2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Verifying the effect of positive emotion on distresses
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20300224
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied health science
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| Research Institution | Foundation for Advancement of International Science |
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Principal Investigator |
MURAKAMI Kazuo Foundation for Advancement of International Science, バイオ研究所, 所長 (70110517)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HAYASHI Takashi (財)国際科学振興財団, バイオ研究所, 研究員 (80399328)
HORI Miyo (財)国際科学振興財団, バイオ研究所, 研究員 (90399329)
SAKAMOTO Shigeko (財)国際科学振興財団, バイオ研究所, 研究員 (60419869)
OHNISHI Junji 東京家政大学, 家政学部, 准教授 (40261276)
URAYAMA Osamu 筑波大学, 大学院・人間総合科学研究科, 教授 (90114743)
MIKI Akiko 筑波大学, 大学院・人間総合科学研究科, 准教授 (30315569)
HAYASHI Keiko 筑波大学, 大学院・人間総合科学研究科, 教授 (50156436)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 笑い / 陽性感情 / SOC / 共感性 / エンカウンター・グループ / 社会隔離 / Tickling |
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| Research Abstract |
Emotional laughter is highly relevant for social interaction, especially for social communication in human beings or animals. We verified the practical effectiveness of the "laughter" or "positive emotion" as coping to environmental stresses that cause serious and negative impacts on the daily lives. We conducted two different approaches of occupational stress workshop to evoke the positive emotion toward bank clerks or healthcare professionals, both of them are recognized to feel relatively high levels of occupational stress. One approach was a self-physical exercising to provoke laughter including the facial strained muscle stretch and breathing. The other was half-constructed encounter group to develop interpersonal relationships with the social laughter or smiling by building empathy with others. In this study, we found that both different approaches to evoke the positive emotions exhibited effectively to reduce the mental and physiological distresses of participants. In the animal model for studying the environmental stress, post-weaning social isolation of rodents considerably alters fear and anxiety behaviors and changes neuroendocrine functions. In the current study, we observed that the tickling treatment, which mimics tumble-and-play manner, could reduce restraint stress-induced reactions and modulate fear-related behavior of isolated adolescent rats.
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Research Products
(15 results)
