ISSN : 1229-0653
The Purpose of this study is to clarify the effect of depression on time perception by temporal bisection task. Total 104 participants screened through CES-Dand divided to four groups(non-depressed; 37, mildly-depressed;27, moderately-depressed; 12, depression; 28). During temporal bisection task, emotional faces (anger, happy,neutral) were presented in 7 durations between 400 to 1600ms. Participants responded 'long' or 'short' to stimuli using the anchor duration(400 and 1600ms). The interaction effect between duration and valence was significant in emotional condition. The difference of bisection point between normal group and depression group was significant in neutrral condition. This result support the time perception distortion of depression. Finally,depression group shown significantly lower 'long' response than normal group when anger face presented, and the difference was significant in long duration. The result support the notion that the 'slow down effect' of time perception in depression is due to decreased arousal state.
Although the negative effects of materialism on happiness and social relationships are well-known, the psychological origins of materialism is less examined. One candidate is low levels of interpersonal trust. The possibility that low interpersonal trust leads to a stronger endorsement of materialistic than social values was examined. As expected, those who strongly believed that "there are very few people to trust in this world" were more likely to emphasize material than social values (Study 1), and this tendency spread to close relationships,such as interactions with friends (Study 2). When primed of exemplars of low interpersonal trust, participants placed greater value on materialistic than social experiences (Study 3). Given the crucial role of social resource in happiness and health, low levels of interpersonal trust seems to trigger various maladaptive thoughts and beliefs that may compromise the person's long-term survival.
Two experiments examined the nonconscious effects of celebrity priming on the activation of the concept of helping and helping behavior. In Experiment 1, participants responded faster to helping-related words than to control words when the celebrity associated with helping was primed subliminally. In experiment 2, participants primed with the celebrity associated with helping donated more than those in the control condition. Implications of the present study to the public campaigns using celebrities associated with helping are discussed.
The present study examined the effect of peripheral cues, such as the closeness of relationship between victim-perpetrator, the observer's benevolent sexism(BS) and sex on the judgement of rape cases. In Study 1, we hypothesized that female participants who were in high BS would show more unfavorable judgement on the rape victim than males of high BS, and this tendency would be stronger when the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator became closer. To examine the hypothesis we presented the participants with one of the four different types(stranger, acquaintance, dating couple and spouse) of rape scenarios and afterwards asked them to judge on it. The result of the hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that marital rape case was perceived less as rape, as less serious, and the perpetrator of the marital rape was imposed lighter punishment than of other rapes. Furthermore, only in the date rape case, those who were of high BS blamed the rape victim more than those who were of low BS and this tendency was stronger in females than in males. In study 2, we manipulated loyalty of the marital rape victim to her family and examined the effect of this variable on the judgement about marital rape. When the participants received the information that the victim was disloyal to her family, the observer's BS affected the judgement in different ways in terms of the observer's gender. That is,whereas high BS males showed unfavorable judgement of the victim by decreasing blame for the perpetrator,high BS females showed their unfavorable judgment of the victim by increasing blame for the victim. We discussed about the theoretical and practical implications of these results.
Rapport building is an essential part of the investigative interview process and there ard growing evidence that attempts should be made by interviewers to establish rapport. There are, however, few studies shed light on the effectiveness of rapport building, particularly in the context of children's investigative interview in Korea. Thus,this paper is provided far-reaching research background for the positive effects of supportive interviewing and the importance of rapport building on children’s testimony based on the recent empirical researches and case studies in abroad. In addition, it is discussed with respect to the effects of the lengths of rapport building and individual differences in children’s investigative interviews with practical purposes. The ultimate goals of this paper are to offer the comprehensive information and helpful guidelines for enhancing the quality of rapport building to investigative interviewers, legal professionals, and social workers who study and work within the fields of children’s testimony.
This study investigated the influence of narcissism on a romantic relationship using the investment model. The previous study considered narcissism as one dimensional construct. This study elaborated the previous findings by specifying the influence of distinctive dimensions of narcissism. A total of 240 college students completed a questionnaire measuring narcissism and the variables of the investment model. An exploratory factor analysis yielded two dimensions of narcissism, Grandiosity-Exhibitionism and Sensitivity-Vulnerability. The result of the structural equation modeling showed two paths from narcissism to commitment. First, Sensitivity-Vulnerability predicted commitment via relationship satisfaction. Second, Grandiosity-Exhibitionism predicted commitment via two mediators, which were the quality of alternative relationships and relationship satisfaction. In addition, the influences via these two paths counteracted each other, and consequently nullified the influence of Grandiosity-Exhibitionism on commitment. These findings imply the multifaceted roles of narcissism on a romantic relationship.
The present study attempted to show that the anonymity and network crowdedness of internet public sphere might increase the readiness for internet group polarization, which was composed of ingroup conformity and outgroup exclusiveness. In addition, irrational beliefs and verbal anger behavior as well as cultural factors such as power distance and uncertainty avoidance may exacerbate the tendency of internet group polarization. The survey results of 800 Korean samples proved that internet public sphere communication, network size, desire for approval, destructive justification, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance significantly increased the readiness for internet group polarization,The present study focused on the determinants of general internet group polarization readiness rather than on issue-centered group polarization. Internet communication tends to intensify the effects of anonymity, which may in turn increase the readiness for group polarization. Those spheres that accept various individualities and those internet cultures that are open to different opinions and strangers will be desirable to decrease the arousal of internet group polarization.
The present study aimed to examine the effect of the salience of ethnic identity and the evaluator group on the implicit as well as the explicit self-stereotyping of the Southeast-Asian immigrants in the context of multiple social identities. Furthermore, we also examined whether the effect of the salience of ethnic identity and the evaluator group on the self-stereotyping of the Southeast Asians was mediated by the salience of Koreans'stereotypes on the competence of the Southeast-Asian immigrants'. To examine these hypotheses, we asked the Southeast-Asian migrant participants to evaluate their own competence using both the implicit and explicit measures, in a hypothetical job interview situation in which the nationality of the evaluator and the salience of national identity was varied. The results showed that as expected, participants for whom the Southeast-Asian identity was made salient evaluated their competence less favorably when they thought the evaluator was a Korean (i.e., when their social identity was salient) than when the evaluator was a Southeast-Asian (i.e., when their personal identity was salient). In contrast, the self-evaluation of competence of the participants for whom the Korean identity was made salient was not different in terms of the nationality of the evaluator. Furthermore,the results of the implicit self-stereotyping demonstrated the same pattern as the explicit measures. However, the analysis on the mediating effect of the salience of Koreans' stereotypes regarding the competence of the immigrants for the interaction effect of the identity salience and the evaluator group on self evaluation of competence, did not obtain any significant result. We discussed the theoretical and practical implications of these results.