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conditioning alters the unconditioned response rather than how it generates responses to the
conditioned stimulus. Studies from a variety of conditioning situations will be used to illustrate
these points, with special emphasis on studies of sexual conditioning.
1033 Keynote
Chair: Ingrid Lunt, UK
Social change and adolescent transitions to adulthood, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Department of
Developmental Psychology, University of Jena, Germany
The political transformations that shattered Central and Eastern Europe a decade ago demanded
new research on the role of social change in human development. The new social institutions
required new competencies, such as the development of personal responsibility in the exploration
of and commitment to career opportunities. Moreover, the content and timetable of biographical
transitions tended to adapt rapidly, preferably during individuals' formative years. Individual
differences could be traced to conditions promoting individuals' openness to change in the realm
of social and human capital.
1034 Keynote
Chair: Cigdem Kagitcibasi, Turkey
Conceptual issues of cultural psychology, Hiroshi Azuma, Seisen Jogakuin College, Japan
There have been two conspicuous paradigmatic shifts going on in cultural psychology over the last
couple of years. One is from outsider observation to insider interpretation, and another is from a
bordered to a border-free concept of culture. With the general trend of post-modern social sciences
as the undercurrent, these shifts are related to the increase of researchers of non-western cultural
backgrounds and social, industrial and cultural globalization. Some of the key concepts of cultural
psychology, such as identity, family, gender, adolescence, etc., will need to be reformulated under
these shifts. Is the pendulum swinging too far? In this talk I will assess the influence of this
"Zeitgeist" critically, with a few empirical observations.
1035 Keynote
Chair: Elizabeth Nair, Singapore
Comparison between the Rule of Law and the Way of the Heart: Analysis of Western and Eastern
conception of social relationship, Sang-Chin Choi, Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang
University, Seoul, Korea
Emotionality of Koreans particularly in interpersonal relationships is not exactly the same as what
is meant by the term in Western sense. Unlike the emotion as distinct and separated from the
cognitive oriented rational mind, the Koreans' emotion in interpersonal context is often manifested
as the composite whole of emotionality and self-involved cognitive reason connected to the
emotionality aroused. At the discourse level, the nature of emotionality and its cognitive
counterpart are not differentiated from each other and, in fact, fused together with one another.
Shimcheong, as the word Shim which means mind, combined with Cheong which means emotion,
refers to the state of inner experience where the particular quality of feeling is aroused in relation
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