2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Effects of explanation on perceived existence or credibility of explanation target objects
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24530795
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Meiji Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TABATA Naoya 常磐大学, 人間科学部, 助教 (00553786)
SUGA Sayaka 愛知学院大学, 教養部, 講師 (30584403)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | explanation experience / post explanation effect / belief perseverance / saying is believing / shared reality / self explanation |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Explanation experience could affect the cognition of explainers themselves. We call this phenomenon as post-explanation effect (PEx effect). Purpose of this study is to demonstrate this effect by using experimental method and submit basic model of this effect. Explanation experience of fictitious psychological term, fictitious goods, own personality, lie story, the cause of trouble conduce PEx effect. Additional intermediate factors such as felicity of explanation, commitment, were also pointed out. The findings of this study will be contributed to the mechanism of rumor spreading process from the transmitter’s point of view.
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| Free Research Field |
社会心理学
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