Tohoku Gakuin University

Unverified Hazard Information and Visit Intention in Mountain Recreation: Within-Person Response Patterns and Implications for Sustainable Destination Management

Unverified hazard information may influence destination visit decisions before its veracity is established. This study examined visit intention across three hypothetical situations characterized by different information environments involving the emergence of unverified hazard in...

How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...

Posttraumatic Stress Dynamics and 15-Year Persistence in Great East Japan Earthquake Survivors

Importance Long-term persistence of posttraumatic stress reactions (PTSRs) is a major public health challenge, yet early prognostic markers for decadal outcomes remain poorly characterized. Specifically, the importance of early symptom fluctuations compared with initial cross-sec...