• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.231-241
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• 2018

This is a study of reputation from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. To start a theory building process in PR, Tall Puppy scale is examined using dominance hierarchy and reputation hierarchy. Tall Puppy scale is a measure toward highly successful, thus famous people. when they fall. The result showed that Koreans have negative attitude toward famous people 8times more and prefer their fall than Austrailians. The number one variable to explain the psychology of reputation hierarchy was self-esteem. It was strongly correlated with reputation hierarchy attitude. People with higher self-esteem were more generous about famous figures when people with low self-esteem prefer more the fall of tall puppies. A discussion for reputation hierarchy theory is followed.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.99-111
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• 2022

Akey factor in evolution is reproduction, which is also a major concern in medicine. Evolutionists have proposed many theories and hypotheses to explain the low fertility rates of modern industrial societies, which are contrary to maximization of biological fitness. Given that childbirth is the most significant factor affecting reproductive fitness, it is likely that a variety of psychological modules related to childbirth behavior and intention evolved over time. Several evolutionary psychological modules have been proposed in relation to reproduction, including sexual desire, status-seeking, a need for nurturing, and the desire for children. Previously adaptive psychological modules may now be expressed maladaptively due to the discrepancy between the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) and the environment of modern industrial society. Several evolutionary ecological factors influence childbirth intention in modern society, including individual personality factors, childhood life history experiences, and socioecological factors throughout reproductive life. By focusing on mental, social, and ecological factors, this review examines several hypothetical models relating to evolutionary psychological factors and childbirth decisions in modern industrial society, as well as a possible explanation for the low birth rate.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.97-110
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• 2012

The sharp decline of fertility in industrialized countries since the 19th century constitutes a major problem for evolutionary approaches to human behavior. Why would people voluntarily reduce their total number of offspring, despite the fact that resources are so abundant in modern times? Here I review three evolutionary hypotheses for low fertility in modern societies, and discuss how the evolutionary perspective could shed new light on solving the problem of low fertility in Korea. Low fertility may be 1) a maladaptive outcome from the mismatch between our ancestral environments and evolutionarily novel environments, 2) a consequence of gene-culture coevolution where traits that reduce genetic fitness can still spread through a population as a result of imitation, especially if the traits are expressed by high-status people, or 3) an adaptation that maximize parents' long-term genetic fitness in knowledge-based industrialized societies where high parental investment is required for rearing competitive offspring. Based on these considerations, I suggest how the evolutionary explanations of low fertility can be applied to increasing the birth rate in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.107-122
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to review the literatures on the evolutionary perspective on education and to draw the educational implications for science education. This study addresses on several topics as follows: our common misunderstandings about the evolutionary perspective on education; children's inherent knowledge and abilities, their learning about the evolutionarily novel knowledge and abilities in school, their difficulties in academic learning, and the instructional strategies to cope with the difficulties; and the implications for science education from the evolutionary perspective. The evolutionary perspective on education has provided new insights how culturally important information is transmitted across generations in the past hunting-gathering societies and the modern societies, and how children's inherent motivational and behavioral dispositions affect their academic learning. In addition, the new perspective on education can be used to generate empirical hypotheses about children's science learning, and with the further research, could lead to useful implications and ultimately improve educational outcomes.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.15 no.6_2
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• pp.107-119
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• 2015

The key objective of terrorism is to create favorable conditions for certain political, ideological, or religious interests through deliberate social chaos and the spread of fear. Accordingly, terrorist groups rally the means and methods capable of spreading fear among the public through shocking violence. Consequently, as terrorism manifests the progress in modern civilization and the structure of international community, its concepts, means, and methods evolve organically with the progress. The characteristics of the modern terrorism include that it has evolved as a means of war against countries by non-state militant groups, and suicide terrorism is spreading like epidemic as it fits the strategies of Islamic extremist and terrorist organizations as a part of international politics based on terrorism. The humanity's efforts to eliminate the threat of terrorism led to decades of implementing premature policies of military force, but they were found ineffective and resulted in the spread of extreme threat of suicide terrorism. For prevention of suicide terrorism, the efforts must be made to dismantle the basis of suicide attacks through addressing religious alienation and antipathy against a civilization using the notions similar to treatment of pathology considering psychological motives of suicide terrorists.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.39-66
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• 2023

New media moved the place of social exchange to the Internet, allowing large groups to communicate in one place beyond the limits of time and space. Recent studies have also reported cases in which human social abilities do not keep up with the expansion of group scale through social media. In this context, current study investigated how human perception of social information is affected by the expansion of the group scale in the context of majority bias. Using Internet-based task, the psychological processes that group ratio and group size are perceived and affect majority-biased social information use were investigated, and whether group scale moderates those processes was examined. The group ratio has a positive effect on the majority bias, and the relationship was partially mediated by ratio perception. Group scale did not moderate the relationship between group ratio and ratio perception. On the other hand, the correlation between group size and majority-biased social information use was not significant. Group scale moderates group size perception. The group size and size perception showed positive correlation under the smaller group scale condition. However under the extended group scale condition, the perceived group size became significantly lower and lost its correlation with group size. These results provide evidence that the psychological mechanism related to group size perception was not properly responding to the expansion of the group scale. Furthermore, the possibility of a specific psychological mechanism for processing group size information and the form of information input specifically accepted by majority bias were discussed from perspective of evolutionary psychology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.559-561
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• 2005

