Research for d eterminant factors and features of emotional responses of “kandoh” (the state of being emotionally moved)

The feature and determinants of the emotional response kandoh (the state of being emotionally moved) were positively examined (kandoh has rarely been made the object of research in the field of psychology). First, the author reviewed the research done so far and summarized the features of kandoh, and the structural model of the process leading to kandoh was introduced from the results of the above research. Furthermore, experimental examination about the model was performed of different types of stories, and even stories with opposing the emotional frameworks of happiness or sadness, both were shown that they were able to become heart‐warming good stories. Moreover, it was shown that the event‐related knowledge was important for evocation of kandoh. From the experiment results, consideration was made about new aspects of kandoh.