Research activity information

• Aug. 2017 EARLI (SIG: Motivation and Emotion), "Student Research Excellence Recognition", The effects of praise by friends on intrinsic motivation

  Kyosuke Kakinuma


• Apr. 2017 AERA (SIG: Motivation in Education), "Graduate Student Travel Award", The effects of praise on a "praiser"

  Kyosuke Kakinuma

• Situational formation of enduring traits: A comprehensive review of the hierarchical nature of self-regulated learning

  Akamatsu, D., Kakinuma, K., & Fujiwara, T.

  May 2026, Educational Psychology Review, 38, 78

  [Refereed]


• The timing and frequency of instruction to foster new learning: Comparing cognitive and motivational strategies in category learning

  Kakinuma, K. & Izuma, K.

  Oct. 2025, PsyArXiv


• Not only self-views, but any ratings converge without conversations due to reduced noise bias

  Izuma, K. & Kakinuma, K.

  Jun. 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) [Letter to the Editor]


• Actual-ideal discrepancy and intention to change behavior on communication about conflict in close relationships: A within-person experiment

  Kakinuma, K. & Izuma, K.

  2025, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

  [Refereed]


• Autonomy-supportive teaching algorithm which fosters independent learners

  Kakinuma, K. & Izuma, K.

  2023, Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

  [Refereed]


• Does implicit theory of intelligence moderate judgment of learning-based study time allocation?

  Ikeda, K., Jiang, J., Kakinuma, K., Tanaka, A.

  2023, Learning and Instruction, 83, 101709

  [Refereed]


• Praise affects the “praiser”: Effects of ability-focused vs. effort-focused praise on motivation

  Kakinuma, K., Nakai, M., Hada, Y., Kizawa, M., & Tanaka, A.

  Informa UK Limited, 2022, Journal of Experimental Education, 90(3) (3), 634 - 655

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Achievement goals affect memory encoding

  Ikeda, K., Kakinuma, K., Jiang, J., Tanaka, A.

  Elsevier BV, Feb. 2021, Contemporary Educational Psychology, 101945, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Effort-focused praise between friends: Effects on mindset and motivation of giver and receiver

  Kakinuma, K., Nishiguti, F., Sonoda, K., Tajiri, H., Tanaka, A.

  We examined the effects of effort-focused versus ability-focused praise between friends on individual mindset and motivation, and investigated the effects on the person receiving praise as well as on the praiser. We conducted a scenario-based experiment focusing on an everyday situation based on cooking. The participants were 271 undergraduates who were randomly assigned to six groups, comprising a 2 (receiving or offering praise) × 3 (effort-focused praise, abilityfocused praise, or no praise) design. The results show that both receiving and offering effort-focused praise positively and significantly affected a growth mindset and also had an indirect positive effect on persistence following failure; however, ability-focused praise affected neither mindset nor persistence. Our findings suggest that in daily friendship-based interactions, praise focused on effort over ability encourages adaptive outcomes for both the praised individual and the person offering the praise; therefore, students need to not only praise each other but also pay attention to the type of praise offered.

  Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd, Feb. 2021, Social Behavior and Personality, 49(2) (2), 1 - 14

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• The negative effect of ability-focused praise on the “praiser’s” intrinsic motivation: Face-to-face interaction

  Kakinuma, K., Nishiguti, F., Sonoda, K., Tajiri, H., Tanaka, A.

  Most previous research has demonstrated that receiving ability-focused praise (e.g., “You are smart”) negatively affects intrinsic motivation following failure. Surprisingly, a recent study showed that ability-focused praise affects not only the praisee but also the person offering praise, that is, the praiser. However, evidence of the effects on the praiser is quite limited, despite the utility of praise in education. Therefore, the present study employed face-to-face interaction to advance the knowledge of the effects of praise on the praiser. Two experiments were conducted in which undergraduate participants (n = 39 and n = 51) praised a research confederate. We measured attentional engagement using an eye-tracker as a behavioral indicator of intrinsic motivation, as well as self-reported task enjoyment. To estimate the effect of praise, we combined the results of two experiments and conducted a Bayes factor meta-analysis. The results showed that in the ability praise group, participants’ attentional engagement in a task was significantly lower than in the control group. The present finding indicates that ability-focused praise negatively affects the praiser’s intrinsic motivation and suggests that praise should be used with caution in social and educational contexts.

