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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Patterns of Emotional Transmission in Japanese Young People's Text-Based Communication in Four Basic Emotional Situations
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Kato, Yuuki; Kato, Shogo; Scott, Douglass J.; Sato, Kouki – International Journal on E-Learning, 2010
Text-based communication, such as a mobile phone email, is the essential communication tool for Japanese youth. In this paper, the authors conducted a paper-based survey in order to investigate what kind of patterns of emotional transmission are used when composing text-based messages to four kinds of emotional scenarios (i.e. joy, sadness, anger,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Freshmen, Vignettes, Foreign Countries
Relationships between Emotional States and Emoticons in Mobile Phone Email Communication in Japan
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Kato, Shogo; Kato, Yuuki; Scott, Douglass – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
Three related studies conducted on the role of emotional transfer in email messages were studied in order to better understand Japanese college students' online communications and their broader participation in online communications. The first study investigated users' initiatives in preventing emotional misunderstandings when sending email.…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Computer Mediated Communication