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2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on Emotional/Neuroscientific Basis of Forgiveness

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 15H03447
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Social psychology
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

Ohtsubo Yohsuke  神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (80322775)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 松永 昌宏  愛知医科大学, 医学部, 講師 (00533960)
大平 英樹  名古屋大学, 情報学研究科, 教授 (90221837)
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Keywords謝罪 / 対人関係 / 赦し / fMRI
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted three fMRI studies on interpersonal relations through 2015 to 2017. In 2015, we investigated the brain regions that respond to costly apologies. We found the theory-of-mind region responded to costly apologies. Apology is one type of commitment signals. Therefore, we investigated which brain region would respond to various forms of commitment signals (except costly apologies). We found a brain region that is known to code value responds to commitment signals emitted by their friends. In 2017, we tested whether the same brain regions would respond to both interpersonal and group apologies, and found that partially overlapped regions responded to both interpersonal and group apologies.

Free Research Field

進化心理学

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Published: 2019-03-29  

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