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Shinya YOSHINO, Ph.D.

Research fellow
the Health Care Science Institute

Research Interests:
Geographical difference of personality,
Socioecological psychology,
Life outcomes and personality

email: shinyosh8.5 [at] gmail.com
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Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shinya_Yoshino2

RESEARCH HISTORY

2023-2024

Assistant Professor (without tenure), Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University

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2022-2023

Research Associate, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University

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2024-2026

Research fellow, the Health Care Science Institute

EDUCATION

2017-2022

Graduate School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo/Japan

Ph.D. student in Psychology

Supervised by Dr. Atsushi Oshio

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2013-2015

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo/Japan

M.A. in Sociology

Thesis title: The effects of decision making made efforts on personal Regret: Do efforts make people regret?

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2009-2013

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo/Japan

B.A. in Psychology

Thesis title: The reduction of impact bias in affective forecasting: Canceling focalism

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Yoshino, S., Shimotsukasa, T., Hashimoto, Y., Ueno, Y., Mieda, T.,  & Oshio, A. (2026). Japanese adaptation of short and extra-short forms of the Big Five Inventory-2. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 96, xxx-xxx. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.96.24214

  2. Yoshino, S. & Oshio, A. (2026). Associations between energy drink consumption and Big Five personality traits among Japanese adults. BMC Public Health, 26, XXXXX. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26357-w

  3. Yoshino, S. & Oshio, A. (2025). Registered Report: Relationships between personality traits and personal values in Japan: The Big Five personality model and  Schwartz’s values theory. The Japanese Journal of Personality, 34, 224-227. https://doi.org/10.2132/personality.34.2.17 

  4. Hashimoto, Y.,  Shimotsukasa, T., Yoshino, S., Mieda, T., & Oshio, A. (2025). The structure of Japanese personality-descriptive terms. European Journal of Personality, 39, 276-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241245922

  5. Yoshino, S., Law, W. H. C., & Koike, S. (2024). Parent-child associations in COVID-19-related preventive behaviors and efficacy expectations: A one-year longitudinal survey. Journal of Adolescent Health, 74, 1146-1155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.02.015

  6. Mieda, T., Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2023). Association between individual differences in dichotomous thinking and current and childhood high-crime environments. Evolutionary Psychology, 21, online. https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049231218726

  7. Shimotsukasa, T., Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2023). Development and validation of the Japanese version of Courage Measure (CM-J):  Scale development using item response theory. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 94, 43-53. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.94.21234

  8. Yoshino, S. (2022). The regional differences in personality traits using psychological measures. Trends in the Sciences, 27, 12-17. https://doi.org/10.5363/tits.27.11_12

  9. Yoshino, S., Shimotsukasa, T., Oshio, A., Hashimoto, Y., Ueno, Y., Mieda, T., Migiwa, I., Sato, T., Kawamoto, S., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P.(2022). A validation of the Japanese adaptation of the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2-J). Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 924351. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.924351

  10. Law, W. H. C., Yoshino, S., Fong, C. Y., & Koike, S. (2022). Younger adults tolerate more relational risks in everyday life as revealed by the general risk-taking questionnaire. Scientific Reports, 12, 12184. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16438-2

  11. Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2022). Personality and Migration in Japan: Examining the Tendency of Extroverted and Open People to Migrate to Tokyo. Journal of Research in Personality, 96, 104168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104168

  12. Yoshino, S., Shimotsukasa, T., Hashimoto, & Oshio, A. (2021). The association between personality traits and hoarding behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 110927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110927

  13. Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2021). Regional differences in Big Five personality traits in Japan: Evidence from three large datasets. The Japanese Journal of Environmental Psychology, 9, 18-33. https://doi.org/10.20703/jenvpsy.9.1_19 
    *Scores per prefectures and mapping in English are posted on OSF. 

