphorical association with emotionThe Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 42, 11-18.
  12. 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 Science10: 201791. (*equal contribution)
  13. Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Takahashi, K., Sasaki, K., & Ariga, A. (2023). Backward illusory line motion: Visual motion perception can be influenced by retrospective stimulationJournal of Vision, 23(6):6, 1-11.
  14. Suzuki, C., Shirai, N., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Imura, T. (2023). Preschool children aged 4 to 5 years show discomfort with trypophobic imagesScientific Reports13:2768. 
  15. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023). SPARKing: Sample-size planning after the results are known. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience17:912338. 
  16. Yoshimura, N., Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022). Robustness of the aging effect of smiling against vertical facial orientationF1000Research11:404. 
  17. Mori, Y., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022). Trinity Review: Integrating Registered Reports with research ethics and funding reviewsBMC Research Notes, 15:184. 
  18. Iseki, S., Sasaki, K., & Kitagami, S. (2022). Development of a Japanese version of the Psychological Ownership ScalePeerJ10:e13063. 
  19. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021). The clone devaluation effect: Does duplication of local facial features matter? BMC Research Notes14: 400. 
  20. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021). The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identityPLOS ONE16: e0254396. 
  21. 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 modelPeerJ9:e11559. 
  22. Hidaka, S., Sasaki, K., Kawagoe, T., Asai, N., & Teramoto, W. (2021). Bodily ownership and agency sensations in a natural stateScientific Reports11: 8651. 
  23. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Boosting immunity of the Registered Reports system in psychology to the pandemicFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics5:607257. 
  24. 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 pandemicPeerJ8:e10318.  
  25. 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 pandemicRoyal Society Open Science7: 200793 Link
  26. Yamada, Y., Xu, H., & Sasaki, K. (2020). A dataset for the perceived vulnerability to disease scale in Japan before the spread of COVID-19F1000Research9:334. 
  27. Zhu, S., Sasaki, K., Jiang, Y., Qian, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Trypophobia as an urbanized emotion: Comparative research in ethnic minority regions of ChinaPeerJ8:e8837. 
  28. Sasaki, K., Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Spatial congruency bias in identifying objects is triggered by retinal position congruence: Examination using the Ternus-Pikler illusionScientific Reports, 10: 4630. 
  29. 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 stimuliExperimental Psychology67, 14-22. 
  30. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2019). Crowdsourcing visual perception experiments: A case of contrast thresholdPeerJ7:e8339. 
  31. Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., & Yamada, Y. (2019). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009). Japanese Psychological Review63, 262-271. (in Japanese) 
  32. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Kosugi, K. E., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Close, and ye shall find: Eye closure during thinking enhances creativityPalgrave Communications4:80. 
  33. Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Autobiographical memory triggered by onomatopoeiaThe Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science36, 197-205. (in Japanese) 
  34. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Trypophobia: From the past to the future Cognitive Studies25, 50-62. (in Japanese) Preprint
  35. Yamada, Y., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Involuntary protection against dermatosis: A preliminary observation on trypophobiaBMC Research Notes10:658. 
  36. Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Avoidance of novelty contributes to the uncanny valleyFrontiers in Psychology8:1792. 
  37. 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 libraryThe Science of reading59, 134-148. (in Japanese)
  38. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Regular is longeri-Perception, 8, 1-7. 
  39. Sasaki, K.*, Yamada, Y.*, Kuroki, D., & Miura, K. (2017). Trypophobic discomfort is spatial-frequency dependentAdvances in Cognitive Psychology13, 224-231.(*equal contribution) 
  40. Xue, Y., Gobara, A., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). Viscid onomatopoeiae alter visual disgustCognitive Studies, 24, 360-375.(in Japanese)
  41. 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
  42. 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 stimuliLetters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science7, 17-20. 
  43. Yamamoto, K., Sasaki, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). The number-time interaction depends on relative magnitude in the suprasecond rangeCognitive Processing17, 59-65. 
  44. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2016). Emotion biases voluntary vertical action only with visible cuesActa Psychologica163, 97-106. 
  45. 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 Psychology11, r8-r11. 
  46. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2015). Post-determined emotion: motor action retrospectively modulates emotional valence of visual imagesProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences282: 20140690. 
  47. Sasaki, K., Taya, S., & Miura, K. (2014). Numbers increasing to the right contract perceived timeInternational Journal of Affective Engineering13, 279-284. 
  48. Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Kunieda, S., & Wada, Y. (2014). Scents boost preference for novel fruitsAppetite81, 102-107. 
  49. Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., & Miura, K. (2014). Time-to-contact estimation modulated by implied frictionPerception43, 223-225. 
  50. Sasaki, K., Yamamoto, K., & Miura, K. (2013). The difference in speed sequence influences perceived durationPerception42, 198-207. 
  51. Sasaki, K., Seno, T., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2012). Emotional sounds influence vertical vectionPerception41, 875-877. 

