2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Situation-act frequency approach on trait inferences
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11610099
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
教育・社会系心理学
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| Research Institution | Iwate University |
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Principal Investigator |
HORIKE Kazuya IWATE UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor, 人文社会科学部, 教授 (10141037)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2000
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| Keywords | trait inferences / situation taxonomy / act frequency / person-situation interaction / interactionism / setting / interpersonal relationships / context |
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| Research Abstract |
In this report, we examine the process of trait inferences from the viewpoint of interactionism. We found that correlations between the act frequency and the trait rating of the target person's character were significantly higher at the typical behavior under specific situation. However, the situations were selected arbitrary in this study. Then, we tried to construct the valid situational taxonomy for trait inferences based on the lexical approach.
As the results, we concluded that the situations were classified simultaneously from following five viewpoints, 1) setting, 2) relationship, 3) function, 4) environment, and 5) context. The taxonomy of three aspects (setting, relationship, function) was successfully constructed. However, environmental and contextual taxonomy was difficult to construct by lexical approach.
The setting terms should be grouped into 13 higher categories. And the results of the dairy interactional analysis by the diary method revealed that these categories had the validity to classify dairy settings of interaction. Moreover, trait visibility was differed on the frequency of typical acts under these situations. These results showed that the situation-act prototype might have an important role in the process of trait inferences.
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