Past President

Emeritus Professor

Department of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy, School of Psychology and Public Health

Email

e.kashima@latrobe.edu.au

Background

Emi Kashima is a cultural psychologist based in Melbourne, Australia. Born in Tokyo, Japan, she received her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1989). She has been an active member of AASP since the Association’s inception in 1995. She is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University.

Research interests

Emi’s research interests broadly concern cultural adaptation. She has examined the cross-cultural adaptation of immigrants and sojourners from multiple perspective, including cultural distance, social network development, trust and psychological openness, and genetic sensitivity. She is also interested in psychological threat reactions—how individuals cope with reminders of existential threats by drawing on shared cultural meanings and orienting the self towards social engagement. Her recent work centres on diversity ideologies, with a particular emphasis on polyculturalism and its social psychological implications. She is a Fellow of APS and AASP.

Selected publications

Kashima, E. S., & Kashima, Y. (1998). Culture and language: The case of cultural dimensions and personal pronoun use. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29, 461-486. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022198293005

Kashima, Y., Woolcock, J., & Kashima, E. S. (2000). Group impressions as dynamic configurations: The tensor product model of group impression formation and change. Psychological Review, 107, 914- 942. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.107.4.914

Kashima, E.S., & Loh, E. (2006). International students’ acculturation: Effects of international, conational, and local ties and need for closure. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 30, 471-485. https://doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2005.12.003

Yanagisawa, K., Abe, N., Kashima, E. S., & Nomura, M. (2016). Self-esteem modulates amygdala-VLPFC connectivity in response to mortality threats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145 (3), 273-283. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000121

Kashima, E. S., Greiner, T., Sadewo, G., Ampuni, S., Helou, L., Nguyen, V. A., Lam, B. C. P., & Kaspar, K. (2017). Open- and closed-mindedness in cross-cultural adaptation: The roles of mindfulness and need for cognitive closure. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 59, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.05.001

Plusnin, N., Pepping, C. A., & Kashima, E. S. (2018). The role of close relationships in terror management: A systematic review and research agenda. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 22(4), 307-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868317753505

Sadewo, G. R. P., Kashima, E. S., Gallagher, C., Koskinen, J. & Kashima, Y. (2020). International students’ cross-cultural adjustment: Social selection or social influence. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51,490–510. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120930092

Virgona, A., & Kashima, E. S. (2021). Diversity ideologies and flourishing: An Australian study comparing polyculturalism, multiculturalism, and colorblindness. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 81, 236-251. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cen7XTj0BASw