A CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF ATTITUDES TOWARD NUCLEAR-SPACE DEVELOPMENT:A CASE-STUDY OF LEARNING IN SUBJECTIVE CULTURE

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2 studies are reported in this paper concerning social attitudes of Japanese and American college <I>S</I>s toward various concepts related to nuclear and space science and technology. The first, Japanese-only study shows that, contrary to a common belief, the deep emotional "rejection reaction" to nuclear matters, known in Japan often as the "nuclear allergy", is not very salient for at least 2 out of 3 Japanese <I>S</I>s, who believe that Japan will go nuclear within a limited length of time All the concepts related to nuclear experiments, however, are seen by the Japanese as highly undesirable. The second, Japanese-American cross-cultural study reveals that despite difference in cultures, the meaning of complex concepts related to nuclear and space science and technology may be lawfully predicted from the knowledge of the meaning of their components. Nonetheless, it is once again observed that all nuclear matters connote to the Japanese something highly undesirable whereas the Americans tend to discriminate between acceptable and unacceptable nuclear matters.
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