文化的価値の伝達：個人の選好および文化化による影響（国際共同研究強化）

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I conducted a study with a serial reproduction method in Japan and the US and analyzed cultural similarities and differences in how the participants would reproduce the picture of a landscape which had been shown shortly. Reflecting culturally dominant ways of attention (i.e., analytic vs. holistic attention), Americans were more likely than Japanese to reproduce an object related to central ones (e.g., a path in front of a house), whereas Japanese were more likely than Americans to reproduce objects in the background (e.g., clouds). I also examined a possibility that parents' preferences to cultural products produced in their own culture, which accompany a culturally dominant value (e.g., harmony), would be associated with how they give a feedback to cultural products produced by kids. Japanese adults' preferences to Japanese colorings were positively associated with the likelihood they gave feedback related to harmony, and the tendency was strongly found in older Japanese people.