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A review of psychological research on kando as an inclusive concept of moving experiences

We are emotionally moved when we give birth to a child, witness the triumph of an athlete, listen to a beautiful piece of music, and so forth. Such moving experiences have been described as a form of emotion, by terms such as being moved, awe, and kama muta, each of which have been studied as a sepa...

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Autores principales: Yasuda, Shoko, Shoda, Haruka, Uemiya, Ai, Isaka, Tadao
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324777
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.974220
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author Yasuda, Shoko
Shoda, Haruka
Uemiya, Ai
Isaka, Tadao
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Shoda, Haruka
Uemiya, Ai
Isaka, Tadao
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description We are emotionally moved when we give birth to a child, witness the triumph of an athlete, listen to a beautiful piece of music, and so forth. Such moving experiences have been described as a form of emotion, by terms such as being moved, awe, and kama muta, each of which have been studied as a separate, but interrelated, psychological phenomenon. Japanese people use the term kando to describe these experiences collectively. In this study, we propose that kando should be treated as an umbrella term covering being moved, awe, and kama muta. To this end, we reviewed the literature on kando conducted by Japanese researchers and compared it to relevant concepts, mainly examined in Western countries. We also reviewed the literature on the generative mechanism of kando, and established that emotional and physical reactions are important to determine the degree of kando across the cases with and without storyline. Furthermore, individual characteristics such as trait empathy may generate a stronger degree of kando. Kando experiences can affect subsequent behaviors and cognition, though we still need evidence that such change can be triggered genuinely by the experience of kando. We suggest that kando may make our neuro-cognitive network tend toward more direct, unconscious, and impulsive decision making. One of the remaining questions in this domain is whether the mental construct of kando can find an equivalent to people in Western countries. For this purpose, events and reactions relevant to kando experiences should be systematically collected from a broad population.
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spelling pubmed-96207992022-11-01 A review of psychological research on kando as an inclusive concept of moving experiences Yasuda, Shoko Shoda, Haruka Uemiya, Ai Isaka, Tadao Front Psychol Psychology We are emotionally moved when we give birth to a child, witness the triumph of an athlete, listen to a beautiful piece of music, and so forth. Such moving experiences have been described as a form of emotion, by terms such as being moved, awe, and kama muta, each of which have been studied as a separate, but interrelated, psychological phenomenon. Japanese people use the term kando to describe these experiences collectively. In this study, we propose that kando should be treated as an umbrella term covering being moved, awe, and kama muta. To this end, we reviewed the literature on kando conducted by Japanese researchers and compared it to relevant concepts, mainly examined in Western countries. We also reviewed the literature on the generative mechanism of kando, and established that emotional and physical reactions are important to determine the degree of kando across the cases with and without storyline. Furthermore, individual characteristics such as trait empathy may generate a stronger degree of kando. Kando experiences can affect subsequent behaviors and cognition, though we still need evidence that such change can be triggered genuinely by the experience of kando. We suggest that kando may make our neuro-cognitive network tend toward more direct, unconscious, and impulsive decision making. One of the remaining questions in this domain is whether the mental construct of kando can find an equivalent to people in Western countries. For this purpose, events and reactions relevant to kando experiences should be systematically collected from a broad population. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9620799/ /pubmed/36324777 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.974220 Text en Copyright © 2022 Yasuda, Shoda, Uemiya and Isaka. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Yasuda, Shoko
Shoda, Haruka
Uemiya, Ai
Isaka, Tadao
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title_sort review of psychological research on kando as an inclusive concept of moving experiences
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324777
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.974220
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