Books & Publications
Four books with Routledge, peer-reviewed research, and a publication
record spanning three decades.
The AI for Diplomacy Trilogy
Three practical field guides — Foundation, Operations, and Influence — packed with real-world case studies and use cases. Diplomacy is the proving ground, but the playbook applies to any organization scaling AI across borders, cultures, and high-stakes operations.
Foundation
AI Use Cases for Diplomats
See exactly where AI strengthens your diplomatic work — engagement, analysis, and crisis response — and where human judgment must stay in charge, with a field manual you can apply across any mission.
Operations
AI Use Cases for Consular Affairs
Co-authored with Virginia Blaser. Turn AI into real gains for consular teams — faster, fairer visa and passport processing, sharper fraud detection, and better citizen support, with a clear-eyed look at the risks.
Influence
AI Use Cases for Public Diplomacy
Equip yourself to win the contest for hearts and minds — using AI to understand audiences, sharpen messaging, counter disinformation, and build coalitions across cultural and linguistic lines.
Mind Leap: How to Think, Feel, and Flourish in the Age of AI
Grounded in psychological science, this book examines how AI is reshaping attention, judgment, creativity, emotional regulation, and independent thought — and gives you a clear framework for engaging with intelligent systems more intentionally, so you stay clear-headed, resilient, and deeply human in an age of accelerating change.
With foreword by distinguished neuroscientist Marie T. Banich, PhD.
Academic Publications
Peer-reviewed research and scholarly work spanning experimental psychology,
social cognition, and cross-cultural adaptation — published in English and Japanese.
2007
Stress and Coping in Japanese Children and Adolescents
Published in Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. Co-authored with P.E. Jose. Self-report data from 580 Japanese youth produced a new coping measure with a reliable four-factor structure. By studying how children in a markedly different cultural environment develop coping strategies, the research illuminated the extent to which human adaptation is shaped by context — revealing both culturally specific patterns and universal developmental processes.
2002
Reframing and Wisdom within Proverbs
Published in Imagination, Cognition and Personality. Co-authored with R.J. Tracy, N. Greco, and E. Felix. Categorized 199 proverbs as positive or negative cognitive reframes and tested their properties experimentally. Found that reframing is a basic thinking strategy — one that shapes how people interpret and respond to difficult situations.
2001
Stress and Coping in Japanese Middle Childhood (日本の児童のストレスとストレス対処行動)
Published in The Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Mie University. Written in Japanese, co-authored with Kazuo Nishikawa. Cross-cultural data collected during a Monbusho Fellowship examining how Japanese children internalize coping strategies. The findings underscored a broader principle: the systems in which development occurs do not simply influence behavior — they shape the cognitive patterns through which a person learns to navigate the world.
Socialization of Stress, Coping, and Adjustment in Japan (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Doctoral dissertation, DePaul University. A cross-cultural investigation of how socialization processes in Japan shape stress, coping, and psychological adjustment. By examining a culture whose developmental norms differ substantially from Western models, the research demonstrated the remarkable plasticity of human cognition — and the degree to which external systems can restructure the internal patterns people rely on to adapt.
1999
Socialization of Emotional Adaptation in Japan: Fundamental Concepts
Theoretical paper examining how Japanese cultural practices — from child-rearing to institutional norms — shape emotional development and adaptive capacity. The cross-cultural lens revealed that cognitive and emotional patterns are not fixed features of individual temperament but are, in significant part, products of the systems people inhabit.
1998
The Effect of Schematic Context on Mental Imagery
Published in Imagination, Cognition and Personality. Co-authored with R.J. Tracy and M. Pabis. Experimental study demonstrating that the context in which information is presented alters how people generate and experience mental images — a finding that underscores how much framing matters in shaping perception.
1997
Stress and Coping in Japanese Middle Childhood (M.A. Thesis)
Master’s thesis, DePaul University. The foundational study that launched a multi-year cross-cultural research program, conducted during a Monbusho Fellowship at Mie University. Used Japan as a lens for understanding the range of human adaptive capacity — asking how children in a fundamentally different cultural environment develop their own ways of thinking and coping under pressure.
Academic profile available on Academia.edu.