  14. Yoshino, S. (2021). Relationships between hope to move and the Big Five personality traits in Japan  Bulletin of the Graduate Division of letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University, 66, 105-114. Retrieved from https://www.waseda.jp/flas/glas/assets/uploads/2021/02/YOSHINO_Shinya_0105-01141.pdf

  15. dos Santos Kawata, K. H., Ueno, Y., Hashimoto, R., Yoshino, S., Ohta, K., Nishida, A., Ando, S., Nakatani, H., Kiyoto Kasai, K., & Koike, S. (2021). Development of Metacognition in Adolescence: The Congruency-Based Metacognition Scale. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 3510.

  16. Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2020). Associations between tolerance toward foreign residents and the Big Five personality traits in Japan: The moderating effect of socioecological variable. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 91, 323-331. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.91.19041

  17. Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2020). Big Five Personality traits and Body Mass Index in Japan. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 91, 267-273. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.91.19320

  18. Götz, F. M., Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2020). The association between walkability and personality: Evidence from a large socioecological study in Japan. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, 101438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101438

  19. Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2020). The relationships between the tendency to consume energy drink and personality traits in Japanese undergraduate students: Big Five and Sensation Seeking. Japanese Journal of Applied Psychology, 45, 238-239. https://doi.org/10.24651/oushinken.45.3_238

  20. Yoshino, S., Shimotsukasa, T., & Oshio, A. (2020). Sunshine duration and personality traits: Regional differences of Extraversion and Neuroticism in Japan. The Japanese Journal of Personality, 28, 256-259. https://doi.org/10.2132/personality.28.3.7

  21. Shimotsukasa, T., Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2019). Do People with High Dark Triad Tend to Litter? The Japanese Journal of Personality, 28, 84-86. https://doi.org/10.2132/personality.28.1.3

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2025). The associations between personality traits and energy drink consumption. Poster presented at The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences Conference, Wien, Austria (July 14 - July 18).

  2. Yoshino, S., & Oshio, A. (2024). Examining the Conscientiousness structure and its facets at the behavioral list level. Poster presented at European Conference on Personality, Berlin, Germany (August 6 - August 9).

  3. Yoshino, S., & Oshio., A. (2023). Age Differences in Big Five Personality Traits in a Large Japanese Sample. Poster presented at Association for Research in Personality, Evanston, Illinois, United States (July 20 - July 23).

  4. Yoshino, S., & Oshio., A. (2022). Regional difference of Big Five personality traits in Japan: Higher Extraversion and Openness around Tokyo. Poster presented at European Conference on Personality, Madrid, Spain (Online) (July 12 - July 15).

  5. Yoshino, S., Oshio, A. (2019). The relationships between the Big Five personality traits and migration in Japan: Evidence from a longitudinal study. Poster presented at the ISSID 2019 (International Society for the Study of Individual Differences). Florence, Italy.

  6. Yoshino, S., Oshio, A. (2019). Tolerance of immigrants in Japan: Big Five personality traits and population ratio of foreigners. Poster presented at the 3rd World Conference on Personality (WAPP 2019), Hanoi, Vietnam.

  7. Yoshino.S, & Oshio, A. (2019). Relationships between Big Five personality and walkability: Focusing on the number of stores per inhabitable area.  Poster presented at 2019 SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) Convention, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Japanese Conference

RESEARCH GRANTS

  • JSPS KAKENHI: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering) 2024-2028
    Title: An Interdisciplinary Empirical Study on Urban Walking

  • JSPS KAKENHI: Research Activity Start-up 2024-2029
    Title: Examining Age-Related Changes in Big Five Personality During Early Adulthood and the Social Investment Principle

  • JSPS KAKENHI (Early-Career Scientists) 2022-2024
    Title: The structure of facets within conscientiousness and the associations between conscientiousness and outcomes

  • Tobacco Academic Studies Center 2020
    Title: The association between tendency to consumer energy drink and psychological characteristics 

  • Sasakawa Sport Foundation 2019
    Title: Are the inhabitants living in walkable area happy?

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