Open AccessResearch for d eterminant factors and features of emotional responses of “kandoh” (the state of being emotionally moved)
Author(s) -
Tokaji Akihiko
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5884.00226
Subject(s) - sadness , happiness , psychology , evocation , object (grammar) , cognitive psychology , research object , field (mathematics) , event (particle physics) , emotional reaction , psychological research , social psychology , developmental psychology , anger , computer science , artificial intelligence , sociology , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , regional science , pure mathematics , anthropology
Abstract: The feature and determinants of the emotional response kandoh (the state of being emotionally moved) were positively examined (kandoh has rarely been made the object of research in the field of psychology). First, the author reviewed the research done so far and summarized the features of kandoh, and the structural model of the process leading to kandoh was introduced from the results of the above research. Furthermore, experimental examination about the model was performed of different types of stories, and even stories with opposing the emotional frameworks of happiness or sadness, both were shown that they were able to become heart‐warming good stories. Moreover, it was shown that the event‐related knowledge was important for evocation of kandoh. From the experiment results, consideration was made about new aspects of kandoh.