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2063.130 A qualitative investigation of talent development of expert scientists in Japan, Katsuro
Kitamura, Shigeru Saito, Takahiro Nagayama, Tohoku University, Japan
The purpose of this study was to describe an in-depth description of the process of talent
development of successful scientists. Ten Japanese scientists served as participants for this study.
In-depth open-ended interviews were used to gather data from ten scientists. The inductive
analysis process resulted in regrouping these interview transcripts into one category, involvement,
which shows a significant agreement between scientists’ perceptions on how they involved
themselves in committing their flow experiences and how the experience evolve talent
development. Results showed that successful scientists develop their talent in a manner that
maximizes their flow experiences.
2063.131 Death meaning of elderly Buddhist monk in Japan; developmental trajectories of
meaning, Daisuke Kawashima, Kyoto University, Japan
Death studies have not sufficiently been depicted wholeness of human beings in spite of Erikson
(1950)’s fruitful perspectives. Thus, personal meanings should be focused on in order to shed light
on their internal reality. In addition, two other epistemological viewpoints should be considered,
i.e. one is that religion has socio-cultural effects on their meanings, and the other is that the
meanings develop and change through their lifespan. This research was focused on the transitions
of the stories through analyzing life stories of 10 elderly Buddhist monks. As a result,
developmental trajectories of meaning were shown.
2063.132 The age-related difference in judgment of duration, Zhijie Zhang, Xiting Huang,
Department of Psychology, China
The aim of this research was to find the age-related difference in duration judgment under
prospective paradigm. The participants were asked to estimate three durations (5,13 or 26s) in two
methods of reproduction and production while made single duration judgment and dual-task
judgment. The robust age-related effects were documented, with old adults showing a tendency to
underestimate and overproduce intervals of time under single duration judgment condition. Under
dual-task condition, Old adults perceived the shorter duration than young adults. Furthermore, the
range effect was found, which indicated the dissociation between different memory system in
reproduction and production task..
2063.133 Eye fixations of young and older adults while reading with distraction, Susan Kemper 1 ,
Joan McDowd 1 , Kimberly Metcalf 1 , Diane Filion 2 , 1 University of Kansas Medical Center, USA;
2
University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA
Eye fixations of young and older adults were tracked while they read single sentences containing
distracters. In the first experiment, the distracters were single words, set off by font or color.
Inhibitory Deficit Theory predicts that young adults should be less likely to fixate distracters,
should terminate first pass fixations more rapidly and minimize regressions to distracters.
However, we observed few age-group differences in fixations. In the second experiment,
distracters varied in length and meaningfulness. Again there were no age-group differences in
likelihood of fixating distracters or the duration of first pass fixations, providing little support for
IDT.
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