Getting Rid of the Horizontal-to-Vertical Strategy: A Case Report of a Japanese Research Psychologist

Kazuo  Mori

doi:10.4236/jss.2014.24040

Kazuo Mori

Abstract: Most Japanese research psychologists have used “Horizontal-to-Vertical Conversion Strategy” for their research, simply replicating experimental studies published in Western journals with Japanese participants and publishing papers only in Japanese (the traditional orthography of the Japanese language is vertical). This short article criticized this prevailing research strategy among Japanese psychologists and reported a series of studies resulted from an invention of new experimental procedure. It showed an example of a Japanese researcher who had got rid of the inadequate approach by inventing a new experimental method. It also aimed to encourage Japanese psychologists to conduct innovative research and publish their studies in English journals.

Keywords: Japanese Social Scientists; Research Strategies; Psychology; The MORI Technique

Cite this paper: Mori, K. (2014) Getting Rid of the Horizontal-to-Vertical Strategy: A Case Report of a Japanese Research Psychologist. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2, 359-362. doi: 10.4236/jss.2014.24040.

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