Effects of foreign and multicultural experiences on cognition: focusing on selective trust

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730713
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Kobe Shoin Women's University
• Principal Investigator: KUTSUKI Aya 神戸松蔭女子学院大学, 人間科学部, 准教授 (90581231)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 幼児 / 異文化間教育 / 選択的信頼 / 異文化に対する感受性 / 認知

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on selective trust in Japanese preschoolers who were relatively less exposed to foreign cultures and pepople compared to those living in other countries where previous studies were conducted. Children's selectivity in their trust towards native and foreign language speakers were sought using interviews and experimental methods. While in previous studies conducted in other countries, children showed a tendency to treat pepole with foreign accents nagatively, such tendency was not found in the present study.
Through various studies, a general tendency was found that children's allowances for foreign poeple develop over preschool years and greater exposure to foregin elements such as staying abroad, being good at a foregin language, etc. conttributes towards more realistic views of foreign people and foreign languages.

Free Research Field

発達心理学