Biological and cultural anthropological research on children's social behavior led by the neural reward system

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560337
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: Tokyo Seitoku College
• Principal Investigator: YAGI Reiko 東京成徳短期大学, 幼児教育科, 准教授 (80281591)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KAWAI Norie 公益財団法人国際科学振興財団, 研究開発部, 研究主幹 (50261128) ; MATSUMOTO Sumiko 東京成徳短期大学, 幼児教育科, 教授 (90389859)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 子ども / 社会行動 / 音楽行動 / 集団遊び / 情報的シェアリング / 生物学的文化人類学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To examine the effect that "information sharing behavior" led by pleasant emotion on the formation of children's social behavior, we conducted field survey for traditional music activities and collective fun plays of children in Bali, Indonesia.　Recording these collective activities in audio-video, we analyzed the process and the mechanism by which children synchronize behaviors with others.
As a preliminary study, we also measured physiological and psychological changes of several children before and after the activity using salivary amylase activity as indicators and simple questionnaire. Furthermore, we clarified the opinions of local experts on the role that traditional music activities and collective fun plays in the formation of children's social　behavior through interviews with supporters of these group activities and translation of papers by local researchers.

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