Cleone MitsuiPolitical Psychology

Papers

Published work and manuscripts in progress.

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

  1. Mitsui, C., & Kawamura, Y. (2026). People shift political expression to fit the room in small online group chats: Evidence from AI-simulated chat experiments. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 9, 100331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2026.100331

  2. Mitsui, C., & Kawamura, Y. (2026). How Contextual Variations in Moral and Political Disagreements Influence the Perception of Not Taking a Side. Collabra: Psychology, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.160215

  3. Mitsui, C., & Kawamura, Y. (in press). Playing It Safe? Voters Decode Politicians' Not Answering as an Answer. Japanese Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.70019

Manuscripts in Prep or Under Review

  1. Mitsui, C., & Kawamura, Y. Mapping the Political Middle in Japan and the United States [Title rephrased for peer review]. Under review.

  2. Mitsui, C., & Kawamura, Y. Political participation across countries and regions [Title rephrased for peer review]. Working paper.

Doctoral dissertation

Neither here nor there: how the political middle is perceived, misread, and judged [Working title].

Doctoral dissertation in preparation, Osaka Metropolitan University.