Effects of "nonzero" on guilt and conciliatory behaviors

• Project/Area Number: 26590132
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Ohtsubo Yohsuke 神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (80322775)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: ノンゼロ関係 / 関係価値 / 罪悪感 / 謝罪 / 親密さ / シグナル / 和解 / 自己罰

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research investigated associations between interpersonal relationships and emotions. Initially, this project envisioned to scrutinize the effect of relationship value in the transgression context on the offenders’ guilt and conciliatory behaviors. However, the present project revealed that relationship value does not necessarily elevate offender guilt. Therefore, we decided to examine how relationship value can be experimentally manipulated. This line of investigation revealed that commitment signals and social attention effectively increase a sense of intimacy. In future studies, relationship value can be manipulated by altering the quantity of commitment signals and social attention.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] University of California, Santa Barbara(米国)
• [Journal Article] Loneliness predicts insensitivity to partner commitment (2017)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, M., Smith, A., & Ohtsubo, Y.
  • Journal Title: Personality and Individual Differences Volume: 105 Pages: 200-207
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.09.047
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride (2017)
  • Author(s): 3.Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Volume: 114 Issue: 8 Pages: 1874-1879
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1614389114
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] People are more generous to a partner who pays attention to them (2017)
  • Author(s): Ohtsubo, Y., & Yamaguchi, C.
  • Journal Title: Evolutionary Psychology Volume: 15 Issue: 1
  • DOI: 10.1177/1474704916687310
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Social attention promotes partner intimacy (2016)
  • Author(s): Ohtsubo, Y., & Tamada, S.
  • Journal Title: Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Pages: 21-24
  • DOI: 10.5178/lebs.2016.45
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The Price of Being Seen to Be Just: An Intention Signalling Strategy for Indirect Reciprocity. (2016)
  • Author(s): Tanaka, H., Ohtsuki, H. & Ohtsubo, Y.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Volume: 283(1835) Issue: 1835 Pages: 20160694-20160694
  • DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0694
  • NAID: 120005842582
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Development of Japanese Measures of Reconciliatory Tendencies: The Japanese Trait Forgivingness Scale and the Japanese Proclivity to Apologize Measure (2015)
  • Author(s): Ohtsubo Y, Yamaura K, & Yagi A.
  • Journal Title: Japanese Journal of Social Psychology Volume: 31 Issue: 2 Pages: 135-142
  • DOI: 10.14966/jssp.31.2_135
  • NAID: 130005114034
  • ISSN: 0916-1503, 2189-1338
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-30
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] 支配傾向の高い人は謝らないのか？ (2016)
  • Author(s): 大坪庸介
  • Organizer: 日本人間行動進化学会
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢市文化ホール（石川県・金沢市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-10
• [Presentation] 価値ある相手を赦すのは理性的な判断か？：回想法による検討 (2016)
  • Author(s): 八木彩乃・大坪庸介
  • Organizer: 日本感情心理学会
  • Place of Presentation: 筑波大学（茨城県・つくば市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-18
• [Presentation] 関係価値が罪悪感に及ぼす影響：皮膚コンダクタンス反応を用いた検 (2015)
  • Author(s): 松ヶ崎渓介・野口泰基・大坪庸介
  • Organizer: 日本社会心理学会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京女子大学（東京都・杉並区）
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-31