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2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO PHASE AND FORMATION OF SPATIAL EMOTION -AN ATTEMPT TO INTEGRATE THE FINDINGS OBTAINED BY EXPERIMENTAL AND CASE STUDIES-

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14310044
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 実験系心理学
Research InstitutionCHUKYO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

TSUJI Keiichiro  CHUKYO UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PROFESSOR, 心理学部, 教授 (20023591)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAGAWA Motomichi  CHUKYO UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PROFESSOR, 心理学部, 教授 (10065211)
KUNO Yoshihiro  CHUKYO UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PROFESSOR, 心理学部, 教授 (40068466)
SUZUKI Mutsuo  CHUKYO UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PROFESSOR, 心理学部, 教授 (30108972)
ISHII Kiyoshi  NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PROFESSOR, 環境学研究科, 教授 (70092989)
MATSUO Takashi  AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PROFESSOR, コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (30199757)
Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2004
KeywordsSpatial emotion / Fear and anxiety of height / Scale for avoidance of height / Sensory fear / Cognitive anxiety / Phobia / Genesis of consciousness / Behavioural adaptation
Research Abstract

In the present study we are concerned with fear and anxiety which are induced by facing visual environments such as novelty, darkness, height, closure, and agora. Our interest lies in experimentally analyzing their development and phases and in disclosing their traits on the basis of analyses with phobic cases. We attempted to integrate the findings obtained by experimental and clinical approaches so that we could discuss development and phase of spatial emotions. Of these the spatial emotions we focused on the fear and anxiety of height because the height could cause tragedy of fall. We examined this sort of emotion, because it interested us from ecological and adaptive viewpoints. The following are the results we obtained.
1.Conceptual distinction was made of the primary experience from the secondary one derived from it, the former being termed "sensory" and the latter "cognitive". A new scale of "tendency of height avoidance" was rated by university students, and indicated gender difference and the factor structure.
2.Psychophysiological responses were measured while subjects watched a film of visual depth extending downward. Of the measures obtained, GSRs were analyzed in relation to the rated score of fear. Three types of SCR sequential pattern were closely related to individual differences in the tendency of height avoidance.
3.Small samples of acrophobia were described as related to life history, personality traits, residential condition, and general anxiety trend. The formation of the symptom were discussed on psychoanalysis and behavioral learning schemes.
4.Theories of emotion were reviewed and an integrative model of perception-emotion-behavior was tentatively proposed.

  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2005 2004

All Journal Article (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Indifferentiated phase of visual space : The meanings of the Ganzfeld experiment.2005

    • Author(s)
      TSUJI, K.
    • Journal Title

      3D Image (The Journal of Three Dimensional Images 19(1)

      Pages: 2-5

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Detailed analyses of Ganzfeld phenomena as perceptual events in stimulus-reductive situations.2004

    • Author(s)
      TSUJI, K., et al.
    • Journal Title

      Swiss Journal of Psychology 63

      Pages: 217-233

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Characteristics of the emotion induced by visual height.2004

    • Author(s)
      TSUJI, K., Ishii, K., Matsuo, T., Haga, Y., Arakawa, H., Matsuo, M.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 53^<rd> Anual Meeting of the Tokai Psychological Society 14

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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