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Long term severe competitions and the fluctuation of group member's motivation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07610138
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 教育・社会系心理学
Research InstitutionKYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Principal Investigator

KUGIHARA Naoki  Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (60153269)

Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1997
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
KeywordsMotivation / Competition / Win or Lose / Comparative / Emergency / Panic / 社会的促進 / 観衆効果 / プロ野球 / 集団 / 報酬
Research Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of severe competitions between professional sports teams and among members in a emergency situation upon participants behaviors and motivation.
Many studies showed that mere existence of others have been found to facilitate performance of easy tasks which were overlearned by subjects. However, the results of the analysis of the World Series data of the professional baseball teams were inconsistent with the above facts. Professional sports teams play unusually badly (choke) under the pressure created by their home fans and perform poorly in decisive home games of championship series. The analysis of the data of the Japanese professional baseball also finds evidence of a home-field championship choke. Moreover, the degree of the home choke was higher for Japanese teams than American teams.
Second, the present study examined the behavibr of the passengers in the Garuda aircraft accident fire which occurred on 13th June 1996. Two hundred and nineteen out of 260 passengers' data were obtained. The results were as follows : 1) Many passengers were frozen with terror immediately after the disaster occurrence. 2) They screamed and made a rush for two exits of the central part of the plane. 3) They followed others. 4) They had a fixation about their luggage, shoes, escaped direction and exit which they had chosen firstly. 5) Eighteen leaders emerged at the rear part of the plane. They ordered the others to calm down and said "we are safe! ". These remarks may defenda surging of people. 6) Some people helped and called out each other.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1997 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1996 Annual Research Report
  • 1995 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All Other

All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] 釘原 直樹: "避難行動について-ガル-ダ航空機865便 福岡空港離陸失敗事故から見いだされた緊急事態の人間行動の特徴-" 西部地区自然災害資料センターニュース. 15. 6-9 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Kugihara.: "MobPanic! Rivers and Japan." A Magazine on Rivers.(印刷中).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Kugihara,: "Gender and social loafing in Japan" Journal of Social Psychology. (印刷中).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 釘原 直樹: "パニック実験-危機事態の社会心理学-" ナカニシヤ出版, 135 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Kugihara: "The behavior of the passengers in the Garuda aircraft accident fire" Natural Disaster Information Center of Western Japan News. 15. 6-9 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Kugihara: Mob Panic! Rivers and Japan A Magazine on Rivers. (in press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Kugihara: Gender and social loafing in Japan Jouunal of Social Psychology. (in press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Kugihara: Laboratory Experiment of Panic. Nakanishiya Shuppan, (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Kugihara: "Gender and Social Loafing in Japan" Journal of Social Psychology. (in press). (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 釘原直樹: "パニック実験-危機事態の社会心理学-" ナカニシヤ出版, 134 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report

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