2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An experimental study for measuring individual differences of social cognitive ability in typical developed adults
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20530565
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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 |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
WAKABAYASHI Akio Chiba University, 文学部, 教授 (30175062)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 社会的認知 / 個人差 / 測定法 / 一般成人 |
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| Research Abstract |
It is needed that a reliable and valid instrument for measuring individual's social cognitive ability in performance style. In this study, we examind this issue using the newly developed performance task (MPMR Test). This task was designed to measure individual differences insocial cognitive ability. In this task short scenes from film clips showing characters in social situations were presented to the participants, and they were asked to judge characters' mental states. The distribution of the task performance of participants was approximately normal and its psychometric properties were found to be satisfactory. The MPMR Test scores correlated positively with scores on the Empathy Quotient (EQ) ; they carrelated negatively with scores on the Systemzing Quotient (SQ). The MPMR Test provides a further method for assessing subtle individual differences in mind-reading, that is social cognitive, ability in the general population.
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