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A Consideration about the Complexity of Solidarity and Conflict that the Former Patients of Hansen's Disease have : In the Case of the People Who Left the Hansen's Disease Sanatorium in Okinawa
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Gender Differences in Nonverbal, Interpersonal Sensitivity Across Three Cultures: Japan, India, and the United States
Get PDFThe study examined how, and to what extent, gender and cultural differences affect subjects’ interpersonal, nonverbal sensitivity. The researcher assessed male and female subjects, from Japan, India and the United States, on measured (The Interpersonal Perception Task-15; IPT-15) interpersonal sensitivity. Factorial analyses of the IPT-15 displayed a highly significant main effect of gender with women outscoring men across cultures. Overall, while American participants on average, scored highest on the IPT-15 followed by Indian participants, with the Japanese participants scoring lowest; the factorial analysis did not yield significant effect of culture on the IPT-15 scores. Implications of these findings are discussed.departmental bulletin pape
The Romanticized Plato
Get PDFThis paper argues for a reading of Coleridge that not only claims a philosophical lineage going back to Plato, but also that one which recognizes that Coleridge modified the Platonic epistemology and ontology to yield a philosophical frame for Romanticism. An analysis of Plato’s Divided Line passage in Book VII of the Republic provides a scheme for Plato’s scheme of knowledge and being, and this is shown to lie behind, with modifications, Coleridge’s polar scheme of the mental faculties (1). It is argued that Romanticism is not only a movement with a Platonic heritage, but also that it is a modification of Platonism, the major difference being a new understanding of the imagination more consonant with Plato’s actual use of poetic description, symbol, and myth, followed by the elevation of this imagination to a position above the understanding, Plato’s dianoia. By recasting the Divided Line that harmonizes the faculties into a polar scheme, Coleridge returned a dignity to aisthesis, sensory intuition, such that it could be recognized as the unselfconscious counterpart of reason, able to recognize beauty in the sensible, and to have a sense– although largely without comprehension, first principles, or even logical consistency––of meaning and value.departmental bulletin pape
Testing Homogeneity Hypothesis of East Asians: Self-Description Ambivalence of American and Japanese
Get PDFCultural psychologists claimed that self-construals of East Asians are qualitatively different from those of Westerners. The two previous studies with Chinese and American samples found that East Asians possess more ambivalent self-construals than Westerners. However, Chinese are not the only East Asians. By using Japanese and American samples, the present study refined and replicated these two previous studies. Both Japanese (460 high school students, 39 college students, & 90 adults) and American (58 college students, 91.4% Caucasian) participants wrote down 7 self-descriptions in an “I am …” format. The results indicated that Japanese wrote ambivalent self-descriptions more frequently than Americans as same as the previous studies found. Key words cross-cultural studies, Japan, self Author Notedepartmental bulletin pape
Polyglots and Their Approaches: Points of Interest for Language Learners and Teachers
Get PDFThis paper is a preliminary step in studying the largely ignored topic of polyglots, people who have learnt many foreign languages to a high level of proficiency. The paper profiles seven polyglots to investigate approximately how many languages each one mastered and how they learnt their languages. Certain features that often appear in the language learning experiences of the polyglots are identified and discussed.
この論文は今までよく調べられていない数ヶ国語に通じるポリグロットという人達についての予備的研究である。七人のポリグロットのプロフィールを基にその習得した言語学の数と習得方法を調べる。この人たちの言語取得の経験の中でよく起こる事を見つけ論じる。departmental bulletin pape
A Study about the Method to support the Moral Development of Children in Preschool Education
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