2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comprehensive research on the factors which play a role in listener's feeling evoked by irony.
| Project/Area Number |
21830017
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
AKIMOTO Yoritaka Tohoku University, 加齢医学研究所, 教育研究支援者 (00555245)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | アイロニー / 受け取り方 / 冗談性 / 性格特性 / 関係性 / 前頭前野背外側部 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study investigated the factors which play a role in listener's feeling evoked by irony, using questionnaire surveys and an fMRI experiment. Results suggested that irony evoked positive feelings when a joke or the humor of irony were evaluated as positive politeness by the listener due to the listener's attitude toward humor or their joking relationship with the speaker. In the fMRI experiment, the degree of joking-modulated activity was found in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, suggesting that executive function may play an important role in recognition of joking of irony.
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