Researcher biography
My name is Kana and I am a lecturer in the UQ School of Psychology.
My research examines the effect of bilingualism on children’s social-cognitive development. I am also interested in how engaging in joint music making activities fosters social behaviours in typically-developing children, as well as those with the autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Book Chapters
Suddendorf, Thomas, Brinums, Melissa and Imuta, Kana (2016). Shaping one's future self: the development of deliberate practice. Seeing the future: theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel. (pp. 343-366) edited by Kourken Michaelian, Stanley B. Klein and Karl K. Szpunar. New York, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190241537.003.0017
Hayne, Harlene, Imuta, Kana and Scarf, Damian (2015). Memory development during infancy and early childhood and cultural variations. International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. (pp. 147-154) edited by James D. Wright. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23062-6
Hayne, Harlene, Scarf, Damian and Imuta, Kana (2015). Childhood memories. International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. (pp. 465-470) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.51025-3
Journal Articles
Spence, Jessica L., Hornsey, Matthew J., Stephenson, Eloise M. and Imuta, Kana (2024). Is your accent right for the job? A meta-analysis on accent bias in hiring decisions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50 (3), 371-386. doi: 10.1177/01461672221130595
Ekerim-Akbulut, Müge, Yavuz-Müren, Melis, Turunç, Gamze, Imuta, Kana and Selçuk, Bilge (2024). A meta-analytic review of the association between theory of mind and aggression. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 74 101890, 101890. doi: 10.1016/j.avb.2023.101890
Spence, Jessica L., Neldner, Karri, Hornsey, Matthew J. and Imuta, Kana (2023). Children's judgments on the acceptability of prejudice. Child Development, 95 (1), 34-49. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13974
Byrne, S., Cobham, V., Richardson, M. and Imuta, K. (2023). Do parents enhance cognitive behavior therapy for youth anxiety? An overview of systematic reviews over time. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 26 (3), 773-788. doi: 10.1007/s10567-023-00436-5
Byrne, Simon, Richardson, Meg, Riba, Marcos and Imuta, Kana (2023). Parent versus individual cognitive behavior therapy for youth anxiety: protocol for an overview of systematic reviews over time. JMIR Research Protocols, 12 (1) e48077, 1-8. doi: 10.2196/48077
Brinums, Melissa, Franco, Camila, Kang, Jemima, Suddendorf, Thomas and Imuta, Kana (2023). Driven by emotion: anticipated feelings motivate children’s deliberate practice. Cognitive Development, 66 101340, 101340. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101340
Imuta, Kana, Song, Sumin, Henry, Julie D., Ruffman, Ted, Peterson, Candida and Slaughter, Virginia (2022). A meta-analytic review on the social–emotional intelligence correlates of the six bullying roles: bullies, followers, victims, bully-victims, defenders, and outsiders. Psychological Bulletin, 148 (3-4), 199-226. doi: 10.1037/bul0000364
Fong, Frankie T. K., Imuta, Kana, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021). The digital social partner: Preschool children display stronger imitative tendency in
screen‐based
than live learning. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3 (4) hbe2.280, 585-594. doi: 10.1002/hbe2.280
Fong, Frankie T. K., Imuta, Kana, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021). When efficiency attenuates imitation in preschool children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39 (2), 330-337. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12366
Brinums, Melissa, Redshaw, Jonathan, Nielsen, Mark, Suddendorf, Thomas and Imuta, Kana (2021). Young children’s capacity to seek information in preparation for a future event. Cognitive Development, 58 101015, 101015. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101015
Spence, Jessica L., Hornsey, Matthew J. and Imuta, Kana (2021). Something about the way you speak: a meta‐analysis on children’s linguistic‐based social preferences. Child Development, 92 (2), 517-535. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13548
Lee, Jia Ying Sarah and Imuta, Kana (2021). Lying and theory of mind: a meta‐analysis. Child Development, 92 (2), 536-553. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13535
Imuta, Kana and Spence, Jessica L. (2020). Developments in the social meaning underlying accent‐ and dialect‐based social preferences. Child Development Perspectives, 14 (3) cdep.12374, 135-141. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12374
Spence, Jessica L. and Imuta, Kana (2020). Age-related changes in children's accent-based resource distribution. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 193 104807, 104807. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104807
