Authors:Hidehito Honda, Itsuki Fujisaki, Toshihiko Matsuka, Kazuhiro Ueda

Title:Typicality or fluency? A Comparison of two hypotheses about cognitive effects of Japanese script

Journal:Experimental Psychology

doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000405

論文URL:https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1618-3169/a000405

Abstract:The modern Japanese writing system comprises different scripts, such as Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. These scripts differ greatly in both typicality and frequency of usage. In two experimental studies using names of cities or prefectures in Japan as target stimuli, we examined two hypotheses, the typicality hypothesis and fluency hypothesis, in order to assess effects of Japanese script on psychological processes. It was found that Kanji names induced typical thinking in a participant’s description of a location, whereas Katakana names induced rather nontypical thinking. In contrast, we found that script differences did not affect distance estimations. We discuss these effects of Japanese script on psychological processes in terms of the typicality hypothesis (differences in typical usage habits between Kanji and Katakana that affect psychological processes).

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日本語によるコメント（オプション，200-300字で）
対象の表記を変えること（漢字またはカタカナ）が思考プロセスに与える影響に関する２つの仮説（思考の典型性が変わるという典型性仮説、表記の流暢性が対象への心理的距離に影響を与えるという流暢性仮説）に関して、行動実験を通じて検証しました。結果として、漢字で表記された対象を提示された場合のほうが、カタカナ表記された対象を提示される場合よりも典型的な思考になりやすいことが示され、典型性仮説と整合的な結果が得られました。

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