Asami Shinohara, Ph.D.

Research Scientist
Child Development Research Group
Innovative Communication Lab
Communication Science Laboratories, NTT, Inc.


Contact Information:
asami.shinohara (at) ntt.com
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika, Souraku,
Kyoto 619-0237, JAPAN



Research Interests

  • Development of Social Cognition and Morality (Cooperation, Reputation, Gossip, Social norms)
  • Children's Social Relationship/Friendship
  • Children's Drawing

Education

2020.3 Ph.D., Nagoya Univeristy
2017.3 M.A., Kyoto University

Publication

  • Journal Paper
  • Conference Paper

Journal Paper

  1. Kondo, M., Shinohara, A., Higuchi, H., Kobayashi, T., Nishimura, T., Iwabuchi, T., & Tsuchiya, K. (2025). Early imitation predicts adaptive behavior at school age: A longitudinal population-based cohort study. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.70133
  2. Shinohara, A., Narazaki, M., & Kobayashi, T. (2024). Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses. International Journal of Behavioral Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254241265600
  3. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2024). Children are sensitive to the number of sources when relying on gossip. Royal Society Open Science, 11: 230375. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230375
  4. Shinohara, A., Narazaki, M., & Kobayashi, T. (2023). Children's affiliation toward peers reflected in their picture drawings. Behavior Research Methods, 55(5), 2733-2742. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01924-2
  5. Shinohara, A., & Kobayashi, T. (2022). Children's understanding of friendship formation caused by gossip. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 217, 105370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105370
  6. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2021). The impact of positive and negative testimony on children's attitudes toward others. PLoS ONE, 16(12): e0261075. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261075
  7. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2021). Children manage their reputation by caring about gossip. Social Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12548doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12279
  8. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2020). How do children evaluate the gossiper of negative gossip? Japanese Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12279
  9. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., & Myowa, M. (2019).Strategic reputation management: Children adjust their reward distribution in accordance with an observer's mental state. Cognitive Development, 50, 195-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.04.003
  10. Shinohara, A. & Yamamoto, S. (2018). No evidence for the watching-eyes effect on human impulsivity. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01887
  11. Shinohara, A. & Yamamoto, S. (2016). Mirrors have a modest effect on human impulsivity. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 7(1), 25-28. https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2016.46

Conference Paper

  1. Shinohara, A., Narazaki, M., & Kobayashi, T. (2025). Young children exhibit homophily in social-conventional norms within their peer social network. Poster presented at 22nd European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  2. Kondo, M., Shinohara, A., Higuchi, H., Kobayashi, T., Nishimura, T., Iwabuchi, T., & Tsuchiya, K. (2025). Imitative ability is related to ASD traits, gross motor, and receptive language at 14 months. Poster presented at 22nd European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  3. Kondo, M., Shinohara, A., Higuchi, H., Kobayashi, T., Nishimura, T., Iwabuchi, T., & Tsuchiya, K. (2025). Children who imitate more at 14 months show better adaptive functions at 8 years. Poster presented at 2025 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, USA.
  4. Sato, S., Higuchi, H., Shinohara, A., Kobayashi, T., Nishimura, T., Iwabuchi, T., & Tsuchiya, K. (2024). Older sibling effect on language development disappears in elementary school-aged children. Poster presented at 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
  5. Sato, S., Higuchi, H., Shinohara, A., Kobayashi, T., Nishimura, T., Iwabuchi, T., & Tsuchiya, K. (2024). Effect of older siblings on language development in Japanese-speaking children: A longitudinal birth cohort study. Poster presented at 45th Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association, Riga, Latvia.
  6. Watanabe, N., Shinohara, A., & Kobayashi, T. (2021). Does family mealtime promote children's emotion vocabulary development? Poster presented at 32nd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.
  7. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2021). How do children evaluate a negative gossiper? Poster presented at 32nd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.
  8. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2020). Children manage their reputation with regard to gossip. Poster presented at 10th Annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development(BCCCD) Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
  9. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2019). Seven-year-olds (but not five-year-olds) utilize gossip to evaluate others. Poster presented at 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.
  10. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., & Kobayashi, T. (2018). When do children begin to utilize gossip to evaluate others? Oral presented at Workshop on Gossip, Reputation and Honesty, Budapest, Hungary.
  11. Shinohara, A., Kanakogi, Y., & Myowa, M. (2018). Strategic reputation management: Children adjust their sharing behavior in accordance with an observer’s mental state. Poster presented at 8th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
  12. Shinohara, A. & Yamamoto, S. (2016). Mirrors have a modest effect on human impulsivity. Poster presented at The 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.
  13. Shinohara, A. & Yamamoto, S. (2016). Pictures of out-group members increase human impulsivity. Poster presented at The 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.