Conformity and Scholastic Levels: An fMORI-Asch Experimental Study of Japanese Junior High School Students.

• Project/Area Number: 23653182
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• Principal Investigator: MORI Kazuo 東京農工大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (30157854)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: fMORIテクニック / アッシュ同調実験 / 中学生 / 同調行動 / 成績 / 知覚課題 / 社会的地位 / 集団圧力 / conformity / junior high schoolers / scholastic achievement / the fMORI-Asch paradigm / 社会的同調 / 性差 / 学業成績

Research Abstract

We examined the relationship of conformity and scholastic levels of junior high school students utilizing the fMORI-Asch paradigm. Same sex foursomes of 264 students participated in the study. Only the third participant in each foursome observed the standard lines differently from the others without noticing the presentation trick that created the minority and majority without using confederates. We classified the students into three levels with their scholastic achievements. The results showed that the low-level students tended to conform more frequently than other level students irrespective of the levels of the majority students they were grouped with. No gender differences were found.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Boys, be independent! Conformity development of Japanese children in the Asch experiment without using confederates (2014)
  • Author(s): Mori, K., Ito-Koyama, A., Arai, M., & Hanayama, A
  • Journal Title: Psychology Volume: 5(7) Pages: 617-623
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Getting Rid of the Horizontal-to-Vertical Strategy : A Case Report of a Japanese Research Psychologist (2014)
  • Author(s): Mori, K
  • Journal Title: Open Journal of Social Sciences Volume: 2(4) Pages: 359-362
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Boys, be independent! Conformity development of Japanese children in the Asch experiment without using confederates. (2014)
  • Author(s): Mori, K., Ito-Koyama, A., Arai, M., & Hanayama, A.
  • Journal Title: Psychology. Volume: 5
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A questionnaire analysis of the Asch experiment without using confederates (2013)
  • Author(s): Arai, M. & Mori, K
  • Journal Title: Psychology Volume: 4(11) Pages: 888-890
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A questionnaire analysis of the Asch experiment without using confederates. (2013)
  • Author(s): Arai, M. & Mori, K.
  • Journal Title: Psychology , Volume: 4(11), Issue: 11 Pages: 888-890
  • DOI: 10.4236/psych.2013.411127
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pre-schoolers' reports of conflicting points secretly inserted into a co-witnessed event : An experimental investigation using the MORI technique (2012)
  • Author(s): Mori, K. & Takahashi, R
  • Journal Title: Psychology Volume: 3(1) Pages: 30-35
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The effect of contrived success in calculation tasks on the self-efficacy of junior high school students. (2012)
  • Author(s): Uchida, A. & Mori, K.
  • Journal Title: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Volume: 68 Pages: 272-275
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The leading group effect: Illusionary declines in scholastic standard scores of mid-range Japanese junior high school pupils. (2012)
  • Author(s): Mori, K. & Uchida, A.
  • Journal Title: Research in Education Volume: 87
  • NAID: 130007588124
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pre-schoolers’ reports of conflicting points secretly inserted into a co-witnessed event: An experimental investigation using the MORI technique (2012)
  • Author(s): Mori, K. & Takahashi, R.
  • Journal Title: Psychology Volume: 3(1) Issue: 01 Pages: 30-35
  • DOI: 10.4236/psych.2012.31005
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Conformity of six-year-old children in the Asch experiment without using confederates (2011)
  • Author(s): Hanayama, A. & Mori, K
  • Journal Title: Psychology Volume: 2(7) Pages: 661-664
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Conformity of six-year-old children in the Asch experiment without using confederates (2011)
  • Author(s): Hanayama, A., Mori, K.
  • Journal Title: Psychology Volume: 2(7) Issue: 07 Pages: 103-106
  • DOI: 10.4236/psych.2011.27100
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] No confederates needed : Social Comparison Without Using Confederates (2011)
  • Author(s): Mori, K., Mori, H.
  • Journal Title: Social Behavior and Personality Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Pages: 543-552
  • DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2011.39.4.543
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Conformity and Scholastic Levels : An fMORI-Asch Experimental Study of Japanese Junior High School Students (2013)
  • Author(s): Mori, K. & Uchida, A
  • Organizer: Paper presented at the 10th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC X)
  • Place of Presentation: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • Year and Date: 2013-06-28
• [Presentation] The effect of contrived success in calculation tasks on the self-efficacy of junior high school students (2012)
  • Author(s): Uchida, A. & Mori, K.
  • Organizer: International Conference on Applied Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Oslo, Norway
• [Presentation] A Questionnaire Analysis of the Asch Experiment without Using Confederates (2011)
  • Author(s): Mori, K. & Arai, M
  • Organizer: Poster presented at the Tsukuba International Conference on Memory
  • Place of Presentation: TIC 9, Tokyo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2011-03-06
• [Presentation] The MORI Technique: A methodological breakthrough for a variety of psychological research. (2011)
  • Author(s): Mori, K.
  • Organizer: Invited keynote address at the 2011 Malaysian Psychology Conference(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Kuala Lumpur.
• [Presentation] Memory of a Contrived Success Promoted Scholastic Achievement in Japanese Junior High Students (2011)
  • Author(s): Uchida, A. & Mori, K.
  • Organizer: ICOM-5 (the 5th International Conference on Memory)
  • Place of Presentation: York, UK
• [Presentation] Experimental Investigation of Co-witness Conformity Effects using the MORI Misinformation Paradigm (2011)
  • Author(s): K. Mori, L. French, T. Azad, F. Jack, & G. Loftus
  • Organizer: Symposium held at the 9th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC IX)
  • Place of Presentation: New York, USA
• [Presentation] Co-witness conformity effects of pre-schoolers (2011)
  • Author(s): K. Mori & R. Takahashi
  • Organizer: Paper presented the 9th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC IX)
  • Place of Presentation: New York, USA
• [Presentation] Conformity and Scholastic Levels: An fMORI-Asch Experimental Study of Japanese Junior High School Students.
  • Author(s): Mori, K. & Uchida, A.
  • Organizer: The 10th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC X),
  • Place of Presentation: Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• [Presentation] サクラを使わないAsch-MORI実験パラダイムを用いた中学生の成績と同調の関係の検証
  • Author(s): 守一雄・内田昭利
  • Organizer: 第16回実験社会科学カンファレンス
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学