Preprints

  1. Buchanan, E. M., … Sasaki, K., … Lewis, S. C. (2024, August 04). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. OSF Preprintshttps://osf.io/preprints/osf/q4fjy
  2. 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
  3. Murray, S., … Sasaki, K., … Schmidt, K. (2024, January 26). A cross-cultural study of everyday moral experiences. PsyArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jktnv
  4. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2023, August 17). Emotional reactions evoked by masks with an implied mouthPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/adrpw
  5. Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2023, April 21). Sense of object ownership changes with sense of agencyPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8nsp3
  6. 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 pandemicF1000Research12(199), 199.
  7. 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) publishingPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t4kcm
  8. Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Takahashi, K., Sasaki, K., & Ariga, A. (2022, May 25). Backward illusory line motion: Visual motion perception produced by retrospective attentionSSRNhttps://ssrn.com/abstract=4119161
  9. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022, February 28). SPARKing: Sampling planning after the results are knownPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ngz8k
  10. Ikeda, A., Yonemitsu, F., Yoshimura, N., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2022, January 27). The Open Science Foundation clandestinely abused for malicious activities in unintended mannersPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xtuen
  11. Mori, Y., Takashima, K., Ueda, K., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2021, September 22). Trinity Review: Integrating registered reports with ethics and research funding reviewsPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tx5v6
  12. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., & Yamada, Y. (2021, March 1st). The clone devaluation effect: A new uncanny phenomenon concerning facial identityPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x8ugt published in PLOS ONE
  13. 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 pandemicPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e46nz. published in PeerJ
  14. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, August 26). Regularity ≠ symmetry: A comment on Makin, Rahman, and Bertamini (2020)PsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fqmce.
  15. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, August 12). The superiority of up/down over left/right in metaphorical association with emotionPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e8mvw.
  16. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, July 8). The pandemic threatens the Registered Reports system as well as human livesPsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6wdaz
  17. 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 pandemicPsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u4z3e. published in Royal Society Open Science
  18. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020, February 9). Experimental psychologists also want to submit papers comfortablyPsyArXiv, doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ezaq2 published in Japanese Cognitive Science Society Technical Report
  19. 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.
    PsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4uvdq. published in Experimental Psychology
  20. 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
  21. Sasaki, K., Yonemitsu, F., & Yamada, Y. (2019, November 29). Goodness of the side of the dominant hand: A registered direct replication of Casasanto (2009)PsyArXivhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4qnfk. published in Japanese Psychological Review
  22. 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 ChinaPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/u54vb. accepted in PeerJ
  23. 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
  24. Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018, Nov. 1). Invisible but Unpleasant: Unconscious emotional processing of trypophobic objectsPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/5xshq 
  25. Yonemitsu, F., Sasaki, K., Gobara, A., Kosugi, K. E., & Yamada, Y. (2018, Mar. 21). Close, and ye shall find: Eye closure during thinking enhances creativityPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/uq6mg published in Palgrave Communications
  26. 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 meditationPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/q6vpr​  
  27. 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

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. Nakashima, R., Sasaki, K., & Itaguchi Y. (2023). Editorial: Psychonomic research of body and action, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science.
  4. 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.
  5. Sasaki, K. (2023). Introducing our Research. Journal of Informatics, 57, 141-147.
  6. Sasaki, K. (2023). Challenges for undergraduate education of reproducibility in psychologyCognitive Studies30, 161-167.
  7. 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 Engineers106, 321-325.
  8. Tachibana, T., Ozaki, T., Hashimoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2022). Eerie smile: Masks with a printed mouth evoke negative emotional reactionIEICE technical report122, 1-6.
  9. Yoshida, T., Hatakeyama, S., Hori, H., Sasaki, K., & Matsushita, M (2022). Supporting risk management for physiotherapists in acute care hospitalsProceedings of HCG Symposium 2022, No.B-5-3. 
  10. 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 PhysiotherapistsProceedings of HCG Symposium 2022, No.B-5-4.
  11. Kimura, T., Sasaki, K., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). View from familiar angles promotes preference for objectsIEICE technical report120, 65-70.
  12. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2020). Experimental psychologists also want to submit papers comfortablyThe Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology Technical ReportCOGPSY-TR-007, 1-6. (in Japanese)
  13. Amano, N., Sasaki, K., Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Avoidance reaction caused by visual disgustIEICE technical report119, 65-69. (in Japanese)
  14. Xu, H., Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y, (2019). Visuo-tactile trypophobiaIEICE technical report119, 19-24. (in Japanese)
  15. Sasaki, K. (2018). Science of disgust: Psychological mechanism of avoidance of strange objects IEICE technical report117, 75-78. (in Japanese)
  16. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2017). A study in TrypophobiaIEICE technical report117, 21-22. (in Japanese)
  17. Yamamoto, K., & Sasaki, K. (2017). Space-valence associations and reaction time―the relationship between body parts―IEICE technical report117, 13-16. (in Japanese)
  18. 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 meditationPsyArXiv, psyarxiv.com/q6vpr​ (Preprint) 
  19. 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 SearchIEICE technical report116, 109-114. (in Japanese)
  20. Sasaki, K., & Yamada, Y. (2016). Contrast measurements can be crowdsourcedIEICE technical report116, 53-56. (in Japanese)
  21. 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 Science35, 87-88.
  22. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., & Miura, K. (2014). Emotion formed by postdictive integration of visuo-somatic informationThe Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science33, 129-130. (Summary of Awarded Presentation)
  23. Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Kunieda, S., & Wada, Y. (2014). Unaware olfactory information enhances preference for novel fruitsVRSJ Research Report19, 103-108. (in Japanese)
  24. Sasaki, K., Yamamoto, K., & Miura, K. (2013). Temporal change in numerical magnitude influences time perceptionThe Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science32, 133-134. (Summary of Awarded Presentation)
  25. Sasaki, K., Taya, S., & Miura, K. (2013). Increase in numerical magnitude from left-to-right shortens perceived timeProceedings of 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, 113-116.
  26. 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 difficultyKyushu University Psychological Research14. 19-24. (in Japanese)
  27. Yamamoto, K., Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Extrinsic motivation underlies precise temporal productionProceedings 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 researchingthe nature and insects57, 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)