Increasing self-other integration through multisensory integration promotes prosocial behaviors

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26280048
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: University of Toyama
• Principal Investigator: SATO Atsushi 富山大学, 人間発達科学部, 教授 (00422626)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 板倉 昭二 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50211735) ; 大平 英樹 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 教授 (90221837)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 自他統合 / 社会的随伴性 / 向社会的行動 / 潜在的態度 / 距離知覚

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Previous studies have showed that people exhibit greater empathy and more helping behavior toward the members of ingroup than those of outgroup. Thus, the problem is how to overcome such a bias. The present studies clearly showed that social contingency between one’s own actions and responses of outgroup members reduced implicit racial bias and promoted helping behaviors toward outgroup members. The present studies also showed that social contingency modulated the perceived distance between self and other.

Free Research Field

社会認知科学