2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Conformity and Scholastic Levels: An fMORI-Asch Experimental Study of Japanese Junior High School Students.
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23653182
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
MORI Kazuo 東京農工大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (30157854)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | fMORIテクニック / アッシュ同調実験 / 中学生 / 同調行動 / 成績 / 知覚課題 / 社会的地位 / 集団圧力 |
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| Research Abstract |
We examined the relationship of conformity and scholastic levels of junior high school students utilizing the fMORI-Asch paradigm. Same sex foursomes of 264 students participated in the study. Only the third participant in each foursome observed the standard lines differently from the others without noticing the presentation trick that created the minority and majority without using confederates. We classified the students into three levels with their scholastic achievements. The results showed that the low-level students tended to conform more frequently than other level students irrespective of the levels of the majority students they were grouped with. No gender differences were found.
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