カナダのUniversity of British Columbia大学で、文化心理学研究の第一人者でもあるSteve Heine教授の最新の研究であるMeaning Maintenance Model についてお話しいただきました。
企画担当：内田由紀子（京都大学こころの未来研究センター）
講演者と演題
「What Happens When Kafka Enters the Psychology Lab?
Experiments on the Meaning Maintenance Model」Steven J. Heine氏
（University of British Columbia大学）
The Meaning Maintenance Model (MMM) proposes that people have a need for meaning; that is, a need to perceive events through a prism of mental representations of expected relations that organizes their perceptions of the world. When people’s sense of meaning is threatened they reaffirm alternative representations as a way to regain meaning a process termed fluid compensation even when the meaning is derived from other domains. I will discuss evidence for how people respond to meaning threats in a wide variety of domains, including when participants encounter a changing experimenter, read a surreal Kafka story, or see a Magritte painting.
開催日時 2008年5月13日（火） 16:00-17:30
場所 京都大学百周年時計台記念館2F会議室III