An empirical study on the psychological basis of hospitality

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25501003
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Tourism Studies
• Research Institution: Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: ODA RYO 名古屋工業大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (50303920)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ホスピタリティ / 利他性 / 進化 / 互恵性 / ソーシャル・キャピタル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated psychological foundation of hospitality by survey and experiments. (1) Altruism toward friends and acquaintances affected professional hospitality. (2) Experimental studies at a laboratory and a field revealed that abstract stimulus like eye pictures can facilitate altruism which is a base of hospitality. (3) Analysis of large scale survey data indicated that an effect of individual-level reciprocity on self-rated health increase when group-level reciprocity is low.

Free Research Field

比較行動学