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competition-oriented or cooperation-oriented? What may affect their choices of strategies? Using
Cooperation/Competition Scale, we tested 144 undergraduates who were randomly selected from
three universities in Yunnan province. The results showed that the mean score of competitive
strategy was higher than that of cooperative one, indicating the undergraduates prefer to choose
competition-oriented strategy. In addition, leaning ability, general ability and parents' expectations
could partly predict students' competition-oriented strategy, while the gender and mother's
educated background could partly predict his/her cooperation-oriented strategy.
3118.79 Structure of self-knowledge: Is self-concept represented independently of
autobiographical memory? Michiko Sakaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
The present study investigated the priming effects of self-concept for the subsequent recall of
autobiographical memories. Klein and Loftus (1993) found that access to self-concept did not
facilitate recall of experiences, indicating that self-concept is represented independently of
autobiographical memories. However, Study 1 demonstrated that the access to self-concept
personality traits facilitated the recall of autobiographical memories which were related to the
self-concept. These results were confirmed in Study 2 and 3 where the alternative explanations
were excluded. Our results did not support the findings of Klein and Loftus, but instead suggested
that self-concept is linked to autobiographical memories.
3118.80 The effect of helping behaviors on helper: A case study of young volunteer, Kaori
Senoo, Osamu Takagi, Kansai University, Japan
This study investigated the factors of helping effects on helpers and their influences through
questionnaires for young volunteers (N=157, M=20.0 years). The main results were as follows: (1)
volunteers obtained helping effects through volunteering, which can be divided into 3 components:
“feeling of self reward”, “altruism elevation”, and “establishment of new relationships”. (2)
affirmative evaluation of their own helping behaviors provided helping effects for volunteers. (3)
helping effects for volunteers determined whether volunteers are motivated to continue volunteer
work.
3118.81 Chinese undergraduates’ cognition of regret, Jie Luo 1 , Sulan Qing 2 , Meifu Yan 1 ,
Qizhen Liu 1 , 1 Hubei University, Wuhan, China; 2 Institute of psychology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
Regret means that he (or she) causes a feeling of remorse after having done wrong things. The
researchers have found regret makes more pains than the wrong thing itself. The study explores
Chinese undergraduates’ cognition of regret by questionnaire (N=360), in which shows that their
regret consists in irrational management of study time, the low-level skill study, unsuccessful love
affair and disharmonic personnel relation. Regret behaviors are close correlation with being at loss
about their development of future. The result suggests mentality education and the guidance of
undergraduates’ career are very important and necessary in the higher education.
3118.82 Self-reference effect and meta-attitude as self-knowledge, Takashi Horiuchi 1 , Hayashi
Mikiya 2 , 1 Tokai Women's University, Japan; 2 Nagoya University, Japan
The meta-attitude is not a attitude itself but a meta-knowledge about the attitude. This study
examined the meta-attitude as self-knowledge. In experiment 1, the incidental learning paradigm
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