THE EFFECTS OF UNCONSCIOUS INTERMEDIATE ON BEHAVIOR AND MIND IN COMMUNICATION IN THE CASE OF "TEA

Environmental factors strongly affect communication. This may alter Kansei, which is a subconscious mental function, and subsequently affects how we communicate. In this study, we focused on "tea" and on the idea of a "tea-friend". The purpose of this study is to clarify how the presence of tea affects our Kansei, and the subsequent behavior during communication. METHOD: Subjects in pairs who usually had teatime together were chosen. The subjects sat face-to-face and talked freely for 20 minutes in two different situations: with tea / without tea. Each pair of subjects took part in a communication session and then a second session 1-3 days later, with the presence of tea in one of the sessions, chosen randomly. A questionnaire was filled out to get the participants' subjective evaluation. RESULT: The average physical distance between