Shukutoku Junior College (淑徳短期大学, Shukutoku Tanki Daigaku) is one of the private junior Colleges located at Itabashi, Tokyo in Japan. It is one of the 149 junior colleges in Japan set up in 1950 when the junior college system started. It consists of three departments now..
AbstractStories with twist endings are popular, but little research has examined how readers experience them. To begin developing such an account, we examined the affective responses that emerge during stories with twist endings. In Experiment 1, 28 Japanese participants read a story with a twist ending. Greater empathy and stronger expectations were associated with slower reading times during participants’ first reading of the story. However, on participants’ second reading, greater empathy and stronger expectations were associated with faster reading times. In Experiment 2, we tested the generality of these effects by asking 36 English-speaking participants to read four stories with twist endings. The results were similar to Experiment 1. Readers’ initial and recurring responses to stories with twist endings reflect changes in surprise and empathy. These feelings underlie engagement with and interest in unexpected and often incoherent contents, which are characteristics of stories with twist endings.
Although smoking has already been proved to cause health problems and non-smoking programs have been widely promoted, the number of female adolescents smoking is increasing. The aim of this study is to derive the relationship between the smoking status and dietary habits of 870 female college students who responded to a questionnaire survey.The data indicate that 16.8% are current smokers, 9.1% are former smokers, and 74.1% are non-smokers. Of the current and former smokers, 52.0% started smoking at high school, 28.0% at college, 16.9% at junior high school and 0.9% at primary school. The earlier the starting time to smoke, the more were the number of cigarettes smoked a day. The current smokers missed more breakfasts and lunches, ate dinner at home less often, and took meals more irregularly than the non-smokers, with the results for former smokers being between the two.The frequency of eating potatoes, soy bean products, vegetables and fruits was lowest with the current smokers and then with the former smokers, while the frequency of drinking alcohol was highest with the current smokers and then with the former smokers. The current smokers and then the former smokers were more subject to an unsuitable diet than the non-smokers, putting them in poorer health than the non-smokers.The results show that the smoking habit of female college students was related to their dietary habits, so health and nutrition education for female college students should be focused on both not smoking and diet.
