Learning Support System to Understand Others Through Dramatic Script Reading and Its Evaluation

Abstract

To form and maintain smooth interpersonal relationships in various situations in social life, the ability to appropriately understand the mental states of others, such as their intentions and feelings, is required. However, it is difficult to infer the unobservable mental states of others, and it is also difficult to learn from others how to perform inferring activities that are not externalized. In this study, we focus on “dramatic scripts” as a learning material that contributes to the training of the ability to understand others and propose a learning support system that aims to improve the ability to understand others and to cultivate an attitude of understanding others through inference activities about the emotions and conflicts of characters.