Exploring roles of language on emotion generation

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K13465
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Yogo Masao 同志社大学, 心理学部, 教授 (90247792)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 金 明哲 同志社大学, 文化情報学部, 教授 (60275469) ; 大平 英樹 名古屋大学, 情報学研究科, 教授 (90221837)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 感情 / 情動 / 言語 / 言葉 / ネットワーク分析 / 比較文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, college students from different culture of languages which were "Japanese" and "Chinese" asked to recall emotion concepts by their own languages during one min.. The variety of those collected words in each culture of languages, and their networks were analyzed. We found that the variety of emotion words and their constructures of netwoks among emotion words were different among different coultures of languages.
The results suggest that people from different coultutres of languages are experienced different quolia of emotions.

Free Research Field

臨床社会心理学