Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the cognitive structure of Japanese concessional behaviors. Subjects were 142 adults living in Japan. We derived 22 categories from 381 episodes of concessional behaviors from responses to open-ended questions. All categories were paired and 204 subjects were asked to judge the similarity of the members. Similarity judgments were analyzed using a multidimensional scaling technique and a cluster analysis. The former technique showed the cognitive structure of Japanese concessional behaviors could be explained by three dimensions of motivation, form of interaction, and resource of the concession. The cluster analysis indicated that Japanese concessional behaviors could be accounted for by seven clusters which concerned the resources.
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