본 논문은 사용자가 감각형 인터페이스를 사용하여 가상공간의 지능적인 화단을 체험, 체감 할 수 있는 시스템(Garden Alive)을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 카메라, 조도, 습도 센서를 갖춘 현실공간의 화단과 상호작용에 사용되는 감각형 인터페이스, 진화모듈과 감정모듈을 갖춘 인공지능 모듈, 그리고 가상식물의 성장과 반응을 보여주는 Virtual Garden으로 구성된다. 감각형 인터페이스는 카메라로 사용자의 손동작을 인식하고, 조도센서로 광량을 확인하여, 습도센서로 물의 양을 측정한다. 이러한 정보를 바탕으로 인공지능 모듈은 식물의 진화 방향과 감정상태의 변화를 결정한다. Virtual Garden은 L-system을 기반으로 제작되어 가상식물들은 실제 식물들과 유사한 형태로 성장하도록 한다. 제안된 Garden Alive에서 화단의 식물들은 각각의 개체마다. 유전자를 가지고 있어 식물의 다양성을 볼 수 있고, 빛과 수분 등의 환경요인에 따른 적합도를 평가함으로써 세대를 거듭함에 따라 진화해가는 모습을 볼 수 있다. 마지막으로 단순히 자극에 반응하는 식물이 아닌 사용자와 상호작용에 따른 식물의 감정 변화를 통해 적절한 반응을 보이는 지능적인 식물을 구현하였다. 따라서 제안된 시스템은 오락과 교육을 위한 콘텐츠, 사용자에 따른 개별적 반응을 통해 심리적인 안정을 제공할 수 있는 콘텐츠 등으로 응용될 수 있다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.8 s.111
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• pp.90-95
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• 2002

2000년부터 시작된 '닷컴 기업의 몰락'으로 전 세계 인터넷 기업들은 큰 타격을 입었다. 수많은 기업들이 만성 적자에 시달리거나 도산해야 했으며 여전히 많은 업체들은 '살아남기'에 급급한 상황이다. AOL, 야후, MSN 등 해외 주요 포탈들과 다음, 야후코리아, 네이버 등 국내 포탈들 역시 갑작스런 광고수익의 급감으로 적지 않은 심리적, 재정적 어려움을 겪어야 했다. 하지만 이들은 그동안 쌓아왔던 시장지배력과 기술력, 기획력 등을 바탕으로 새로운 수익기반 마련에 나섰고 이들의 노력은 올해 상반기부터 하나 둘 결실을 맺고 있다. 이 글은 정보통신정책연구원(KISDI) 정보통신산업연구실의 권남훈 팀장이 지난해 말 발표한 '인터넷 포탈 비즈니스의 진화과정 및 경쟁구도'라는 연구보고서를 토대로 작성됐으며, 이글에 나타난 수치는 최근 자료로 대체됐다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.48-49
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• 2000

인류는 현재의 인위적인 환경의 탈피와 문명의 진화를 추구하는 동시에 자연환경의 복귀를 지향하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 상반된 환경 속에서도 인공환경은 자연환경을 압도하고 있다. 이것을 학문적 영역인 심리학적 측면에서 볼 때 인간과 자연은 정신 선험적인 관계를 갖고 있어서 자연의 부재는 인간에게 정신적인 불안감을 생기게 한다. (중략)

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.44
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• pp.411-430
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• 2016

One of central issues in the Literature and Science discourses during the Victorian era is the relation of physiology to psychology. Many thinkers tackle the question of whether or not psychic phenomena can be reducible to their physiological bases. For instance, Victorian physiologist William Benjamin Carpenter claims that there should be a boundary between physiological and psychological qualities. Yet, his contemporary writer Grant Allen contends for the reduction of psychology into physiology. In the essay, I discuss Grant Allen's work Physiological Aesthetics (1877) so as to eventually problematize his physiological reductionism. I especially highlight the paradox of his physiological aesthetics. In order to clarify my argument, I introduce two concepts: evolutionary aesthetics and physiological reductionism. On the one hand, Allen argues for the development of aesthetic appreciation. The gradual evolution from gaudy to serene colors, for instance, reflects the fine differentiation of sensory organs. He believes that the existence of varied aesthetic pleasures corresponds to the evolution of sensory nerve structures. Nonetheless, Allen ironically gives more weight to the commonality of aesthetic experiences than to this teleological ordering of aesthetic experiences. He argues that there is no fundamental difference among humans in terms of their aesthetic assessments. Furthermore, there is even no essential distinction among plants, animals, and humans in light of their aesthetic appraisals, he states firmly. Although he asserts the gradual advance of aesthetic feelings caused by the intricacy of nervous systems, he simultaneously trivializes the evolution of aesthetic appraisal. In the essay, I highlight this paradox in Allen's physiological aesthetics. It should be underscored, lamentably enough, that Allen seeks biological purity by erasing fine lines among physiology, psychology, and sociality. He estranges aesthetic experiences from subjective variations and their socio-cultural contexts. He makes great efforts to eliminate individual differences and socio-cultural specificities in order to extremely biologize aesthetic experiences. Hence, Allen's physiological aesthetics is marked as the politics of physiological purification.