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Relathionship between individual differences in social cognition and eye-gaze and brain activity

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26380840
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Social psychology
Research InstitutionChiba University

Principal Investigator

Wakabayashi Akio  千葉大学, 文学部, 教授 (30175062)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Keywords社会的認知 / 認知スタイル / 視点取り / 視線運動 / 視線 / 心の理論 / 視線方向
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated the relationship between the individual difference in the ability of perspective taking, which is a major aspect of social cognition, and one's eye-gaze movements. The participants in two cognitive styles (type E: Empathizer and type S: Systemizer), based on the E-S theory, were compared. The results showed that the participants in type E tended to move their eye-gaze frequently in the condition of the task which human was placed on the view point compared with the task which non-human object was placed on the view point, while no such difference was found in the participants in the S. Those results suggest that cognitive styles affect individual's eye-gaze movement in the perspective taking tasks, meaning that some relationships exist between cognitive styles, which supposed to be result from prenatal biochemical condition, and social cognitive processing.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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