Kentaro Fujita
Kentaro Fujita is a professor of psychology at The Ohio State University who studies the science of self-control and motivation. His published research examines the mechanisms of self-regulation, including regulatory scope, metamotivation, construal level, and conflict representation. Additionally, his work explores behavioral applications such as financial decision-making and interventions for diabetes prevention and weight management.
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- When do personal mindsets predict interest in a culture of growth versus genius? A mindset strength perspective.
- How do you measure a threat in the air? Testing the universal, dynamic, and multifaceted nature of social identity threat.
- Beliefs About Using Construal Level to Modulate Regulatory Scope.
- Attentional biases in self-control are associated with reward cue-related brain activity.
- Understanding self-control as a problem of regulatory scope.
- Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention.
- I'm Still Spending: Financial Contingency of Self-Worth Predicts Financial Motivational Conflict and Compulsive Buying.
- Weight loss maintenance following an augmented intervention for early slow weight loss responders: An adaptive trial.
- The role of conflict representation in abstinence versus moderation in self-control.
- Does intervention sequence impact self-regulatory and behavioral outcomes in an adaptive trial among adults with prediabetes?
- Metamotivation: The regulation of motivation in self-control.
- Impact of an Adaptive Worksite Diabetes Prevention Trial on Health Action Process Approach Outcomes Regarding Dietary Intake and Physical Activity.
- Happiness-To enjoy now or later? Consequences of delaying happiness and living in the moment beliefs.
- From whom do people seek what type of support? A regulatory scope perspective.
- Examining Beliefs About the Benefits of Self-Affirmation for Mitigating Self-Threat.
- Impact of an augmented intervention on self-regulatory, dietary and physical activity outcomes in a diabetes prevention trial among adults with prediabetes.
- Sex Differences in Early Weight Loss Success During a Diabetes Prevention Intervention.
- The relationship between metamotivational knowledge and performance.
- Corrigendum: The relationship between metamotivational knowledge and performance.
- Effects of matching personal and organizational mindsets on belonging and organizational interest.
- Early and slow weight loss responders' perceptions of an adaptive diabetes prevention trial: A qualitative perspective.
- A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Metamotivational Beliefs About Regulatory Focus Task-Motivation Fit.
- Impact of a Novel Diabetes Prevention Intervention for Early Slow Weight Loss Responders Among Adults With Prediabetes: An Adaptive Trial.
- Regulatory Scope and Its Mental and Social Supports.
- Construal level shifts integration and segregation of the brain network.
- Psychological distance reduces the effect of internalized stigma on mental health treatment decisions.
- Metamotivational knowledge of the role of high-level and low-level construal in goal-relevant task performance.
- Knowledge of the self-control benefits of high-level versus low-level construal.
- Neurological evidence for the role of construal level in future-directed thought.
- Using high-level construal and perceptions of changeability to promote self-change over self-protection motives in response to negative feedback.
- Psychological distance can improve decision making under information overload via gist memory.
- Self-regulation of health behavior: social psychological approaches to goal setting and goal striving.
- Change we can believe in: using perceptions of changeability to promote system-change motives over system-justification motives in information search.
- On conceptualizing self-control as more than the effortful inhibition of impulses.
- When risk seeking becomes a motivational necessity.
- Moving beyond deliberative control of impulses: the effect of construal levels on evaluative associations in self-control conflicts.
- Modeling support provision in intimate relationships.
- Inhibition in Goal Systems: A Retrieval-Induced Forgetting Account.
- Influencing Attitudes Toward Near and Distant Objects.
- Construal levels and self-control.
- Spatial distance and mental construal of social events.
- Transcending the "here": the effect of spatial distance on social judgment.
- Stereotype performance boosts: the impact of self-relevance and the manner of stereotype activation.