| Project/Area Number |
20K22270
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0110:Psychology and related fields
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| Research Institution | Akita International University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAYLOR Pamela 国際教養大学, 国際教養学部, 助教 (10880099)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-09-11 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | emotion / 災害伝承 / risk assessment / memorials / disaster / negative emotion / morbid curiosity / emotional reactivity / resilience / post-traumatic growth / pro-social motivations / social bonding / catastrophe |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This experimental psychological research will to test the hypothesis that the emotion of horror motivates greater pro-social behavior than other negative emotions, such as fear and moral disgust. Such research can help illuminate why people risk their lives to save others in catastrophes.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
For my research exploring how traditional disaster culture of memorials, rituals and ceremonies could act as effective risk communication cultural devices for low-probability high-impact disaster events, I have designed two studies to be conducted in the summer of 2024. These studies will compare people's intuitive sense of risk for seemingly safe locations that have previously experienced large-scale disasters by comparing risk assessments based on large scale infrastructure protection features (e.g., sea walls constructed post-tsunami) against cultural symbols of grief and remembrance (e.g., tsunami memorials).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
The studies I have prepared have not yet been conducted, but I have prepared all of the materials (i.e., place-matched photographs of ruins, infrastructure and memorials) and the survey site is completely set up (i.e., all survey measures are entered into the system).
The reason I have not conducted them yet is because I will be conducting these studies online using paid participants in the USA, I have been waiting for the Japanese yen to regain some value against the US dollar, because otherwise, I cannot afford to run the study on the number of participants that are needed for statistical power.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Next year I will conduct the planned experiment, analyze the results and prepare them for peer-review in a research journal.
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