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framework. They investigated the pattern of judgment to two statements contradicting each other,
and found that Chinese judged both statements equally plausible, whereas Americans judged one
was right and the other was wrong, Chinese took the “Middle Way.” In order to investigate
whether the thinking style peculiar to Asians actually exists, Suzzuki et al (2003) conducted a
similar experiment both in Japan and Hong Kong.
5138.71 An investigation on the impression of the Chinese people in 5-12 year old Chinese urban
children, Bin Zuo 1 , Jing Chen 2 , Li Sun 2 , Central China University, China; 2 Central China
Normal University, China
Using interview and questionnaire, the study investigated the Impression of Chinese in 383
Chinese urban children ranging from 5 to 12 years and the main source of information about the
Chinese. Results indicated that the most of children were positive towards the impression of
Chinese that the Chinese is happy, clean, peaceful, clever, hardworking, kind and nice. However,
the urban Children’s positive impression of the Chinese people was less with their growing up.
The study also found that children’s information on the Chinese was mainly from television,
newspapers, book and cartoon, parents, classmates, friends, teachers and radio.
5138.72 Empathy: A New Model, Kristin Zethren, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
The client’s perception of counselor empathy is essential to positive counseling outcomes. This
model derives from the fact that there are two kinds of empathy, often unrelated when measured:
emotional, the capacity to feel another’s affect; and cognitive, the ability to adopt another’s
perspective. Accordingly, emotional empathy is hypothesized to be hardwired, an endogenous
capacity for affective resonance that occurs outside awareness. Cognitive empathy is
conceptualized as a combination of two independent constructs: Altruism, the ability to see
similarities between oneself and another; and Cognitive Complexity, the capacity to understand
differences. Research validating the model is presented.
5138.73 Gender stereotypes and self-perception in Korean college students, Jung Oak,
Hee-Jeong Bang, Hye-ja Cho, Hyun-Jeong Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea, Republic
Of
This study was intended to investigate the difference of gender stereotypes between male and
female college students in Korea, and to examine the effects of gender stereotypes on
self-perception. Four hundred and forty six college students were asked to complete a
questionnaire which we developed to measure stereotypes of male and female and self-perception.
All measures consisted of 34 items which assessed five contents such as personality, role, ability,
behavior and appearances, and the items were written in prescriptive, positively descriptive, and
negatively descriptive ways. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed a model of gender
stereotypes containing such five contents.
5138.74 Group identification and social uncertainty in an artificial social simulation, Kazuhiko
Shibuya, Japan
In this paper, I attempt to explore group identification and social uncertainty using artificial social
simulation. In particular, I weight on investigating considerable principles that are based on an
emergence of group identification and structural clustering. Moreover I clarify theoretical models
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