  Frontiers Media SA, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology, 11

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Development of Japanese Version of Approach-Avoidance Temperament Questionnaire (ATQ)

  Kakinuma, K, Tanaka, A.

  2018, ソーシャル・モチベーション研究, 9, 34 - 44, Japanese, No password

  [Refereed]

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• Comparing the effectiveness of teaching algorithms which foster independent learners

  柿沼亨祐, 出馬圭世

  日本心理学会, Sep. 2024


• The effect of praising children on parents' work motication

  Kyosuke Kakinuma

  日本社会心理学会, Sep. 2024


• 自律的な学習者を育てる指導アルゴリズム

  柿沼亨祐, 出馬圭世

  日本心理学会, Sep. 2023


• Autonomy-supportive teaching algorithm which fosters independent learners

  Kakinuma, K, Izuma, K

  45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Jul. 2023


• Effects of praise in daily friendship situation: Effects on mindsets and motivation

  Kyosuke Kakinuma, Fumika Nishiguti, Kotoe Sonoda, Haruhi Tajiri, & Ayumi Tanaka

  European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Aug. 2019


• ほめることがほめ手に与える影響―ほめを自ら考えた言葉で行ってもらう操作を用いた検討―

  柿沼亨祐・田中あゆみ

  日本心理学会第82 回総会, Sep. 2018


• ほめることが動機づけに与える影響―受け手とほめ手の要因の同時検討―

  柿沼亨祐・田中あゆみ

  日本教育心理学会第60 回総会, Sep. 2018


• Relationships of friends’ praise with theories of intelligence and achievement goals

  Kyosuke Kakinuma & Ayumi Tanaka

  International Conference on Motivation, Aug. 2018


• ほめることがほめ手の動機づけに与える影響

  柿沼亨祐, 田中あゆみ

  日本心理学会第81回大会, Sep. 2017, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• The effects of praise by friends on intrinsic motivation

  柿沼亨祐, 田中あゆみ

  European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Sep. 2017, English, International conference

  Poster presentation


• The effects of praise on a "praiser"

  柿沼亨祐, 田中あゆみ

  American Educational Research Association (AERA), Apr. 2017, English, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Achievement Goals and Memory Encoding

  池田賢司, 江聚名, 柿沼亨祐, 田中あゆみ

  Psychonomic Society 57th Annual Meeting, Nov. 2016, English, International conference

  Poster presentation


• 知能観とJOLが学習時間に及ぼす影響

  江聚名, 池田賢司, 柿沼亨祐, 田中あゆみ

  日本教育心理学会第58回総会, Oct. 2016, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 達成目標と符号化

  池田賢司, 江聚名, 柿沼亨祐, 田中あゆみ

  日本教育心理学会第58回総会, Oct. 2016, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 達成目標と検索誘導性忘却･促進

  柿沼亨祐, 池田賢司, 江聚名, 田中あゆみ

  日本教育心理学会第58回総会, Oct. 2016, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• The effect of praise on "praiser"

  柿沼亨祐, 田中あゆみ

  International Congress of Psychology, Jul. 2016, English, International conference

  Poster presentation


• ほめ行為が行為者の動機づけに及ぼす効果

  田中あゆみ, 柿沼亨祐, 西口史香, 園田琴絵, 田尻春陽

  日本子育て学会第7回大会, Nov. 2015, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Public symposium

• THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY


• THE JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION


• Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)


• The Japanese Society of Social Psychology

• The mechanism of autonomy-supportive teaching: A computational modeling approach

  Kyosuke Kakinuma

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2027, Principal investigator


• Teachers' decision-making process: A computational modeling and neuroimaging approach

  Kyosuke Kakinuma

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2026, Principal investigator


• The effect of praise on the "praiser": Investigation on parents

  Kyosuke Kakinuma

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Oct. 2021 - Mar. 2023, Principal investigator


• The effect of praise on the "praiser"

  Kyosuke Kakinuma

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• The effect of mindsets intervention: An investigation using fMRI

  Kyosuke Kakinuma

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 若手研究者海外挑戦プログラム, Aug. 2019 - Mar. 2020, Principal investigator