Ruffman, Ted, Then, Rebecca, Cheng, Christie and Imuta, Kana (2019). Lifespan differences in emotional contagion while watching emotion-eliciting videos. PLoS One, 14 (1) e0209253, e0209253. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209253
Brinums, Melissa, Imuta, Kana and Suddendorf, Thomas (2018). Practicing for the future: deliberate practice in early childhood. Child Development, 89 (6), 2051-2058. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12938
Nash, Jeremy S., Imuta, Kana and Nielsen, Mark (2018). Behavioral investments in the short term fail to produce a sunk cost effect. Psychological Reports, 122 (5), 33294118790908-1793. doi: 10.1177/0033294118790908
Imuta, Kana, Scarf, Damian, Carson, Sally and Hayne, Harlene (2018). Children's learning and memory of an interactive science lesson: does the context matter?. Developmental Psychology, 54 (6), 1029-1037. doi: 10.1037/dev0000487
Ip, Martin Ho Kwan, Imuta, Kana and Slaughter, Virginia (2018). Which button will I press? Preference for correctly ordered counting sequences in 18-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 54 (7), 1199-1207. doi: 10.1037/dev0000515
Imuta, Kana, Henry, Julie D., Slaughter, Virginia, Selcuk, Bilge and Ruffman, Ted (2016). Theory of mind and prosocial behavior in childhood: a meta-analytic review. Developmental Psychology, 52 (8), 1192-1205. doi: 10.1037/dev0000140
Slaughter, Virginia, Imuta, Kana, Peterson, Candida C. and Henry, Julie D. (2015). Meta-analysis of theory of mind and peer popularity in the preschool and early school years. Child Development, 86 (4), 1159-1174. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12372
Imuta, Kana, Hewitt, Josh and Scarf, Damian (2015). Gollin's (1965) levels-by-levels approach: the importance of manipulating the task dimension when assessing age-related changes and individual differences in decision making. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (APR) 541, 541.1-541.4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00541
Imuta, Kana and Scarf, Damian (2014). When too much of a novel thing may be what's "bad": commentary on Fisher, Godwin, and Seltman (2014). Frontiers in Psychology, 5 (1444) 1444, 1-2. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01444
Imuta, Kana, Hayne, Harlene and Scarf, Damian (2014). I want it all and I want it now: delay of gratification in preschool children. Developmental Psychobiology, 56 (7), 1541-1552. doi: 10.1002/dev.21249
Imuta, Kana, Scarf, Damian and Hayne, Harlene (2013). The effect of verbal reminders on memory reactivation in 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children. Developmental Psychology, 49 (6), 1058-1065. doi: 10.1037/a0029432
Imuta, Kana, Scarf, Damian, Pharo, Henry and Hayne, Harlene (2013). Drawing a close to the use of human figure drawings as a projective measure of intelligence. PLoS ONE, 8 (3) e58991, 1843-1850. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058991
Scarf, Damian, Imuta, Kana, Colombo, Michael and Hayne, Harlene (2012). Social evaluation or simple association? Simple associations may explain moral reasoning in infants. PLoS ONE, 7 (8) e42698, e42698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042698
Scarf, Damian, Imuta, Kana, Colombo, Michael and Hayne, Harlene (2012). Golden rule or valence matching? Methodological problems in Hamlin et al.. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (22), e1426-e1426. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204123109
Hayne, Harlene and Imuta, Kana (2011). Episodic memory in 3- and 4-year-old children. Developmental Psychobiology, 53 (3), 317-322. doi: 10.1002/dev.20527
Willcock, Emma, Imuta, Kana and Hayne, Harlene (2011). Children's human figure drawings do not measure intellectual ability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110 (3), 444-452. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.04.013
Fucaloro, Anthony F., Dewey, Kayla, Fan, Gavin, Imuta, Kana, Jensen, Daniel and Muranaka, Matt (2008). Partial molar volumes of uracil, thymine, adenine in water and of adenine in aqueous solutions of uracil and thymine. Journal of solution chemistry, 37 (9), 1289-1304. doi: 10.1007/s10953-008-9302-2
Conference Papers
Byrne, S., Cobham, V., Richardson, M. and Imuta, K. (2023). Parent enhancement of cognitive behaviour therapy for child and adolescent anxiety: An overview of systematic reviews over time. World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Seoul, South Korea, 1-4 June 2023.
Toyama, Kaoru, Imuta, Kana, Slaughter, Virginia, Kitazaki, Michiteru and Itakura, Shoji (2015). Comparison of Japanese and Australian adults in theory of mind: Investigating the use of subject and mental state language. IEICE, Shodoshima, Japan, 30-31 January 2015.
Imuta, Kana, Scarf, Damian, Carson, Sally and Hayne, Harlene (2012). Field trips vs. classrooms: children's learning in two different contexts. KiwiCAM, Wellington, New Zealand, 20-22 April 2012.