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In Japanese, a subject is sometimes omitted. Participants with high or low uniqueness looked at
the video of a debate scene and asked to guess the true opinion of a speaker. They were told that
the speaker was assigned at random in the position. The argument of the “with subject condition”
included Japanese subjects, that is, “I” in all sentences. In contrast, the argument of the “without
subject condition” did not include “I” at all. Result revealed that the participants with low
uniqueness in the “without subject condition” show less degree of correspondence bias rather than
other conditions.
3118.67 Cognition structure of passengers against annoying behaviors in using railways, Kana
Yamauchi, Hajime Akatsuka, Hiroaki Suzuki, Koji Omino, Kyosuke Nakatani, Railway
Technical Resarch Institute, JP
The purpose of this study was to construct a model of discomfort cognition by passengers against
annoying behaviors at station and on trains based on the data obtained through a questionnaire
survey, in which we requested 2,719 passengers to rate the level of discomfort against 37 annoying
behaviors. By applying factor analysis to the data, we extracted five factors, (1) crime and
violation of rules, (2) deeds to compromise beautification and hygiene, (3) deviation from weak
norms on trains, (4) deviation from strong norms on trains, and (5) deviation from norms in
boarding and alighting.
3118.68 Assimilative effect of intrinsic situational inducement in attitudinal inference of
expectancy-disconfirming behavior, Yanmei Li, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
To explore effect of intrinsic situational inducements (ISI) on attitudinal inferences, two studies
tested the hypothesis that ISI will be used as a re-identification frame of expectancy-disconfirming
behavior rather than an alternative explanation. Participants used category-based information to
form expectancies of good or bad politician and then read a politician's good behavior (hostage
rescue). In experiment 1 expectancy-disconfirming participants paid more attention to ISI,
whereas they drew attitudinal inferences correspondently as expectancy-confirming participants.
Experiment 2 found that expectancy-disconfirming participants were more likely to use ISI
relevant descriptions to re-identify the behavior. Results suggest different uses of different types of
situational inducements.
3118.69 The effect of orthography on the usage of the recognition heuristic, Junko Toyosawa,
Kaori Karasawa, Nagoya University, Japan
This study examined the effect of orthography (Kanji, Kana, and Alphabet) on the usage of the
recognition heuristic to confirm its ecological rationality. Forty-five participants responded to the
task consisted of randomly drawn two-alternative questions about population sizes of the 20
largest Chinese cities. It was found that Kanji and Kana promoted the usage of the recognition
heuristic than Alphabet. Furthermore, judgments in Kanji and Kana were more accurate than in
Alphabet. These results suggested that the usage of the recognition heuristic was promoted when it
increased the accuracy in judgment, and that the recognition heuristic has an ecological rationality.
3118.70 Beliefs concerning the causes of Bulimia Nervosa held by the general public, university
students and health workers, Michael John Kiernan, Rachel Dryer, Graham Tyson, Charles
Sturt University, Australia
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