Behavioral Scientific Study of the Psychological Distance among Asian Nations reflected as Personal Space

Research Project

Project/Area Number	60510063
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Psychology
Research Institution	HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	FUJIHARA Takehiro Hiroshima University, 総合科学部, 助教授 (20033706)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	IMASHIOYA Hayao Hyougo University of Teacher Education, 学校教育学部, 助教授 (30044952) ISHII Shinji Hiroshima University, 学校教育学部, 助教授 (60112158)
Project Period (FY)	1985 – 1986
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1986)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000) Fiscal Year 1986: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000) Fiscal Year 1985: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Keywords	Personal Space / Psychological Distance / Prejudice / 心拍
Research Abstract	1. It was founded that the psychological distance toward nations was reflected as the personal distance that was measured by personal space method. 2. There was no difference between real person and photograph person as a stimulus target for measuring personal space except coginitive measures of anxiety and tension. 3. The results yielded that when subjects approached toward the prejudiced nation,heart rate as the physiological measure increased. But the factor of nation made no difference on personal distance and cognitive measures. 4. The heart rate as physiological measure and tension and anxiety as cognitive measures increased as a function of the distance between subjects and target person. 5. National distance map was developed to measure the psychological distance among nations by projective technique.